Between my wife and I we have a multitude of smart phones and tablets, and all g

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Between my wife and I we have a multitude of smart phones and tablets, and all get used to varying degrees to take photos.

I'm looking for a Android App that will automatically backup photos to a directory of my choosing on my local network.

Here's a summary of what I'm looking for:

Automatically backup the photos on any android device when connected to my home Wi-Fi
Backup folder can be any folder I choose (which would be my home server)
The Android App would ideally be compatible with Android 4.0, but most of the devices are using Android 4.3
Any software on the destination would have to be compatible with Windows Server 2012 R2
Preferably free (gratis), although that is not set in stone if exactly what I want can be found.

I am aware that there are a number of services that will back the photos up automatically, but given these are usually services that backup photos to their cloud and/or required a Google + account (which I am desperately trying to avoid), they are not what I am looking for to accomplish this task.

Explanation / Answer

I use FolderSync (Pro/Full version) to back to my NAS nightly. You can add many different 'accounts' (free version is limited to 2) including FTP, WebDAV or windows share (Samba/CIFS) but it also supports cloud services like Dropbox, OneDrive and Box.net.

You can specify whether to sync one way or two way and whether to sync deletions or not. You can also configure it to only attempt to sync when connected to particular wifi networks and also whether to only sync when charging.

You can specify which folder(s) on your device that you want to sync and in the full version you can also specify filters to only backup files that are a specific type or start/end with a specific value.

If you don't want to install/buy from Google Play you can see more information and other sites to get the app from (including directly from them) on their website

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