Comments on: How to Download Your Google Drive and Back Up Your Files

By: Lora Maslenitsyna

Lora Maslenitsyna — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:24:21 +0000

In reply to Paul Cotton. Hi Paul, thanks for bringing this up. At the moment we do not have a guide for Microsoft OneDrive but we will keep it in mind for the future!

By: Paul Cotton

Paul Cotton — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:00:22 +0000

Do you have similar instructions for data on Microsoft OneDrive?

/paulc

By: Dana E

Dana E — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:34:14 +0000

What a fantastic article! Straight to the point and completely clear. We need more journalists like you, God bless!

By: Nicole C Perry

Nicole C Perry — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:28:52 +0000

In reply to Nancy Zoufaly. Hi Nancy! We agree that the process can feel a bit tedious at first. Once you get through your initial download, we recommend scheduling periodic exports of your data (as mentioned above) so that the process becomes much easier for you in the future.

By: Nancy Zoufaly

Nancy Zoufaly — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 19:02:08 +0000

Hi apparently my GDrive at 200GB is considered high. After I went through the process as described above, it took Google two days to send the 37 links to me. I then had to download to my laptop drive, that did not have enough space so I was unable to download after file 21. I then started the long process of moving the zip files to an external drive, then delete the download file, then continued the process of downloading the google links again until. This seems to me to be a ridiculously long tedious process, am I doing something wrong? I am at this 3 days now. How can I shorten this up? Is there a way to download from Gdrive right to the external HD?

By: Nicole C Perry

Nicole C Perry — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 12:59:38 +0000

In reply to Chris. Hi Chris! Thank you for sharing your setup with us. We enjoy hearing the different ways people set up a 3, 2, 1 backup for themselves. If you find any interesting ways to back up your Gmail account while you are investigating, feel free to come back and share! And, if you try Backblaze, we would love to hear what you think. Thanks again!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:44:41 +0000

In reply to Chris. Oh, I should have mentioned: "files" include documents, pictures and music.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:35:10 +0000

In reply to Chris. I acknowledge the elephant in this backup scenario - no backup for my bulging Gmail account. Need to investigate.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 21:31:25 +0000

I have a small NAS and back up my important folders/files continually.
Each month, I have scheduled batch file runs which also XCOPY all those folders/files to another external USB harddrive. This drive is then disconnected and stored in a box at a friend’s place, 23km away. I pick up last month’s harddrive and connect that up ready for the next scheduled backup. So swapping offsite backup harddrives every month. Not a chore at all as my mate and I catch up regularly. Been a bit of an issue the last month due to the 5km Covid travel restriction, but we found a (legal) way to achieve this.
I also continually back up all these files/folders to Google Drive.
Overkill? Perhaps.
Thanks for the informative article, Nicole. I might take a look at BackBlaze too, to see if it offers an improvement to my process.