One-way sync is possible with Google Drive. You will learn how to achieve Google Drive one-way sync in this article with 3 different tools. Please read on and learn the detailed steps.
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/ Last Updated January 12, 2021
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Get StartedPart 1. Set up Google Drive one-way sync from local to cloud
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As you may know, file synchronization is the process of making sure that two or more locations contain the same, current files. Actually, file synchronization also has different types. The most common types are one-way sync and two-way sync.
To put it simply, one-way sync means that files are copied only from source to a target in one direction, but no files are ever copied back to the primary location. In a two-way type of sync, files get copied in both directions. Both locations get synchronized with each other. This way, in the event of a failure, you can still access your documents via another machine.
As one of the most popular cloud storage around the world, most users should all be familiar with Google Drive. To help users back up files to its cloud, Google Drive offers many uploading tools such as web app, desktop app, mobile app and so on.
Generally, the web app only allows users to select and upload files manually. If you want to sync files to OneDrive automatically, you should set up Google Drive desktop app – Google Backup and Sync on your computer to sync your local files or folders.
As the name suggests, Google Backup and Sync is an automatic file sync and backup tool for Google Drive. The sync mode of Google Backup and Sync is two-way sync. After setting, Backup and Sync will sync the folders that you selected to Google Drive cloud automatically, and the files in Google Drive folder also will be synced to local.
If you want Google Drive sync files just in one-way mode, you can learn how to set up Google Drive one-way sync from local to cloud with different sync tools in the following contents. Please read on to learn the detailed information.
As mentioned above, you can rely on an automatic file sync tool to set up Google Drive sync in one-way mode. Here, we will take the official sync tool of Google Drive - Backup and Sync and a free third-party tool – AOMEI Backupper Standard as an example to show you how to set up Google Drive one-way sync from local to the cloud.
1. Download and install Backup and Sync from Microsoft's official website to your computer and install it.
2. Sign in to your Google Account. Then, you will be given the general introduction of this application.
3. On the next screen, the app will prompt you to choose which folders you want to sync to Google Drive. Click “Choose Folder” to select the folder. Make your selection and hit “Next”.
4. On the last screen, there is a box next to “Sync My Drive to this computer”. Don’t tick the box if you don’t want to reverse sync your existing Drive files on your computer.
5. Finally, select “SRART” and let Google Drive sync one-way only.
AOMEI Backupper Standard is a professional backup freeware for Windows PC and laptops. With its File Sync feature, you can set up one-way sync to Google Drive automatically and easily as long as you install the desktop app of the cloud drives on your computer. Besides Google Drive, it also supports many other mainstream cloud drives including Amazon Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.
1. Download and install Backup and Sync on your computer.
2. Download AOMEI Backupper Standard, install and launch it.
3. Open AOMEI Backupper Standard and click “Backup” and “File Sync” subsequently.
4. Edit the task name if necessary. Click "Add Folder" to select the folders you’d like to sync to Google Drive.
5. Click the drop-down menu, tap on “Select a cloud drive” and choose Google Drive in the next windows and click OK to exit this window. Then, click “Start Sync”.
Google Drive only syncing one way is not only for local to cloud, but also cloud to cloud. You can also set up one-way sync to sync files from other cloud storage to Google Drive. Since Google doesn't offer such a tool to help your sync files between Google Drive accounts or different cloud storage directly, you can rely on a third-party tool like CBackupper to achieve that easily. Let’s see how to do it with the free cloud to cloud sync tool - CBackupper.
1. Get started with CBackupper. Create a CBackupper account for free and sign in.
2. Navigate to the Clouds tab, click "Add Clouds" at the bottom of My Clouds, select "OneDrive" and click "OK" to add this drive. You can add OneDrive accounts as many as you have.
3. After adding, click "Sync Tasks" and then click the "New Task" button in the middle of the page.
4. Name your backup task, click the "Add Source" button to add one OneDrive account as the sync source. You can choose individual folders on OneDrive as the backup source.
5. Click "Add Destination" to add another OneDrive account and then click "Start Sync" to execute your sync task.
If users sync their files to Google Drive for safekeeping with the free Google Drive account, the 15 GB of free storage space would be run out of quickly. If you are not interested in the benefits provided by Google one but need more storage for Drive, you can turn to another cloud backup service like CBackupper with large space and more reasonable plans.
The PC cloud backup service of CBackupper allows you to backup PC files to its AOMEI Cloud and supports you restore the backups from AOMEI Cloud at any time. Meanwhile, it offers 1000 GB space for $6.00 per month only and provides each register with a 15-day free trial. ItIf you need to do a temporary PC cloud backup or plan to move data between PCs, it is a great choice.
Let's see how to backup PC files to AOMEI Cloud with CBackupper:
1. Download and install it on your computer. Run it and sign up.
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2. After logging in, click on the "Task" tab and click on the "New Task" button.
3. Click on "Add Source" to select the PC files that you want to backup to AOMEI Cloud. After selecting, click "Start Backup".
You can follow the steps to set up Google Drive one-way sync with different tools. No matter you need to sync files from local to Google Drive in one-way sync mode or from another cloud to Google Drive in one-way sync mode, you can find useful free tools in the contents above. Some of the tools are totally free, why not give it a try?
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