Everything you need to know about making a backup
Everything you need to know about making a backup. Do you take your smartphone everywhere? Then it is probably packed with precious moments. Important contact details and lovely photos and videos are things you do not want to lose...
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Gepubliceerd: 2018-11-15
Everything you need to know about making a backup
Do you take your smartphone everywhere with you? Then it is probably packed with precious moments.
Important contact details and lovely photos and videos are things you would rather not lose.
In this article you will read how to prevent that.
We explain how to back up the most important information and files on your smartphone to a cloud.
What is a backup?
A backup is a spare copy of the files on your smartphone.
That spare copy is not kept on your smartphone but stored in another location.
In principle you can back up any file.
This comes in handy if your smartphone breaks, if you lose it, if it is stolen or if you buy a new one.
You then copy the backup 'back' to the new or repaired smartphone.
Handy, because it means you do not lose all your photos or contact details.
It has always been possible to make a spare copy of files on a computer, CD or USB stick, but 'the cloud' is becoming
an increasingly popular backup location.
What is a cloud?
A cloud is personal storage space on the internet that only you can access.
You can store all kinds of things in it: from photos to phone numbers and from text files to spreadsheets.
There are two ways to make a backup in a cloud.
There are apps that create a backup for you and upload it.
You use those same apps to restore that spare copy when you buy a new smartphone.
The other way is to upload files to a cloud manually.
Automatic backup: all your settings and files in the same place
Examples of apps that automatically create a backup for you are Apple iCloud and the standard backup apps for Android and
Windows Phone.
The advantage of these apps is that they keep the spare copy up to date for you.
That is not possible with a backup stored on a CD or USB stick.
The app refreshes the backup automatically when your smartphone is connected to a wifi network and there are new files on your
smartphone.
So it does not cost you any MBs.
Add a new phone number to your contacts? It is often in the backup within a day.
Manual backup: access to your favourite files anytime, anywhere
Uploading your files to a cloud manually has one advantage. You can open them anywhere there is internet.
At home on a tablet, on the train on your smartphone and at the office on your computer. That is not the case with an automatic backup.
You can only use that to transfer files to a repaired or different smartphone.
You will find the files back in the app of the cloud.
Examples of cloud services you can upload files to manually are Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Microsoft
OneDrive. Tip: you can also do this when the storage space on your smartphone is full.
You first upload files to the cloud and then delete them from your smartphone.
That frees up some space again! This is especially handy when files take up a lot of space and you do not need them every day.
Security: is my cloud properly protected?
Files you upload to the cloud are stored encrypted. This means you can only access them with a password.
Make sure that password contains lower case letters, capitals, numbers and punctuation marks. That is how your cloud is best protected.
Making a backup with iOS, Android and Windows Phone
With a few actions you can have an iPhone, Android smartphone or Windows Phone create a backup automatically.
A spare copy is then made of phone numbers, personal settings and smartphone apps in any case.
You decide for yourself whether other files, such as photos and videos, are backed up automatically as well.
For an automatic backup you need an Apple, Google or Microsoft account, depending on whether you have an iPhone,
an Android smartphone or a Windows Phone.
Do not have one yet? Then you can create one free of charge. Only with such an account will you get access to your spare copy afterwards.
Making a backup with the iPhone
With Apple's iCloud you make a spare copy of your iPhone. Do you have a new iPhone?
Then download the spare copy of your old iPhone.
That way you do not have to add phone numbers yourself, and thanks to the spare copy the new iPhone has exactly the same settings
as your old iPhone.
That saves a lot of time! Your iPhone creates a spare copy automatically when it is connected to wifi and charging at the same time.
This is how you make a spare copy of the iPhone:
Open the 'Settings' app;
Tap 'iCloud';
Tap 'Backup';
Tap 'Back Up Now'.
Once you are in the 'Backup' menu, you set which data you want to back up.
You can, for example, choose to back up photos, videos and settings of apps you downloaded yourself.
An iPhone creates a backup automatically when your smartphone is locked, charging and connected to a wifi network.
