Back up Files and GDrive


 

It’s time to clean up your drives! 
Here are a few best practices and tools to help you.

Student/Staff Drives:
It is a good idea to backup all files on your school based drives! We need to delete all files on "shared" drives and save to a flash drive. Tech services will be updating and refreshing our drives, so make sure you have important documents saved!

Google Takeout:
Go to: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout

To create an archive of all files on up to 16 different Google products including Drive. This process is free and very simple to save on a flash drive. 

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