Drive starts you with 15 GB of free Google online storage, Drive starts you with 15 GB of free Google online storage, so you can keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos – anything. With drive you can view documents, PDFs, Photos, Videos and more, search for files by name and content, easily share files and folders with others, able to set sharing permissions to view, comment, or edit, quickly access recent files, see file details and activity, Enable viewing of files offline. You can back up your Whats app data using Google Drive and a local backup. Local backups will run automatically every day at 2am and save your database in a file on the phone itself.
How to back up to Google Drive?
You can back up your chats and media to Google Drive, so if you switch Android phones or get a new one, your chats and media are safe. To use Google Drive, make sure the following is true:
- Your device must be synced with Google Drive.
- Google Play Services must be installed (only available for Android 2.3.4 and later).
- Your Google Drive account must have enough space for all of your WhatsApp data.
- Your phone must have enough free space to create the backup.
Open Whats app > Go to Menu Button > Settings > Chats and Calls > Chat backup
- Tap on Back up to Google Drive and set up the backup frequency to your liking, or tap Back Up to do an immediate backup.
- You will be prompted to select a Google account that you will back up your chat history to. If you do not have a Google account, tap Add account when prompted. Please remember the Google account you are using for the backup.
- Tap on Back up over to choose the network you wish to use for backup. Please note that backing up over cellular may result in additional data charges.
About Google Drive
- The first complete backup may take a while. Please leave your phone connected to a power source.
- You can change your chat backup frequency, the account you back up to and which connection to use for backup at any time in Menu Button > Settings > Chats and calls > Chat backup.
- Every time you run a Google Drive backup on a Google account, the previous Google Drive backup will be overwritten. There is no way to restore an older Google Drive backup.
