If you want, you can also directly save the archive to Google Drive, Dropbox or OneDrive, which is kind of nice. It does take a while longer for a TGZ or TBZ archive to complete, but you’re only talking about a few hours here and there.īy default, you’ll get an email with a link to download the files once the archive has been created. In my case, that’s only 11 links rather than 225, which is way more convenient. If you choose any of the other formats, the limit for a single files goes up to 50 GB. It should be noted that using the ZIP method will be a lot faster because it only has to create 2 GB files, which it can do quickly. Click on Agree and Download to start downloading the installation. In the Backup and Sync tab, click Download. You won’t be able to open this using Windows, but you can download a free program like 7-Zip to open the archives. Go to the download page for Backup and Sync. Luckily, you can choose other formats like TGZ and TBZ. In my case, I have 550 GB of photos and videos, so I certainly don’t want to have to click on 225 download links. This is kind of annoying if you have hundreds of GBs of data stored in the cloud. If you use ZIP, anything over 2 GB will be split into multiple ZIP files.
On the next screen, you have to choose the format you want to use for the archive.
