Back up photos & videos

About back up and sync

Back up and sync is a storage service that automatically saves your photos and videos to your Google Account. These photos and videos will exist accessible from any device where yous are logged into your business relationship.

Benefits

  • Never lose a retention: Any photos you have from a device with backup enabled volition be saved to your Google Account.
  • Automated sync: Any edits y'all make or photos you accept volition be accessible across whatsoever device that you sign in to. If y'all edit and save a photograph on your telephone, the photograph will wait the same on Google Photos.
  • Fast and powerful search: You can search your photos by the people (when you've enabled face grouping), places, and things in them. No tagging is required.
  • Automatic creations: Bring photos to life with automatically created movies, collages, animations, and panoramas.

Earlier you become started

What yous demand to support photos & videos

  • Good cyberspace connection.
  • File sizes that can be backed up.  Your files won't exist backed up if they are:
    • Photos larger than 200 MB or 150 MP
    • Videos larger than 10 GB.
    • Items smaller than 256 x 256.
  • File types that tin can exist backed up.
    • Photos: .jpg, .heic, .png, .webp, .gif, and some RAW files.
    • Alive photos can be backed upwards if you lot use the Google Photos app on your iPhone or iPad.
    • Videos: .mpg, .mod, .mmv, .tod, .wmv, .asf, .avi, .divx, .mov, .m4v, .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .m2t, .m2ts, .mts, and .mkv files.

If yous effort to support a file type not listed here, it may not work with Google Photos.

Important: Your Google Account storage is shared across multiple products like Google Photos, Google Bulldoze, and Gmail. If yous have used all of your storage, you won't be able to back up new files.

Types of RAW files you can back up

Catechism
EOS-1D Ten Marker III, EOS-1D 10 Marker Ii, EOS-1D X, EOS-1Ds Mark Iii, EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark 4, EOS-1D Marking Three, EOS-1D Marker II, EOS-1D C, EOS-1D Marker II N, EOS 5D Marking Iv, EOS 5D Mark III, EOS 5D Marking II, EOS 5D, EOS 5Ds, EOS 5Ds R, EOS R5, EOS 6D Mark II, EOS 6D, EOS R6, EOS R, EOS Ra, EOS RP, EOS 7D Marker II, EOS 7D, EOS 90D, EOS 80D, EOS 70D, EOS 60D, EOS 60Da, EOS 50D, EOS 40D, EOS 30D, EOS 20D, EOS 20Da, EOS 9000D (EOS 77D), EOS 8000D (EOS REBEL T6S/EOS 760D), EOS Kiss X10i (EOS REBEL T8i/EOS 850D), EOS Kiss X9i (EOS Insubordinate T7i/EOS 800D), EOS Kiss X8i (EOS REBEL T6i/EOS 750D), EOS Kiss X7i (EOS Rebel T5i/EOS 700D), EOS Kiss X6i (EOS REBEL T4i/EOS 650D), EOS Kiss X10 (EOS Rebel SL3/EOS 250D/EOS 200D II), EOS Osculation X9 (EOS REBEL SL2/EOS 200D), EOS Kiss X7 (EOS Rebel SL1/EOS 100D), EOS Kiss X5 (EOS REBEL T3i/EOS 600D), EOS Kiss X4 (EOS Rebel T2i/EOS 550D), EOS Kiss X3 (EOS Rebel T1i/EOS 500D), EOS Kiss X2 (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XSi/EOS 450D), EOS Kiss X90 (EOS Rebel T7/EOS 2000D/EOS 1500D), EOS Kiss X80 (EOS Rebel T6/EOS 1300D), EOS Osculation X70 (EOS REBEL T5/EOS 1200D), EOS Kiss X50 (EOS Insubordinate T3/EOS 1100D), EOS Kiss F (EOS DIGITAL Insubordinate XS/EOS 1000D), EOS Buss Digital X (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XTi/EOS 400D DIGITAL), EOS Kiss Digital N (EOS DIGITAL Rebel XT/EOS 350D DIGITAL), EOS Osculation Chiliad (EOS M50), EOS M6 Mark II, EOS M6, EOS M5, EOS M3, EOS M2, EOS M, EOS M10, EOS M200, EOS M100, PowerShot G9 X Mark II, PowerShot G9 10, PowerShot G7 Ten Mark III, PowerShot G7 X Marking II, PowerShot G7 Ten, PowerShot G5 Ten Mark 2, PowerShot G5 X, PowerShot G3 X, PowerShot G1 X Mark III, PowerShot G1 Ten Marking Two, PowerShot G1 X, PowerShot G16, PowerShot G15, PowerShot G12, PowerShot G11, PowerShot G10, PowerShot S120, PowerShot S110, PowerShot S100, PowerShot S95, PowerShot S90, PowerShot SX70 HS, PowerShot SX60 HS, PowerShot SX50 HS, PowerShot SX1 IS

