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How to Safely Backup Your Personal Photos While Traveling

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Mark the calendar for March 31st. It’s World Backup Day, a great annual reminder to make sure you backup all of your important data from the various electronic devices you use, including computers and phones.

Bet you did not know that 30% of people have never backed up the important data they keep electronically stored.

Consider what a tragedy it would be if the phone you use were to be lost or stolen, and the thousands of pictures you have stored are lost forever. Even worse if you are on holiday, and tragedy strikes.

What’s the best way to backup my photos while traveling?

If you are keen to keep your photos backed up, try out this digital asset management software Asset Bank.

The simplest and easiest way to ensure you never lose any of your photos is to sign up for an automatic photo backup service, which will store your images in the “cloud.” It doesn’t matter which cloud service you use. There are several. Apple users may opt for iCloud. There’s also Google Photos, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive, and even Facebook.

But there is one big caveat to using the “clouds”. Backing up to these services requires you to have a data connection, and roaming overseas can get costly. So make sure you’re only backing up pictures while using Wi-Fi.

Cloud services:

– Google Drive (up to 15 GB)
– Microsoft OneDrive (up to 5 GB)
– Dropbox (up to 2 GB)
– Apple iCloud (up to 5 GB)
– Amazon’s Cloud Drive (unlimited storage for Amazon Prime members)

If Internet access is too pricey or you have security and privacy concerns about storing all your images in a cloud service, you can use a portable hard drive to hold the images, connecting to your phone via Wi-Fi or some other short-range wireless technology to transfer the files. It is a great lightweight alternative. To transfer your files from card to hard drive you will need a portable card reader.

You could also just take your laptop or consider getting an inexpensive netbook, and back up pictures to these devices just like you do at home.

For best results, use both. Using both a portable hard drive and automatically storing images in a cloud service will ensure you don’t lose any of the digital memories from your vacation.

Some cameras have dual card slots, such as the D810 and 5DS R, and can automatically write the images you take to multiple cards simultaneously. This is perhaps the best way to handle backups while traveling since the work can be done without any additional steps. However, you have to make sure that you keep the camera safe and with you as both cards are within the same location.

And leading from above, make sure to bring a few SD cards with you on your travels as they create extra storage options, take one with you and keep the other in the room with transferred photos. Memory cards are relatively cheap these days, and having a few on hand for making copies can only benefit you. It is best to travel with multiple smaller cards, rather than a few larger one such as 128GB. You can fill up the smaller cards and then transfer to larger. And if you lose one or it stops working, you will not lose as many photos.

Additional travel tips:

Before you leave home, make sure you have enough memory on your phone. Delete photos which have already been backed up to the cloud or on your computer, as well as digital books you are not reading and music you are not listening to. Also, uninstall nonessential apps as part of this memory cleanup.

When using Wi-Fi to send your pictures into the cloud service, set it up to transfer at night while you sleep in your hotel. The Wi-Fi network will likely not be overtaxed then, and you’ll wake up knowing all your pictures are safe and sound.

 

 



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