# Backup solution to free hosting provider

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-solution-to-free-hosting-provider/117994
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 17, 2019, 5:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-solution-to-free-hosting-provider/117994 "2019-05-17T05:21:26Z")
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### Author: ![dandv](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dandv/32/169779_2.png) [@dandv](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dandv)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-solution-to-free-hosting-provider/117994/8 "2019-07-01T20:48:31Z")

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> [@tomtjes](#):
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> I use [Rclone](https://rclone.org/) with a cron job to move my backups to a non-S3 destination. Might be an option for you?

Indeed, it was super easy to follow [this guide and setup rclone](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-sync-your-backups-to-cloud-storage-alternative-method/97294) for use with a shared Gmail/Google Drive account that our team shares access to. 15GB of storage is more than enough.

Using the `sync` rclone command means that only the current backups will be stored on Google Drive. this is actually a lot more convenient than the default/built-in AWS plugin, because that one didn’t delete the old backups, nor the log files, and I had to log into AWS and delete them manually now and then.

Note that you need to run `rclone cleanup` as well, before `rclone sync`, in order to clean up the Trash. Otherwise Google Drive may run out of space, because files in Trash still count against the quota.

[https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3395](https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3395)

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