How use Google Drive to do Backups with Time Machine?

Unfortunately 'Time Machine' does not offer the ability to backup your data to any cloud service that I am aware as of the date of this post. Your best bet is to purchase a third party application, almost all of the good ones offer the ability to back up your data to a cloud based service.

Since your posting here I can safely assume your on a Mac so I would recommend you get a copy of ChronoSync from Econ Technologies (Life time upgrades as of this post), or Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software; both are excellent applications for synchronizing and archiving your data to a cloud service.

IMPORTANT NOTE: encrypt your data whenever you store it to the cloud.

Try using a clone.

Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner (Often recommended as it has more features than some others)

Clone – Data Backup

Clone – Deja Vu

Clone - SuperDuper

Clone - Synk

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I don't trust any "Cloud" or offsite network storage systems.

Local backups are much better, more reliable and much easier to access in case is of data issues or problems.

Purchase a large storage external hard drive and proceed as Eric Root has suggested to do.

If you are storing data for your company, it may, also, be best to purchase a second large storage external hard drive as a second, redundant backup, as well.

Also I think that backing up your computer with Time Machine to Google Drive would be very slow.

I did this once in a way by getting my Mac to back-up to my Time Capsule over the Internet and it was too slow, which is why Apple doesn't really allow for it. Doing a back-up is slow enough on my local network, especially the initial one.

And I agree with @MichelPM, I would not trust uploading your data to the cloud, especially Google's. You just don't know who else will get access to it. The other thing is that you are going to be chewing up a lot of bandwidth to be doing this, something the person paying your work's Internet bills might not appreciate. Especially if your office's plan has a cap of some sort.

Drives are cheap, get a big one, store it in a fireproof box that is mounted to the floor or something and you are good as golden.

Cheers, Andrew.

I know this is old, but I have a MacBook air I want to back up to and not have to lug around a hard drive.

I just read/write speed tested backing up to google drive (on top) vs. my thunderbolt drive (below). The speeds aren't even close. something is either:

A. wrong with my seagate thunderbolt drive

B. wrong with the disk speed test software

C. or Google Drive with native client and my ISP just outperforms it. (unlikely)

Use ChronoSynch - one of the best on the market