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Cloud backup

TELLIT01
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I'm looking for a system just to back up photo's and videos from my wife's Samsung phone. Doesn't need to do anything other than that so I don't want to pay a fortune. Any suggestions would be welcome as I don't have a scoobie. I take photo's with a camera 

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If your wife has a Google account (or sets one up) then download the Google One app to the phone for 15GB of storage for free. More space can be purchased if needed.0
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https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6193313?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android
More info above on how to get it done if you just want it for photos and videosThings that are differerent: draw & drawer, brought & bought, loose & lose, dose & does, payed & paid0 -
Thank you both. Yes she has a Google account so that looks the simplest method.
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Follow up question if I may. If I increase the amount of storage on Google One to be greater than the storage capacity of the phone, will the images in backup be retained even if I clear them off the phone?
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How about a flash drive ?0
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TELLIT01 said:Follow up question if I may. If I increase the amount of storage on Google One to be greater than the storage capacity of the phone, will the images in backup be retained even if I clear them off the phone?0
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Thanks for the suggestion MikeJXE but I'm looking for a system which will automatically backup photos for my wife without any intervention from her. I may be missing something but not all photo's are being backed up. Many of her photo's come via Whatsapp and they aren't being copied.
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TELLIT01 said:Thanks for the suggestion MikeJXE but I'm looking for a system which will automatically backup photos for my wife without any intervention from her. I may be missing something but not all photo's are being backed up. Many of her photo's come via Whatsapp and they aren't being copied.
I don't think that photos / videos from WhatsApp chats will go to Google Photots automatically. Can anyone confirm?0 -
In the Backup settings in the Google Photos app there is an option to select which device folder are included in the image/photo backup.
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Thanks k_man. I think I'm getting there - slowly.
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