How to Backup Your Photos With Google Photos

If you have kids or animals then you’ve probably taken a billion or so pictures of them with either your fancy DSLR camera, your smartphone camera, or a combination of the two. You probably have a photo library the size of Texas sitting on your hard drive.

If you were smart you probably spent a weekend meticulously backing up your photo library to DVD or some other form of media and then you took all of those disks down to your safety deposit box at the bank for safekeeping.

In case you didn’t spend 20 hours backing up your photo library, you might want to know about the recent development known as Google Photos. Google in their infinite generosity has decided to provide unlimited photo storage to all (with a couple of caveats). The good news is that it’s pretty easy to use and you can set it up to not only back up photos from your computer but also those you’ve taken on your smartphone and/or tablet as well.

This doesn’t mean you should skip backing up your pictures to physical media, but it is a nice secondary storage method for backing up your pictures on a regular basis and is probably a lot more “regular” then your every other year method that you might be using now.

You’ll first need to download the Google Photos App for either your iOS or Android device. Once the app is downloaded and installed, do the following.