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Overview of Google Drive and Synology

Google Drive
Google Drive

Google Drive is one of the most excellent and well-known cloud storage services, helping users store different types of data like photos, videos, files, etc. With 15GB of free storage space, users can stash a considerable number of files on Google Drive. Meanwhile, Google Drive makes it easier to collaborate with colleagues and share files with friends.

NAS
NAS

Synology NAS is a professional cloud service that allows home users and businesses to store and manage data effectively. With Synology NAS, users can back up files from PC, Mac, Android and iOS devices automatically. In this way, you can access data from different devices without limitations of time and place.

Both Google Drive and Synology NAS have their own merits and have taken convenience to users. Thus, most users utilize these two clouds at the same time to save different data.

Why Backup Google Drive to Synology?

Google Drive offers brilliant features for both individuals and businesses. Yet, many users still tend to backup data from Google Drive to another cloud for data security. Although Google Drive works well at most cases, the problems of “Google Drive upload failed”, “Google Drive lost files” exist, which means you should care more about your data security.

While Synology NAS is a professional and dedicated storage server, aiming to help different customers deal with a number of data in a comprehensive ecosystem. It’s advisable to backup from Google Drive to Synology NAS for the following reasons:

  • Users can access Synology NAS directly via various devices such as USB, IR Remote, Thunderbolt, and HDMI. Whereas users can only access Google Drive when the internet is available.
  • Users are allowed to create countless users on Synology NAS, and each user has its own login details. One Google account, on the other hand, can only generate one Google Drive account.
  • Google Drive has tiered its subscription packages, which means users can only enjoy 30%, 50% or 80% of the features depending on their plans of subscription. Contrastingly, Synology NAS will give you all the features at once after you buy this service.

Seems cost-effective to backup data from Google Drive to Synology NAS, right? Then, read the following content, and you will learn 3 useful solutions to achieve this task easily.

How to Backup Google Drive to Synology Simply

Google Drive doesn’t offer the feature of direct data backup across clouds. Thus, the best way to backup Google Drive to NAS is to ask a third-party service, MultCloud, for help.

MultCloud
MultCloud

MultCloud is an outstanding and FREE cloud to cloud backup service that allows users to backup and manage multiple cloud drives in only one place with one login. There’re many major clouds that MultCloud supports, including Google Drive, Synology NAS, Google Photos, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, pCloud, MEGA, Flickr, Amazon S3 and so on.

There’re some advantages of using MultCloud to backup Google Drive to Synology NAS:

  • Unlimited Devices Per Account. As a web-based service, MultCloud supports different devices such as Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS phones. And you can log in to your account to different devices at the same time.
  • Fast Backup Speeds. MultCloud offers leading backup speed in the industry, aiming to achieve the backup tasks in a quick and easy way.
  • Various Backup Options. You can enjoy the Offline Backup, Scheduled Backup (Auto Backup) according to your own situation, which can bring much convenience and save lots of time.
  • Restore Certain Data Easily. MultCloud provides users the Version feature, which means you can choose to recover certain data. In this way, you don’t need to worry about data loss anymore.

Now, you can follow the content below to learn the step-by-step operations to backup Google Drive to Synology with MultCloud.

Step 1: Register a MultCloud account for free. Or, you can hit “Try without signing up” to create a temporary one.

Sign Up
Sign Up

Step 2: Press Add Cloud on the left sidebar, then add Google Drive and Synology NAS and grant MultCloud access.

Add Google Drive and NAS
Add Google Drive and NAS

Step 3: Head to Cloud Backup, and select Google Drive as the source directory and Synology NAS as the target directory. Finally, click Backup Now.

Backup Google Drive to NAS
Backup Google Drive to NAS

After those 3 steps above, you can achieve the backup task from Google Drive to Synology NAS without any effort. Similarly, if you want to backup Synology NAS to Google Drive, then you need to select Synology NAS as the source directory and Google Drive as the target directory. 

If your source data is missing somehow, you can recover the data after backing up from one cloud to another with MultCloud. Here’s how to restore data with MultCloud:

Firstly, you can go to Task List on the left side, then locate the backup task.

Next, click the 3-parallel-lines icon to select the Restore button.

Restore
Restore

Then, select the restore options respectively. After that, click Next.

Restore Options
Restore Options

Finally, choose where to store your recovered data.

Where to Restore
Where to Restore

See, easy and efficient to restore data after backing up between clouds with MultCloud, right?

Note: MultCloud also allows users to transfer files between clouds efficiently with the Cloud Transfer feature. For example, if you want to transfer files from Dropbox to Box, you can use this feature.

How to Backup Google Drive to Synology Manually

As a matter of fact, Synology NAS offers a special application called Synology Cloud Sync for users to sync data from one cloud to Synology NAS and vice versa. Thus, you can utilize this feature to back up from Google Drive to Synology NAS. Now, let’s figure out how to use it:

Step 1: Sign in to your Synology NAS on the web, and go to Package Center. If you don’t install Cloud Sync, you need to search and then install it. If you’ve already installed it, you need to open it directly.
Step 2: Click the + icon on the left lower side. Then select Google Drive and grant Synology NAS access. At last, press the Next button.

Click Google Drive
Click Google Drive

Step 3: Fill in the boxes according to your needs.

  • Connection name: You can rename it anyway.
  • Local path: choose a folder on Synology NAS to store the data from Google Drive.
  • Remote path: choose the folder on Google Drive that you want to sync to Synology NAS.
  • Sync direction: Since you want to sync Google Drive to Synology NAS, you need to select the Download remote changes only tab.

After those steps, you can hit the Next tab. Then data from Google Drive will be synced to Synology NAS quickly.

Task Setting
Task Setting

Note: Although this service makes syncing data from one cloud to Synology NAS easier, it only creates a copy on Synology NAS instead of a backup. However, if both Google Drive and Synology NAS lose the data, it’s tough to restore.

In the End

After reading this post, you now can backup Google Drive to Synology by using Synology Cloud Sync or MultCloud. Anyway, both services can make a copy of the data from Google Drive. The biggest difference is that you can restore data easily with MultCloud. While Synology Cloud Sync doesn’t offer that feature.

As for MultCloud, in addition to Cloud Backup, this service also offers other advanced features such as Cloud Sync, which is a little similar to Synology Cloud Sync and it is much more excellent than Synology Cloud Sync. The Cloud Sync feature of MultCloud allows you to sync data across clouds directly. For example, if you want to sync OneDrive to NAS, this function can make it easily.

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