- Jul 3, 2015
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A small organisation keeps most of their important data in Google Apps, especially Google Docs and Google Sheets. They want a backup. What's the best way to do it?
Common sense says to install Google Drive desktop on one of the computers, and back up from that to an external hard drive. But it's not so simple, because with files in the proprietary Google formats, Google Drive desktop does not download the actual file. It downloads a link to the file. That's the rub.
Common sense says to install Google Drive desktop on one of the computers, and back up from that to an external hard drive. But it's not so simple, because with files in the proprietary Google formats, Google Drive desktop does not download the actual file. It downloads a link to the file. That's the rub.