Hi. I have a lot of photos on my laptop and use Google Drive to back them up, but this means they are saved twice on the laptop - in the original folder and the Google Drive folder using up a lot of space.
I'd like to back them up to my PC. How is it best to do this? Can I do it over the router network? Using a USB or ethernet cable?
Am I using Google Drive right? Any other ideas?
Many thanks!
Hi jonnets
Google has a thing called Google Photo, is this what you mean by google drive? I ask because unless you pay for Google photos you will see they have been compressed. Some don't realize this so I thought I would mention.
The positive side of offsite backup is just that, it is offsite. Something happens in your house you have a version outside the house. I copy all my data once a month to a laptop HDD and store it in my safety deposit box offsite.
WD and Seagate both sell packaged drives in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB. I like a raw drives with an external enclosure. They now are selling external SSD's.
As an example
https://www.staples.ca/en/western-di...6_1-CA_1_20001
By all means you can share information over your network in your house. This tutorial talks to set up.
Share Files and Folders Over a Network in Windows 10
Ken
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