Is there any way to automatically backup iCloud photos

Hi Roger Sinden, We appreciate you reaching out to us. We understand that you are looking to automatically backup iCloud Photos

As stated in the article below, "iCloud Photos automatically keeps every photo and video you take in iCloud, so you can access your library from any device, anytime you want." If you would like to know ho two set it up, the article below can also guide you on how to do it.

Set up and use iCloud Photos

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You should consider using Time Machine. You can automatically download your iCloud photos to the iMac Photos when you have it logged in and on-line with Photos running. Set up Time Machine. Then you'll have it in iCloud, on your iMac and on your Time Machine backup. All of this is easy to figure out from your settings on Photos on your iPhone, Photos on your Mac and Time Machine on your iMac.

You can also do this with My Photo Stream as well, it just doesn't sync all of your photo library across all of your devices and back them all up to iCloud. PhotoStream keeps 1000 most recent photos or 30 days of photos automatically on your iCloud drive. Then you join your iMac to My Photo Stream to automatically download all of the photos in PhotoStream so you don't lose them after 30 days or over 1000 photos. Then use Time Machine. I didn't want 25 years and Terrabytes of photos in iCloud and don't care about having my full photo library on all of my devices. For one, restoring the backup would be impossible over the internet so Time Machine is my solution. I actually keep two Time Machine drives going.

You will have to make backups of the downloaded iCloud Photos Library on your spare mac. As long as the spare mac is still syncing with icloud Photos any change you are doing in Photos on one of your devices will modify the copy on the spare mac mac as well. You will need a copy of your iCloud Phphotos that is no longer syncing with iCloud. make aTime Machine backup or regular copies of the downloaded library on your spare mac.

Well it was what you asked. You asked to back up.