# Microsoft OneDrive: External backup storage
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244 "2016-10-07T19:34:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244/1 "2016-10-07T19:34:09Z")
### 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:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244/2 "2016-10-09T18:36:06Z")
Should’t this be called Microsoft OneDrive instead of Azure?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244/3 "2016-10-10T11:18:10Z")
Probably more accurate. I just ripped a lot of these alternative service ideas straight from the feature list of [BackWPup](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/) and there it says “Microsoft Azure” 😛 Probably a legacy thing
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244/4 "2017-08-21T13:22:45Z")
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, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/microsoft-onedrive-external-backup-storage/51244/5 "2017-08-21T13:22:49Z")