Options for Backing Up Photos Online

Posted: January 27, 2017

[caption id="attachment_12984" align="alignright" width="320"] Image from digital-photography-school.com[/caption] Backing files up is a crucial step to take, especially for photographers who have photos they need to protect. While there are many options for backups offline, online (cloud) backup options are also available and could come in handy in the event of the loss of a physical offline copy of the files. Here are a few online backup options for backing up photos, and more. Suzi Pratt, writer for Digital Photography School, shares options for online photo backup.

Some Options for Backing Up Your Photos Online

Backing up your data is an essential part of your photography workflow. While many photographers still advocate for using physical external hard drives, there are also many online services where you can store your images. In this article, I will go over the pros and cons of several popular sites to backup your photos online. Please note that these photo solutions are constantly changing their features, so always check with them directly to verify any details. Photo backups versus photo sharing sites It’s important to note the differences between a designated photo backup services and photo sharing websites. Traditional photo backup services such as Backblaze and CrashPlan focus purely on backing up data and can be set to backup an entire computer or hard drive. This is good in the sense that you can have everything you’ve ever created on your computer saved to the cloud. However, these backups end up being extremely large files and they take extra time to retrieve. So if you need to constantly and quickly access your backed up photo data, it may not be wise to rely solely on these types of providers. Read the entire article Some Options for Backing Up Your Photos Online on Digital Photography School.