Title: I&#x27;m curious how others store their photos. Right now I use Arq to back up to an AWS Glacier instance.  I also back up to Shutterfly.  And I use Time Machine to an external HD.<p>Problems:<p>0. I&#x27;m using a ton of local HD space to store them.  I want to free up a bunch of space.<p>1. But if I delete photos from my computer, Arq will eventually delete the backups that contained them.  Could be months or years but if they&#x27;re not local, they&#x27;ll be gone when the cost to store them exceeds the monthly budget I&#x27;ve set with Arq.<p>2. Additionally, Shutterfly apparently will let you upload videos up to 2GB.  But I&#x27;ve randomly found a couple of videos well under that size that just don&#x27;t get backed up.<p>I think this is what a good storage situation looks like:<p>1. Photos and videos are automatically backed up to the cloud from my devices (nice to have)<p>2. Photos are retained forever in the cloud even if they&#x27;re deleted from my devices.  I have to go to cloud storage to delete something.<p>3. Very nice to have: photos are encrypted locally before getting sent to the cloud like with Arq.<p>4. Bonus points: the UI for browsing cloud photos is nice (Shutterfly bought the company I was using, which had the best UI I&#x27;d found).<p>What do you use?  Have you solved any of the problems I&#x27;ve laid out with my approach?<p>edit: thanks for all the great replies.  I&#x27;m in the middle of a lengthy process of moving off of Google services, so Google Photos sounds great but isn&#x27;t something I&#x27;m into.  Will look at iCloud and other solutions mentioned below.
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