Cloud storage: how not to lose your favorite photos from your smartphone. Making a backup in Android using the CM cloud Backup Quickpic cloud how to log in

CM Backup is an application for backup via cloud storage, created by the developers of the already known to us, which I wrote about earlier (I advise you to read the article if you have not done so already :)).

But let's return to our program. For copies of your data, CM cloud provides you with 5 GB free of charge. For a fee, it is possible to increase the space up to 1 TB, but, in my opinion, this is not so necessary. I'll explain why.

CM Backup is not a cloud in the sense in which it is Google Drive or, for example. You can use the five gigabytes that you have there exclusively to create a backup on your Android device.

Moreover, you can not backup all the contents of your gadget, but only:

- contacts;

- call log

— SMS messages (I’ll write about this in more detail below);

- Your photo;

— calendar events;

- your alarm clocks;

— your personal dictionary;

- browser bookmarks.

What I liked was the clear interface, the presence of the Russian language (something Asian developers cannot always boast of, which, however, is understandable - they have more than enough of their own market 🙂), fairly fast data transfer speed, the ability to set a backup schedule. Additionally, your data is encrypted (AES-256) while in transit, uploaded, and stored on Amazon S3 servers. And this is very reliable.

Another interesting feature is that you can reduce the size of your photos on your device by 90% after backing up the originals.

And now a few words about what I didn’t like. When moving to another smartphone, I noticed that everything was copied except SMS. To transfer messages, CM Backup suggested installing some kind of application for SMS. And no options. I had to agree, but after the messages were transferred, set my favorite as default again. As a result, the SMS messages remained safe and sound. The main question - how to transfer contacts to Android - has been resolved. And I was especially pleased with the call log, which also migrated to the new device :)

I advise you to try the CM Backup cloud and decide for yourself whether to choose it or alternative solutions, of which there are many now offered.

SM Backup - Secure Cloud is a free cloud file copying tool for Android phone or tablet. Sooner or later, software errors will take us by surprise. And we won't have access to the desired image, to SMS messages and other personal data. Therefore, you need to back up and store the data separately from the device in advance. It is for such purposes that this file backup program exists.

Even if such an unpleasant situation happens as losing your phone, all the data will remain with you. After all, all files will be stored on the server, not on the device. By default you are given 5 GB, if you need more you will need to pay.

Sooner or later, every user was caught by surprise by hardware or software errors which may lead to data loss. Therefore, you should take care of the safety of your files in advance. Secure cloud is smart and extremely useful program to backup photos, contacts, messages and other personal information. Backup can be carried out either at our request or according to a plan, for example, you can configure the backup to be carried out every day at 23:00 and at this time all data will be copied to the server, and upon completion you will receive a notification that the copying was successful.

Features of the Secure Cloud application on Android:

• backup and restore: SMS, photos, calendar events, browser bookmarks, videos, avatars, call logs, input methods;
• you are given 5 GB for free;
• Reduce photo size by 90%;
• convenient system for multiple accounts;
• file transfers and downloads are protected by powerful encryption, ensuring secure storage;
• full SMS backup and restoration;
• set a copying schedule;
• fast backup in just 0.08 s;
• repeat data filters.

Download for free CM Backup - Secure Cloud without registration and SMS via the direct link below.

With frequent photo and video shooting from a mobile phone, there is a need to store the resulting images and videos somewhere. The smartphone itself is not the best place for storage, since this method is not very reliable; the memory card can easily fail or simply get lost due to its small size. Perhaps the most optimal place to store files is remote server or a cloud, where you can not only organize the contents into folders, but also do post-processing - remove red-eye, perform retouching, or adjust the brightness of the color scheme of the photo. With a video, in turn, you can trim or simple edit, adding sequential overlay of frames or applying a number of effects. Of course, the choice of options for editing or post-processing is quite small, and is significantly inferior to standards such as Adobe Premiere or Photoshop, but for quick editing, the capabilities built into cloud storage will be quite sufficient. Today we will talk about two more services for remote storing files in the cloud, where you can quickly copy the results of your creativity directly from your mobile phone, and do it through a regular Mobile Internet, if you have not yet acquired a 3G or LTE connection. This article is a continuation of the material published a month ago about such cloud services as, where we looked in detail at the advantages and disadvantages of these two incredibly convenient web applications.

