Resetting a mobile device sometimes causes us to lose part of the information on our phone, thus having serious consequences. After a long time with our terminal, it is always appropriate to have a backup of everything considered important, including photographs, videos and documents.
With a created copy you will always have everything you need if you want to have everything back as it was at the beginning, at least part of what you have saved up to now. Copies are usually made of both the operating system and the files, here it is important to note that you must have sufficient storage in the service.
In this article we are going to show how to make a cloud backup of your android device, being able at any time to pass any file, pass all the photos, among other things. The important thing is that everything is passed in an orderly manner, without being compressed in the same package with a zip or rar ending.
Always keep a copy of everything
Experts always advise having a backup of everything in case the mobile device suffers a break, this will save anything from it and recover any documents. Copies are usually saved both on the Internet and on your hard drive, with many preferring the former.
Making a cloud backup of your Android phone will not take you time, you have the local option that is to use Google Drive, a system integrated with our email account. It is one of the simple tasks, and it will not require much time., although it requires enough space.
Another way to create and save that information is to get another service, Internet has storage pages that allow different documents to be uploaded. The ideal is always to create a folder before uploading this, to have an order of everything, it will be photographs, clips, files and documents of many types.
Make a backup in the cloud
The quick method is to use Google Drive, Check at all times that you have enough space to save that backup, which will exceed approximately 3-4 GB. The volume of it will become greater if you have a greater number of images, videos and hundreds of documents on the phone.
Through Drive you will save everything, including WhatsApp chats, images from this service, contacts saved on the phone and from other applications. The method of saving everything will be online, you need an Internet connection for synchronization, all the save will be at hand when you need it.
Backup to Google Drive is done as follows:
- The first thing is to unlock the phone
- Go to "Settings", it will be the cogwheel that you have in your terminal
- Access the “Google” tab and then go to the “Back up” setting
- Once the data is finished, it will be present in Google Drive, here you have control of everything, being able to access the folders, including contacts and other information
To move it to the new phone from scratch, do the following:
- Enter the associated email and passworda on that old phone
- It will show the message that it has found a backup, click "Restore" and that's it
- After this you will have everything on the new phone, including contacts, which are sometimes essential, above all because they are from the beginning of this or previous phones, which is usually useful if we want to call a person, contact by SMS or messaging applications installed on the mobile phone
Create a copy and save it on a device
Swift Backup is one of the third-party applications capable of backing up everything in a device, being able to take that image wherever you want. It is true that it is not fast, although it is probably worth it because it is one of those free tools that is valid for this action and saving other things.
With just pressing the "Make backup" button, you have an estimated time of about 8-10 minutes to do other things, since it consumes large resources. It is convenient that you do not use the phone at any time, since it will go a little slower than usual due to pulling the resources of the terminal.
To start using the app, do the following on your phone:
- The first thing is to download and install the application, you have just below the link to download it
- Choose to enter without login, you can register if you want, but you can do this later
- It is in English, although you have the button that says "Create backup", wait and let it be generated to be able to restore it later, it is necessary to grant the permissions for the use of this application in the Play Store
The backup is generated in the application itself, there will be a folder in which you can drag at any time wherever you want, be it the same phone, computer hard drive, an external hard drive, or other devices. It is advisable that this is in a safe place if you want to recover it again at any time.
With the G Cloud Backup app
It is an application that has been generating great reviews in the Play Store, especially for her good work, among her things for making a complete backup of your phone. You can take the step of creating it with it and be able to take the well-known backup to another terminal, hard drive, flash drive, among other optical drives.
To back up with G Cloud Backup, follow these steps:
- Download and install the G Cloud Backup app, you have it available in the box below
- You have to create a registration, with your email and password
- Choose the start time of the backup, select all files and wait for it to start to generate it, for example if it is four in the afternoon, put 16:00 p.m. and click "Create"
- It is generated in the “Backups” folder, you can take it wherever you want and be able to use it on another phone
