I want to backup my entire phone's internal storage to OneDrive. I say OneDrive because I have A LOT of space there and I have to backup 64GB. How can I do this?
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1) Is it possible to instantly save to cloud storage like dropbox without saving to the phone first? For example if I take an image or video, it is instantly saved inside dropbox instead of my phone memory.
2) Is it possible to set cloud storage to sync files immediately when I save a file in my phone memory/sd card? For example when I take a picture, it is save to my phone, I also want a copy of the picture in my cloud storage (e.g. dropbox) immediately automatically.
3) What cloud storage is the best?
4) How to do backup using cloud storage?
Thanks
#1 may be possible, but it's not straightforward. You'd have to map the remote location as a local partition, maybe through Samba or FTP, then change the phone's settings to save to that mapped "folder." It's not so straightforward, and is prone to error, like what would happen if the network connection was down (or went down while you were recording video)?
The easiest solution is #2. There are a bunch of apps which do that (Dropsync and FolderSync Lite are 2 examples).
As far as comparing, it's best to do your own research, as everyone's preferences will differ, slightly. Here is a ZDNet article comparing different cloud services. Pogoplug and UbuntuOne both have apps which will automatically upload any pictures you take, making them single app solutions, if all you want is to back up pictures.
Is the amount of storage space used in the Nexus 5's Data Backup totally separate from any storage space used in a Google Drive account?
BillyL said:
Is the amount of storage space used in the Nexus 5's Data Backup totally separate from any storage space used in a Google Drive account?
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If you mean the Settings->Backup & Reset, yes that is totally separate from your Drive allowance. Of course if you use an app, e.g. Helium, to backup your apps and/or data to Drive then it will come out of your Drive space.
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If you mean the Settings->Backup & Reset, yes that is totally separate from your Drive allowance. Of course if you use an app, e.g. Helium, to backup your apps and/or data to Drive then it will come out of your Drive space.
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Thanks for the information. i presume that any pictures and music files need to be back upped onto my Google Drive account separately.
I've installed Whatsapp on a new phone, and during installation all messages and photos were restored to the phone from the backup in Google Drive. Now I want to delete all photos from the Whatsapp folder on the phone, because they occupy a lot of space.
The question is whether during the daily automatic backup of Whatsapp to Google Drive, the same deleted images will also be deleted from the backup? i.e. will deletion be synchronized, or maybe the photos will be restored to the device from the backup?
I don't want them to be restored to my phone again, but I do want them to remain backed up in Google Drive so if I'll install Whatsapp on another device in the future, I'll be able to also restore the photos if I want.
My old Oneplus One is broken. It won't turn on. I have a Whatsapp backup in Google Drive which i can restore to my old workphone (HTC Desire 626). The problem is that Whatsapp restore the backup to the internal storage, but i have not enough space on it (3GB free).
I want that Whatsapp restore the backup on the SD card (12GB free). But how do i do that?
is there any way to keep the phone storage backed up on my pc and the get that backup up to date on a daily basis?
i'm doing this to save my images, videos and my WhatsApp data! for some reason, i can't use the google drive backup with my WhatsApp! any ideas ?