Backing up photos online - OneDrive being a pain!

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• Rodney McKay Posts: 8,143

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  18/10/14 - 15:54 #2

  Red Arrow wrote: »

  Decided it was time to backup all our holiday photos online. I've got 40GB free on my OneDrive account so plenty of space but I'm having major problems uploading them.
  
  When I just try and use the web interface it seems to want to only copy 100 photos per folder, but some folders have over 1000 photos in them.
  
  I haven't tried the Windows 7 application yet as I can't find a way to tell it to backup the photos off an external hard drive where they're located. It wants me to put them all in OneDrive folder under my Documents folder on my C: drive and there isn't enough room to move them all across.
  
  Any ideas? How do the rest of you backup photos online?

  
  I wouldn't bother personally. Just back up to a hard drive or USB stick.

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• Erlang Posts: 6,619

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  18/10/14 - 15:58 #3

  I use, a local hard drive, a Connected Data Transporter at my Son's house and Backblaze.
  
  But then I'm cautious.

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• Red Arrow Posts: 10,889

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  18/10/14 - 16:22 #4

  Rodney McKay wrote: »

  I wouldn't bother personally. Just back up to a hard drive or USB stick.

  
  My plan is to do that as well. I've got an old laptop hard drive that I've backed up all my important data too including holiday photos and that is locked in my desk drawer at work. I just liked the idea of having it also stored 'in the cloud' since I had all this free storage space already.

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• TheBigM Posts: 13,125

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  18/10/14 - 22:04 #5

  Red Arrow wrote: »

  Decided it was time to backup all our holiday photos online. I've got 40GB free on my OneDrive account so plenty of space but I'm having major problems uploading them.
  
  When I just try and use the web interface it seems to want to only copy 100 photos per folder, but some folders have over 1000 photos in them.
  
  I haven't tried the Windows 7 application yet as I can't find a way to tell it to backup the photos off an external hard drive where they're located. It wants me to put them all in OneDrive folder under my Documents folder on my C: drive and there isn't enough room to move them all across.
  
  Any ideas? How do the rest of you backup photos online?

  Are you using internet explorer?

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• Red Arrow Posts: 10,889

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  18/10/14 - 23:31 #6

  TheBigM wrote: »

  Are you using internet explorer?

  
  Was using Chrome.
  
  I've downloaded SDExplorer which makes it easier now. Just at the rate it's going on my 40meg fibre connection it's going to take a week to upload them all.

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• Helmut10 Posts: 2,433

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  22/10/14 - 00:57 #7

  Burn some CD/DVDs costs are almost nothing, like less than £1 for a number of copies, takes maybe 30 min. Safer than using an old half dead Hard Disk Drive.

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• jsmith99 Posts: 20,382

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  22/10/14 - 01:24 #8

  I have three copies (ever since I lost a lot of photos because I didn't do any backups):
  
  1. File History (W8.1, or Windows Backup or AllSync for W7) to an external disc drive.
  
  2. I keep a memory stick handy, and copy new photos to this immediately.
  
  3. Copy/Paste to a second external drive.
  
  I also have a Flickr account, but I only upload pics occasionally, because I don't really like the software.

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• oilman Posts: 4,529

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  22/10/14 - 23:51 #9

  Why not simply put photos in a zip file and just upload 1 or several zip file(s)?

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