This use-case came from one of our users (thanks, Bryce!) and we thought other people would find it useful. That's it! Your Google Docs have been successfully backed up to an external hard drive ?.Don't worry they guide you pretty well through it. Note: you'll have to fix some security settings before Carbon Copy Cloner backs up your files. Then set the Destination to be the location of your external hard drive. Set the Source to be the location of your Base Folder.
Open Carbon Copy Cleaner (or your preferred backup software). Agree to the trial, if necessary follow the instructions to give CCC full disk access. * The Base Folder is where all synced files are located locally.
You'll find the synced files in your Base Folder* already converted to Microsoft Word. Sync the Google Docs you want to backup.This will set all Google files to be automatically converted to Microsoft office when you sync them. Select Convert to Microsoft Office then click Apply.Open Insync and access the Conversion tab under Account Settings.
Let's go through how to backup your Google Docs step by step. Backup software (for this use-case we'll be using Carbon Copy Cloner for Mac).To start backing up your Google Docs, you'll need these three things: Loads of options are available and a bootable clone is also part of the. A detailed interface showing the set job(s). Carbon Copy Cloner is running all created jobs safe, easy and fast. With these limitations, you might think there's no real way to backup your Google Docs but we're here to tell you otherwise! In this video, I'm going to show you guys how to clone a file, a folder, or an entire drive using a application called Carbon Copy Cloner. Plus, you'll need internet access to edit it. It's not ideal to backup a synced Google Doc since it's only a link and doesn't contain the actual contents of your file. Opening a synced Google Doc in your file manager will open your browser and lead you to it in Google Docs. When you sync your Google Docs using Backup and Sync, it doesn't sync the actual file but rather it downloads a link to the file so you can access it online. Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets), then it's probably in your best interest to backup these files with Backup and Sync -Google's official sync app.īut there's one problem -Backup and Sync doesn't really backup your Google Docs. If you rely heavily on Google's productivity apps for work (e.g.