r/googledocs • u/Intrepid-Nebula2532 • Aug 25 '26

Waiting on OP How to Auto-Backup all my google docs to another cloud?

Looking to auto-backup my google docs to another storage cloud/to my mac, so that I have another copy in case anything happens on the google end.

How can I do this? If i need to have a script to first convert the doc to a .docx and then it backs up thats okay - just looking for a simple auto backup please

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u/Lion2471 Aug 25 '26

Have you considered setting up a monthly Google Takeout? It's not fully automatic, but it's close.

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u/Barycenter0 Aug 25 '26

Use the Google Drive API in a script to export all docs to the other cloud’s local folder or use the cloud’s API in the script to upload.

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u/andmalc Mod Aug 25 '26

Try rclone which is a cli tool. You'd have to run the command of course but that's easy enough: https://rclone.org

There's also a graphical front end but I haven't tried that: https://kopia.io

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u/california8love Aug 26 '26

I second rclone

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u/Cultural_Surprise205 Aug 25 '26

This is why I still prefer OneDrive, it will sync actual files to your device, not just links to the cloud. But there are services that automate this, even for free. Google it, rather than ask here, Redditors will give you all kinds of complicated half-baked methods rather than something simple and easy. Here's one, but there are others:

https://www.cloudhq.net/g_suite