Backup Android Mobile/Tablet Data to PC via WIFI

We are using our Smartphones/Mobiles as our primary electronic devices on daily basis to create new data in the form of images, videos, and documents. We click thousands of images and videos through our smartphones. We also do some office or financial works on it. So all of these data that we are dealing with in our smartphone a stored in its internal memory. 

Now smartphones with an internal memory of 64 and 128 GB have become common and up to 512GB of internal storage, smartphones are also available in the market. And looking at the sizes of megapixel now these smartphone cameras have, they take lots more space now for your clicked images and videos. So your current smartphone might have enough internal memory to store your images, videos, and documents but what will happen if you lost or brick your smartphone?

Have you set up any backup for your smartphone data?

And if you are relying on Google Photos, then it can give you free storage of up to 15 GB only and you have to pay yearly for any extra bit of space. And Google Photos are only for images and videos, your important documents still need some backup.

So if you want to know a method to set up a backup for your Android mobile to your desktop or laptop PC then read till the end.

In this method, we will create backup sync from your mobile to your home PC wirelessly, which will sync your mobile data to your PC at a scheduled time regularly, so you have to set up once only and next time onwards it will do the backup automatically. 

Before starting the process below are the minimum requirements which will be required to create the backup:

1. An Android Mobile (from which data needs to be backed up)
2. A Desktop or Laptop PC (in which the data will be backed up)
3. Home Wifi Network (if you don't have a home wifi network you can use another mobile hotspot and connect both the mobile and PC to that hotspot)

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Wireless Backup Setup Process

In your Android mobile, which needs to be backed up, install the "SyncMe Wireless" app. You can use the below link to install the app. It is a free app and has all the functions for our WIFI backup requirements.

SyncMe Wireless

In your Desktop/Laptop PC create a folder as "Mobile Backup" in any drive which has enough space to store the backup of your mobile. For example, if you have 50 GB of data on your mobile then you need to have more than 50 GB of free space in your PC.

After creating the folder, right-click on it and go to properties.

Go to the sharing option, Click on advance sharing option and turn on the sharing of that folder.

Now before going forward to the next step, ensure that both mobile and your PC are connected to the same WIFI network, you can use one another mobile to create a hotspot and use that also.

Now in your Android Mobile, 

• Open the "SyncMe" app.
• Click on Add Computer. 

• Click on Computer Name. It will automatically search and shows your computer in the list.

• Select your computer and add the username and password of that PC with administrator access. If your PC doesn't have any password, it will not work. Windows don't allow network file sharing without a password. Hence if you don't have any password to open your PC, first set up a password and proceed after that. 

• After completing this process click on OK to return to the main window.

• You will see your PC name showing in the main window, click on that. You will get an option for "Add Sync Folder"

• Click on "Add Sync Folder", in this window you will get multiple options.

• The first option is "Device Folder", click on that select the folders of your mobile device that you want to backup. Some important folders are DCIM (all your images and videos you capture through the mobile camera goes here), WhatsApp (your WhatsApp chat and media files), and Download (any file or documents you download in a web browser)

• The second option is " Computer Folder" click on it and you will see the same shared folder name that you have created earlier. Click on that and create a folder inside it of the same name folder that you have selected in the first option, like if selected the "DCIM" folder in the first option, then create a "DCIM" folder inside your shared folder and select that folder. It will make it easier to find out which data is going in which folder.

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• The next option is "Schedule", click on it, you will get multiple options to autorun the backup process, set the days and time as per your requirements. Setting up this option is on you, how you want your backup to run. You can also leave this option and run the backup manually each time as per your requirement.

• The next option is "Copy To", click on this, and select "Copy to computer only". This will copy your data from mobile device to PC only.

• Do not select the next option "Overwrite same name file"

• In the next option "Track Deletion" select "No". If you select yes in this option then when you delete any file in your phone then its backup in your PC will also get deleted.

• The next option is "Filter", keep it as it is.

• Click on OK to go back to the main screen.

• Now you will see the folder name you have selected to backup appears on the main screen.

• Click on that, you get the option to "RUN"

• Click on RUN to start the backup process.

• The first time when the backup runs, it will take more time, depends upon the data to be backed up. From the next time onwards the time will be less as it will only backup newer files.

• Similarly, you can add different important folders to the backup. And can schedule the time also so that from the next time, you don't have to worry about the backup process.

This whole process you need to do once only. From the next time, you have to just run it manually or it will run automatically as per your configured schedule.

Conclusion

Now you have set up a wireless backup for your smartphone/mobile's precious data, so you don't have to worry about any loss of your important data.

So share this method with your friends and family as it is the easiest method to configure an auto backup for your mobile phone wirelessly. 

Do share your views on this backup method in the comments section below.