Mobile Device Digital Photography

I'm not much of giving advice to anyone; however, there is something that has been niggling at my mind for many, many years.  Digital photography.

In the days before digital photography there was the photographs that were "developed" usually by a commercial photo studio.  These photographs were forever, sort of.  Most of the old photographs, after a number of years of storage change in color.  Hence, the "vintage photograph" look that people mimic to give current photographs the old look.

However, without a doubt, these old photographs were forever documents as long as they were kept in relatively dry, cool places.

Today, or should I say since about 1997, I have been very, very cognizant of how to keep digital photographs safe.  It has not been easy because the storage media has only in the last few years finally caught up with requirements.

The scary thing is, there is no safety net.  No solid piece of evidence that the picture was ever real, no solid piece of evidence that can be filed away for future generations.

I currently have for my older digital photographs 2 locations.  One on my hard drive and the other in an off-site location.  For the more current digital photographs, I have 3 locations.  One on my hard drive, the memory stick that it was originally taken on and the off-site location.

The only issue is, this kind of backup takes time and money.  
     Cost for the hard drive
     Cost for never reusing the memory stick
     Cost for the off-site storage

Now, for the iPhone, iPad photographs, there is a different issue.  Every time you replace any of the them, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PHOTOGRAPHS STORED ON THEM?

At this time, I'm trying to come to grips with this because I used to have my iPhone sync'd with my off-site location and I could, once a month, save the photographs to the off-site location.  However, something happened couple of months ago to this connection.

It started because Dropbox upgraded their storage system.  It kept my old stuff up to the moment of upgrade under my old ID; however, it now wants me to START A NEW ID that is not connected at all to my old ID.  This means all what's under my old ID will be lost to me.  As long as I don't start a new ID, I can still access my old stuff under my old ID.

Problem is still:  How do I get my photographs stored somewhere else other than on my iPhone or iPad?