Spec me a cloud backup system (with photo storage)

[MrRockliffe]

Hi all

Due to the ongoing issues with Microsoft OneDrive and shared folders (since June), I'm looking to migrate my entire cloud backup system to another provider. The issue being that shared folders show as internet shortcuts within OneDrive on your machine, rather than local folders. This means if I share a folder full of files with somebody, they can only access this folder from online - they are unable to sync it to their machine. The same happens the other way round. This is core functionality which I use daily, so I need an alternative.




I used to use Google, but had endless problems with the photos backup and constant duplicates/deletion. At one point, it deleted all my photos from 2018 backwards permanently, and they are completely lost.



Does anybody have any good, solid recommendations? Since I've already done the change once, I don't want to do it again after the second time


Thanks

 

[MrRockliffe]

My first thought would be Amazon Photos. If you have Prime should have unlimited full res photo storage and I seem to be showing up to 5GB for Video.

But i'll be honest, not used it much at all myself, so don't have any real pro/con stories. But it was my first next thought after you mentioned Google and OneDrive.

Thanks for the recommendation, however I don't have Prime and not sure of the longevity of an Amazon backup service, since they discontinued Amazon Drive

 

[MrRockliffe]

I use Dropbox for work and find it very good.

I just checked and it seems like it's double the price of Google and Microsoft. I don't mind spending a little more for a smaller company, but double seems excessive :/