Back Up WordPress to Google Drive: Free, to Your Own Cloud
Back up your entire WordPress site, database and files, straight to your own Google Drive. Every Google account comes with 15 GB of free storage, so your backups live somewhere you already control, not on a backup company’s servers. Here is how it works and how to start for free.
Why back up to your own Google Drive?
No second subscription. Your backups go to storage you already have. There is no separate backup service to pay for.
Your data stays yours. The plugin connects to Google Drive through your own Google Cloud project, so it talks only to Google. Nothing is ever sent to us. We never see your backups or your Google credentials.
It keeps working even if your license lapses. The free edition is a complete backup product. If a paid license lapses, it quietly drops back to the free feature set instead of switching off. Backup software that stops backing up because a card expired is the worst possible outcome, so ours does not do that.
How it works
Bodholdt Backup for Google Drive uses the Google Drive API through your own Google Cloud project. That is a free setup you only do once, and the plugin walks you through every step. From there it:
- Runs full or incremental backups. Incremental backups only upload the files that changed, so daily backups stay small and fast.
- Uploads in resumable chunks, so large sites do not choke on a single failed request.
- Restores any backup in one click, and takes an automatic safety snapshot first.
- Includes a standalone migration installer, so you can restore a backup onto a completely different server.
- Backs up full multisite networks and restores them to the same layout.
- Keeps unlimited retention on every tier, including free.
- Emails you a report after every run, with plain language diagnosis if something fails.
Set it up in a few minutes
- Install and activate the plugin.
- Follow the guide inside the plugin to create a free Google Cloud project and enable the Drive API. It takes about two minutes, and no billing is required.
- Paste your Client ID and Secret, authorize Google access, and pick a schedule.
- Click Start New Backup. Your first backup lands in your own Google Drive.
Try it free
The free Lite edition backs up and restores to your own Google Drive with no license key and no time limit. When you want selective restore (choose exactly what to restore), licensing for multiple sites, or Slack and Discord alerts, the Solo tier is $29/yr. The price you pay is the price you renew at.