Fuji
X100

Nikon
1AW1, 1J1, 1J2, 1J3, 1J4, 1S1, 1S2, 1V1, 1V2, 1V3, D3, D3X, D4, D4S, D40, D40X, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D200, D300, D300s, D600, D610, D700, D750, D800, D800E, D810, D3000, D3100, D3200, D3300, D5000, D5100, D5200, D5300, D5500, D7000, D7100, D7200, Df
Coolpix: A, P7800

Olympus
E-M1, E-M5, E-M10, East-P1, E-P2, Eastward-P3, E-P5, E-PL3, E-PL5, East-PL7, OM-D E-M5 Mark 2

Panasonic
CM1, FZ300, G70, GF1, GF3, GF5, GF7, GH3, GH4, GM1, GM5, GX1, GX8, LX5, LX7, LX100

Sony
A7, A7R, A7S, A7 Mark II, A55, A58, A65, A77, A77 Mark II, A99, A700, A3000, A5000, A5100, A6000, QX1, NEX-five, NEX-5N, NEX-5R, NEX-6, NEX-7, NEX-C3, NEX-F3, RX1, RX1R, RX10, RX10 Mark II, RX100, RX100 Mark Two, RX100 Mark III, RX100 Mark Iv

DNG files
All .dng files

There are two means to back up your phone, camera, or storage card from your computer:

  1. Install Backup and Sync.
  2. Upload photos from your browser.

Set upwards Google Drive for desktop

  1. On your reckoner, download and install Google Drive for Desktop.
  2. Sign in to your Google Business relationship.
  3. Select the folders or pictures you desire to back upwardly and thenDorsum up to Google Photos.
  4. Select Washed and thenSalve.

Important:

  • If you lot remove a photo or video from your computer that you lot previously backed up to Google Photos, information technology stays in Google Photos.
  • If y'all remove a photo or video from Google Photos, it isn't removed from Google Drive or your computer.
  • Uploads can be slower and use more storage if you back up to both Google Photos and Google Bulldoze. Unless you demand a second copy in Drive, we recommend you dorsum up photos and videos to Google Photos.

If you already have Backup and Sync for Bulldoze

Backup and Sync is at present Google Drive for desktop.

If yous already have Backup and Sync installed, you'll exist migrated to Google Drive for desktop.

To upgrade sooner, uninstall Backup and Sync and so follow the steps above to set up Google Drive for desktop.

Select a different upload size

You tin change the upload size for photos and videos backed upwardly to Google Photos from your figurer.

Important: Y'all can't change the upload size for files synced with Google Bulldoze.

Support your Apple Photo Library (Mac only)

If your computer runs macOS, you can back up your System Photo Library to Google Photos.

Tips:

  • If yous have more than than ane Apple tree Photos Library, only the System Photo Library will be backed up. You can use Apple Photos to change the Organization Photo Library.
  • If your Apple Photo Library is synced with iCloud, all photos and videos in your library and deject will be backed up to Google Photos on macOS x.15 and above.

Upload items to Google Photos from your browser

  1. On your figurer, open photos.google.com.
  2. At the height right, click Upload and thenComputer.
  3. Find and select your photos.
  4. Click Open.

Y'all can also drag photos from your figurer to the album to upload them to Google Photos. If y'all drag a photo to a specific album, the photo will be uploaded to that anthology.

View where your photos & videos were uploaded from

In Google Photos, you can view how yous uploaded your photos and videos.

Related resource

  • Download photos or videos to your device
  • Stop syncing Google Drive files with Backup and Sync
  • How your Google storage works

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