Tips for Backing Up Videos on a Cloud Storage

Home videos and photos are so precious, you have to be extra careful with organizing them and making a backup. The realization often comes when you hear about your friend who lost all pictures because he lost his smartphone which contained it, or about your colleague who no longer has videos of her toddler taken over the last two years because she didn’t backup her digital camera.

Cloud is the new and convenient way to backup all your videos. Clouds are online services that backup your videos (depending on the format) in servers that are available from just about any Internet-connected device.

The main advantage is that you can be assured about the safety of these videos since there is no chance of losing it because your computer crashed or your hard disk went missing. So check out all the cloud services which give you optimum storage facility at convenient rates. SkyDrive, Google Drive, iCloud et al are some of the popular cloud services, but do some research as to what is your requirement and which service fulfills is the best.

1. You must check if the videos are encrypted after your upload them. This is for the safety of your videos. Password protection is not the only solution.

2. Most cloud services have a free storage limit of 5GB to 10GB, with an maximum cap of 2GB per file. Now if you have more videos or you like to shoot very frequently with your phone or digital camera, then after a while you might need more storage space. Do not hesitate to buy more memory space.

3. Auto-syncing your digital camera or phone with a good cloud service is an essential part in today’s world which is full of uncertainties. You can never be too careful or you might end up losing data or videos anytime. You can of course, delete videos later on which did not come out right or are of no use anymore.