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On the Web, Google Drive is mostly used as a competitor to Microsoft Office. You get apps for word processing, spreadsheets, and slides. On a desktop computer, the Drive app takes on a different ...

Google's Backup and Sync app will let you save your entire system to Drive. Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage ...

In line with earlier reports Google has kept its promise of a standalone backup tool and has launched the “Backup and Sync from Google.” The purpose of this tool is to ease the backup process. Apart ...

As promised last month, Google has today launched its new “Backup and Sync from Google” tool, which aims to help users more easily back up the files and photos on their computer. The utility is meant ...

Do you backup your files and photos on a regular basis? Most of us know that we should be backing up our data, but for one reason or another—usually the inconvenience of it all—we don't. That is like ...

Google wants to be better at backing up your computer’s files. While the company already offers a Drive folder that can be installed on your computer, Google has now officially launched a new way to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. Google Drive and Google Photos are fantastic services. They let you take ...

After a brief delay last month, Google’s Backup and Sync desktop app for Mac is now available for download. With this revamped client, only one application is needed to back up files on a desktop to ...

Google currently has separate desktop clients to back up files and images to Drive and Photos, respectively. With the upcoming Backup and Sync from Google for Mac/PC, the company is replacing the ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Google is turning Drive into a much more robust backup tool. Soon, instead of ...

Google has announced that it intends to unify its Google Drive solutions for keeping files in sync on users' desktops. Currently there are two desktop sync solutions for using Google Drive – Drive ...