Irista is the ultimate product from Canon

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Official page in App Store — link

Cloud software solution from the leader of the photo industry is not very well known among the user masses. Initially, it was intended for owners of Canon cameras that support direct uploading of frames to the server with the possibility of their further structured organization in the form of photo albums. In fact, the program had the ability to upload RAW and JPEG photographs taken with a camera from any other manufacturer. In October last year, the European department of Canon presented to the public the Irista programs for Android and iOS, which expand the capabilities of the web service. From now on, owners of portable gadgets will also be able to use Irist to upload photos to cloud storage from Canon, where up to 15 gigabytes of disk space is available for free. Currently, you can only upload photos to Irista. As for video, the authors promise to add the ability to store videos in the near future.

What is this service? Essentially, this is a regular cloud storage that allows automatic mode upload photos from your phone’s memory card, from a Windows or Mac computer (using a special client utility), as well as from any social networks. In fact, Irista is very different from other analog apps because of its social focus. By connecting Google account+, Facebook, Outlook or Flickr, you can automatically download photos from any of them. The function of creating galleries and opening them is also available public access and generating links for viewing by users who are not registered in the system.

You can attach tags to all photographs based on geographic or semantic characteristics. After adding tags, photos can be easily structured and combined into thematic groups, which directly affects navigation and transition between galleries.

Additional gadgets (such as editing tools, the ability to restore pictures that have been deleted, sorting and other functions designed to make it easier to organize photos) are completely absent from the service. However, the program is quite stable and is actively developing - literally every two weeks the manufacturing company releases regular updates, as a result new functions appear and old ones are tested, as a result of which Irista feels great, far from the most latest models phones. Copying and storing files in the cloud is very well organized here; no complaints can be made about the main functions and modules of the service. Everything works like a clock. An excellent and simple addition to the web version, which is slowly gaining its market share not only among owners of Canon products, but also among other amateur photographers.

QuickPic cloud - the best gallery for a smartphone

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Perhaps the best multimedia gallery that can be found in the official Android store. This time, developers from the Middle Kingdom from the company Cheetah Mobile managed to create an excellent gallery with backup functions, an excellent storage structure for multimedia objects, integrated mechanisms for editing photos and other incredibly useful features. From other analogues in the area cloud storage files in the cloud, namely photographs and videos, the QuickPic server stands out for its functional power, speed, compactness and extreme simplicity.

One of the main features of the service is the ability to connect almost any cloud storage, starting from Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive and ending with the less famous in our area Amazon, Baidu, Box, Flickr and other servers (moreover, you can work with all of them literally in one window, without leaving the main working form). This approach immediately resonates with attentive users who value convenience and simplicity when working with galleries, using a minimum of clicks and taps.

If you don't want to connect to an external cloud, QuickPic's internal storage, called "CM Cloud", is available. In reality, this is a hardware solution based on server racks from Amazon. Its only and most important drawback is the small amount of disk space. By default, all registered users are allocated only 2 GB of server space for free, which is quite a bit if you prefer to store photos in an uncompressed state. Therefore, there is no need to do without third-party storage. You can read about each of them in detail in our articles (here and here).

Another valuable innovation that appeared in version 4.0 is auto-copying photos to the cloud when working with the service. Of course, in addition to the fully automatic method, all the same operations can be done manually by clicking just one icon on the panel and selecting “Copy” in the context menu.

Working with folders is also a pleasure. Every time you launch QuickPic, the application automatically scans the internal and external memory of the smartphone for the presence of multimedia objects, and adds them to the main working window so that the user knows exactly where the pictures and videos are located on his device. This feature allows you to structure images in storage in strict accordance with their location on the device. It won’t be particularly difficult to create a new working directory in order to subsequently place new pictures in it.

What image editing tools are available in QuickPic for Android? The user has the right to change the graphic resolution of the image, crop it (following proportional dimensions or changing the image resolution), rotate 90-180 degrees in any direction, and also apply mirror reflection image in any plane.

In general, QuickPic deserves many flattering reviews thanks to the constant improvement of its brainchild by Chinese comrades, excellent optimization and successful operation without any noticeable lags even on smartphones entry level. A very convenient client, even despite the minimal number of shortcomings (small amount of space on the company server for storing files in the cloud, possible occurrence of duplicates when using multiple storages).

The most famous services (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Yandex.Disk) were not touched upon in this series, but we have already described them earlier, and working with images in them is practically no different from interacting with all others file structures. In addition to the services described above, the use of more iconic and well-known analogues that allow storing files in the cloud would be quite appropriate.

