Have you ever been in a situation where your phone was loaded with tons of precious photos and videos then gets stolen or lost? Maybe you dropped it into a river or lake?

Let’s dive in and check out 3 solutions that will allow you to keep your phone photos and videos safe! If you’re not backing up your phone media, maybe now you will!

Resilio Sync

Resilio Sync is a fast, reliable, and simple file sync and share solution, powered by P2P technology

One of my favorite things about Resilio Sync is the “Selective Sync” option on mobile devices. This allows you to see all of the files on the host but only download and share what you want to your device. You can even send songs to people in a text or Messenger chat!

Synology Application

Selective Sync

Great file sharing tools

Desktop and Mobile apps

What’s more important is backup! Resilio Sync does a great job at backing up your photos. However, the app on your phone must be open. For me that’s a problem. If you open the app then close your phone, it will run for a few seconds then stop again. I wanted a solution that can run without babysitting! While this does work, it’s not a solution that works for my particular needs.

Final Thoughts

Resilio Sync is great for file sharing between devices. It does this in the most phenomenal way. Sadly, the mobile backup option is more of a sync feature that must be babysat with the phone and app open. While it is “automatic” it does require the phone to be open.

Amazon Photos

Use the free app to back up the photos on your phone, share photos privately with friends and family, print your photos, and much more.

Now I know this method will raise some eyebrows because most people that I cater to here like to self-host and stay away from corporate giants. But hear me out and see my final thoughts.

Prime membership includes free, unlimited full-resolution photo storage through Amazon Photos and is a great solution for people who want to backup photos and videos without losing quality.

Mobile app

Desktop app

Sharing options

Facial recognition through tagging (creepy stuff)

Amazon has a huge advantage with speed. When you backup your photos, it’s fast and just works. You do have to open the app to trigger a backup but it will work seamlessly in the background after that.

Final Thoughts

Amazon Photos is a solution. For me it’s one of those things I would use as a last resort. I don’t prefer saving my life memories on corporate servers, however, it is an option and almost everyone I know has a Prime account. It’s there and it’s free for Prime members. I have to admit too, it works very well!

Synology DS File

DS file is ideal to manage files stored on your DiskStation, upload or download between the NAS and mobile devices

DS File is just another glorious reason to get a Synology NAS. If you’re looking for the ultimate privacy, self-hosted solution to backup media from your phone, this is it.

Simply download the DS File app to your phone and connect it to a folder on your NAS within the “Photo Backup” section and you’re done. There is an option to “Free up Space”. With this you can delete all the media that was previously backed up creating tons more space on your phone.

Mobile app

Privacy and peace of mind

Automatic backups

Offline viewing

Self-Hosted

Synology DS File is a solution most people are looking for. It works very well and doesn’t require other middle-man apps to make it work. The Synology NAS does all that for you. It’s your data on your own device!

Final Thoughts

Synology DS File is my go to for phone media backup. I’ve been using it for nearly a year now. I only peek into the app from time to time to make sure it’s still doing it’s job and it always is.

Do you know of more ways to backup phone media? Let us know in the comments below!