Samsung PC Auto Backup -Wireless Photo Transfer  

Samsung PC Auto Backup -Wireless Photo Transfer


Table of Contents
  1. About PC Auto Backup
  2. Transfer Photos Wirelessly with PC Auto Backup Samsung Camera
  3. Powerful Way to Transfer Photos Automatically
  4. The Need to Backup PC Files Automatically
  5. The Epilogue

About PC Auto Backup

PC Auto Backup is a program developed by Samsung Electronics to help users transfer photos, videos, and movies, etc from a digital camera to the computer. It is usually preinstalled with various Hewlett-Packard computers and the most used version is 1.1.1.21, with over 98% of all installations.

It allows you to schedule a task on boot with the help of Windows schedule task and background controller service. And it adds a Windows Firewall exception and transfers files wirelessly. Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and 10 are supported.

Samsung PC Auto Backup

Transfer Photos Wirelessly with PC Auto Backup Samsung Camera

Here take SH100 digital camera and PC Auto Backup as an example and transfer photos from camera to computer safely:

1. Power off your SH100 digital camera and connect it to your computer using a USB cable. Then, power it on and you will see the Intelli-Studio pop up on the computer. Click Run iStudio.exe.

Connect Camera

2. Close the window until you see the Install PC Auto Backup Program window, and click OK to confirm you want to install a program on the computer to use the Auto Backup feature. Just install it as you were installing any other app.

Install PC Auto Backup Program

3. Set a server name (eg: My Auto Backup) for the PC auto backup task and then click OK to keep the default location to receive photos. And you can also select a new one.

Select Path

Disconnect the SH100 digital camera and it will power off automatically. Turn it on and press the Home key.

4. On the Smart Touch 3.0 menu, select the Auto Backup icon. Click the Search icon to find the wireless network you share with your PC and enter the password.

Auto Backup

5. On the Connect to Backup Server, click the backup server - My Auto Backup and then Confirm to execute Samsung PC auto backup. Afterward, it will start to send files to your computers.

Excute PC Auto Backup

Powerful Way to Transfer Photos Automatically

Except for the PC Auto Backup program, you still can use powerful software - Qiling Disk Master Standard to perform automatic backup and transfer photos from camera to computer automatically. You just need to connect the Camera before the scheduled task starts.

Please download it to have a try! Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, XP, and Vista are supported. For server users, try Qiling Disk Master Server.

1. Connect the camera to your computer, it can be SH100 digital camera or another series.

2. Install and launch Qiling Backuppr Standard, click File Sync under the Backup tab.

File Sync

3. Click Folder to select all the photos you want to transfer to computer. Then, click where the arrow points and select a local path to receive your camera photos.

Folder

4. Click Schedule Sync and select Daily, Weekly, or Monthly after enabling it. Note it requires you to connect the camera manually before the scheduled task starts.

Sync Automatically

Notes:

5. Confirm you add all the photos you want and click Proceed to perform auto PC backup.

The Need to Backup PC Files Automatically

The PC files are as important as photos in the camera, it may be your family photos, movies, documents, etc. So it is necessary to backup PC files automatically. In fact, Windows comes along with two backup software and both of them help you auto backup PC files.

Select Backup and Restore (Windows 7) if you want to backup files along with system partition. If you are sure to include the operating system, you need to know it will use much more space.
Select File History if you just want to backup user files in the computer.

Then, follow the screen to run auto PC backup. Here take Backup and Restore (Windows 7) as an example. To backup user files only, please refer to backup specific folders in Windows 10.

1. Input backup in the Windows search box, and choose Backup settings > Go to Backup and Restore (Windows 7).

2. Click the Set up back-up button.

Set Up Backup

3. Select the internal or external hard drive to save the auto PC backup. To backup Windows 10 to network drive, click Save on a network...

Select Backup Destination

4. Tick Let Me Choose option. You can select files or folders you want and whether to include a system image.

Let Me Choose

5. Choose the data files and the partition(s) you would like to backup, and hit Next. You can also tick the Include a system image of drives... to create a system image as well.

Create Disk Image

6. By default, Backup and Restore (Windows 7) backup PC files at 7:00PM every Sunday. If you want to backup files more or less frequency, click Change schedule to modify the schedule settings. And then, click Save settings and exit to start the auto PC backup.

Change Schedule

Then it will create PC auto backup files at a specific time. As time goes by, you may encounter the backup disk full issue. And it does not offer you an automatic way to get it done.

So if you want to manage backup and disk space in a professional, try the advanced edition of Qiling Disk Master Standard - Qiling Disk Master Professional or higher. And in this software, you can choose to sync or backup PC files to internal/external disk, network drive, NAS, cloud drive, etc.

The Epilogue

You can easily transfer photos wirelessly with Samsung PC Auto Backup Program and Qiling Disk Master Standard. The second one is easier and more powerful. You just need to connect the camera once and this software will take care of the rest of the steps, no need to power off and on the camera repeatedly.

At the same time, you still can use it to sync or backup PC files for disaster recovery. And it provides users with a real auto backup feature - Schedule Backup instead of just name it. You can choose to run the backup task daily, weekly, or monthly. Besides, its advanced edition still helps manage disk space automatically for new backups.

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