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How do you actually back up and save your photos and media off of your Android phone? (self.android)

submitted 2 years ago by coldblade2000 to c/android@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] confetti_8tVST5@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can keep using google photos/drive as your cloud backup with cryptomator if you would like privacy. 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.