Download Google Phone Backup
Alana Daughenbaugh
Backups are uploaded to Google servers and they're encrypted with your Google Account password. For some data, your phone's screen lock PIN, pattern, or password is also used to encrypt your data so it can be backed up safely.
If any Restore options are grayed out or you receive an error message, you may need to do some extra steps. One common solution is to check that your Android operating system is updated. To back up and restore your phone, it must run Android 8 or higher.
You can back up content, data, and settings from your phone to your Google Account. You can restore your backed up information to the original phone or to some other Android phones. You can't use back up when you set up a personal device with a work profile or for work only, or when you set up a company-owned device.
Your photos and videos are already available in Google Photos. But you can restore the rest of the data you backed up while you set up your new phone for the first time or after a factory reset. At setup, to restore your data, follow the on-screen steps.
I have my backup set to a private folder, on my Android 6 MotoE. If I try to change that, it offers my Public folder, and will only allow traversing down the folder hierarchy; any attempt to reverse back up the hierarchy drops back to the menu page, abandoning the change.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7, also having the same problem and unable to change the backup location. When can WD fix this bug / inconvenience?
The back button would navigate back to the previous page and does not go up the directory.
Probably an issue with that specific vendor or their phone. Some vendors modify the stock Android image they put on their phones or they use some other app to add special features to their phones that changes the default behavior/operation of Android or the apps that run on Android.
As indicated above the use of the back button by WD within the app to move up one directory level on the phone runs counter to the normal operation of the back button under Android which typically/generally would take the person back one screen.
Each backup storage location requires you to have one personal Microsoft account, and iOS requires you to also have an iCloud account. You can have multiple accounts stored in that single location. For example, you can have a personal account, a work or school account, and a personal, non-Microsoft account like for Facebook, Google, and so on.
After you finish your recovery, you might notice that your personal Microsoft account verification codes in the Authenticator app are different between your old and new phones. The codes are different because each device has its own unique credential, but both are valid and work while signing in using their respective phones.
For personal Microsoft accounts, you can prove your identity by entering your password along with an alternate email or phone number. For work or school accounts, you must scan a QR code given to you by your account provider.
Tap the tile for the account you're recovering and then tap the option to sign in to recover. Enter your password and then confirm your email address or phone number as additional verification.
Your backup is stored in the iCloud for iOS and in Microsoft's cloud storage provider for Android. This means that your backup is unavailable if you switch between Android and iOS devices. If you make the switch, you must manually recreate your accounts within the Authenticator app.
If you've already set up accounts in the Authenticator app, the app won't be able to recover your backed-up accounts. Preventing recovery helps ensure that your account details aren't overwritten with out-of-date information. In this situation, you must remove any existing account information from the existing accounts set up in your Authenticator app before you can recover your backup.
I have been a bit far from the world of backups and NAS, but I wondered about getting a home backup system or NAS system that I can sync my cell phone and tablet to and backup all my photos and videos. Ideally, NAS sync from anywhere over wifi and cell data, allowing backup from SD cards in my cell phone. 2-Bay NAS one drive will be the primary hard drive and a second drive for parity. And eventually, I would like to put the second unit to sync only at my buddy's home so that I can get 2nd backup of the primary backup. what do you all advise
Syncthing would not delete anything if its set to send only, perhaps some other process did that. You should open the web ui on the phone and verify the folder is actually visible as send only (should be a line in the box representing the folder). Perhaps there is a bug between the android ui and the syncthing application.
Hi. Forgive my ignorance of all things tech, but I have a simple question. My life info (logins, website addresses, etc ie everything) is on my phone. I m concerned about what to do to back it up somewhere in case I lose my phone. Any advice?
After some research, it looked like I could plug a USB C hub it into my Pixel phone and have the ability to copy from SD cards to a USB drive, while also charging my phone (some USB C hubs provide a Type-C PD Charging port). So, I bought the product below.
Other option of course is a phone that supports uSD and then use uSD (with an SD adaptor) in your camera, then use the uSD in the phone with a USB thumb drive connected eg my Galaxy Note 8 can do this (but Sony and a few other Android phone manufacturers support uSD) and is how I use it with my A6000.
The reason I was trying to avoid the WD My Passport SSD was due to its mixed reviews & cost. I was hoping for a solution like the USB C hub and a SanDisk Extreme Portable External SSD (cheaper, more flexible & possibly more reliable...) and use an external USB power bank for both the USB C hub & to recharge my phone.
My posts are still in the sandbox and waiting for moderation. Looks like moderation is slow over the weekend. Have tried some more testing. I used an Anker USB 3 hub I had kicking around connected through the USB OTB dongle. Copying from SD card reader straight to a USB stick also works fine. I am sure you could also backup to a HDD if you could power the HDD separately fro the phone and the HDD was exFAT format. There are cables and powered hubs that allow this I think. I think this method of copying to another USB device might be quicker than copying onto the Android device first and then back onto a drive or stick if all you want to do is backup.
The main issue with all of the above is that USB OTG is quite slow on most phones and apparently particularly slow on my Google Pixel. It could take a long time to copy over a days shooting each night. It would be good if MiXplore gave some stats like speed of copying, elapsed time etc. Unfortunately it does not. Might be worth adding these as suggestions to the dev team?
I am now looking for a better USB C OTG hub with an SD card reader built in that I can preferably charge my phone at the same time with. There are lots of items but details a very sketchy about what they actually support and the reviews are very mixed. Also, I think to charge the Android device at the same time the Android device needs to support the 'Power Delivery' standard, my phone does, my tablet does not.
I have thought of looking for a powered hub so I can use my high capacity portable HDs without draining the phone battery but haven't seen anything that fits the bill. My current solution is to take a bag of 64GB USB sticks that take up very little space and don't put all my eggs in one basket. If I were to get close to my storage capacity I would simply stop recording RAW and save only Jpeg.
My next major holiday is an Africa Safari with 9 nights of camping. Being able to backup photos each night is desirable if I can charge everything enough. I might use 64GB cards, take a big powerbank and hope to top up charge with an invertor that is on our vehicle.
Last trip, I started moving photos from X-T10 to phone via camera wifi, and from there my phone would sync up to Google Photos anytime I had real wifi. Worked well...except I quickly ran out of storage space on my phone. Even with a 64GB microSD, I just had too much other music, files, etc. on there since I also use my phone for basically everything else while travelling.
New idea is an OTG SD card reader; plug that into the phone and get Google Photos to recognize the folder and sync directly from the SD card, without ever having to use phone storage. My thought is I could just plug that in every night to upload photos from the day, but still keep the original JPG/RAW files on the SD card as I go. Has anyone managed to do it this way before?
I know the Google Sync won't be the best quality - thus retaining the originals on the SD card to actually download/backup/retouch once I get home. I'm really just looking for a way to have some basic backup in case the SD cards are lost/damaged during the trip so it's not a total loss.
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