Comments on: How to Back Up your Chromebook (Step-By-Step) – 2023

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:08:22 +0000

Is there any way to automate backups to a network drive?

By: JNH

JNH — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:51:58 +0000

Half of your article is misleading:
So if I want to “back up” my Chromebook to USB or SD card, I have to manually move the files and that’s all I get?? That is NOT a backup. That is transferring files to a USB drive, as if I didn’t know how to do that already.

I don’t understand why my phone has a feature that allows me to completely back up EVERYTHING (pictures, setting — the works), but Chromebooks don’t have a similar feature? That’s ridiculous. They really want people to use the cloud service don’t they?

By: h

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 21:40:15 +0000

I keep trying to drag the files, but i wont work!

By: PN

PN — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 21:10:19 +0000

Hi this is brilliant. Could you please tell me if I need to back up each user separately (they all have different Google accounts). Many thanks.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 03:23:00 +0000

How do I Back up thousands of different pictures in different folders from an external hard drive to Google Photos?

By: Klrdn

Klrdn — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 21:00:21 +0000

Thanks for your well written detailed paper. I would like to know about any follow up to Fuzzy’s questions.

By: the memelord

the memelord — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 22:58:07 +0000

this will make me the hacker at school with this info and other info’s. thx

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:43:18 +0000

Thanks for your very comprehensive article. It certainly cleared up my thinking and will be a valuable future reference.

By: dunchloe

dunchloe — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 04:51:43 +0000

stunning how much useless junk I found, yet want to ‘save’ – I think I might be an eHorder.

By: Fuzzy

Fuzzy — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:55:27 +0000

I’m a little shaky on how data are stored in Chrome OS. Would copying all of the data in the ‘downloads’
directory include all of the filesystems in the Crostini container and whatever Android apps and app data
existed. I thought one had to do commands in Crosh and Termina to create an exportable copy of the container than copy that to the downloads directory so it was in a user readable place to copy to external media? Not quite sure how the Android app containers work.

I have a 4tb (exFAT) USB 3.0 for the backup. The Chromebook has a 64gb eMMC storage.
Chrome OS seems to upload the Chrome (browser) extensions & Chrome apps as well as
the support files for Chrome.

thanks