Open up Sync on your iPhone and select Backup. Once you’ve installed it to your computer, you should get it on your phone. Now that we have Google Drive installed, set up BitTorrent Sync on your desktop.
If you haven’t already, download Google Drive and set it up on your computer. My method below gives you the best of both worlds: your photos backed up, and an online photo album. Google has its own photo-backup solution, but it doesn’t let me keep my raw original files in an easy to access location. By adding a Sync folder to Google Drive, I can access my mobile photos without having to keep them on my phone. With 15 GB free or 100 GB for $1/month, it’s an affordable solution. I needed a way to access my photos remotely while continuing to securely backup my photos and videos with Sync.Įnter Google Drive.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have my hard drive with me, and all my mobile photos were backed up to my laptop at home. I went home to visit my parents and of course, all they wanted to see were photos from my recent vacation. This has worked great so far, but over the weekend I came across a bit of a problem. Once it’s done backing up, I can go ahead and delete those photos from my phone and enjoy the extra GB’s. I just launch Sync on my phone and “voilà!” – it magically backups to my laptop at home. BitTorrent Sync makes it really easy to backup all my photos to my computer.
That is some valuable space when you factor in all of my music, movies and apps. We’ve all heard it before, but it’s true.Īfter a recent vacation, I had almost 3GB of photos on my iPhone. “The best camera is the one that’s with you”. In this week’s Sync Hacks: BitTorrent’s own Art Director Jeff Kyung shares how he uses Sync to not only backup his photos remotely, but to share them as well via an integration with Google Drive. (And now, it’s even more mobile.) If you’ve got an epic Sync idea, use-case or how-to, shoot us an email at. BitTorrent Sync is a free, unlimited, secure file-syncing app. Sync Hacks is a column dedicated to exploring new applications for BitTorrent Sync, as built by users like you.
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