How to Backup Files to Different Clouds with Best Freeware
Quick Navigation:
- About cloud storage service
- Why backup files to cloud?
- Best free software for cloud backup - Qiling Disk Master
- How to backup files to cloud automatically
- Conclusion
About cloud storage service
Cloud storage service is more and more popular for users to store data. It does not need the extra hard drive so that you can free a lot of space on your computer. It only needs you to create a cloud account and keep it online. There are many cloud storage services you can use, and here we highly recommend Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon Drive, and OneDrive to you, for you can download and install their desktop applications to local drive and use them more conveniently.
Why backup files to cloud?
Most computer users do not make a backup for their data. Thus, when some bad things happen, they lose their important files, and then, regret that they did not back them up before. Owing to so many cases of losing data, more and more users realize the importance of file backup.
For a long time, users backup data to a local hard drive, backup to an external hard drive like a USB flash drive, or backup to NAS. It is hard to say that backing up files to cloud is a wise way, but online backup is a real alternative to local backups.
Best free software for cloud backup - Qiling Disk Master
In order to backup computer to cloud, you need to download and install a cloud drive application to your local drive, and then, input your cloud account to log in. If you do not have one, you can create an account by signing up. Then, use reliable file backup software to backup files to cloud.
Speaking of file backup software, Qiling Disk Master is a professional file backup service that helps you backup flies to cloud for free. You can operate it effortlessly with its easy-to-use interface. You may benefit a lot from its following features:
- Various cloud clients: It supports various cloud clients including Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, SugarSync, hubiC and Cloudme. It also supports most NAS devices so you can sync local folders to Synology.
- Auto backup files to cloud: It allows you to auto backup files to cloud with the “Schedule” feature.
- All Windows PC systems: It is compatible with all Windows PC operating systems (Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP, 32 bit and 64 bit).
Please download Qiling Disk Master Standard for free and install it.
How to backup files to cloud automatically
How to sync files to cloud for free? We will backup files to OneDrive for example.
Before backup files to cloud, Please download OneDrive desktop application, install and sign in to your account. Then, follow the steps below to backup files to cloud automatically.
Step 1. Launch the free backup software - Qiling Disk Master Standard. Select Basic Sync under the Sync tab.
Step 2. Select Folders or Files to add the folders you want to backup to cloud.
Step 3. Select the cloud (OneDrive) as destination: tap the triangle icon and Select a cloud drive, choose OneDrive and click OK.
Step 4. Click Schedule Sync > Enable Schedule Sync > Daily/Weekly/Monthly, and click OK.
★ Tip: The Event triggers and USB plug in in Schedule settings are available in Qiling Disk Master Professional or higher. Please upgrade to enjoy.
Step 5. Press Proceed > Add the schedule and Proceed now to backup files to cloud (OneDrive) automatically on regular basis. When the progress reaches 100%, click Finish to exit.
★ Note: If you do not want to backup all files in the folder, you can upgrade to Qiling Disk Master Professional so that you can sync or backup files with a certain file extension automatically for more convenience.
✨ Bonus tip: backup files to Qiling Cloud
As cloud storage is becoming more and more popular, Qiling offers users its own cloud - Qiling Cloud. After you sign up for an Qiling account, you can use 1TB storage for free within 15 days. Click Backup > Cloud Backup to backup files to Qiling Cloud.
Conclusion
Qiling Disk Master makes it easy and flexible to backup files to cloud storage service. Actually, it is not only professional file backup software but also a powerful SSD migration tool. It can help you clone HDD to SSD and clone SSD to larger SSD within a few steps.
The Professional edition helps you migrate Windows 10 to SSD without reinstalling anything and offers command-line backup/restore/clone, dynamic disk volume clone, etc.
If you prefer to sync files between Windows Servers, please try the Server edition. You can download Qiling Disk Master to discover more useful functions.
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