Does this plugin have the ability to save to external drive?

  • Resolved trillium2

    (@trillium2)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    I usually go to the hosting site and download the backups from there to an external hard drive but wanted to try an easier way. I just installed your free version and see you have Cloud options but I don’t see an external drive option. Does the premium version offer this?

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  • Plugin Contributor aporter

    (@aporter)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    The plugin itself does not backup to an external drive, it will backup locally to the server it is hosted on or if you connect UpdraftPlus to remote storage(recommended) then it will upload your backups to that service (e.g Dropbox).

    As a solution you can connect UpdraftPlus to a remote service like Dropbox and then on your computer download the Dropbox client which will sync a folder on your computer (external drive) to your remote storage (where your backups will be stored)

    If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to ask.

    Best Wishes,

    Ashley

    Thread Starter trillium2

    (@trillium2)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    I am not a fan of Dropbox at all. When I tried to ask their chat a simple question about their paid cloud services the gal wouldn’t answer it until I gave ALL my personal info to her. When I gave my free account name with them she just gives me a FAQ link and ends the chat! WOW! I even let DB know and never heard back so double WOW. I also have read people are not happy with them. Triple WOW. I contacted other cloud companies but got the same high pressure sales vibe with them. The days of hey here is a free account and we are so nice and friendly has turned into some hard sales tactics and maybe the competition is stiff now. But I had cash in hand for a paid account and got the biggest turn off possible. That is why I bought my WD Passports and decide the cloud is just an awful way to go. Plus like what happened to the east coast yesterday these cloud service can go down in a big way and we have yet to hear why from Amazon what happened. You would think they would have said something. I just tried to set up my Google Drive since only other option from what I can tell beside email which will not work. I could download from Google Drive to external drive so there is a way? Your screen shots are out of date for setting up Google Drive. I then think I was able to set it up and I see a possible new file in Credentials that could be a backup but not sure. How do you know? I then get an error from Google which disappears which also concerns me this is not working or set up right.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by trillium2.
    Plugin Contributor aporter

    (@aporter)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    Yes you can do my suggested solution above with Google Drive same thing just you connect with Google Drive and download their client.

    I see you have opened up another support request here:

    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/400-error-redirect_uri_mismatch/

    I will reply to that one above for that issue and help you resolve it, if you could mark this one as resolved.

    Or if you have further questions please dont hesitate to ask

    Best Wishes,

    Ashley

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