How Do I Backup to Adobe's Online Storage

Question

I purchased the $20 option to backup files online with Adobe (although, strangely,  it still says I only have 2 gig instead of the 20 I bought) but am unable to find any option in the Organizer menu that lets me backup files except to CD, DVD, or external harddrive.  There is no mention at all of the online storage.  Yet they keep advertising that it is available.  Where is the option in the menus?
Can somebody enlighten me as to how I backup a folder online?
Thanks very much.
David

Answer 1

Yes, you must be using Albums to be able to use the Online Backup feature.
The rational is that we needed a way for you to identify what should be backed up, and what should not. (As requested by early user testing of the backup feature). Instead of creating another organizational metaphor around backup, we decided to leverage the existing Organizational metaphor of Albums. The other thing going on here is that Online Sharing is based around the Albums concept, and Sharing and Backup are leveraging the same code to keep your online files in sync with your desktop files.
If you just want to backup everything in your Catalog, simply create a new Album called Everything (or whatever), mark it for Backup, and then put all you media in it.
Remember that your media can be in multiple Albums, so putting it all in Everything, doesn't mean you cannot still create other Albums with subsets of your media.
There are actually a number of advantages of using the integrated Backup/Sync feature in Elements 7 over local options: (Apologies for the sales pitch nature of what follows)
1: Your media is stored off site. With an external drive or shiny disk, a fire or flood will destroy it all. Just ask the folks in Atlanta this week about the value of their backups on an external drive. (Although for now there are much more serious issues to deal with there)
2: By backing up to Photoshop.com, you get to use what we call Anywhere Access. Just log into your Photoshop.com account from any web browser and you have access to your media Catalog.
3: And, even better, any changes you make while remote (Adding new photos, re-organizing, basic editing, etc) are automatically synchronized back to your desktop PC.
And, yes, big files such as TIFFs or RAW will take some time to backup. But, we made the backup process run in the background, so you don't need to think much about it. Just set it up and let it run. You don't even need to have the Elements Organizer running. You can also set it up to only Backup/Synchronize When Idle. This means that while you are using your PC, it won't consume CPU cycles or Internet Bandwidth, but when you leave it alone for a bit, it will kick into gear while you're away.