Windows Server 2012 R2 & Google Drive Together

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As the subject suggests, this is a question regarding Google Drive working within the Server 2012 cloud backup environment.

I have read that this 'newer' version of Windows Server now has an embedded solution for cloud backup, but being Microsoft it is primarily in use with One Drive. However, as a business, we have Google apps for business running all the emails side of things, therefore I would like to get Windows Server to run Google Drive as the primary cloud backup location.

Has anyone successfully managed to do this, or have any idea how I would go about doing this?

Thanks!
 
Not sure to be honest with you. Never seen a configuration like it.

There are downsides though:
If they are all on the local network then instead of using your internal network you'd be using Google drives via the Internet on local machine which would use WAN bandwidth and much slower. Unless you can somehow tell Google Drive to sync with the local network too which I don't think is possible using their app.

If you are setting up Google drive on a folder, then sharing it out to the local network via local network share then you run into problems with either losing connectivity with the local network or being away from the said network. This would limit the application.

If you have individual laptops and the server setup with Google drive then it becomes messy and complex.

I did come across something which sounds similar to what you want http://www.backup4all.com/kb/backup-to-google-drive.html however that is only as a guess as the Windows Backup tool is rather limited.

Best bet would be to try and plan out how to use Google Drive data along side the server rather than in it. i.e. have it deployed as the Google Cloud client, then have volume shadow copy setup with a large cache which would be completely independent. The only case where it comes viable is either if the account gets compromised, data deleted then you could quickly restore via volume shadow copy or as disaster recovery if Google Apps ever goes down.

There could be other ways but can't think of any practical ones off hand.
 
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