Keeping backups on the same server as your website is risky. If the server experiences a hardware failure, both your site and your backups are lost! Connecting Plesk to your Google Drive provides free, secure, off-site storage.
Configuring the Google Drive Backup Extension
- Go to Websites & Domains > Backup Manager.
- Click on Remote Storage Settings.
- Click on Google Drive Backup (you may need to install the extension first if it's not present).
- You will be redirected to log into your Google Account. Follow the prompts and click Allow to grant Plesk permission to manage a folder in your Google Drive.
- A specific folder named "My Plesk" will be created automatically in your Google Drive.
Scheduling Automatically to Google Drive
- Back in the Backup Manager, click Schedule.
- Check the box to Activate this backup task.
- Set it to run Daily or Weekly.
- Under Store in, select your newly configured "Google Drive".
- Crucial Step: Check the box for Maximum number of full backup files to store and set it to 3 or 5. If you do not set this limit, Plesk will keep taking backups until your Google Drive completely runs out of space!
- Click OK.
Sleep easy knowing your data is automatically being backed up to the cloud!
