Best Way to Backup Photos to Google Drive

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Jan 15, 2024 • Filed to: Take Data Backup • Proven solutions

Greg is a well-organized person. He likes to keep a backup for everything. This includes both his personal as well as professional work. But on one of the occasions, he found himself stuck. He saved some edited pictures in his Google drive on his laptop and left it at home. Later in the day, when he needed it, he had non-edited pictures. The work was urgent but could not be accomplished as planned.

This incident is a red signal for all of us. It reminds us of the importance of a backup of photos and other data across all the devices. So what is the best way to backup photos to Google Drive? It's none other than BACKUP and SYNC. Now, you might be interested in learning about the app and also the need for this. Google Backup and Sync is a safe and simple backup service for your photos and videos to the Google Photos Library. You are the sole owner unless you share them with somebody else. Also, syncing ensures saving any change made after storing to get reflected on all the devices synced. This means that if you edit and save a picture on your smartphone, it will appear the same on photos.google.com. Not just photos and videos, it can save non-Google files too. The added benefit is that you can choose backing up particular folders to the cloud continuously.

  • Part 1. How to Backup Photos to Google Drive
  • Part 2. Fix "Google Drive Doesn't Sync All Files"
  • Part 3. How to Backup Pictures to Google Drive Automatically

Part 1. How to Backup Photos to Google Drive

Backup Photos to Google Drive

Backup Photos to Google Drive

Backup Photos to Google Drive

Part 2. Fix "Google Drive Doesn't Sync All Files"

Indeed, Google drive is an extremely useful tool, but it fails to deliver on some occasions, especially when it comes to providing backup for pictures and videos. Let's find out.

These include the following:

  1. Not sync all photos
  2. Can't sync photos from NAS
  3. Can't sync only changed or new photos

These are indeed annoying! Fixes to the above issues include the following solutions.

Refresh drive. Alternatively, you can also pause and resume the sync task. This is especially useful when Google backup is stuck. Resume. This will rescan the source files and find out what is missed out.

Leave Google drive from its system tray icon on the bottom right taskbar. Now from the start menu applications bar, open Google drive again. It will look for unsynced files and will sync missing files to backup photos and videos.

Make some changes to your Backup and Sync settings. This includes: choose what to sync to Google Drive, choose what to sync from Google Drive, Change the location of the Google Drive Folder, Sync USB devices, and SD cards and choose to not sync certain files.

Oftentimes, the network connection poses problems. A slow or interrupted connection makes syncing difficult. Ensure a smooth connection.

If the error reads 'Google drive folder missing'. Disconnect the account and then reconnect again by signing in again.

When you restart again, it will take a few minutes for the backup and sync process to complete. Click on the start button at the bottom. Click 'Restart' and click again to confirm 'Restart'.

If the automatic syncing poses problems, try syncing the files manually.

You can take advantage of AOMEI Backupper Professional to fix all the issues. It is a reliable PC backup. It duplicates and restores data on infinite computers within a company. It can also be used for billable technical services to customers with unlimited usage. And some of its features are as follows:

data backup
  • Allows you to take automatic, full, incremental, and differential backups of system, disk, partition, and files.
  • Supports system restore, disk restore, dissimilar hardware restore, partition restore, and selective file restore.
  • Supports disk clone, partition/volume clone, flexible clone, system clone, and command line clone.
  • Supports Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8, Windows 7, Vista, and XP (all editions, 32/64-bit)

Part 3. How to Backup Pictures to Google Drive Automatically

Earlier, Google backup and sync did not allow syncing photos and videos from network-attached storage (NAS) devices. But now it does. The new update v3.39 rolled out in February 2018 ensures that your drive stores pictures from NAS devices as well. It carries some amazing fixes alongside. Here is how to go about it:

  1. Connect the network device to the PC.
  2. Open Backup and Sync. In the "My Computer" section of the app, click "Choose Folder".
  3. Select the select folder of the subfolder. Click.
  4. Network folders sync when mounted to the computer.

How to Schedule the Automatic Incremental Backup

But before proceeding, let us just understand what incremental backup is.
Incremental backup is backing up of all the data changed on the last backup. During the incremental backup, all the marked files and folders would be backed up. The first incremental backup is on the full backup. You can do this with AOMEI Backupper Professional. AOMEI allows scheduling the automatic incremental backup for pictures, videos, and files/folders. Here is how it is done:

Step 1. Install AOMEI Backupper

Install the app. To carry out an incremental backup of photos, create a full backup first and click on "File Backup" under the Backup tab.

Make Photo Backup

Step 2. Select files and location

Click "Add File" to choose the photos to be backed up. And then move on to "Step 2", click on the grey arrow icon and choose "Select a Cloud drive". Choose Google Drive as a storage location.

Select Photos to Backup

Step 3. Start photo backup

Click "Start Backup". This creates a full backup of the selected photos.

Start to backup pictures

Step 4. Schedule automatic backup

Click on "Schedule" and locate the "General" interface. Choose your desired automatic backup date and time.

Schedule automatic bakcup

Step 5. Do incremental backup

Then you can click "Advanced", choose incremental backup, and click "OK" to initiate the backup mode.

Start to backup pictures

Step 6. Start photo backup

Click "Start Backup". This creates a full backup of the selected photos.

Start to backup pictures

Conclusion

Finally, if you use Google Drive for PC, the whole process becomes extremely simple. All you need to do is to download, install, and configure Backup and Sync. The rest of the job would be done by the tool effortlessly. There are other methods too which can be employed for the purpose but AOMEI is recommended highly for its seamless capabilities. It has been described in detail in this article. Hope it suffices your need to know how to backup photos to Google Drive. Please remember, the only downside of saving to Google drive it provides just 15 GB of free space. For more, you are required to pay a small amount, but this is all worth it. It is the best way to backup photos and videos.

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