What storage cloud do you use? I’m looking to back up photos personal photos, both from my laptop and phone. I want to have folders I can neatly organize and access to them from an app...

davidbrok5

I’m looking to back up photos personal photos, both from my laptop and phone. I want to have folders I can neatly organize and access to them from an app at any time. I don’t want them using my phones storage and also don’t want every picture I take to automatically upload, only when I manually do it. I have an iPhone and a ten year old MacBook Pro that all my photos are currently on. I wouldn’t mind paying a small monthly fee.

Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA

I dont use cloud services. Dangerous and clunky.

kschwegl Loc: Orangeburg, NY

davidbrok5 wrote:

I’m looking to back up photos personal photos, both from my laptop and phone. I want to have folders I can neatly organize and access to them from an app at any time. I don’t want them using my phones storage and also don’t want every picture I take to automatically upload, only when I manually do it. I have an iPhone and a ten year old MacBook Pro that all my photos are currently on. I wouldn’t mind paying a small monthly fee.

I back up to an external USB3 drive which is kept in my safe when not in use. I like to have my backup in "my hot little hands". I also back up all my photos to a second USB3 drive.

Ken S.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Carbonite. One computer, unlimited storage, automatic, indicates file backup status of files.
Easy peasy.

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

BackBlaze unlimited drives and storage about $60/yr I recently lost all my 2019 photos and was able to restore viaBB

Bob Mevis Loc: Plymouth, Indiana

I don't use them.

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

Some people fear the "Cloud" and their fear is baseless. I have 10 external hard drives (triple save) and 3 cloud services. I prefer the cloud services of Adobe and DropBox. I have been using them for 5 years and I have never had an issue.

Fotomacher Loc: Toronto

BackBlaze

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

If you have a Google account, it looks like you want something like Google Drive/Google Photos. You can access it from any internet capable device, set up for it to sync photos and data automatically, or manually if you prefer.

Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA

DavidPine wrote:

Some people fear the "Cloud" and their fear is baseless. I have 10 external hard drives (triple save) and 3 cloud services. I prefer the cloud services of Adobe and DropBox. I have been using them for 5 years and I have never had an issue.

I should have stated that it isn't fear. Its practicality of not having local internet bandwidth to transmit large files.

I back up on four specific drives and was is kept offsite in secure (fireproof) location.

Also, if hackers can get your medical records, they can certainly get your photos. I work closely with data/IT managers storing medical records and developing business continuity plans.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Jim Eads wrote:

I should have stated that it isn't fear. Its practicality of not having local internet bandwidth to transmit large files.

I back up on four specific drives and was is kept offsite in secure (fireproof) location.

Also, if hackers can get your medical records, they can certainly get your photos. I work closely with data/IT managers storing medical records and developing business continuity plans.

Agreed. My initial cloud backup took almost a week over decent internet.
Sure hate to have to do that over a 300 baud modem!

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Jim Eads wrote:

I should have stated that it isn't fear. Its practicality of not having local internet bandwidth to transmit large files.

I back up on four specific drives and was is kept offsite in secure (fireproof) location.

Also, if hackers can get your medical records, they can certainly get your photos. I work closely with data/IT managers storing medical records and developing business continuity plans.

At that point it doesn't make much difference if it is stored locally or using distributed computing (cloud). Data is only as protected as the method to store it. Poor security practices, availability of data, and resources needed to get that data are the decision points for exploiting a network.

The OP wants a user friendly retrievable option, which is a different requirement to backup and disaster recovery.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

johngault007 wrote:

At that point it doesn't make much difference if it is stored locally or using distributed computing (cloud). Data is only as protected as the method to store it. Poor security practices, availability of data, and resources needed to get that data are the decision points for exploiting a network.

The OP wants a user friendly retrievable option, which is a different requirement to backup and disaster recovery.

Carbonite is my disaster recovery, like if my PC and BOTH of my local backups blow up.
That would be a disaster!

For "operating" backups I would just use local ones.
But I don't have the intentions of using them as "working" backups.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Longshadow wrote:

Carbonite is my disaster recovery, like if my PC and BOTH of my local backups blow up.
That would be a disaster!

For "operating" backups I would just use local ones.
But I don't have the intentions of using them as "working" backups.

I use the Backblaze B2 service for my doomsday security. I probably should look into having at least one local backup because it would make life easier if I had to restore

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

johngault007 wrote:

I use the Backblaze B2 service for my doomsday security. I probably should look into having at least one local backup because it would make life easier if I had to restore

Much simpler to go to a local backup for a file or two.
(I don't run Windows Backup at all, I just copy directories to the backup drive. That way the files are immediately visible in Windows Explorer. (I made a batch file that copies everything I want to save. I just let it run overnight. Takes about two hours.)