iPhone Is it worth backing up photos to Microsoft and Google if you have iCloud?

[MisterSavage]

Right now I'm backing-up to an external HD. But in case of failure of the drive, I also want to backup to a cloud facility. Google seems to be the way to go.

That's wise. It's always a good thing to have multiple backups with one being offsite.

 

[scouser75]

Install Google Photosand the app has a setting to initiate auto backup.

Thanks dude. Will do that now. Also, what if I want to back up all my pictures from my Photos app on my Mac?I have approximately 150gb with of photos on there?

 

[MisterSavage]

Thanks dude. Will do that now. Also, what if I want to back up all my pictures from my Photos app on my Mac?I have approximately 150gb with of photos on there?

Google Photos has a Mac uploader application.

https://photos.google.com/apps

 

[dk001]

Thanks dude. Will do that now. Also, what if I want to back up all my pictures from my Photos app on my Mac?I have approximately 150gb with of photos on there?

I use this same feature on my iPhone, Razer, Ipad and rMB.

 

[scouser75]

Brilliant. Thanks guys for the advice. Now to go and spend some of my hard-earned on some extra storage space.

 

[Shirasaki]

I don’t have a lot of photos to begin with, just around 30-40 GB. Not too much right? Not so quick. My OneDrive account is registered during the SkyDrive era, which had 25GB of free storage. And then Microsoft gave me additional 15GB for uploading photos from camera roll to their server. Of course, I can use that additional 15 GB to store anything, not just photos.

Due to complications, I am forced to use OneDrive for business and I pay 1TB space alongside my office 365 account. Because only OneDrive can backup my photos automatically, I need to regularly move old photos and videos to my OneDrive for business to free up spaces. I also have 50GB iCloud to store photos, but I regularly move old ones to OneDrive for business. I have tried to use optimised storage, then I receive a huge data bill after just one month using it because of all sorts of downloads when viewing it.

Google photos won’t save full resolution images for you unless you pay their storage and choose to save original images.

 

[lah]

for privacy issues I choose not to use Google Photos.

 

[dk001]

I don’t have a lot of photos to begin with, just around 30-40 GB. Not too much right? Not so quick. My OneDrive account is registered during the SkyDrive era, which had 25GB of free storage. And then Microsoft gave me additional 15GB for uploading photos from camera roll to their server. Of course, I can use that additional 15 GB to store anything, not just photos.

Due to complications, I am forced to use OneDrive for business and I pay 1TB space alongside my office 365 account. Because only OneDrive can backup my photos automatically, I need to regularly move old photos and videos to my OneDrive for business to free up spaces. I also have 50GB iCloud to store photos, but I regularly move old ones to OneDrive for business. I have tried to use optimised storage, then I receive a huge data bill after just one month using it because of all sorts of downloads when viewing it.

Google photos won’t save full resolution images for you unless you pay their storage and choose to save original images.

Unless you are doing UHR photos Google Photos saves in full res. I have yet to save any photo from a smartphone that GP doesn’t. Really high res photos I keep in a paid Google Drive.
If you have really high res photos and greater than 1080 video, some other option is advisable.

Google Free - up to 16MP and 1080 video.