![]() ![]() No company files were lost because they were stored in Google Drive. True story: Just last week one of my colleagues’ laptops overheated to the point the plastic melted. Because you can access them anywhere that you have an Internet connection, and if your personal computer decides to spontaneously combust, there’s no worry about recovering your files. Clearly there are huge benefits to having your files Cloud-based. Questions? Just let Chris know via Comments and we’ll get our resident geeku to help you get organized using Google products. Part 2: Make Google Drive Your New File Management System Part 1: Google Docs and Drive: What to Love About Them His suggestions on how to get more done with Google Docs and Google Drive are in this 3-part series: You can read more about it in our tutorial.Chris Winans is an organizational geek and guru (a geeku?). Once the backup is completed, you can use Filezilla or any other FTP client to check that the files were uploaded properly.Ĭongratulations! You are now able to backup your important files on Google Drive using our application on your Linux system.įor these two OS, we recommend you to use Duplicati. If you are backing up sensitive data, we strongly recommend you to password-protect your backup, but make sure you keep track of your password. If all is successful you will be granted the option to require a password when restoring your backup. If you carried all the prior steps correctly, you should see a new window in which you are asked to input your password in order to connect to the server. Make your the Google Drive FTP Adapter application is up and running when you try to create the backup. Once we are all set, we need to activate the automatic backup of files. We also need to specify the folders we want to save, for instance, let’s say a folder called “Important files”. Regarding the folder, we could, for instance, create a folder named “backup” in our Google Drive and specify the route, like in this example. We choose FTP as storage location, localhost as server and then we specify the port we use in the Google Drive FTP Adapter application. Once all is up and ready, click on the “Storage location” tab, where you will be shown a few text fields and selectors so that you can set up your backup location. You should see a result with this icon:ĭepending on the status of your system you will need to install some software, as shown in a window like this one: Open the search window of your system and type “backups”. In this section we are going to learn how to create backups of our files and store them into google drive by using the Google Drive FTP Adapter. ![]() OK, now we are all set and we can start transferring files using the client. The advantage of this last procedure is that, you can press the small black arrow next to the “Mysites” button to display and select your configured sites, making it a bit easier. ![]() If there are no errors, you shall see your Google Drive files and folders at filezilla. This will prompt a new window where we can add a new site and configure it like we did before. For this purpose, in Filezilla’s main window, we open the site manager, clicking at the first button of the toolbar, just like in this image: This can be solved by configuring a profile on filezilla. However, this will only work for a quick connection and the settings will be lost the next time we run Filezilla. Then we can click the Quickconnect and… Voilà! The contents of our Google Drive will appear on Filezilla. We need to provide host, user, password and port as done in the following image: Once we have Filezilla up and running, we need to give it the settings we used in the Google Drive FTP application. If you do not have a working version of Filezilla at your system, you can obtain it here ().
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