Google photos backup and sync

When you use a PC, you must make it a point to create extra copies of your documents and photos somewhere outside your computer’s internal storage. That insulates you from potential data losses caused by sudden hardware failures, system crashes, and malware attacks. But local backups aside, it’s also best to upload your files online. Not only does that offer additional protection against unexpected events such as fires and theft, but you get to access the data on any device with an active internet connection. Google Drive and OneDrive are two popular cloud storage services that can help you backup files to the cloud. The instructions below should help you figure out how to set up each service to safeguard the data on your computer.Google Drive allows you to back up and sync files on your PC with its Backup and Sync client for Windows. To avoid any confusion, here’s how the “Backup” and “Sync” elements work:Backup: Continuously backs up folders to the Computers section in Google Drive. You can’t sync them to other devices.Sync: Creates a special directory on your computer and syncs files and folders to and from the My Drive section in Google Drive. You can also sync them with other desktop devices.If you have a Google Account, you can immediately install and use Backup and Sync on your computer. If not, you must create a Google Account. You get 15GB of free storage to start with. Paid plans include 100GB for $1.99/month, 200GB for $2.99/month, and 2TB for $9.99/month.1. Download the Backup and Sync installer from Google. Then, run it on your PC to install the Backup and Sync client. Once the Welcome to Backup and Sync screen shows up, select Get Started and insert your Google Account credentials to sign into Backup and Sync. 2. The My Laptop or My Computer screen that shows up allows you to specify the folders you want to backup to Google Drive. By default, Backup and Sync displays three folders on your PC—Desktop, Documents, and Pictures. You can pick additional folders by selecting Choose Folder. If you pick the Pictures folder, you must select your photo upload preferences—High quality or Original quality. The former compresses photos and videos to the 16MP and 1080p resolutions, respectively, while the latter uploads them at full quality. If you want to back up your photos and videos separately to Google Photos, check the box next to Upload photos and videos to Google Photos.Note: Photo and video uploads uploaded in compressed quality don’t count toward your Google Drive storage quota until June 1st, 2021.3. Select Next to proceed.4. Pick the Sync everything in My Drive option to sync all files and folders from Google Drive’s My Drive section to local storage. Or, select Sync only these folders to sync select folders only. 5. Select Start to finish setting up the Backup and Sync client.Folders that you’ve chosen to back up to Google Drive should start uploading immediately. Head over to Google Drive in your

Google Photos, the second way is more suitable. If you need the most efficient way to do that, you can turn to the third way directly.Way 1. Manually download and upload to move photos1. Go to dropbox.com and sign in to your Dropbox account.2. Find the file you want to backup to PC, click on More (three dots) on the right of the file column, and choose Download.3. Go to photos.google.com, and log in with your Google account.4. Click Upload in the upper right corner, select Computer, and upload the folder where the photos are stored to Google Photos.Way 2. Move Photos via Google Backup and SyncTo help users sync files to cloud automatically, you could use the desktop app of both, then let Google Photos (Google Backup and Sync is the desktop app for Google Photos) sync the Dropbox folder automatically.1. Download the Dropbox app and install it on your PC.2. After installing them on your PC, you will find Dropbox on your computer. All of your files in the Dropbox folder also will be shown in this folder.3. Download and install Google Backup and Sync on your computer and log in with your Google account. 4. After logging in, you will be asked which folders to sync, and select the Dropbox folder on your computer. Under the Google Photos section, check Upload photos and videos to Google Photos.5. After selecting, the application will sync Dropbox folder to Google Photos automatically.Way 3. Transfer Photos with the third-party service MultCloudAnother reliable way is using a professional third-party tool like MultCloud, which is a web-based cloud storage manager that can help transfer files, documents, photos, programs, projects, etc. from one cloud to another directly. You can follow the steps: 1. Go to the MultCloud website and sign up first. Then, sign in to your account. 2. Add your Dropbox and Google Photos to MultCloud one by one.3. Click on Cloud Transfer button on the tab, if all the files in your Dropbox accounts are images, select Dropbox as the source and Albums under Google Photos as the destination. Then, click on Transfer Now to transfer Dropbox to Google Photos directly.The last way of transferring Dropbox to Google Photos is also applied to Google Photos to Dropbox sync.Bonus tip: How to get more cloud storage space?Although Google Photos offers unlimited storage for high-quality photos and videos, according to the latest news, Google Photos has ended the unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021. Dropbox has only 2 GB for free. How to get more cloud storage space for free?You can use the free cloud backup service CBackup to combine the free space in multiple cloud drive accounts belonging to one or multiple cloud storage into a large, even unlimited online cloud backup space. Let’s see how to achieve that with CBackup:1. Sign in with your CBackup account.2. Likewise, under the Storage tab, select the cloud you want to add and follow the instructions to grant CBackup access to the cloud account. You can

