It can be another service or an SSD. Just looking for a safe alternative and how to us it post-iCloud.
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iCloud I have 38K photos in iCloud. Is there an alternative? I want to stop my subscription!
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I would get a 2 NAS setup and use one NAS to backup the other. If possible, keep the second NAS in a different location, in case of fire, theft, or hardware failure.
Download and save your photos to an SSD. Archive the ones that you will never need to see again. You know those photos of Tim’s birthday five years ago that still mean something to you, but you don’t need to see them on a daily basis.
Keep the ones on your phone that you like to look at on a daily basis and perhaps every 30 days archive whatever ever photos that you want to.
This will prevent you losing all your photos, but it’s not an answer to having a real time backup solution. Consider Google photos or Amazon photos. Neither is free but if most of your photos are archived, it shouldn’t cost you that much. Unless you’re struggling to put food on the table, I wouldn’t try to be so cheap as to not have some type of cloud back up.
Regardless of what you choose, the first step is download the pictures to local storage. I could be wrong, but I don't think competing cloud services to transfer between each other.
Overall taking ownership of your data is probably the best option, though downloading them will take time
Overall taking ownership of your data is probably the best option, though downloading them will take time
I take it you don't have kids (Or just don't like them
)? I regularly sort my photos, and I have 36.000 of them in iCloud.
Well, I understand backing up but say I take 10 photos. They are on my phone. How do I move them to the backup? I can get Google photos for $100/year which is less than Apple and it will do it automatically.
Kids, pets, and have had digital cameras since the late '90s. (And was an avid photographer before that.)
