Dropbox Alternatives

Paulb5 on 05/08/2019 - 13:51
Last edited 05/08/2019 - 15:15 by 1 other user

Been informed that my Dropbox plan is going up $50. I originally signed up at $109 per year but they constantly push it up so now it's $180 for 2TB of storage. I currently use 73GB so 2TB is overkill. I've been lazy up to now about changing it.

What I like with Dropbox is it auto backs up photos from my phone.

I'm looking for something that does the same and would be easy to transfer the photos from Dropbox to. Would be great if it could work on any phone I may get in the future.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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  • SnoozeAndLose on 05/08/2019 - 13:54
    +7

    Google drive?

  • waterbottled on 05/08/2019 - 14:01
    +1

    onedrive autobackups photos too.

  • scrimshaw on 05/08/2019 - 14:02
    +2

    Google One, I pay $2.49 a month
    https://one.google.com/about#upgrade

    you also get free offers with Google one, like hotel discounts and occassional discounts for Google phones, and Google Play purchases (movies and games etc)

    You can also pay for Google one using your G. Play credits, which you can earn from doing Opinion surveys…

    • mattyman on 06/08/2019 - 13:12

      They sent me a free Google Home Mini the other day too for being a subscriber.

  • cuteseal on 05/08/2019 - 14:17
    +1

    As others have suggested:

    • Google One - useful if you are hooked into the google ecosystem. Their photos app is quite nice/powerful.
    • Onedrive - good if you already have a O365 subscription.
    • Nextcloud - if you have your own web hosting you can run your own server, and there's a lot of community support.

    There are a raft of others like pcloud, mega, box, copy, yandex, cozy but most are variable in terms of reliability, usability, speed etc. If it's for storing your important documents or photos I'd stick to the big players.

    • mattyman on 06/08/2019 - 13:14

      I actually have all of these setup.

      I run Nextcloud off of my FreeNAS box. I've added the One and 365 storage areas as folders within Nextcloud.

    • nikoris on 09/08/2019 - 12:16

      You don't need to be 'into the Google ecosystem' to find Google one useful.

      It's just as easy to use on every platform.

  • theHMASfriendship on 05/08/2019 - 14:21

    Onedrive, Google Drive

  • omguleh on 05/08/2019 - 14:23

    Office 365, great if you have a family. I share mine with 3 people in the family and get the subscriptions in advance during ebay sales for 20% off. 1tb per user and full access to the office suite.

    • Noblejoker on 06/08/2019 - 11:23

      If you are comfortable with it you can buy a corporate office 365 account on ebay for less than $5
      Gives you all the office programs and access to Onedrive 1TB
      These are resellers of unsued corporate licences supposedly from countries whose laws don't allow MS from stopping them to resell unused account e.g. northern Ireland
      They claim to be lifetime - so no annual resubscription
      I have bought 3 times and all running ok - 2 for over 12 months

      Office family plan on special for 5 users at around $125 = $25/user p.a. is good value
      But this is better if you are up for it

  • brokenglish on 05/08/2019 - 14:42

    If you're on iPhone, iCloud storage is much cheaper, you can access photos on iCloud.com

    https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201238
    Australia (AUD)
    50GB: $1.49
    200GB: $4.49
    2TB: $14.99

    Otherwise like others have said: OneDrive, Google Drive, or Nextcloud/Owncloud (if you know/manage your own web hosting).
    They all have automatic photos backup.

    What I do with almost-full Dropbox storage is transfer old photos to a local folder on my computer so it frees up the storage. Unless you need to always have all your photos 24/7 on Dropbox?

    • SnowDragon on 05/08/2019 - 14:55

      Just don't store any seductive pictures and you'll be fine ;)

    • nikoris on 09/08/2019 - 12:17

      So you backup your photos to the cloud only to save them locally on pc? Lol, makes no sense.

      Data is much much safer in the cloud than on your pc.

      • brokenglish on 09/08/2019 - 12:35

        Dropbox for me is just a means to get photos taken by my phone copied to my PC so it doesn't exist only on my phone.
        Then my PC backups to CrashPlan and NAS which then goes to BackBlaze and AWS.

