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07-13-2017, 10:38 AM
Google Drive's full system backup and sync tool is finally available
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Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage to backup an entire computer's system files.
The new Backup and Sync feature will let you use Drive to automatically store files that you've already saved on your computer's internal hard drive or other devices like memory cards in the same format.
So, instead of having to create an entirely new network of folders to keep your pic, docs, and more, the tool will simply recreate your desktop folder ecosystem directly in Drive. Great news for anyone that wants to backup a huge swath of folders.
The new functionality was first an**unced last month (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961478/google-releases-backup-and-sync-for-mac-and-*******) to much fanfare and then officially an**unced (https://www.blog.google/products/photos/introducing-backup-and-sync-google-photos-and-google-drive/) on June 28 before being delayed for reasons undisclosed. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/12/google-backup-and-sync-release/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage to backup an entire computer's system files.
The new Backup and Sync feature will let you use Drive to automatically store files that you've already saved on your computer's internal hard drive or other devices like memory cards in the same format.
So, instead of having to create an entirely new network of folders to keep your pic, docs, and more, the tool will simply recreate your desktop folder ecosystem directly in Drive. Great news for anyone that wants to backup a huge swath of folders.
The new functionality was first an**unced last month (https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961478/google-releases-backup-and-sync-for-mac-and-*******) to much fanfare and then officially an**unced (https://www.blog.google/products/photos/introducing-backup-and-sync-google-photos-and-google-drive/) on June 28 before being delayed for reasons undisclosed. * Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/12/google-backup-and-sync-release/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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