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Large Photo Backup

Burner1061
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I had been thinking about this for a while, but Google has forced my hand.

I have a large photo backup through Google Photos, tens of thousands of photos from my family spanning over 20 years (I don't know how many exactly, it doesn't tell me), and I got an email today from Google basically stating no more free unlimited photo backup. I really like the Google Photos app, the location features, face recognition, but I'm not paying for terabytes of cloud storage. I'm willing to pay for hard drives that I own personally, but are there ways to set up like a system that works like google photos but the photos are saved to a personal computer locally? I consider myself good with tech but this is a whole new area for me. All info is appreciated, thank you.

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31 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:

I had been thinking about this for a while, but Google has forced my hand.

I have a large photo backup through Google Photos, tens of thousands of photos from my family spanning over 20 years (I don't know how many exactly, it doesn't tell me), and I got an email today from Google basically stating no more free unlimited photo backup. I really like the Google Photos app, the location features, face recognition, but I'm not paying for terabytes of cloud storage. I'm willing to pay for hard drives that I own personally, but are there ways to set up like a system that works like google photos but the photos are saved to a personal computer locally? I consider myself good with tech but this is a whole new area for me. All info is appreciated, thank you.

Nothing you do personally will be quite like Google or Amazon etc setup. At least not to my knowledge...

 

If you do go the route of personal hard drives, I would seriously consider backblaze to back it all up to the cloud. Just takes one of many possible circumstances for you to lose all of those memories.... backblaze is 6 bucks a month now? for unlimited storage. 

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