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Thanks, purpose is to travel only with an iPad Pro. Why? Certain things are easier than a computer. Logging in with Face ID. Downloading movies for the plane. I have an old MBA I could take, but don't for these reasons. I would have thought there would be better way by now.
I am now intending to do this for non wildlife trips. So you use Backup mode, but what happens when you leave the camera behind, or are using another (third) card? If you are taking your second card out then you have to make sure to put it back in. If you are using another (third) card, what do you do on day 2. There is no easy way to copy only new images, unless you make a new folder each day. I will 100% forget to do that so one would have to format that third card and copy all each day.
That's actually not a bad idea if you have sufficient cards that all images get written to 2 cards and then put them in the bag when full if light is really important. I almost always carry my laptop…but now that I've got a powered USB-C hub I've tested doing backups with my iPad Air…copying direct from card to a Samsung T7 and it works just fine. The only issue is that there's no easy way to only copy new files in iOS so if I was using that on a trip I would back up daily and just select only today's images to be copied instead of select all and copy like I would do in macOS since that would let me skip the files that already existed at the destination.
This is strange - why can't you sort by date modified and only select the new ones. Further what speeds are getting that makes this even possible, or what powered USB Hub are you using. See my post #7 when using a bus powered hub - way too slow.
You can copy new files to iPad. I do it all the time. Instead of copying photos from card to the file app, import into the photo app first. You can even preview each photo before you import. From the photo app you can export whatever photos you want to the samsung drive In their original state.
Yeah…but that requires (a) a big enough storage on the iPad to keep all the shots there and (b) some interest in using Photos to look at them. For me…unless it's a medium long trip where I want to process photos on the road and do daily or whatever blog posts then I'm interested solely in backing up the originals. In the former case…I'll be using LR to do the processing and my laptop will be along. In the latter…I'm not going to bother with LR although I could use the iPad for that if I were to use LR instead of LR Classic and had sufficient iPad storage and internet bandwidth to upload…but LR to date still is missing enough features that I"m not willing to use it. So if I'm just backing up moving them to the too small iPad and then to an external SSD is a double copy operation…far simpler and quicker to just hook up both the card reader and SSD via a powered hub (it won't work with unpowered hub, the iPad doesn't supply enough power to run both the card reader and the SSD although this may vary depending on which card reader and SSD one has) and copy direct from card to SSD.
I have an M1 iPadPro with 256gig. I‘m using a non-powered Acer hub. I connect both the Samsung T7 2 tb drive and an Apple SD card reader for SD cards to it. Works great. Can select any photo I wish by date from the SD card and copy to the Samsung drive. I have not tried a CF card reader which may have a power issue. I wouldn’t purchase an iPad with less than 256 gigs of storage. And if I were to purchase one today I would make it at least 512gigs.
Mine has 256GB as well…but about 175 normally available. Of I was shooting for a week…that might not be enough space to store them on the iPad…but as I said if I was using the iPad instead of a laptop I would only be interested in backing images up from card to SSD and not to the iPad.
I have a Belkin hub with PD in and it copied 50 or so Z8/9 files at 60ish MB each in just a minute or so although I didn’t time it. I also have the same hub discussed above but don’t use it as the iPad needs a powered hub to support both the card reader and SSD at the same time.
What do you mean by a powered hub. Ralph and I both used hubs that are bus powered from the iPad. That could be why mine was slow.
Copy them directly to the SSD and delete from ipad.
Yes. I‘ll try it now.
Mine doesn’t. I can plug in both the SSD and the SD card reader with no issues.
Using the iPad, I just copies five 25gig images from an SD card to the Samsung T7. It took 1 second. Worked great.
