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by al_borland
656 days ago
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I’m lazy, so I pay $2.99/month to not think about it. All my photos I’ve taken in the last 25 years are available on my phone and laptop. That said, I do have some minor worries about something going wrong down the line. I’ve been thinking I should export everything and back it up to my NAS, and keep up on that going forward. But that keeps becoming a “tomorrow” task. There is probably a way to automate this with no cost, but I haven’t been bothered to try and look into it. Storage management and backups are hard for the average user. It’s the #1 issue I deal with for both my mom and sister. It requires regular action on their part to get things off the phone, if they don’t want to pay, and backups also require a regular action of plugging in an external drive (because they keep unplugging it and don’t want to pay for cloud backup). I have considered paying the $2.99 for them, just so I don’t have to get the call of them crying because they think they lost all their pictures. The last time I got one of those calls it just started with my sister crying for a full minute, I was bracing to hear that one of my parents just died, and it was a picture backup issue, because her phone wouldn’t charge anymore and she thought she was going to lose all her kids baby pictures. I don’t know how it isn’t worth $2.99 to not have that feeling, if someone is unwilling or unable to do the regular maintenance to keep things backed up and storage free. |
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