Cheap memory cards from unverified manufacturers have flooded store shelves. The only problem with such drives is their unreliability and short lifespan. How often have you lost photos, videos and other important files because the card simply stopped working? To avoid such losses in the future, you can go two ways: transfer all files from your phone to your computer every evening, or give everything to your phone and set up cloud synchronization once.

Yes, I know, you have heard about it many times already cloud services, clouds, cloud synchronization, but I never got around to doing it. Which cloud to choose? What is the difference between them? Do I have to pay money for this? Let's figure this out right now.

The cloud is essentially, without going into details, your trouble-free flash drive to which you are connected via the Internet, to which the important files you specify are automatically saved and to which you have access from any device if it is connected to the network.

Such “online flash drives” differ in the amount of space provided to the user, ease of use and a number of additional options. If you are going to use cloud storage simply to store files there from your phone or computer, and also share them with your friends or colleagues, then the free space that the developers offer you will be enough. The only difference here is how much space one or another company offers.

1. Google Drive

Known to everyone Google service provides everyone Google user disk with a capacity of 15 gigabytes. For many, the application for working with this cloud service is already built into the firmware. Moreover, most of the users with pre-installed Google smartphone already have a disk backups your photos in the cloud, maybe even those that need to be deleted before anyone sees them - after all, Google’s drive unobtrusively selects all the photos from the device and puts them in cloud storage.

In general, if you close your eyes to this wayward behavior and take a closer look at the possibilities, then in addition to backing up photos, Google’s drive can work with text files, tables and presentations. However, for this you will need to install additional applications. The disk can also play video files without downloading them to the device and, most importantly, since we are talking primarily about photos, the disk offers to store photos in a compressed format, for which unlimited storage space is provided. That is, if you agree to let Google Drive process your photo, reducing the original size, then you can put an unlimited number of photos on your cloud drive for free. All you need to do is connect your Google account to start using the drive.

You can download Google Drive for mobile devices and PC at download page

2. Dropbox

One of the most popular cloud drives. The service provides “as much as” 2 gigabytes - the smallest amount of free space among all cloud services today. The creators of the cloud insistently demand money for everything - you will have to pay for almost any additional options, so know that even these 2 free gigabytes allocated to you are watered with generous capitalist tears. In addition to the meager volume, Dropbox uses a special and only folder for synchronization. The mobile application takes up twice as much space as the same Google Drive application, but at the same time it can only synchronize one folder, and even then - after the mandatory installation of another application on your computer. But, nevertheless, the cloud has many fans. A big significant advantage of the service is its interaction with third party applications. Many reading programs synchronize book bookmarks via Dropbox; password managers can also store Dropbox cloud user files, and if now the competitive environment in the cloud services market allows in some applications to choose the preferred cloud for synchronization, then old users who are accustomed to Dropbox are unlikely to switch to new clouds: habit is a powerful thing. And you still have a choice, but if 2 free gigabytes is enough for you and you are satisfied with forced installation of an application on your computer to enable cloud synchronization, then this cloud is for you.

The Dropbox client can be downloaded for both PC and mobile devices

3. Mega

Screenshot of the Mega cloud web interface

A cloud known for its enhanced security through end-to-end browser encryption. Because of this increased protection, you will not be able to reset your password and if you lose it, you will have to say goodbye to your data and create a new account. And this data can be stored in a free account of the Mega service as much as 50 gigabytes. The cloud is different high speed, in an original way downloading files using a browser and, as I wrote above, a high degree of protection. Has applications for all popular operating systems, but, interestingly and strangely, it is blocked in Kazakhstan. But only the Mega.nz website itself is blocked; you can easily synchronize your files using the mobile application, and open the cloud drive on your computer via Chrome extension. Today this is the simplest, most convenient and largest cloud drive available for free. It doesn't support video streaming due to file encryption, but it does allow you to store lots of photos and files and share them with the people you choose.

Easy to use on a computer Chrome extension or application for Windows . Applications are also available for Mac and Linux . And on your smartphone, depending on the system, you can install an application for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

4. Yandex.Disk

Screenshot of the Yandex.Disk web interface

The Russian search giant keeps its nose to the wind and does not lag behind trends, because the disk from Yandex is no less convenient a service than from the same Google, but it only provides a little less space - 10 gigabytes. The mobile application can synchronize your camera folder, rearranging each new photo to the cloud storage and leaving it there until you delete it from there yourself. The developers even provided a recycle bin in their cloud service from which you can install by mistake deleted files. A computer application is no longer just a client for synchronizing with a disk, but a whole combine with a variety of functions. One of them is Yandex screenshots. If you constantly take screenshots of your computer or part of it, then it is worth installing a program for Windows. The computer application also allows you to view most multimedia and text file formats and has a small built-in graphic editor.

