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How do you actually back up and save your photos and media off of your Android phone? (beehaw.org)
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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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[โ€“] xonigo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use syncthing to sync my camera folder on my pixel 6a phone with a folder on my NAS.

Then I have an old moto x with pixel experience rom (the rom has unlimited Google photos backup) and syncthing. This phone turns on once a day at night with a smartplug - the folder on my NAS syncs with a folder on phone. The phone backs up the photos to Google photos at full quality.

I'm still mad that Google took away the photo backup for pixel phones. But this seems to work for now

[โ€“] turbineBMW 2 points 1 year ago

Same! I overuse Syncthing lol. I've got my photos syncing plus going bidirectional with my screenshots and documents directory and it's so convenient and streamlined. I've got a 1TB in my laptop so it hasn't been an issue and it's nice to know between 2 devices with photos saved offline and Google Photos I'm not sweating.