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Online backup for family pictures
Posted on 9/3/21 at 10:10 am
Posted on 9/3/21 at 10:10 am
Looking for recommendations of a good online backup for my family pictures and videos...have about 400 GBs and just looking for something easy and not to expensive.
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Posted on 9/3/21 at 10:25 am to saints5021
apple or google depending on your familiarity/comfort....or even amazon account
Posted on 9/3/21 at 10:30 am to saints5021
have you looked into google photos? i know they're changing the rules on it but i have hundreds of hours of family video and thousands of photos and still under the 17GB 'free' limit.
at some point i will hit the wall on that and then i'll probably pay the $2/mo for 100GB.
just because you're at 400GB locally doesn't mean the online equivalent will also be that large. google does its own compression, etc.
unfortunately you missed the cut off of June 1, 2021 to uploaded everything you currently have without it counting 1 byte towards the 17GB 'seed' storage.
at some point i will hit the wall on that and then i'll probably pay the $2/mo for 100GB.
just because you're at 400GB locally doesn't mean the online equivalent will also be that large. google does its own compression, etc.
unfortunately you missed the cut off of June 1, 2021 to uploaded everything you currently have without it counting 1 byte towards the 17GB 'seed' storage.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 11:03 am to CAD703X
I thought the June 2021 deadline was going to count anything you already have in google photos to count towards your google drive “free storage”…because this what i use
Posted on 9/3/21 at 12:22 pm to saints5021
Prime has free storage if you’re a member.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 2:00 pm to ellunchboxo
If you have a Microsoft 365 Account, you have One Drive, and they allocate 1TB of storage per account.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 2:33 pm to saints5021
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This post was edited on 9/14/21 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 9/3/21 at 2:38 pm to bigblake
Code42/crashplan is still about $10/month. Unlimited space, they are housing over 13T for me.
Posted on 9/3/21 at 3:30 pm to Slingscode
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If you have a Microsoft 365 Account, you have One Drive, and they allocate 1TB of storage per account.
This is where I started, but I just never warmed up to OneDrive or Sharepoint. I still use my 365 e-mail.
I created an S3 bucket and dumped all the pictures in it - then map the bucket as a logical drive in MacOS when I need it.
Recently got a WD EX2 drive that will connect to the S3 bucket and make a local backup at home in case things go south.
Posted on 9/4/21 at 12:20 am to bigblake
Posted on 9/4/21 at 12:21 am to hollowpoint
English please? 
I’ve no clue what any of that means except guessing WD is Western Digital?
I’ve no clue what any of that means except guessing WD is Western Digital?Posted on 9/4/21 at 7:37 am to zippyputt
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English please?
Here is the link that gave me the idea… it’s long, but has screenshots Blog S3 Picture Backup
If you don’t mind this being a more technical approach (versus Dropbox or another cloud storage provider), S3 storage pricing is pretty good.
And yes, a Western Digital EX2 drive - I bought an 8TB drive and configured it so that I can keep a local copy of everything in S3 in case something goes wrong.
Posted on 9/4/21 at 8:44 am to hollowpoint
Thank you! 
Posted on 9/4/21 at 9:25 am to saints5021
Amazon cloud worked well for us
Posted on 9/4/21 at 8:14 pm to hollowpoint
Took me awhile too.
The office uses One Drive, so I was forced to learn.
I really like it now (it's also come a long way from its introduction).
Glad that you found a solution that works for you.
The office uses One Drive, so I was forced to learn.
I really like it now (it's also come a long way from its introduction).
Glad that you found a solution that works for you.
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