How to Auto Backup Videos to OneDrive from Any Mobile Device?

OneDrive (Known as SkyDrive) is a cloud storage service provided by Microsoft Corp. It allows you to backup and share your photos, videos and important documents across multiple devices like Android, iOS and Windows phones. Microsoft’s OneDrive is now increasing the free storage space upon sign up from 7 GB to 15 GB. When you install OneDrive app on your Android device, you will receive an additional 3GB of storage space to all its users. To automatically backup videos from your mobile device, you will need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network if you will select Best quality due to the large video file size. To learn how to auto backup your videos to OneDrive from any mobile device, check out the steps below.

There are 3 ways to Auto Backup Your Videos to OneDrive from Any Mobile Device:

Automatically Backup Videos to OneDrive on an Android Device:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com/ & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your Android phone from the Play store & launch it.
3. During the initial setup, OneDrive will prompt you to setup your automatic photo & video backups.
4. "Turn on Camera Backup" window opens up.
5. Make sure to select to backup full-resolution photos and videos to OneDrive automatically.
6. Tap "Turn On" button.
7. You have another option to automatically backup Android videos to OneDrive, open "OneDrive app" on your Android phone.
8. Go to "Settings" and tap "Camera upload" icon.
9. Move the slider button next to 'Camera Backup' from left to right to turn it ON.
10. Check mark the "Include videos" and "Use mobile network" option.
11. Now anything you add in the camera upload folder on your Android phone will be automatically backup up to OneDrive.

Automatically Backup Videos to OneDrive on an iOS Device:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your iPhone from the Apple App store & launch it.
3. Click "Settings" button on the lower corner of the SkyDrive app window.
4. Select "Camera Backup" option. Your browser prompts you to allow SkyDrive to access your videos, press OK to allow access.
5. Move the slider button next to Camera Backup from left to right to turn it ON.
6. Now anything you add in the Camera Upload folder on your iPhone will be automatically backup up to OneDrive.

Automatically Backup Videos to OneDrive on Windows Phone:

1. Go to https://onedrive.live.com & sign in to your account. If you don't have an account, then create one.
2. Download "OneDrive app" on your Windows phone from the Play store & launch it.
3. Open start screen on Windows phone.
4. Go to "Pictures" & tap "..." (3 horizontal dots) located at the bottom right corner on your phone screen.
5. Tap "Settings".
6. "Pictures+Camera" setting window opens up.
7. Tap "Automatically upload to SkyDrive".
8. Click "Yes" to turn ON 'Auto Upload'.
9. There are 3 options to upload videos from Windows phone 8 to OneDrive:
   a) Don't upload.
   b) Good quality (may use data plan).
   c) Best quality (needs Wi-Fi).
10. Select any ('b' or 'c') one of the options listed above.
11. All your videos will now be automatically uploaded to OneDrive.

You can install PicBackMan's SkyDrive uploader for Mac from the website and start backing up photos and videos.

Quick Tip to ensure your videos never go missing
Videos are precious memories and all of us never want to ever lose them to hard disk crashes or missing drives. PicBackMan is the easiest and simplest way to keep your videos safely backed up in one or more online accounts. Simply download PicBackMan (it's free!), register your account, connect to your online store and tell PicBackMan where your videos are - PicBackMan does the rest, automatically. It bulk uploads all videos and keeps looking for new ones and uploads those too. You don't have to ever touch it.