Any advice appreciated regarding Google Drive and Windows - moving to Google drives

[rocknrollstar]

Morning all,

 

(apologies mods, had 2 questions on previous post and have now split into 2 different threads). Hopefully this post helps others thinking about what we have done and are doing, too.

 

We are a large primary school (630 staff, 120 staff). We have windows network (server 2016). We also use Google Workspace, especially Drive. We've moved to solely using Google Drive for all of our SLT, teacher and office team files, and removed windows mapped drives which were used previously. We have retained some windows mapped drives but for less important stuff, but the important, regularly used files are on Google Shared Drives.

 

As an aside, we'll also be using QubeBackup to create onsite backups to a different local machine. This will use a single, dedicated account and we're only really interested in backing up the shared drives. We've also implemented 2FA for remote access. We don't have SSO.

 

Has anyone else moved from using shared windows drives to Google Shared drives, and found any caveats or things to be aware of? Our broadband speed is very good, but has anyone found speed issues or bottlenecks? If teachers are constantly saving (and hence Google Drive updating), has this created any problems?

 

Thanks in advance.

[timbo343]

When you say your connection is very good, what is 'very good"? Have you got an additional line that you can either use as a load balancer or a backup line?

 

Just as an addition, are you backing up your Google data to either OnPrem or to a cloud provider?

[rocknrollstar]

Thanks timbo343. Haven't got the specs of the line to hand but upgraded relatively recently with what at the time was a really good upgrade. Will check.

 

Re backup, current plan is to use qubebackup to do an on site backup.

[timbo343]

Thanks timbo343. Haven't got the specs of the line to hand but upgraded relatively recently with what at the time was a really good upgrade. Will check.

 

Re backup, current plan is to use qubebackup to do an on site backup.

Just as long as you have a decent download connection. We did a Cloud to Cloud backup and ours took ages on first backup, we're unsure of the connection speeds between Google and our Cloud storage.

 

At the time we had nearly 23Tb to back up.

[rocknrollstar]

Just as long as you have a decent download connection. We did a Cloud to Cloud backup and ours took ages on first backup, we're unsure of the connection speeds between Google and our Cloud storage..

 

Thanks. We only have 2tb so fingers crossed! Thanks again. At the time we had nearly 23Tb to back up].

[slugshead]

Google drive for desktop maps Google drive a "G Drive", go into that and your drive and the team drives you're a member of are there too.

 

Synology with the Google workspace backup works a treat