Backup of Google Drive to Local; Hard Drive
My Manager requires me to put something in place so that we will get an automated backup of everything that exists in our google apps cloud.
Basically, everything is in subfolders of a folder called "company files"
All 5 of us share that folder, so its it that I want to get a local copy of daily.
Google apps / drive only provide a manual solution.
Also, I do not want to back it up to another cloud service, I want to have a local copy incase something disasterious happens to out broadband, google, etc.
Thanks you,
Robbie.
Basically, everything is in subfolders of a folder called "company files"
All 5 of us share that folder, so its it that I want to get a local copy of daily.
Google apps / drive only provide a manual solution.
Also, I do not want to back it up to another cloud service, I want to have a local copy incase something disasterious happens to out broadband, google, etc.
Thanks you,
Robbie.
You could setup the Drive app which creates a local copy and then back that up to another location.
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winthropj: That that will not work
The Drive which appears to be local and to have files in it, only has pointers like "short Cuts" to the files that exist in the cloud.
Thanks.
The Drive which appears to be local and to have files in it, only has pointers like "short Cuts" to the files that exist in the cloud.
Thanks.
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Just wondering has there been any new solutions for accomplishing this during the past few months since I first asked the question.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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How can I escalate this to get some more help?
Thank you.
Robbie.
Thank you.
Robbie.
>> only has pointers like "short Cuts" to the files that exist in the cloud.
Can you try copying from that location to a NAS, I believe it would copy files (not shortcuts), you can use xcopy like this:
xcopy /e /y "c:\users\<username>\Googl
Can you try copying from that location to a NAS, I believe it would copy files (not shortcuts), you can use xcopy like this:
xcopy /e /y "c:\users\<username>\Googl
Google apps / drive only provide a manual solution.
Robbie-
I need to ask if your manager is aware that Google Drive and Google Apps in general are backed up to minimum of 5 data centers in the US and 11 that I know of across the planet Earth.
It sounds like what you need is redundant Internet connections, yes?
Your location, the internet provider, so forth is most likely going to have a problem before Google does in regard to your data?
Robbie-
I need to ask if your manager is aware that Google Drive and Google Apps in general are backed up to minimum of 5 data centers in the US and 11 that I know of across the planet Earth.
It sounds like what you need is redundant Internet connections, yes?
Your location, the internet provider, so forth is most likely going to have a problem before Google does in regard to your data?
Also, I do not want to back it up to another cloud service, I want to have a local copy incase something disasterious happens to out broadband, google, etc.
How much data are we talking about? I can most likely give you the best option or set of options.
How much data are we talking about? I can most likely give you the best option or set of options.
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Scott-
I'm surprised to hear your mishap with Google Drive. Have you tried the new API's to Google Drive to allow command line backup and creating snapshots of data?
I get what your saying about one account but an "interface" for users should be created for these people don't you think? Or am I way off on this one?
I'm surprised to hear your mishap with Google Drive. Have you tried the new API's to Google Drive to allow command line backup and creating snapshots of data?
I get what your saying about one account but an "interface" for users should be created for these people don't you think? Or am I way off on this one?
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There are third party tools that back up Drive to local storage. We find the cloud to cloud backups, particularly Backupify, to be less expensive and more effective and reliable.
Worries about broadband outages are misplaced as you'd have access to your data over any Internet connection (we tethered our mobile phones during a recent storm related outage)
Also, your native Googke docs will not be in a usable format in the local backup.
Google Sync to a local machine is not a valid solution because it only syncs the most recent version and will sync deleted and errors. Corrupted, infected, and deleted files all sync. You won't be able to recover.
Drive is a peer to peer file service. For a more traditional file server type structure, we recommend and install AOdocs.
Regards,
Allen
Worries about broadband outages are misplaced as you'd have access to your data over any Internet connection (we tethered our mobile phones during a recent storm related outage)
Also, your native Googke docs will not be in a usable format in the local backup.
Google Sync to a local machine is not a valid solution because it only syncs the most recent version and will sync deleted and errors. Corrupted, infected, and deleted files all sync. You won't be able to recover.
Drive is a peer to peer file service. For a more traditional file server type structure, we recommend and install AOdocs.
Regards,
Allen