Vent: I almost lost a year of dog photos because I didn't know about cloud backup

For the longest time, I just saved all my pictures straight to my phone's internal storage and never thought twice about it. Then about six months ago, my old phone bricked itself overnight and wouldn't turn back on. I had to pay a shop in town $80 just to pull the data off, and they said I got lucky. Now I have Google Photos set to auto-backup everything the second I'm on wifi. Has anyone else had a close call like that and switched to a different backup method?

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the_felix12d ago

My old phone died and took my vacation pics with it.

ryanscott23d ago

Honestly, this is just how people learn now. We don't get taught this stuff, we have to almost lose it all first. I see it with everything, not just photos. People won't back up their computer until the hard drive clicks, or write down passwords until they get locked out. The threat has to feel real. Setting up Google Photos after your scare is the only move that makes sense. It's frustrating that it takes a crisis to make basic digital safety a habit.

iris_mason8823d ago

Oh man, that's such a scary feeling. I had a similar panic when my old laptop's screen went black for good, and I hadn't backed up my writing in months. RyanScott is right, it really does take that kind of shock to make it stick. I do the Google Photos thing too now, but I also got a cheap external hard drive for a second copy, just in case.