# Google Drive: External backup storage
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-drive-external-backup-storage/51243
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-drive-external-backup-storage/51243 "2016-10-07T19:33:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-drive-external-backup-storage/51243/1 "2016-10-07T19:33:14Z")
### Alternative service to:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-backups-to-dropbox/51176](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-backups-to-dropbox/51176)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-drive-external-backup-storage/51243/2 "2017-08-21T13:21:41Z")
Completed:
> [@Synchronizer-base for any backup provider](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-plugins-for-backups/68018):
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> warning The discourse-sync-base plugin is currently working only with the discourse-sync-to-dropbox and discourse-sync-to-googledrive plugins. warning We built new plugins for making a backup to a provider of your choice. All of our plugins follow the same structure and need to be installed together with a [synchronizer-base](https://github.com/berlindiamonds/discourse-sync-base) plugin. [plugins] The discourse-sync-base This plugin contains the base class for all other synchronizers. This way we made sure that our other synchronizer plugins…
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 1:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-drive-external-backup-storage/51243/3 "2017-08-21T13:21:46Z")