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Even if you post a picture to Facebook, Flickr or other sharing site, you should still have your own backups
Deep in a press release about how many people don't think about privacy when sharing photos was another, rather worrying, statistic. Among those who shared photos on social networks, only 21 per cent back up their photos on a regular basis.
I'm a follower of the opinion that a file doesn't properly exist until it is in at least three places. In my case that's my main PC at home, my home server and an online backup service.
The company behind the survey, MiMedia, unsurprisingly provide a online backup service that includes cloud sync.
We haven't tried it yet, but there's a free plan that offers 7GB of online space, better than average for this kind of service. As yet the software is only available for Windows (Dropbox and Spideroak both have Mac and Linux clients)
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Backup social media
Our application SocialSafe (www.socialsafe.net) backs up all your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and more to your PC or Mac - all for $8 per year. It also provides a full user interface to browse by date,search, look at photos with comments/tags/likes and more.
Posted by Julian Ranger, 25 Jun 2012
PicBackMan helps you to create redundant backups
Tim, I couldn't agree more with your post. Its surprising how most people don't have secure their precious memories - and we believe its not that they don't want to but they just don't have the right tools and the time to take care of this. We created PicBackMan (http://www.picbackman.com) to address this exact need. You can backup photos on all social sites like Facebook, Instagram and others to multiple online accounts so you can never loose them.
Posted by Vaibhav Domkundwar, 26 Jun 2012
PicBackMan for photo backups
Backing up photos is critical and the utility I use is PicBackMan (www.picbackman.com) . It can backup to multiple places like flickr/ picasa, smugmug, skydrive, dropbox, box and facebook. It also helps us to backup our online photos in Instagram, foursquare, facebook.
Posted by sujit, 26 Jun 2012