        Data is much much safer in the cloud than on your pc.

        Safe from natural disaster, yes, from prying eyes, no

  • [Deactivated] on 05/08/2019 - 15:39

    For 73 GB.

    iCloud if you have an iPhone (if you have an iPhone you pretty much want iCloud anyway) or Google Drive / One if you have an android phone.

    If you want to use it on a PC substantially as well then Google Drive or possibly OneDrive.

  • Kandrew on 05/08/2019 - 16:15

    Mega gives you 50 gb free. I haven’t needed to look at their prices. www.mega.nz

    Box gives you 10 go free. But I’m fairly certain that iCloud is cheaper once you start adding storage. www.box.com

    And if you want just photo storage, look at Flickr. www.flickr.com
    I don’t remember what the free plan gives you, but there is just the one pro plan, and it has unlimited storage. Flickr’s iPhone app - auto uploader - is very good, in my experience.

  • Ryanek on 05/08/2019 - 16:36

    Amazon Photos

  • eloquentloser on 05/08/2019 - 16:39
    -1

    I use Mega free - it uploads photos fairly effortlessly from my Android phone.

  • jackinyourbox on 05/08/2019 - 17:01

    Google photos or Apple shared iCloud album seems unlimited storage too

  • PlasticSpaceman on 06/08/2019 - 10:13
    +3

    What I do is:

    1. Backup photos to a local (usb) drive
    2. Backup photos to a network drive (have a qnap with multiple drives in raid)
    3. Backup photos to a cheap cloud service (eg can get a 'lifetime' plan for 2TB from the likes of Degoo via stacksocial for under US$50 - and don't forget you can get $10 off if you haven't ordered from them before…)
    4. Copy photos to Google photos in 'high quality' mode (not a true backup as not in full resolution, but unlimited storage)
    5. Backup my favourite photos (ones with 4 or more stars in Lightroom) to Dropbox (I have some 18Gb available by referrals etc)

    All of the above is done automatically and other than the initial cost for the Degoo subscription and the cost of the hard drives it has no ongoing fees. If for some reason I lose both my local and network copies, I have a full backup (which will take ages to restore, but as I'm not a professional photographer that doesn't worry me). If I lose both my local and network copy and the cheap cloud service fails for some reason, I have full resolution copies of my favourite photos (via drop box) and 'good enough' copies (via google) of everything else.

    In fact I also do a copy of my data onto a second drive (using a drive caddy) and my brother has that backup at his house (and I have a backup of his at mine). That's done manually but it means even if everything goes to pot I would have a backup of all my data (from when I last did a disk swap with my brother - you could also just keep the drive at work, for example). Once I get onto nbn with decent upload speeds, the plan is to actually replicate our data automatically between our homes.

    Oh, and because I am paranoid - when I backup to the caddy I do it twice (well, just once and then use the caddy to duplicate the drive) and put one in a 'faraday' RF shielded bag (an old microwave would also do the trick, just cut the power cord off!). If we get hit by a massive sun flare that is strong enough to wipe drives we will have a lot more problems to worry about than our photos but still. What the hey. Drives are stupid cheap.

  • MaxiPower on 06/08/2019 - 10:26
    +1

    The thing with photo back ups, the main question is how to you view those 1,000's of images again?

    For me the best solution is Google Photos.

    It works on IOS and android. You can even upload photos from your PC.

    But the thing I like is the "Assistant" that will auto create events, rediscover this day (which is fantastic when its somebodies birthday, and you get the photos from a couple years ago.

    There is also the search.
    I can search for photos like : Person 1 + person 2. And get all photos with them
    I can also search : person 1 + beach
    etc…

    I can just take a bunch of photos / videos, upload them without worrying about size of backups etc.

    • nikoris on 09/08/2019 - 12:18

      This. By 10000 times.

      Nothing beats 'hey google, show me photos from my Japan trip'

  • Drj55 on 06/08/2019 - 16:14

    Onedrive is great at being up photos and videos from ios and Android and give 1tb free of you have office 365.

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