![]() ![]() You can easily use other just as fantastic applications that do that, such as: The great part about option 02 is that you are not limited to the application provided by the NAS manufacturer. So instead of monthly fees, just by bigger hard drives and you are set. ![]() ![]() It completely replaces OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox with the advantage that you are using your NAS as storage. Another Synology example (yes, I have one) would be " Drive". Now along with the solution to sync your Google Drive to your NAS, most likely the NAS manufacturer will offer their own sync software solution for you to use to sync files between your NAS and computer directly. Option 02 - 3rd Party to REPLACE your Google Drive with your NAS Here is a great tutorial on how to do this: YouTube Video. In case you are using an Open Source based NAS, like FreeNAS, you could use the included Cloud Credentials to sync your cloud to the NAS. A simple example would be Synology and their " Cloud Sync" package, which allows to sync a lot of 3rd party clouds to the NAS directly. Option 01 - 3rd Party to SYNC your NAS to your Google Driveįor this, you need to first: check with your NAS provider if they do not already have a solution to your situation. Use a 3rd party Software to REPLACE your Google Drive, and use only your NAS as a personal cloud.Find a 3rd Party Software to SYNC your Google Drive to the NAS.So the way I see it you can go in two different directions to obtain what you want. I understand this question is old, however, maybe by providing a solid answer or alternative solution this may help others who come across this topic. So I stumbled upon this question while looking for something else, but having a NAS myself I figured I could assist in some way. If I could possibly "trick" Windows or OS X into thinking that a certain directory was local it would work, but I do not know how to do this. I have also attempted in a VMware Fusion created Windows 8 VM map a shared directory to a drive letter and Google Drive it still failed for the same reason as the OS X network location.Īny ideas on how to get my Google Drive directory on the NAS? I did at one point put a VM on the NAS itself which effectively puts the storage on the NAS, but the performance was as expected.horrible. I have tried symlinks and directly putting the Drive directory on the NAS.both failed (it seems symlinks and network drives are not supported). I obviously do not have the local storage to effectively use Google Drive and NEED it installed on the NAS. I have recently changed to a laptop with only 256GB of local storage and have a NAS with plenty of space. I was in the situation where I had plenty of local storage and just moved my Google Drive directory onto my storage drive. I have used Google Drive for backups for a while now (yes.I do encrypt certain files locally). ![]()
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