How to enable backup for image, video, and audio files?

By default, video and audio files in Google Drive are excluded from backup. To include image, video, and audio files in Google Drive backup, update the file exclusion settings in the backup job.

This article applies to the SysCloud Turbo backup version.

For a new backup job

Step 1: Log in to the SysCloud backup application using your admin credentials.

Step 2: Go to Jobs and click Create new backup job.

In case you already have an existing job that needs to be updated,

• Select the Google Workspace backup job you want to update.
    
• From the side tray, click Edit
    

Step 3: Enter a name and description for the backup job and click Next.

Step 4: In Step 2: Connect clouds & add accounts, make sure that the status is “Connected”. Click on the Edit pencil icon under the Action column to check the accounts added.

• Verify if the required Google account is added.
    
• If the Google Workspace account is not connected, connect and add account before continuing. Refer How can I connect my Google Workspace account to the SysCloud backup application?

Step 5: Go to Step 4: Select apps. In the Apps column, click the edit icon.

Step 6: In the Google Drive/ Shared drive row, click the custom edit icon under Exclusions.

Step 7: Select the checkboxes for Videos/ Audio/ Image for including the desired file types in backup.

• In case certain file formats need to be excluded from the selections, the specific file formats can be mentioned by typing the text box.
    
• Further exclusion can also be set on the basis of file size exceeding a certain limit.
    

Step 8: Click Confirm to proceed.

Step 9: Click Next to go to Configure settings step.

Step 10: Click Next to go to Configure add-ons step.

Step 11: If no add-ons are required to be configured, Click Next to go to Define action flows step.

Step 12: On the Define action flows step, Click Start backup.