What can you do with the spare storage in your cloud-based storage account such as Dropbox, Skydrive or Box.net? Previously, we’ve shown on how to backup your WordPress site to Dropbox? Well, not everyone runs WordPress, right? But we know what most people if not all, do online. They at least surf Facebook, right? And there are increasing number of people who use Instagram photo sharing service.
Facebook and Instagram are popular places to showcase your photos online. As the days go by, we believe you should have uploaded quite a lot of photos to these photo sharing services. Nowadays, we tend to keep every copy of our files including photos in multiple locations. This is actually a good practice for us make duplicates and store them in somewhere safe. In this case, you might want to backup photos from Facebook or Instagram to other available online storage options such as Dropbox, Skydrive or Box.net.
To help the process a painless one, you should look into a third party application like PicBackMan. It make photo backups much easier, effortlessly and automated. The freeware enables you to backup photos from Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare or even from your local machine, and take the backups to various cloud-based storage services and photo sharing services. This include Dropbox, Box.net, Skydrive, Picasa, Flickr, Smugsmug and Facebook.
It’s easy to setup PicBackMan. You need create a free account with PicBackMan in order to use the tool. Then, after login, you can connect your Facebook, Instagram or Foursquare accounts to PicBackMan that you would like to backup automatically your photos to multiple destinations. You can select the desired destinations to store the photo backups. Click the respective Connect button to authorize the online photo or storage service.
Next, you need to associate those accounts or any folder containing photos in your local machine where the photos will be backup online to the desired destinations. Simply go to the Backup tab. Click Associate Folder and look for your desired folders for photo backups.
Click on Associate Account button, then choose to backup photos from Facebook, Instagram or Foursquare to your desired destinations. Once done, click the Upload button at the bottom of the window to begin the backup process.
Thereafter, PicBackMan will constantly monitor your local machine, Facebook, Instagram or Foursquare account for new photos and backup them automatically to desired destinations. Yes, you just need to set the application once, and it will run on its own. It gives you peace of mind as your photos are automatically backup.
PicBackMan is free for download and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.
