I realise this is coming late to this discussion, but I use Google Docs quite heavily, and a sync client for Google Drive by a company named Insync. It seems to address most of the issues with Google Drive, not least that it syncs the full files to your local machine, converting them...
How can we retrieve data? The foundation of most cloud backup services is a client software program that operates according to the customer's needs and the amount of service they have ordered. The program gathers, compresses, encrypts, and uploads data to the cloud service provider's servers...