How to Back Up an SD Card to Google Drive

With cloud storage services increasingly ubiquitous in modern life, people are growing accustomed to keeping their important files in the cloud rather than on their computers or other portable storage devices. It is well known that, compared to storing data on hard drives or external flash drives, cloud storage is safer and more convenient, owing to several key factors.

1. There are many cloud services to choose from, many of them free, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. 2. To back up files from your local disk, you need only an account and a password with a cloud service. 3. You would be protected against the all-too-common risk of data loss from a failed hard drive or a computer that will not start.

So how can you take advantage of cloud storage and make it your ideal backup location? In this case, we'll look at Google Drive and learn how to back up an SD card to Google Drive in detail.

How to Back Up Your Android Phone's SD Card to Google Drive

If you use an SD card on your Android device and want to back up your Android SD card on the device, you can use two apps: Photos and Google Drive. Since Photos only supports backing up photos from the SD card to Google Drive, we think Google Drive is the better choice for uploading more data, including photos, videos, documents, and so on.

Step 1: Download and install the Google Drive app on your Android device.

Step 2. Open the app after installation and sign in to your Google account.

Step 3. At the bottom of the left sidebar, you'll see a red "+" icon. Click it and select “Upload.”

Tap “Open,” then select the location. From the Images, Videos, Audio, Downloads, and Photos categories, choose a file from your SD card. Tap “Done.”

Google Drive will begin backing up all the files you selected immediately to your Google Drive account.

Issue with uploading SD card files to Google Drive

"The default photos folder on my Android device is the SD card, but Google Photos doesn't seem to let me choose the SD card as the location for backups and sync. How can I set this up in Google Photos?"

As you can see, this doesn't seem to be an isolated issue with backing up and syncing SD card data to the cloud via the Google Drive app on an Android device. It appears that quite a few people are having trouble with cloud backups from their Android devices in general. Are there any alternative methods for backing up your data?

How to Back Up an SD Card to Google Drive on Your Computer

Fortunately, you can use a cloud backup software that supports backing up your hard drive, SD card, USB flash drive, and even selected files, folders, or emails to the top 3 popular cloud storages including Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive to backup Android SD card!

Thus, when you have problems backing up and syncing SD card data to Google Drive on Android device, try solving the issue on your PC. Todo Backup will help you 100% in a safe, quick and easy way.

Connect your SD card to your computer and proceed with the backup as described below.

Step 1. Launch and run the Todo Backup tool on your computer. Click on "File" in the main window.

Step 2. Choose the specific files you want to back up to your cloud account – Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox.

Then, in the “Destination” section, click “Browse,” select “Cloud Device,” and tap the “+” icon to access cloud storage.

Step 3. Pick your cloud storage – Google Drive/OneDrive or Dropbox, and sign in to grant Todo Backup access to your account to save the backup image.

Step 4: Click "Allow" to let Todo Backup access and save the backup image of files to the cloud drive. Finally, click "Start" to back up the files immediately. Wait for the process to complete. All your videos will be stored in your cloud storage in a compressed format, taking up less space.