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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use syncthing. Once setup its really nice.

[–] tarjeezy 2 points 1 year ago

Syncthing is what I use as well. Great for automatically syncing photos to my PC, and backing up my PC files to my phone. Pretty close equivalent to Google photo sync, and your files stay private.

[–] ScottE 2 points 1 year ago

Same here, syncthing is fantastic and I use it for all kinds of stuff - including backing up phone media.