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| OHCC LIVING | AUGUST 2022 | 31 Do you back up your photos? If you have an iPhone, do you sync to your desktop? Do you use iCloud backup? What will you do if your phone suddenly breaks or walks off, or, as we recently witnessed, the sailboat you are riding on heels over, and your phone that you put down next to you slides off into Davy Jones' locker? (Not making this up.) This article talks about how to protect yourself and your photos from such a disaster. Some backup is better than no backup. If you at least sync your phone with your computer, you have a backup. Syncing your phone takes a few minutes and is pretty painless. There are cloud backup services available, and all you have to do is turn them on. For example, for the iPhone there is iCloud backup. The first five gigabytes are free, but if you take a lot of photos on your phone, the five gig will go quickly. Getting more is cheap. An additional 50 GB is only 99 cents a month. The great thing about iCloud is it's brain-dead. Literally all you have to do is turn it on, and you have an offsite backup over the internet. Apple also has a product called Time Machine, which backs up your Mac to an external drive. If you have synced your photos, it backs them up. Whatever backup software you use, the only caveat is to get a drive several times the size of your primary drive. Storage is cheap. Another cloud service that is less user friendly but is unlimited is Amazon Prime photos. You can upload full size versions of your entire photo library, with no limit, to Amazon Prime. The downside is you have to select what photos to upload, and using some pretty simple software, kick off the backup over the Internet. I uploaded 800 or so full-size vacation photos by starting it before bedtime and it was done in the morning. But it's not automatic. Backup experts recommend 3-2-1. Three backups, two different media, one offsite. The first two at hand so as to be there if you need it, and the third elsewhere (cloud, neighbor, safe deposit) to be recovered if a fire or whatever occurs. The Photo Club meets on the third Thursday (not July and August) in the Lamia Room at 1 pm. Photography