Discounted price Basic 100GB £0.39/month for 3 months £1.59/month thereafter (Select Accounts)

Aside from the fact that convenience and automation is *supposed* to be a cornerstone of backup, nobody with any expertise is going to suggest that a single physical backup is a sane thing to do.

Also I did just look at pCloud, the free version is only 10Gb, the paid version is a lot more expensive and I doubt it's as good as Google's.

There are infinite things I dislike about Google. £15 a year for Google One is not among them. Nor is backup storage all you get for the money. Tick all the security boxes and nobody is ever gonna get at it without your permission. Except possibly the government, but good luck with that. (edited)

That's what I do also

I'm doing that right now, a bit of a faff to set up and get right the first time, but once up and running it's mostly effortless.

I am using Resilio Sync to sync up the photos between my Pixel 7 pro and OG pixel.
Both Resilio Sync and Google Photos app are excluded from battery optimisation on the OG Pixel.
I have my OG Pixel's charger on a timer, and it comes on to charge the phone for 2 hours a day (prevents overcharging battery thus expanding the battery), which triggers Google Photos to do a full backup of what's synced onto the OG Pixel.

A few hours after the OG had finished the backup, Pixel 7 Pro will recognise the photos are now on Google Photos, the button to delete photos will appear on Pixel 7 Pro.

At this point, I'd delete the photos from Pixel 7 Pro, Resilio Sync will automatically delete the deleted photos from the OG Pixel, freeing up space from the OG Pixel.

The only downside is that backup now happens at most once every 24 hours, but for unlimited free storage, I think it's a reasonable compromise. (edited)

That's a great idea. So you just keep one master account for the subscription and keep pushing more files when needed, by taking a month's sub?

So when your 100GB is eventually full, take a 200GB sub, and stop again?

Will Google ever stop this forever free read-only storage?

Great idea! Could you break it down into steps because I’m not sure I follow

Its annoying, I'm probably going to have to go through the hassle.of moving to onedrive

I did not know you could do that !

What sort of plan are you on? They won’t allow nas backups on that plan right? I’d you happen to know.

Yes

Youtube Vanced.

How come? Google gets hacked?

They will remain there for I believe 2 years but you won't be able to send/receive emails or do anything else while you are over the quota. See here: support.google.com/goo…=en

Gets you to exceed your current storage then threatens to delete if you try go back so yeah. You're tied into it after unless you manually move your stuff elsewhere

Sounds like your work block common VPNs. Pretty common for them to do.

Yeah, definitely. Same here. And it’s all backed up no faff whatsoever (edited)

Or just move it if Google ever raises its prices?

Cheers, bud. Annoyingly, it's select accounts

Click the link and check

Wow how you get that?

Apple done allow backups to external online storage services as far as I know

Yes get them regularly. Just make sure your app is up to date and just double check location is on within the app itself. You could uninstall the app and reinstall it but shouldn't really need to. I have just checked and had 42 surveys within the last 30 days and about £4. Use the credit for this exact reason.

My wife actually stopped getting them so reinstalled the app and started getting them again but no idea why unless she'd accidentally turned off location or something. (edited)

VPN like the ones everyone uses to watch content from other countries, or buy cheaper computer games?

I have Koofr, from when they did 10gb free accounts.(edit: still 10gb free)
No where near as slick as GDrive, but very useful as it's my main Photo and Video backup. Only downside is you have to select your favourite images for offline use, otherwise it works online only.
Currently I'm on 78% of my quota after only a year's use. (edited)

If anything like they did with google drive you get put in 60 day read only period which you need to get it back below your current limit and then after that your account is purged.

I just checked and my photo/video storage is already up to 1.47TB. To date, I've been using 2x external HDDs and crossing fingers that both don't go at the same time. It's probably time to cross over now...

Yes