Backup UniFi Controller to Google’s G-Drive

This is our super simple guide to backing up your Ubiquiti® UniFi Controller or Cloud Key to your own Google Drive account.

What you will need

1. A UniFi Controller — This can be any sort of controller like a Cloud Key, Raspberry Pi, your own server or a hosted server. It needs to be accessible over the internet or you can whitelist it to our IP (details in out portal) but it does need a permanent IP or Hostname.
2. A BackiFi.com account. Don’t worry, it’s free.
3. A free or pro Google account to connect to and backup.

Instructions

1. Login to your BackiFi account, connect at least one controller, create at least one schedule and then go to the Storages and click the purple + button to add a new storage location.
2. Select Google Drivefrom the dropdown and you will be taken to a Google Drive authorization page. It’s important to note here that we built BackiFi with the highest levels of security in mind. When you give access to our application, Google Drive will create a new folder /BackiFi and our app only has access to this folder to write backups. Our app has no access to any other files or folders in your Google Drive account.
3. Our app will send a test file to confirm that our app has the appropriate permissions — you can find this in /BackiFi/test.txt . You can also delete this at any time if you like.
4. You will be redirected back to BackiFi.com and you can now edit the row and set a nickname for this Google connection.
5. You can add as many different Google Drive accounts or any other storage types that you like, once done, go to the Configurations tab and setup some scheduled automated backups.

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