How to backup photos and videos from your smartphone to a Synology NAS

As well as bankroll upwards important Windows installations and making sure all your files take a redundant copy, there'south nil worse than losing photos and videos of sacred moments in your life. We're going to run y'all through how to configure a Synology Network Attached Storage to automatically backup media from your smartphone. It'south really piece of cake, and you lot accept a few options bachelor.

The easiest way to configure the backup of photos and videos taken on your smartphone to your dwelling house NAS is to synchronize everything saved to popular clouds services similar OneDrive and Google Drive. This is besides the option you'll wish to go with should you already rely on a cloud service for storing files from a smartphone.

Synology allows you to take all this configured using just the Cloud Sync app. Simply follow the below instructions, and you'll have copies of photos and videos transferred across from popular cloud storage solutions.

Log into your NAS using your favorite web browser.
Download and install Cloud Sync (if not already installed) using the Package Center.
Open Cloud Sync.
Select the cloud storage service.
Log in using your credentials.
Configure how you wish the NAS to synchronize the files:
- Local path: Where all the synchronized files will be stored.
- Remote patch: The folder you wish to synchronize from the deject service. ("Root" saves everything.)
- Sync management: Select how you lot wish for the NAS to synchronize with the service.
Click "Schedule settings" to control when the synchronization job runs.

And you lot're all set! You can utilise this to save just photos and video or all files, depending on what you take stored on the deject server, also as which root path you cull. You lot can even stack the scheduled tasks past connecting multiple cloud services, keeping all your data in a single location.

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Download DS Cloud for Android or iOS.
Open the app and fill in your NAS details.
Select the server binder to sync.
Hit next.
Select the local folder to sync.
Striking next.
Configure the synchronization profile.
Hitting OK.

Your smartphone should now begin synchronizing all selected files with the NAS unit, and by using the QuickConnect connection, you will be able to achieve this from anywhere with a network connectedness.