How to Backup USB to OneDrive [Bidirectional Way]
OneDrive and USB are two well-known words for computer users, and both of them are useful to store or back up important data. Sometimes users may need to back up OneDrive to a USB flash drive because their OneDrive account doesn't have enough storage space, or they need to transfer important files and folders to a computer that cannot connect to the internet.
We all know OneDrive relies on the network, and users can access OneDrive and secure photos, music, and films anytime and anywhere. So maybe you will want to back up the USB drive to OneDrive for convenience. Or you want to replace your old USB drive, and you can back up the old one to OneDrive.
We will introduce how to back up USB to OneDrive and back up OneDrive to USB both. We will need the OneDrive Desktop/Web and a third-party backup tool.
Backup USB to OneDrive in Two Methods
"I want to back up my USB drive to OneDrive, and what should I do?" Users can download OneDrive Desktop or professional backup software to back up the USB drive. We will introduce both ways in the next part.
Method 1. How to Backup USB to OneDrive with Backup Software
We highly recommend you back up your USB drive to OneDrive with reliable backup software. You can save a lot of time with this method. Qiling Backup Home can be an excellent helper to back up your files and folders on USB drives to OneDrive quickly and safely.
Have you finished downloading Qiling Backup Home? There is a convenient option we must mention – Scheduled Backup. If you need to back up USB drives to OneDrive frequently, you can create a scheduled backup, and this backup tool can automatically back up data daily, weekly, and monthly. We also offered full backup, differential backup and incremental backup.
Now let us start backing up USB drives to OneDrive with Qiling Backup. It is not too difficult to back up a USB drive or back up external hard drive to cloud with this tool.
Step 1. Open Qiling Backup and choose "Disk/partition Backup" on the home page.
Step 2. Qiling Backup offers you options. You can choose to back up a whole disk or a certain partition as you need.
Step 3. Select the destination where you want to save the backup. You can choose to save the disk to a local drive or to NAS.
Step 4. Click "Proceed", after the backup process is completed, you can click any one of the tasks to further manage your backup such as recover it, create an incremental backup, etc.
Method 2. How to Backup USB to OneDrive with OneDrive Desktop
If you are a Windows 10/11 user, the OneDrive Desktop is already downloaded to your computer. If not, you can download Microsoft OneDrive yourself. If your USB drive has connected to the computer, we can start.
Step 1. You should start OneDrive Desktop first and select "Settings".
Step 2. Select "Backup" and click "Manage Backup".
Step 3. Select the folders on your USB flash drive that you want to back up to OneDrive. Then click "Start backup".
How to Backup OneDrive to USB [Two Ways]
Even if OneDrive is a convenient tool for storing files and folders, the storage space is limited. When the storage is full, we still need to back up OneDrive files to external hard drive. We also offer you two plans to back up OneDrive to USB drives, and you can read the detailed steps in the next part.
Method 1. How to Backup OneDrive to USB on OneDrive Web
You can download OneDrive files and folders to a USB drive directly on the OneDrive Web.
Step 1. Visit the OneDrive Web and connect your USB flash drive to the PC.
Step 2. Click "Chrome Settings" and choose "Advanced".
Step 3. Click "Download" and change the destination to your USB drive.
Step 4. Choose the files and folders you want to back up to your USB flash drive and click "Download".
Method 2. How to Backup Local Files to USB with Backup Tool
If your OneDrive's default download destination is the local PC or everything you want to back up is already on your PC. You can ask Qiling Backup to help and back up all the local files to a USB drive with Qiling Backup.
Step 1. To begin the backup process, click the File backup button.
Step 2. Lists of both local and network files are shown on the left-hand side of the screen. Expanding the directory so that you can choose the files to back up.
Step 3. Follow the guidance on the screen and choose the place where you want to store the back up.
Step 4. Make sure that the backup is encrypted and set the backup schedule by clicking Options in Backup Options.
You can also choose to start the backup at a certain time in Backup Scheme by clicking Options. There are many other customizable options that you can look into.
Step 5. You can store the backup file either on your computer, in Qiling's cloud service, or on a network-attached storage device (NAS).
Step 6. Qiling Backup enables customers store backup copies of their files on a third-party cloud drive or on the company's own cloud storage.
If you want to back up your data on a third-party cloud drive, select Local Drive and scroll down to add Cloud Device. Then fill in your account information.
Step 7. Click on Proceed to start a backup. When the backup process is done, it will display as a card on the left-hand side of the screen. A click will let you see more about how to handle the backup job in more depth.
Bottom Line
Qiling Backup is a multifunctional and handy tool for computer users. You can back up USB to OneDrive with a disk backup option and back up OneDrive to USB with a file backup option. Operating system backup and clone are also supported. Qiling Backup can help you a lot regardless of what you want to back up.
Backup USB to OneDrive FAQs
If you still have doubts, check more questions and answers in this part.
Can I backup an external drive to OneDrive?
You can quickly back up an external hard drive to OneDrive with Qiling Backup.
- 1. Choose "Create Backup" and click "Select backup contents".
- 2. Click "Disk" and choose your external hard drive.
- 3. Click "Local", and you can find OneDrive here.
- 4. Click "Proceed" to start backing up.
Can I backup my OneDrive to a hard drive?
Yes, you can easily back up OneDrive to a hard drive on OneDrive Web.
- 1. Visit the OneDrive Web first.
- 2. Click "Chrome Settings" and choose "Advanced".
- 3. Click "Download" and change the destination to your target hard drive.
- 4. Choose the files and folders you want to back up to your hard drive and click "Download".
How do I backup my USB to OneDrive?
You can back up your USB to OneDrive on the Web or with backup software. We recommend Qiling Backup.
- 1. Choose "Create Backup" and click "Select backup contents".
- 2. Click "Disk" and choose your USB.
- 3. Click "Local", and you can find OneDrive here.
- 4. Click "Proceed" to start backing up.
How do I sync my USB to the cloud?
Applying backup software is the best way to sync your USB to the cloud. We recommend Qiling Backup.
- 1. Choose "Create Backup" and click "Select backup contents".
- 2. Click "Disk" and choose your USB.
- 3. Click "Local", and you can find OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox here.
- 4. Click "Proceed" to start backing up.
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