Best place to backup up photos

[Zippy768]

As most people, got loads of photos on my phone currently stored on an sd card on the phone.
Where is the best and easiest place to store/back them up? Last phone crashed completely so was lucky i had them on an SD card.
Phone is Samsung s8.
Tia

 

[davidroberts30]

As most people, got loads of photos on my phone currently stored on an sd card on the phone.
Where is the best and easiest place to store/back them up? Last phone crashed completely so was lucky i had them on an SD card.
Phone is Samsung s8.
Tia

On a cloud,yes really get yourself set up so all data is stored there

 

[milkloss]

If you have amazon prime then you have unlimited full resolution photo back up facilities.

 

[How much]

I would also say the cloud , I have microsoft office subscription and get "one drive" with it as well as word and excel , I find it great as if i'm not in the office I can get any PC file or photo on my phone ( samsung ) or any other pc if i need to by accessing one drive all my photos are there and you can if you want back them all up to external hard drive if you wanted to leave microsoft .
I trust microsoft ability better than mine to keep them safe and available only downside is i have to pay yearly sub but you get access to the MS programs for I think 5 devices so its reasonable

 

[Zippy768]

If you have amazon prime then you have unlimited full resolution photo back up facilities.

Dont have Amo prime

 

[Zippy768]

On a cloud,yes really get yourself set up so all data is stored there

Being trying the cloud this avo. Backing up phone is no problem but a right pain doing the photos. Managed to start backing up 1400, crashed after 150ish. Taking forever.

I want it to do a full backup weekly or something. All automatically

 

[Half Pipe]

You can set android to backup new files, and choose whether to use mobile data or wait till it can use wi-fi.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

With apple you get free 5gb in the cloud, they want money afterwars. Google photos is free for 15gb of high quality or unlimited for a reduced quality backup. All my photos are now on google, uploaded from three phones and an ipad. Took few days but eventually they all synced date order and deleted duplicates. Can access them all now from anywhere. Current phone and ipad sync when on wifi and upload new images, ideal.

 

[michael N123]

Print them and put them in a book

 

[milkloss]

Print them and put them in a book

Much easier to do when they’re already in cloud storage.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Being trying the cloud this avo. Backing up phone is no problem but a right pain doing the photos. Managed to start backing up 1400, crashed after 150ish. Taking forever.

I want it to do a full backup weekly or something. All automatically

First go (or two or three!) is painful, especially with multiple devices.

Bear it out though as it’s worth it in the end. Not only are photo sync’d across all your devices, you have a complete backup and restoring to new devices is a doddle.

Extending the concept to email, notes, documents and files and you believe how convenient it is to access anything from anywhere.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

Google Photos, I've been using it since 2014 and never had an issue

 

[How much]

Being trying the cloud this avo. Backing up phone is no problem but a right pain doing the photos. Managed to start backing up 1400, crashed after 150ish. Taking forever.

I want it to do a full backup weekly or something. All automatically

if You use the cloud , you have to upload them once , that may be pain to do , but someplace with good wifi signal rather than use your mobile data would be sensible and faster , but after that you don't back up again just set the phone so it takes a photo and save copy to cloud as well as the one on your phone.

you could put the memory card from your phone in pc and upload them to the cloud from there as another option , but there is allot of data in them photos its going to take while however you do it if you have an average speed internet, if you have slow connection its almost inevitable its going to crash

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

As most people, got loads of photos on my phone currently stored on an sd card on the phone.
Where is the best and easiest place to store/back them up? Last phone crashed completely so was lucky i had them on an SD card.
Phone is Samsung s8.
Tia

If cloud sounds too much, you could always revert to the full fat version of what was known back in the day as “sneaker net” - networking by shuffling a bunch of 1.44MB 3.5” diskettes or 5.25” floppies if you were really desperate.

Just think of the exercise....

Mind you the stack of floppies to equal the 128GB SD card above would be taller than a skyscraper....

 

[Still Farming]

Brought this up long time back as put all ours on Flickr.
All ok for years, and good platform.
Then flickr decided to limit the free subscription to 1000 photos.
Nice.
When we had 16k on there.
Been a hell of a time to get zip files back and re download as dont want to loose them.
Put on external passport Hard drive now.
Beware as whats good today is often not the case tommorrow.

 

[Zippy768]

First go (or two or three!) is painful, especially with multiple devices.

Bear it out though as it’s worth it in the end. Not only are photo sync’d across all your devices, you have a complete backup and restoring to new devices is a doddle.

Extending the concept to email, notes, documents and files and you believe how convenient it is to access anything from anywhere.

Glad it is not just me. Seems to be a right ballache at mo.
Got a Tablet a few weeks ago and Smart Switch everything in no trouble but tend to use phone in the day and ideally want everything duplicated onto tablet.

 

[Zippy768]

Brought this up long time back as put all ours on Flickr.
All ok for years, and good platform.
Then flickr decided to limit the free subscription to 1000 photos.
Nice.
When we had 16k on there.
Been a hell of a time to get zip files back and re download as dont want to loose them.
Put on external passport Hard drive now.
Beware as whats good today is often not the case tommorrow.

Ideally would back up everything on external hard drives - phone pics and DSLR pics - but finding time to do all that is hard. In a week one could have a few more photos. Just wanted something simple that backed up in case the of lost or phone failure.

I should really use a hard drive for family pic and irreplaceable ones though

 

[Zippy768]

if You use the cloud , you have to upload them once , that may be pain to do , but someplace with good wifi signal rather than use your mobile data would be sensible and faster , but after that you don't back up again just set the phone so it takes a photo and save copy to cloud as well as the one on your phone.

you could put the memory card from your phone in pc and upload them to the cloud from there as another option , but there is allot of data in them photos its going to take while however you do it if you have an average speed internet, if you have slow connection its almost inevitable its going to crash

Doing on wifi and am on Super Fast Virgin connection......apparently. Seems to be steadily going through ok now. 1900 it has found to copy, where do they come from. Will then have to work out how to get on the cloud to delete the lesser important ones

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Put on external passport Hard drive now.
Beware as whats good today is often not the case tommorrow.

Good policy. Keep a local copy. You never know when something will get hacked / taken down / lose internet / Donald trump has a moment

Always have a backup for the backup. Preferably kept in another place.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Doing on wifi and am on Super Fast Virgin connection......apparently. Seems to be steadily going through ok now. 1900 it has found to copy, where do they come from. Will then have to work out how to get on the cloud to delete the lesser important ones

You’re doing ok. Keep the faith. I had almost 24,000 to upload.