To be honest, good backup strategy includes a mix of local AND cloud storage. Yes, you can keep all your personal stuff locally, but common sense dictates that you have at least two copies, one of which is on a remote site not connected with your property.......'cos otherwise, what d'you do if your house burns down?
And the cloud is always useful, because you can access that from anywhere (assuming you have a decent internet connection, of course).....
@noelw :-
I don't know how big your photo collection is in terms of actual size - like, how many GB? - but the only drawback with most 'free' cloud storage solutions is the limited amount of storage space you can have. Google are probably one of the better ones in this respect, since they offer 15 GB. Dropbox only offers 2 GB. MEGA.nz will initially offer 100 GB, but this quickly drops to just 20GB if you don't take them up on their repeated offers for paid storage....
I'm currently trialling this one:-
Suku Drive
It's a Google 'look-alike' - in terms of layout & operation - but they offer 75 GB of free storage. I've been with them for about 3 weeks so far, and I admit, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.......but ATM, there's no sign of storage "cutbacks". Not YET, anyway!
Mike.
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