OneDrive / SkyDrive to back-up your smartphone camera roll

I currently use OneDrive (previously SkyDrive) to back-up my photos in my iPhone. It’s automatic, however it does pause for a certain time when you leave the app running in the background.

I find this very useful because you don’t have to re-download your pictures by the time you want to transfer them into a physical external hard drive. OneDrive has a dedicated folder in your computer that syncs time to time. The pictures the OneDrive has backed up is synced from the cloud to your computer as well. So just find the OneDrive folder in your computer, go to the folder where your pictures are, and start copying them into your external hard drive.

Good luck!