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What's the point of Google Photos if I've to keep backup. They may choose to lock me out and I've lost all my memories.
by rohan1024 7y ago
What's the point of Google Photos if I've to keep backup. They may choose to lock me out and I've lost all my memories.
- javagram 7y agoNever rely on a single cloud service for your backup. Always backup to at least one independent place such as a local hard drive or another cloud provider.
- jquery 7y agoThis. I suggest iCloud, Dropbox, Lightroom, OneDrive, or Ever. I often take advantage of “free trials” to upload all my photos to these services periodically. Once your free trial expires you can’t upload more photos but they hold onto the existing ones indefinitely. I also use a NAS device (cheap!) and a lifetime Plex account for my viewer. Only iOS “live” photos are inconvenient to back up anywhere but iCloud so I don’t take many Live Photos.
- jeromegv 7y agoGoogle Photos is not a backup system. It’s a place to host photos in the cloud. You need your own backup somewhere else.
- JoelSanchez 7y agoI have all of my photos in a RAID 1 at home, and I regularly "rclone" all of them to Backblaze B2. I have all of them inside Google Photos because that's how I view them, but I don't consider it to be a backup. It's just a much more convenient way to access the photos from many devices, and share them with friends and family. Apart from that, I keep a Google Takeout archive the same way (RAID 1, B2)
- roywiggins 7y agoDon't keep your photos in only one place if you care about them, even if that place is Google. Google Photos is a handy worst-case backup for your photos, but it's not magic and you really need to keep another copy somewhere.