Using Cloud Drive as a backup for a physical Windows 11 Drive

[RBeatse]

My wife has a good drive folder that she has been using to sync to a set of folders on her Windows 11 PC.  The Google Sync application seems to always have issues keeping in sync. We currently use your Drive Pool application and love it so I wanted to see about the Cloud Drive and if there is a way to do the same thing that the Google Sync application does.

 

Her current flow is that as she does family genealogy, certain photos, files, etc., and the folders she is working in are created and new file are added and such.  That folder and all of its content get synced to her Google Drive where she can give other family member's read access to the data so they can get to what they need.

 

Would Cloud Drive work for this?  Would we have to change the workflow?  From what I quickly read, I might have to create the Cloud Drive and then find a product to do daily/hourly/whatever time frame sync's from the main folder to the "Cloud Drive" folder and let it be the one that gets updated.  That way she has her copy of the data (which is kept 3 times across a Drive pool) on site and then the version on the Google Drive.

 

Did any of this make sense?  Would this process work?  Anything I am not understanding?

 

Thanks so much!

[RBeatse]

Never mind.  This will not work for my use case.  I did not realize until I installed the software that the files Cloud Drive sync are automatically encrypted.  My wife would not be able to share files with other family members off the cloud drive.  Back to the drawing board.