 We all know and we all hear it backing up is important yet a lot of people still don't do it me making this video It probably isn't going to change that for most people But maybe I can get a few more people to back up their files for me The most important things to back up are videos and pictures because those can't be replaced documents can also be important But they can usually be typed up again, but but a video of something a memory once it's gone It's gone So make not just single backups at multiple backups and don't rely solely on the cloud Although it is good to use the cloud as external backups So here's an example. I'm in my videos folder here where I have videos and photos And let's say I have this folder here called blueberry from when my wife my daughter and I Went blueberry picking with some friends and let's say I just got home The important thing about backing up is to do it right away Because long you wait the the harder is going to be to organize that stuff if you do it as you take the pictures And videos it's easier to organize and then also, you know, if something happens that stuff's already backed up So I have all this stuff my camera. I usually copy it over to my computer So how do I back up this stuff for me first off? I want local copies I have a Pogo plug in the other room if you don't have a Pogo plug a Raspberry Pi might be good Pogo plugs are nice because they have better power supplies for supplying hard drives. I have Debian installed on my Pogo plug a Pogo plug is is a small computer You can buy for like $20 and it make lets you have your own cloud computer at home And you can plug in as many hard drives as you want I flash it and put Debian on it So what I do is I get home after organizing my photos on my local computer I then copy everything over to that now There's two ways I could do that to the gooey and face which is not how I normally do it But a lot of people might do it. I use SSH, which is a encrypted way of communicating with With other computers, so I'm going to hit F3. I'm using PC PC man file browser here. You can also use Thunder or Nautilus most Linux based File browsers allow you to do SSH communications using FTP protocol So I'm gonna hit F3 here, and I actually already have a shortcut here that says backup so when I click that you can see up here it has FTP and The address and the folder that I want to go to it's just a shortcut I made So and then I organize personally I organize everything by years, so here's 2015 We're coming out 2015 these floors from 2015 so I get home and I just Come over here, and I would drag this whole folder over there And it will copy them over and they'll have that copy on my server any other room Which I have two one gig terabyte or one gig to one terabyte drives hooked up to one for myself One for my wife, so that's one way of doing it dragging and dropping I personally do it this way same exact thing just using the shell I'm in the folder my videos folder as you can see here, and I say s copy I can also use FTP s FTP and I'm saying are for reclusive meaning copy everything inside this folder the whole folder To here it would do the same thing. I'll hit enter. It'll ask me for a password and we'll go from there Okay, so I have my copy on my computer my copy on my server in the other room What is next what happens in my house burns down or what if that hard drive goes bad on that server? I want to have other copies other where other places. That's where the cloud comes in for me anyway, so You can create accounts on Flickr Archive org is a great place obviously YouTube Vimeo daily motion and then Google plus So I actually created a script. I just have to type in Archive in my shell and hit that and it opens up all those Websites, I just said in the browser that way I don't have to go to each one and the nice thing about this Okay, so so big one is is Google photos with Google photos if you have a Google account You have 15 gigs of storage, which is a lot more than a lot of other places give you storage of and that's 15 That's for everything you can do videos photos documents your emails whatever But also you actually have unlimited for photos now When you have unlimited once you reach your your limit or if you check it to automatically do this already It will scale them down to a still high quality. It won't be the full size, but it gives you unlimited You could put as many pictures you want forever and ever on Google theoretically anyway and never run out of space and still have printable quality images So that's one place. I drag my photos to I have Separate Google account for my home videos or YouTube account So I put videos there daily motion and Vimeo. Those are three great sites that You can upload videos to and they'll store them as HD and you can always retrieve them later on Vimeo gives you a limit each week. So you can only do is 500 megabytes a week But each week it refreshes YouTube. It's pretty much unlimited. There's a limit to each video size Yeah, it's it's pretty large. They keep upping it But to the number of videos you can upload as many as you want So those are three great sites for videos You can also upload videos to archive.org and flicker. So those are I put my videos on all five of those sites So I have five copies of every video that I back up online as well as in my server in the other room and it's as simple as Dragging and dropping the videos to those websites and for photos for Google plus archive org and flicker I drag the pictures over there as well organize them in albums. So I know where everything is and now My server in the other room could go down But the chances of all five of these going down at the same time are is unlikely They're all six of these going down at the same time is very unlikely Never trust your data completely to any of these services a lot of people You know, there's a lot of people watching this video going to be like, oh, don't don't upload your videos there Don't give the corporates your information blah blah blah. That's a personal choice but if you want to back up these are great sites and there are others and And yeah, you know, I could upload all my videos to YouTube and YouTube can cancel my account And I can lose all those videos, but I have them on all these other ones I can pull them off my server in the other room or one of these sites and create a new Google account and Upload it there. The chance of all these sites going down at the same time and my server in the other room is highly unlikely So those are great sites. So one last thing I do. So I have copies I put up online which in most cases like with the videos are gonna be recompressed They're still gonna look great But they're not gonna be as good as quality as I may have on my server in the other room I want to keep other copies of that as well. What I've done in years past is every January after the new year I take my folder as I said on my server. I closed that window on my server I put everything in a folder labeled that year So at the end of the year, I can then take that whole folder And what I used to do is I used to put them on separate DVDs and it usually would take about five DVDs for me to back up everything five to six or seven Burning DVDs is a pain in the butt. Flash drives have come down so much in price I can get a 32 gig flash drive for under $10 now So I can get a for $10 I can get a flash drive for the year and back up all my videos and Pictures and documents and everything and put that on the flash drive and put that in a fireproof safe So now I have the original copies on my server here at home and in a safe and then if those fail I still have Decent quality copies up online that I can pull down So that's what I do there something else to bring up with backups something I do every January is Google takeout if you just Google Google takeout and Click on Google takeout here. It's going to ask you for Your password even if you're already logged in I might have typed that wrong. No, I typed it right and then go down to control your content and Then create an archive and in here you can check all your different services that you want And what it will do is it will create a big zip file for you of all your content and you can uncheck different services Like I have a lot of videos on YouTube. I don't back that up and I don't back up my Google plus photos because All that is already backed up. I already have that so I uncheck those but all the other ones I can back up all my emails. I use Google voice So I have all my voicemails all my text messages I can back all those up Facebook also does the same thing if you go to Facebook and you go to your settings Right, why am I not there settings? You'll notice there's a link right here download a copy of your Facebook data It does the same thing. It will give you a big old zip file with all of your Conversations on Facebook all your posts and photos and you can back that up and I do that once a year as well so I Just want to throw out there what I do for backups It's very important for me back in high school I used to put everything on CDs and DVDs and now 15 years later I go to it to check some of those CDs and DVDs and They're even though I had them nicely in books. They don't work anymore. Half the pictures aren't working So multiple backups both local and remote if your house burns down you want copies someplace else So this is what I do It's might seem like overkill putting all my stuff on five different Websites as well as a server at home and a flash drive but it takes minutes to do if you do it regularly and You're never gonna lose anything if you do it that way. So what do you do? For your backups, that's why I want to know comment below. Let me know what you think I know some people will complain, you know people don't like Google so they won't use YouTube or Google photos Which I don't understand. I get the concept why but I wouldn't put anything personal up on there But who cares if there's pictures of my daughter that of her as a cherry in an ice cream cone or a writing an alligator That these are these are things I don't care and I make most of stuff public So if ever get locked out of the account, I can still find them I don't care if people see these photos, but different people have different views on that Comment below. Let me know what you think. Let me know what you do for your backups I thank you for watching as always. I hope you visit my website filmsbychrist.com. That's Chris the K As always, I hope that you have a great day