{"id":1047,"date":"2021-05-30T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullyrooks.com\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2021-05-30T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:36:46","slug":"migrating-away-from-google-photos-using-your-nas-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullyrooks.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/30\/migrating-away-from-google-photos-using-your-nas-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Away From Google Photos Using your NAS : Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, Google has announced that they will no longer support storing unlimited photos in the high resolution format for free<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bothered me a little bit, because google photo storage is so convenient that I use it a lot and therefore would be affected by their data cap. Additionally, I’m particularly sensitive to changes in terms of service from providers and<\/strong> I’ve already had a data loss scare related to personal photos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This made me reconsider my current photo backup solution and I’ll show you, through a series of how to articles, how I migrated my data back to my NAS and synchronized my new photos to my NAS from my phone. I can then leverage my cloud backup solution<\/a> to make sure that I have an on premises backup and a cloud backup in case of a disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nRecently, Google has announced that they will no longer support storing unlimited…\n<\/div>\n
Continue reading “Migrating Away From Google Photos Using your NAS : Overview”<\/span>…<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[133,138,6,139],"course":[137],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-networking","category-synology","tag-backup","tag-google-photos","tag-synology","tag-takeout","course-migrating_away_from_google_photo_storage","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1049,"url":"https:\/\/bullyrooks.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/30\/synchronize-your-android-photos-to-your-nas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1047,"position":0},"title":"Synchronize Your Android Photos to Your NAS","author":"Bullyrook","date":"May 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The first step is to synchronize the photos that you take on your device to your NAS. 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