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Help Sync videos and photos to windows 7 server

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I have a windows 7 machine that make it as media server.
I wish I can have a way to auto sync any photo or video taken from my android to be synced to that server.
Usually what I do, is I have auto backup of photos and videos to google+
but then I have to login to that server and download the pics and videos from my account to that computer.
Is there a software that I can use to sync between android phone and windows 7?
 
I have our phones setup to upload photos immediately, as they are taken, both for backup and to make them automatically available on all our computers and other devices. I use FolderSync to upload photos to a folder on Google Drive. FolderSync is a terrific tool and will also work with Dropbox, Sugarsync - almost any cloud storage. Or for Dropbox you can just use the Dropbox app and enable photo uploads. However, be warned that trying to upload from the phone to more than one service at a time has not been reliable in my experience.

But I do want backup copies in more than one place online, so I use CloudHQ sync service to automatically sync that Google Drive photo folder to Dropbox. Actually, CloudHQ also syncs our entire Dropbox account and 3 other Google Drive accounts to a master 1TB Google Drive account. The master Google Drive account, which now contains *everything* and Dropbox sync to local storage on our computers. Google Drive syncs to Windows machines via the native Google Drive client and syncs to Linux boxes via InSync. Dropbox sync to both Windows and Linux via native desktop clients.

So the end result is that every time a photo is taken multiple copies are immediately created in multiple databases and are accessible from any of our devices or computers in a few seconds. And it all works automatically, with no effort. Just take photos and go. This way I never worry about losing photos and they're always available anywhere.

This scheme works for more than just photos, of course. All of our business documents, home documents, computer and device backups, music etc. are automatically stashed in multiple databases automatically using this process. I never worry about losing anything.
 
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