coldblade2000Jun 13, 2023

How do you actually back up and save your photos and media off of your Android phone?

https://beehaw.org/post/523730

How do you actually back up and save your photos and media off of your Android phone? - Beehaw

I’ve mostly just relied on Google Photos, and I really like its features. However, I have always been deathly afraid of losing access to my Google photos account and losing all of those, so I need a better way to actually back up my photos. Right now all I do is do a Google Takeout every so often, but that’s inefficient as hell. How do you do it? How do you backup or sync your photos with a PC/local server?

Show threadConfetti
You can keep using google photos as your cloud backup. Locally with a cable, I use a 1 tb external hard drive for all my backup needs (photos,videos and other files) and then I have a copy of that same drive's contents on a different 1tb hard drive as a sort of backup backup drive all encrypted via veracrypt. I just remember to copy over my original photos every week or so. It should be noted that I'm not taking hundreds of photos a day though. Storage is pretty cheap nowadays if you opt for spinning mechanical hard drives and pair them with a case and its a pretty good, local backup method imo.
Jun 14, 2023 at 5:54amWeb
Show threadjetsetdoritoJun 16, 2023

I really miss when Google let you sync your Photos collection to a PC with the Google drive client. There's third party sync tools now but Google's API limits them to the "High quality" versions instead of original

Right now I'm just using Onedrive, might setup Immich soon