Cloud backup 6 January at 5:57PM in Techie Stuff 11 replies 231 views

TELLIT01

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

flaneurs_lobster

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. 

oldernonethewiser

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 videos

TELLIT01

Thank you both.  Yes she has a Google account so that looks the simplest method.

TELLIT01

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?

MikeJXE

How about a flash drive ?

flaneurs_lobster

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?

If they are in Google Photos (dedicated bit of Google One) then yes.

TELLIT01

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. 

flaneurs_lobster

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. 

Make sure that in WhatsApp / Settings / Chats / Chat backup /   you have Google Drive setup together with how often you want this backup to occur.

I don't think that photos / videos from WhatsApp chats will go to Google Photots automatically. Can anyone confirm? 

k_man

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.

This includes options for WhatsApp Images and WhatsApp videos

TELLIT01

Thanks k_man.  I think I'm getting there - slowly.