Online Photo Backup with Windows Live OneCare 2.0


Posted by Brandon LeBlanc on Friday, August 03, 2007 11:24 PM 17 Comments
In my previous demo of Windows Live OneCare 2.0 (beta) I was pretty general about its features. But I'd like to dive a little deeper into some of the enhancements and features coming with Windows Live OneCare's next major release. Coming with Windows Live OneCare 2.0 will be a brand new way to backup your most important and precious digital photos called Online Photo Backup. With Online Photo Backup you get 10GB of online storage to store your digital photos. Take a look at this small demo I made showcasing Online Photo Backup:


Video: Online Photo Backup with Windows Live OneCare 2.0

Making sure your digital photos are backed up is a high priority for Microsoft and the Windows Live OneCare Team. A user could have many years worth of digital memories stored on their PC and if that PC crashes, those memories are lost. Of course you can back those photos up to another PC, or a DVD but those don't come entirely risk-free. Backing up to another PC doesn't mean that PC won't fail and with backing up to a DVD, you run the risk of that DVD becoming damaged in some way and then unreadable to restore the data. With Online Photo Backup - you take those risks away.

I currently have over 5 years worth of digital photos on my PC with Windows Live OneCare 2.0 backing them up to my Online Photo Backup storage space. I have photos ranging from college experiences and events to WinHEC 2006 and 2007 to CES last year and the Windows Vista Launch in New York City. These are memories I would never want to lose.

With the Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta - Online Photo Backup is an "add-on" to your OneCare Subscription and allows you to backup photos to any of your PC's in your OneCare Circle. According to the Windows Live OneCare Team Blog - when Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is released, Online Photo Backup will be an added cost to your standard OneCare Subscription package.  

For updates on Windows Live OneCare - stay tuned to their official team blog.

Be sure to also check out my previous Windows Live OneCare 2.0 demo as well.

AUG 04
 

Posted by Brytown

Good idea i just lost all my dreamliner photos collected since it was a "dream" and did not have restore turned on for that drive ... could have used this lol :)
AUG 04
 

Posted by davidacoder

I think online backup is a great idea. But why the heck limit it to photos?!? I mean, yes, photos are important to me, but guess what, me Excel sheets and Word documents have a ton more value to me. Why have this arbitrary choice to limit the file type?!? Technically there cannot be any difference between backing up a Word document and a jpg, right? Why not let ME decide what file types are important to me? This litteraly is one of the strangest decisions I have come across in a long time.
AUG 04
 

Posted by My Notes to Myself and Others...

A post on the Windows Vista team blog promises that the new OneCare will come with 10GB of online storage
AUG 04
 

Posted by My Notes to Myself and Others...

A post on the Windows Vista team blog promises that the new OneCare will come with 10GB of online storage
AUG 04
 

Posted by Chiong

2 davidacoder:

We can change the file name into the name for pictures:*.jpg,*.png,*.gif and etc.But I agree it's better it spports more file types!
AUG 04
 

Posted by The MAZZTer

Brytown: System Restore wouldn't have backed up your photos anyways.  It is not a backup utility... it is used for saving and restoring system configuration states only.  It's limited to the registry, drivers, and executable files (probably EXE, DLL, OCX, SYS, CPL, SCR, etc) and maybe a few other minor things.
AUG 04
 

Posted by Brytown

I have autobackup in place and it was not backing up my secondary drive. (preahaps i should have been more clear on "restore point") And that is a prety good question too by david. My excel sheets are more important. Im also asumeing you can login and download the photos anywhere? Or will that just be live photo gallery?
AUG 04
 

Posted by Goorsha

Hi Brandon,

Very helpful posting!

I have been reading about the online backup industry for a while now.

Online backup is maturing and slowly getting the attention of the general consumer.

One website worth mentioning is the backup review site:

http://www.BackupReview.info

This very informative site, not only posts up to date news and articles from the industry, but also lists about 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis and features a CEO Spotlight page, where senior management people from the industry are interviewed.

May be you could review this site so that your readers will be aware of its services.

I enjoy reading your posts. Keep it up!
AUG 05
 

Posted by johnhood

Windows Live OneCare Beta 2 performance is flaky under Boot Camp! OneCare Tune-up appears to run correctly, but reports errors at completion! However, when I log back in it reports that the status is good. Is this an known issue?

I appreciate that my Windows Vista installation may not be officially supported as it's running on Mac Intel-based hardware! Thank you.
AUG 06
 

Posted by Brandon LeBlanc

johnhood, on my two desktop PC's I've had the same issue with OneCare 2.0 Beta where Tune-up runs but says it errored at completion so I do not think its a problem based on you having OneCare 2.0 Beta running via Boot Camp on your Intel-based Mac.

- Brandon
AUG 06
 

Posted by johnhood

Brandon,

Appreciate your timely response. And thanks for the clarification.

John
AUG 07
 

Posted by cquirke

On "why just photos", I'd guess to reduce legal risks that malware code, warez, MP3 and movies might pose.  Also, while this is beta, may not want folks putting their "real" data there.

What I want is the reverse; the ability to backup my online sites to my own PC.  With Live Writer and blog publishing, there's no longer a set of "originals" on my PC.

I think there's a suspension of disbelief with all this SaaS and Web 2.0 stuff, i.e. trusting the security and survivability of other people's servers, as well as the route by which material is exchanged with these.
AUG 07
 

Posted by cquirke

On "why just photos", I'd guess to reduce legal risks that malware code, warez, MP3 and movies might pose.  Also, while this is beta, may not want folks putting their "real" data there.

What I want is the reverse; the ability to backup my online sites to my own PC.  With Live Writer and blog publishing, there's no longer a set of "originals" on my PC.

I think there's a suspension of disbelief with all this SaaS and Web 2.0 stuff, i.e. trusting the security and survivability of other people's servers, as well as the route by which material is exchanged with these.
SEP 18
 

Posted by Sarah In Tampa

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