How do I back up the data in my Google Drive using Cloud Sync?

How do I back up the data in my Google Drive using Cloud Sync?

Purpose

Cloud Sync allows you to back up your data in real-time and provides options for data encryption, minimizing the impact of sudden disasters and keeping your data secure. This article guides you through backing up your Google Drive data to your Synology NAS by using Cloud Sync.

Environment

  • Your Synology NAS is running DSM 6.0 or above.
  • Cloud Sync is installed on your Synology NAS. For more information on how to install packages, refer to this help article.

Resolution

Back up data to your Synology NAS

  1. Open Cloud Sync and choose a cloud provider of your choice. In this tutorial we will use Google Drive. Click Next.
  2. Log into Google Drive and allow Cloud Sync access to your account.
  3. Once the connection has been established, you can begin configuring your backup.
  4. There are two ways that you can back up your Google Drive to your Synology NAS:
    • You can back up your entire Google Drive to a local folder by selecting the Root folder as the Remote path. In this case there will be only one sync task for this connection.
    • You can also choose both local and remote folders to keep synced. If you want to do this, you can create a second sync task later.
  5. Now you can set a Sync direction. Since you are backing up your Google Drive to your Synology NAS, select Download remote changes only.
  6. If you want your Google online documents to be backed up into locally accessible formats, tick Convert Google online documents to Microsoft Office or jpeg formats.
  7. To ensure that files that may have accidentally been removed on the public cloud will still be backed up on your NAS, tick Don't remove files in the destination folder when they are removed in the source folder.
  8. Once you have finished configuring your backup, click Next.
  9. Click Advanced Settings if you want to configure selective sync to filter unwanted folders, file types, or sizes. Doing this helps you use your storage more efficiently on the public cloud. Click OK when done.
  10. Review your settings and click Apply to finish creating your backup task.
  11. Your back up task has now been set up.
  12. In the Task list tab, you can click Create and repeat the above steps to add a second pair of folders to sync in this connection.
  13. You can now monitor the progress from the Cloud Sync system tray. Whenever a new file is added to your Google Drive, it will be automatically fetched from the cloud.

Notes:

    • Cloud Sync does not support syncing files in Google Drive Shared with meComputers, and Shortcuts.
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