HT201317 PhotoStreaming and iCloud

My iPhone was recently stolen and my photo's weren't Streamed to teh iCloud and I hadn't backed my phone up in a month so needless to say I lost to many memories. So my question is 2 parted.
1. If I Photo Stream my photo's from my iPhone to the iCloud is there a way to not make them sync to all my other devices on the iCloud? I just want them on my phone and in the iCloud. So I don't lose anything important again.
2. Also I first put my stolen phone in lost mode, then suspened it, and finally I erased it before setting up my new phone. The phone is still showing offline and the erase is Pending until the device connects to the internet. Well I have no idea when that will happen or even where the phone is at this point. The stolen phone is taking up a lot of iCloud storage and won't back up my new phone. Should I remove the stolen phone from my iCloud or wait until it show's the erase was completed?
I am so upset about my phone and all the lost memories I will never get back.
If anyone has any advice that would be awesome.
Thanks,
gspina8

iCloud and Photo Stream are not a photo backup service. They are more for syncing and sharing content between multiple devices. If you want to truly back up photos you have to get them off the device and organized in a photo app on a computer. The photo library can then be synced back to the iOS device. The computer is then setup to backup to external USB drives and optionally an online back up service such as Carbonite.
No irreplacealbe file such as photos should live on one device or rely on one backup. You should have multiple backups. And I can't stress enough, even though iCloud can hold an iOS devices backup, it is not a good place to keep files backed up to.

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