{"id":46157,"date":"2017-09-19T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/?p=46157"},"modified":"2017-09-19T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T18:00:33","slug":"google-drive-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devel.www.cpanel.net\/blog\/products\/google-drive-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Server Backups Just Got More Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Send Your Server Backups to Google Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You requested and we\u2019ve delivered. Striking the number 4 most requested feature off of our to do list, we\u2019ve made backing up your websites more versatile and more powerful than ever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now in version 66 of cPanel &amp; WHM, hosting providers can back up their websites to Google Drive. No more taking up space on your local machine, this update allows system administrators to use 15 gigs of free Google Drive cloud storage to remotely store their data and access it from anywhere in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re pretty excited to deliver a highly requested feature that\u2019s going to be saving people money,\u201d says Koree Smith, a cPanel Product Owner. \u201cWe chose to use Google Drive for remote backups because of its speed \u2014 but it&#8217;s only the first step in a series of really exciting updates we\u2019re making to the backup process.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gdrive-backup.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As with many of our highly requested features, cPanel enthusiasts had already been creating work arounds and hacks to sync and backup their data to Google Drive. Now, all system administrators have to do to start using <a href=\"https:\/\/documentation.cpanel.net\/display\/66Docs\/Google+Drive\">Google Drive as a remote backup destination<\/a>\u00a0is to set up the Google Drive API for your Google account, create account credentials, then head to WHM to create a transport. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Minimum Free Disk Space Update<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also included in our backup updates are our enhancements to the minimum free disk space. New installs of cPanel will check for a minimum 5% of free disk space before allowing backups on your machine by default. Users can adjust the minimum allowance by percentage of space, megabytes, or choose to completely disable this feature altogether. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cpanel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/upload.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allotted disk space for backups can save a lot of headaches down the line so head to <em>Backup Configs<\/em> in WHM and make sure the <em>Enabled\u00a0<\/em>box is checked under the <em>Minimum Free Disk Space Check<\/em> section.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Send Your Server Backups to Google Drive You requested and we\u2019ve delivered. Striking the number 4 most requested feature off of our to do list, we\u2019ve made backing up your websites more versatile and more powerful than ever. 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