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@col: Include photos/videos in auto backup is not a good solution. The backup file would quickly become gigantic.

If you store your attached photos/videos exclusively in the Locus subfolders "photos" and "video", you can back them up yourself and copy them back again. See Menion's answer.

However, if you select photos as attachments that are stored somewhere on the device or the sd card, a link is created. I always do this because I have saved my photos in a well-organised folder structure of my own. These photos are then stored in the points as a link.

Unfortunately, this is almost impossible to save and I dread the day when I need a new smartphone and have to link all the photos again individually. But I also don't want to copy all the attached photos to the Locus subfolder "photos".
Unfortunately, I can't think of a simple solution. As long as I use the old sd card in a new/different smartphone, I hope that the links are still correct and the photos are still displayed. I don't know whether this will work reliably. But that's my problem.

Hello col,
you should still be able to access the app's private directory when connected to the PC.

If you need direct access to the device, probably the easiest solution with the latest Locus Map version is moving the whole app directory into the "Android/media" directory, which is more easily accessible by various 3rd party tools directly on the device.

This can be done in the app settings > Backup & filesystem > File system manager > Set the main directory