Starting in May, all new computers will be delivered with the Backup and Sync utility. How do I get started with Backup and Sync? Syncing Drive files to your local computer Seamless, automatic backup in the background of files that are added, deleted, or modifiedĪccessing backed up files through Drive from anywhere you have a computer and an Internet connection Some of the benefits of using Backup and Sync include:Ĭhoosing exactly what folders get backed up Files of all sorts can be backed up to Drive without worry of running out of disk space. As an education customer of Google, SUNY Oswego has unlimited data storage in Google Drive. Google’s Backup and Sync utility for both Mac and PC computers allows a seamless way for data to be backed up to Google Drive. In an effort to prevent this from happening in the future, CTS is introducing a recommended backup solution for faculty and staff college data. We then resort to the experts to try to retrieve as much as possible, crossing our fingers we haven’t lost years worth of work. We had good intentions, but just never fully committed. As we try everything to get it to function, a panic sets in as we think about all of the data on the computer that we didn’t back up.

Almost everyone at some point has experienced the dreaded hardware failure where their computer no longer boots.

Google drive backup and sync computer