This is how you make a backup with Android
With Android you make a backup of contacts and settings as follows.
It is stored in Google Drive.
Open the settings menu;
Tap 'Backup & reset';
Slide the slider next to 'Back up my data'; your smartphone will not be reset.
Your Android smartphone then backs up the data on your device in the background.
Photos and videos are not included in this backup.
Further on in this article you will read how to back up all the photos and videos on your smartphone yourself.
Manufacturers of Android smartphones often supply their own backup app as well.
You can use that too. An Android smartphone creates a backup automatically when your smartphone is connected to a wifi network.
This is how you make a backup with Windows Phone
A Windows Phone backs up contact details, personal settings,
your call history and photos and videos, among other things. Your Windows Phone uploads the backup of your phone to Microsoft OneDrive.
Open the settings menu;
Tap 'Backup';
Go to 'apps & settings';
Slide the switch next to 'Back up' to the right so that your Windows Phone creates a backup.
Your smartphone makes sure the backup stays up to date.
With Google Photos you never lose a single photo
With the Google Photos app you make a free backup of all the photos on your smartphone yourself.
You need a Google account for this.
Google has one condition for uploading unlimited photos: the photos are uploaded in reduced size.
This means they end up in the cloud at a lower resolution.
So you cannot download the photos from the app in their original resolution.
That does not have to be a drawback.
Even reduced in size, the photos are still sharp enough to view on your phone or to print for a photo album.
Google Photos is the only app that lets you back up an unlimited number of photos free of charge.
You download the app from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
To stop Google Photos using up the MBs of your data bundle, you change a few settings. This is how:
Open 'Google Photos';
Tap the three lines at the top left;
Tap 'Settings';
Go to 'Back up & sync';
Slide the two bars for automatically backing up photos and videos to the left.
That way a backup is only made when your smartphone is connected to a wifi network and you have the app open at the same time.
The backup stops as soon as you close the app or lock the phone.
This is how you keep your WhatsApp chats
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service. The app does not automatically back up your chats to the cloud.
You activate that yourself.
For iOS you do it like this
Open WhatsApp;
Go to the settings menu of the app;
Tap 'Chats';
Tap 'Chat Backup';
Tap 'Back Up Now';
A backup of all your WhatsApp chats is then uploaded to iCloud.
You decide for yourself whether you also want to back up videos.
You can also choose to have a backup made never, monthly, weekly or daily.
With Android it works as follows
Open WhatsApp;
Tap the three dots at the top right;
Then click 'Settings';
Go to 'Chats and calls';
Tap 'Chat backup';
Tap 'Back up to Google Drive'. Here you also decide how often you want a backup of your WhatsApp chats to be made.
Under 'Back up using' you set your smartphone to back up over wifi only. That saves MBs.
This is how you do it with Windows Phone
With the Windows Phone app of WhatsApp you cannot make a backup in the cloud.
You can email a chat history to yourself though. This is how:
Open the chat you want to export;
Tap the three lines;
Go to 'info' or 'group info';
Tap the three lines;
Go to 'email chat history';
You can import this chat into WhatsApp on your new smartphone.
The drawback of sending a chat history is that you cannot email all your WhatsApp chats to yourself at once.
That makes backing up your chats in WhatsApp for Windows Phone more time consuming.
A backup is not always necessary
There are apps you cannot and do not need to back up.
Examples are Facebook and Gmail. All the information you see in these apps is on the internet and not on your smartphone.
So you cannot lose this information if your phone breaks or if you buy a new smartphone.
You also do not need to back up music you buy through iTunes or the Google Play Store.
On a new smartphone you log in with the account you bought the tracks with.
You can then download the tracks again free of charge.
Will backups soon be a thing of the past?
At the moment it still often happens that certain information is only on your smartphone.
That is becoming less and less common, especially as cloud services get faster, offer more storage capacity and are better protected.
The advantage is that soon you will not have to do anything at all, because files are already stored in a cloud automatically.
Lovely!
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