How to Sync Google Drive with OneDrive?

The modern world withstands entirely on records, and the data wholly found records. In fact, our entire existence is based on various data sources; moreover, institutional information is nothing but a stack of several databases.

Therefore, we do understand the significance of data in our lives, so now, for a moment, imagine losing all of that to some technical glitches. Even the thought of this major loss brings chills down your spine. Therefore it is evident for you to go to greater lengths to secure your data. And that’s where the cloud feature comes into the picture, our customary backup assistant.

Why Is Backup Important?

Now this question is self-explanatory, like we all know why backing up our data is essential, still let us just take a little time to appreciate how the arrival of backups has adorned our database management system.Data backups have assured data recovery, thereby reducing the chances of primary data loss and data failure by 80 percent.

The process of data recovery is exceptionally brilliant as it restores the data from the exact point of loss. Also, the process is extremely simple, which makes the data procurement process a cakewalk.

Now that we know how essential data backups are and how severely they have impacted our lives, then we must be aware of the most esteemed cloud drive: Google Drive. Ever since its launch in 1998, Google went on to conquer the world, and the rest is history. Even two decades later, Google hasn’t failed to bewitch us or enchant us through new updates and several other advancements, and Google Drive is just one of those enlisted Google achievements.

The Drive has driven people crazy, with its substantial expandable free data space of about 15 GB and backup and storage upgrade features that thankfully do not drill holes into your pockets. As we refer to Google, let us not forget the technical generosity Microsoft has been offering us for decades, our working days are incomplete without Microsoft, and so is our backup system. Like Google Drive, there exists another elite backup device you all must have heard of: OneDrive.

OneDrive is a wonder in the backup land due to its 5 GB free storage feature and the backup advancements it offers at relatively low costs.

These two backup devices are the vogue of the backup domain. In other words, they simply own the entire backup industry, but the two seem to have different applications, and paradoxically that’s what tends to cohere them. So, basically, all of us have a Google account as well as an OneDrive account and all because OneDrive seems to be suitable for personal backups. At the same time, Google Drive feels more like a professional platform, and thus, most of you use it as a professional backup tool.

This separation works fine until there comes the point that requires us to sync our personal files with professional data, and that’s where you think this can happen. So the answer is yes, it can happen, and it does happen.

Here we have explained to you the procedure of syncing your Google Drive with OneDrive through a series of different effective methods.

Method 1: The Fundamental Procedure Of Syncing Google Drive with OneDrive

Sign in to your Google account and open the Google Drive.
Scan your Google Drive for the file you wish to transfer to or synch with OneDrive.
Once you find the file, select it, and click the three buttons that appear on the right side of your Google Drive document.
You will observe a drop-down menu, from there, select the Download option.
Click the download button to download the file on your system successfully.
Once the file is downloaded, login to your OneDrive account.
Once the backup drive opens you will automatically be directed to the home page of the OneDrive backup tool, there you will observe a +New option, select it.
This option will allow you to add the newly downloaded Google Drive Document to your OneDrive account.

Also, we must caution you regarding this method. This method is not quite reliable as it depends on network quality, response time, and is useless for the transfer of large amounts of data.

Method 2: Notch Up The Sync Procedure Through Google Drive Takeout Feature

To everyone who has a perpetual business of data transfer and exports, Google Takeout is your miracle. It is one of the most exclusive features of Google that allows the user to export data from any platform to a system or a drive. To practice this invaluable resource, follow these simple steps:

Log in to the Google Takeout website through your Google account.
Choose the source that you find the most relevant for the data export.
Once you are through the source choice, click on the proceed to the next button.
After that, you will see a drop-down page with the option that includes ‘Add to OneDrive,’ choose that option.
Once you choose ‘Add To One-drive,’ scan the options for the ‘Link Account and Create Archive‘ option, simply select it.
Now sign in to your One-drive account, and you will observe that the data you exported through Google Takeout has been successfully updated over there.

This method prevails to be a tad bit better than the previous one as it exempts the user from unnecessary download and upload processes that engage themselves with a lot of time and Internet usage. But, it might be a step ahead of the previous synchronization technique. Yet, it has some downsides like the requirement of a strong network and uninterrupted Internet, and any mismanagement could lead to significant synchronization do-overs.

Method 3: Synching Google Drive with One-drive through MultCloud

This is the most efficient, and hence the prevalent method of data synchronization as this method runs on relatively low network speeds without any download/upload processes. To exercise this method, all you need to do is:

Create a free MultCloud account and then from the ‘Add Cloud’ button select the Google Drive option.
After this, repeat the above step also to add One-drive to your MultCloud account.
After this, click the ‘Cloud Sync‘ option, and from there, choose Google Drive as the source cloud and OneDrive as the destination cloud.

Wait for the synchronization process to end, and then you are good to use both the drives with updated syncs.