Best ways to back up photos

Weather you have photos that have been taken with a camera or cell phone, these are all memories that you surely want to preserve. What happens if a phone gets lost, damaged or stolen? Or that dreaded message saying you have run out of space on your desktop. How will you free up storage? Without some kind of backup plan, precious memories could be gone just like that. Backing up your photos will ensure that you do not loose your photos forever.

Here are several ways to back up photos from a simple cloud to other external devices. As a photographer in Pensacola, Fl I have used just about all of them.

• Icloud: A simple product to use and one of the best ways to back up your photos. The cloud is build into every Apple device making it a completely automatic process. Once your signed up that saves all your images. It offers 5GB of free storage. 50 GB of storage as low as .99 /month.
• Dropbox : First released in 2008, now one of the most popular online storage sites. It works with windows, mac, androids and IOS. Dropbox keeps files backed up to the web and in sync across multiple machines. The free tier gives you 2GB of storage. 2 TB is $11.99/mont
• Google Drive: Is everywhere and widely known. Using Google is simple, It is available desktop and mobile. Storage is free for 15GB. Prices start at $1.99/month for 100GB.
• Amazon Photos: Keeps photos and videos in its orginal format. Prime members get free unlimited online storage. All Amazon customers get 5GB of free cloud storage. 100 GB is $2.79/month.
• One Drive : A Microsoft product, it offers 5GB of free storage and works on Windows, MacOS, IOS and Android. Pricing starts at 1.99/month for 100GB of storage.
• External Storage Devices or SSD :(Solid State Drive) These manually transfer photos from your phone or camera to the External or Solid State Drives using your computer. It’s a physical backup and does not rely on cloud services. This is how most photographers back up their clients photos. Some examples are USB Flash Drives, Portable Wi-Fi Drives like Scan Disk and Western Digital. See attached for more on these device.
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Take the time to implement any of the choices from above. No matter how you choose to back up your photos you will not want to risk loosing your memories.

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