Free back up storage for Photographs

OnMyTodd

I have read somewhere that you can store your photographs free for back up on Google Auto Back up . I do have them store on a memory stick but would also like a second back in case my computer fails. Can anybody advise me about the Google Auto back or similar so if my computer did fail I could pick up my saved photographs on a new computer or that of a friend. Thank you for any help on this matter, I am not very techically aware. I would not want to lose my photographs and not be able to recover them

ballyblack

download google picasa

and use picasa web to store in the cloud

http://picasa.google.co.uk/

you will need a gmail(google) account

OnMyTodd

My photographs are stored on Picasa so do I just need a Google E mail address. Then If my computer went down I would only need to enter my Gmail address on someone elses computer and pick up my stored photographs. I currently do not have a Gmail address only one on Virgin and one on Hotmail. Can the photograhs been stored in more than one place for back up and storage. I apologise for being so ignorant on this subject but it is important to me. thank you

ballyblack

open a google gmail address

then visit picasaweb. sign in using your gmail details

In picasa on PC/laptop select album, click 'share' or 'sync to web' buttons

when you upload you can access web-albums from any pc by signing in


https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/157000?hl=en-GB


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closed

if they are on your hard disk, and also on a flash drive, you already have a backup if the pc fails. burn them to a blank 10p dvd as well, and consider buying an external hard disk to backup the whole machine.

bob_a_builder

Another option is flicker.
ITB space for free at the moment - will take a while to fill that !
originally I thought it was only a public view/share site but you can set limit access to just you (and or friends etc)
plus can recover the picture in its original form i.e. not messed with

Tim_Richmond

On the gmail option . Does anybody know how many photographs the back up and storage will hold or what is the GB size.

Anne_Marie_2

bob_a_builder wrote: »

Another option is flicker.
ITB space for free at the moment - will take a while to fill that !
originally I thought it was only a public view/share site but you can set limit access to just you (and or friends etc)
plus can recover the picture in its original form i.e. not messed with

That is a lot of space for free, thanks for that.

tronator

Whatever you do, be careful whether that service changes the quality of your pictures in order to save space. I remember Picasa having such an option and if I recall correctly it was enabled by default.

Anne_Marie_2

Tim_Richmond wrote: »

On the gmail option . Does anybody know how many photographs the back up and storage will hold or what is the GB size.

I may be wrong but think it's 15 Gb for free.
It might be worth checking out the 1TB with Flickr. I've been using that periodically for years for posting photographs on a forum that I use, but didn't realize that they are now offering a good size for storing. You can make all your photographs private, rather than public, the latter being the default (from memory), so you would have to change that.