Surely many of you have your own Google account to, for example, use their email service, Gmail. In addition, this account gives us access to many other utilities and platforms such as the one mentioned for the remote storage. Whether free of charge or, if we need a larger amount of space, paying, we are sure to store a lot of important and personal data here.
Hence the importance of Create a backup from time to time in case at a certain time we have problems with our Google account or Drive. Perhaps this is especially relevant in the event that we make professional use of that remote space that we have on Google’s servers. It is possible that here we store documents, photos and videos of our work that we cannot lose under any circumstances.
It is for this reason that below we will show you the easiest way to make a complete backup of everything we have. saved to Google Drive. In fact, we are going to use another of the platforms that the search giant provides us and that makes these tasks easier for us. Specifically, we refer to the platform owned by the firm, Takeout.
Use Google Takeout to take care of your Drive data
Initially, to carry out the tasks that we mentioned about backing up our data in the cloud, we must access Google Takeout from this link. Here we are going to find the possibility of downloading data from a multitude of services from the search giant, although the one that interests us in this specific case is Drive.
Precisely for this reason, the first thing we will do is click on the link that says Uncheck all, to make the backup only from Google Drive.
At that moment we will have to locate the entrance corresponding to the service of cloud storage of the signature. Here we can customize different parameters regarding the backup that we are about to make. This means that we can establish the formats in which we want to save the different types of files, including, or not, the additional information of the files, or the data that we need to be added to the backup.
Once the process is configured as such, at the bottom of the Takeout website we click on the Next step button. Now we will have the possibility of set a file format compressed file that we are going to receive, as well as automating the backup process so that it is carried out every two months, for example.
All we have to do is click on Create export to start the backup and save the resulting file. If we have a problem with Google Drive, we will have another copy of all our files and folders here.