Backup your Google Docs

You do backup, right? Do you backup everything and maintain an offsite copy? Excellant!

I keep meaning to write up my backup routine. But in the mean time, one area that I am weak in is backing up my Google Docs documents. There does’nt seem to be an automated way at this time. But there is a simple manual way with the use of Firefox,  Grease Monkey, a Grease Monkey script called Google Docs: Download and DownThemAll.

Google Docs has become my primary suite for word processing and spreadsheets. Those things need to be backed up too! If Google turns evil or dies just when I need a document then I want to have my work available somewhere. Check out Google Docs: Download for instructions on how to get all this working together to backup your Google Docs.

Once DownThemAll is complete, all the documents are local on my computer and then get backed-up by my regular means and copied offsite.

SO the next time you are checking your backups, make sure you backup the stuff you have in the cloud too!