The application can be downloaded for all popular operating systems on the download page of the official website.

5. Cloud Mail.Ru

Another search giant and another cloud storage. If you have a mail.ru email account, then you already have your own personal cloud with a capacity of 25 gigabytes. You can set up auto-upload of photos from the camera folder or allow all folders from your gallery to be searched and uploaded to the cloud. Just like other well-thought-out modern cloud services, it can play video files from the cloud without downloading to the device.

All setup files applications are collected on download page.

6.Copy.com

15 gigabytes. But you can increase the size of the cloud to 25 gigabytes by sending referral links to your friends. For each registered friend you get 5 gigabytes. And what’s great is that both you and he get these 5 gigabytes. It’s bad that it’s impossible to register in the cloud from a mobile application - you need to go through the registration procedure on a computer or in a browser. But in mobile application you can select any folders for synchronization and the files you specify will be saved to the cloud, from where you can not only download them at any time, but also give a link to the photo to any person. Like other services, there is no need to download a video file to your device from the cloud to watch it.

The cloud is available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Mac, and Linux. There is also a web interface.

And I would like to highlight separately cloud drives created specifically for storing photos from mobile devices. They dont have client programs for PC or there are, but in them you can only get acquainted with the contents and see the remaining space, because their main purpose is precisely the safety of your photos. But such cloud services provide large volume for storing files. Among them, I would like to highlight two applications in particular.

1. QuickPic

It was originally an image viewing application for smartphones, but after the purchase of this application by the Chinese company Cheetah Mobile, which created programs such as Clean Master, Battery Doctor and CM Security, QuickPic Gallery now has the ability to automatic saving your photos to the CM cloud, in which you can register using your account Google or Facebook. Initially, 2 gigabytes of cloud space are available, but for each invited Cheetah Mobile user they give another 1000 gigabytes. Maximum free volume cloud storage- 5000 gigabytes.

You can also get to the cloud from your PC by following this link . In the cloud web interface you can view your photos, which for some reason are in the “Clean Master” folder. You cannot add anything to the cloud from your computer. But you can download photos from the cloud by checking the required boxes. Convenient, simple and capacious cloud.

Deego has a PC client that allows you to save required folders from your smartphone to your computer. But this client does not work in the best way, and in order to sort it out, it took a decent amount of man-hours from our editorial team. However, I would like to believe that in the future the interface will be improved and simplified, but for now, remember the full paths to your photos and carefully monitor where the application saves the files you restore. It is possible that such an inconvenient desktop client is due to the fact that the Degoo cloud is aiming to become completely mobile, and the desktop application is just a tribute to the old regime, and soon we will see even more services independent of the PC. Applications that work only with mobile devices are the first signs of progress that is inexorably moving us away from desktop computers.

The application can only be downloaded on Android and PC. Degoo doesn't have an iOS app yet.

- an application that allows you to save your data in cloud storage. Calls, contacts, SMS messages and other things are available for saving. It is possible to customize what you want to save. Naturally, for this you will need to create a profile in this application. But you will always be sure that thousands of contacts will never be lost even if something happens to your mobile device. Currently, many users are starting to use cloud storage, all of which will allow you to quickly and, most importantly, securely save your data.

However, be careful when choosing cloud storage. It is worth choosing services only from trusted and large companies. After all, unverified people can use your data as they please. Therefore, we advise you to think before uploading data to unknown services. However, this application trustworthy. Therefore, you don’t have to worry and feel free to use the application. It will help you out in a difficult situation and help restore absolutely all contacts.

As you can see from the screenshots, the application is entirely in Russian. Also, you should not have any problems with mastering it. For this, the program has become widespread among users, and they also speak only positively about it. The application is made to last and is different high performance, reliability, stability.
If you wish, you can configure a very convenient option. Now we are talking about automatic backup. It happens completely independently; all that is required from the user is to configure the on time and copy objects once. After this the application is in background will copy and keep the data up to date in the cloud.

As a result, it is a very useful application that will copy all your contacts to its server and be able to keep them safe and sound. Most users begin to protect their personal contacts this way. Therefore we recommend this program for use.