The Computers where Backup and Sync application is in use.Ability to backup files straightaway upon connecting with an external storage medium such as pen drives, hard drives, SD cards, digital cameras etc. This is quite useful for professional cameramen who want to swiftly back up the captured images by connecting the camera to the computer.How to Set it up in the Computer and Use it?The process of setting up Google Backup and Sync is relatively straightforward. Here we’ve broken it down into four separate sections for the reader’s convenience.Setup the Main SoftwareVisit the following URL: Backup and Sync application by clicking on the Download Backup and Sync button.Once it’s installed in the system, launch it through the start menu.Click on GET STARTED to initiate the preliminary steps you need to undertake before you can use Backup and Sync.Sign in to Google Drive by entering in the credentials of your Gmail account.Select between Back up photos and videos and Back up all file types. The latter option is recommended as this way the application provides the user with an option to backup photos and videos to Google Photos as well. This way photos and videos are uploaded to both Google Photos and Google Drive, whereas all other kinds of file types are uploaded only to GDrive. The sole purpose of this option is to cater to legacy users who just want to use Google Photos but they aren’t interested in using Google Drive.Select your preferred optionSelect all the folders that have to be backed up.Open the application via its icon in the taskbar and then allow the application to upload the files in the selected folders to the cloud. The upload progress can be tracked by clicking the application icon.To see the uploaded files in the cloud, visit the Computers icon in the panel on the left, click it to open the folder hierarchy. Now you will be able to view all the files uploaded from your computer where Backup and Sync is installed and configured.Setup the My Drive featureMy Drive is the legacy folder which contains all the files synced

Drive and Dropbox account, then authorize your CBackup account to get access to Google Drive and Dropbox.Step 3. Tap Backup > Backup Public Cloud to Public Cloud to move files between cloud storage accounts on just one single interface.Step 4. Name your backup task, and choose the Google Drive account as the transfer source. Similarly, choose the Dropbox account as the backup destination. Then, click the Start Backup button to move photos from Google Photos to Dropbox. ★Tips: Before backing up, you can set up the following useful settings: File Filter: If you only want to complete the operation of moving photos from Google to Dropbox, you can set the specified file type for backup (file type). Scheduler: You can click Scheduler to set up one time only, daily, weekly or monthly to transfer Google Photos to Dropbox automatically. Your folder will be automatically backed up according to the interval you set. Email Notification allows you to get the email alert when the backup is successful or failed. Besides, CBackup can also help you perform cloud to cloud sync. If you want to sync Google Photos to Dropbox, you just need to go to the CBackup web app and choose Sync Tasks > New Task > Add Source > Add Destination in turn, and click Start sync to migrate photos from Google Photos to Dropbox. The above steps also applied to transfer Dropbox to Google Photos.Part 1. Transfer Google Photos to DropboxExcept for directly move Google Photos to Dropbox automatically with CBackup, you have another way to transfer Google Photos to Dropbox, the traditional manual way. Let find out.Manually Way to Move Google Photos to DropboxIf you still want to transfer photos to Dropbox manually with Download and Upload (Manual Way), which means you need to download photos from Google Photos to your local disk first, and then log in to Dropbox to upload photos. just follow it for reference:Step 1. Log in to your Google account, and go to Google Photos.Step 2. Find and choose the photos you want to move to Dropbox.Step 3. Click More in the upper right corner (three-dot icon), click Download (can be downloaded to a local or external disk connected to the computer).Step 4. Log in to your Dropbox account.Step 5. Click Upload located at the top of the menu bar. A pop-up window opens up.Step 6. Click Choose File and select the photos downloaded from Google Photos, and click Upload when the window pops up.This is how you can move photos from Google to Dropbox. If you want to move photos from Dropbox to Google Photos, you can also use a similar method to download files from Dropbox and upload them to Google Photos.Part 2. Transfer Dropbox to Google PhotosHere, we will show you 3 different ways to move Dropbox photos to Google Photos. If you are using the web app of both Dropbox and Google Photos, you can follow the first way. If you are using the desktop app of Dropbox and