Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall

Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by akkartik on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:04PM (#25016308)

For sure. I'm happy to throw money at the problem. But I want something automated on my phone that I can trust to work reliably.

I'd actually pay more for a fixed feature set if it means less instability.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by axaxs on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:08PM (#25016342)

As another mentioned, Amazon Photos is good for this. Plus they give you unlimited original resolution photo storage.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by xref on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:20PM (#25017903)

One caveat is this is truly only for photos, videos are excluded unless you choose one of the paid plans

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by mceachen on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:38PM (#25016647)

There are several solutions that are set-and-forget. I have beta users that report success with SyncThing and PhotoSync. I personally use Resilio Sync.

They all support automated backups to storage either that you have at home (say, on a NAS), or someone else's cloud.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by starclerk on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:13PM (#25016412)

I back up my photos from my phone to Dropbox, which is automated and seems to be reliable.

Dropbox also makes it easy to back up to a hard drive I have in my possession. When combined with Google Photos, it's N+2 redundancy for ~$12/mo.

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