I’ll be travelling overseas between September to November. I’m looking for the best cloud site to store my photos on whilst I’m away. I was thinking of getting a terabyte of storage and putting my best photos up there. I will also have a couple of terabytes of hard drive with me as well. What do people recommend?
Storage for Photos When Travelling Overseas
try2bhelpful on 29/07/2024 - 17:25
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I will do the bulk to the local hard drive. I just want to save the best ones online in case things go real pear shaped. Thanks for the reply.
What's the source of these photos? Phone or DSLR?
You could go Google Storage, this way use Google Photos to backup your phone, and then you can also dump your DSLR photos into Google Drive for safe keeping.
2TB is $12.50AUD a month
+1 to Google photos. Just choose the non-compressed backup.
iPhone.
iPhone.
Google Storage/photos works on iPhone…
Or just use iCloud storage.
Whichever way you go, go month to month storage so you can cancel when you're back.
Thanks
Thanks.
When overseas, I just used Google Photos which synced on Wifi.
I also had a 1TB Samsung T7, but never bothered making a backup.
Thanks. I have the Samsung T7 2TB.
That's what I have, and did exactly what you are saying….
last time I went I had Google Drive for backing up some things, however rather than diligently backing up the best ones - we mainly just mass spammed family members with messenger ! Could always download that resolution back down if things went really pear shaped as you say.Thanks. Will be using What’s App to chat with the family. I just want to offload the better shots in case the hard drive crashes or goes missing.
If you want to travel light without a laptop just stick to cloud storage and pay monthly until you get home and download it all. You'll need a laptop if you want to use card readers or external storage drives.
The iPhone/iPad can connect straight to the hard drive. I’ve tested it.
Android also connects directly to a USB-C storage, though, ideally, you'd have a device that supports USB 3 speeds.
If you are a Lightroom user you can use Adobe's servers to back up your library. My travel work flow is Shoot -> Delete in Camera (usually around dinner time) -> put on laptop -> let sync over night. This way I have my photos in three places: camera, computer, cloud. If you are going sans laptop, this should work with phone/tablet too.
Thanks, will look into it.
Using an iPhone, iCloud is a good choice - just depends on a reliable up speed. May be worth buying a sim over there that has heaps of data to upload your photos while on 5g too?
Will have a SIM but hoping to use WiFi as much as possible. Also we will have the hard drives.
Fair enough - just be careful on 'free or included wifis'. Lots of security experts recommend not using them, as they're commonly used to sniff your traffic (eg, someone setting up a fake/duplicate "mcdonalds wifi" access point in a restaurant, and logging all your internet traffic/usernames/passwords).
I'm not saying don't use them, but I would use a good VPN while you're connected to anything that's not your home or work networks.
I know what you mean. I don’t use free Wifi to do banking or anything sensitive. However, might look into the security options like a VPN. Thanks for the reminder, we do need to remember these things.
when i was on hotel wifi in nz, upload speeds (and routing) were super variable, and that's in a country with generally fast internet.
if you're shooting a lot of photos i'd just recommend a 1tb local ssd to dump your SD/CF cards to every couple days. if you're using modern camera gear a fast CF/SD reader will dump the full day's shots off an SD in like 10 mins, tops and you can just let it churn while you're doing something else.
when i've been away for longer periods, i dump the whole local ssd onto a cloud storage provider (i use onedrive for business, google drive works just as well) using rclone. but it all depends on the volume of stuff you're shooting and the reliability/speed of local internet.
if you're using your phone, turn on google photos / icloud photos and forget about this whole mess