It seems that neither the bug fixes nor the proposed improvements have materialised, and so we might conclude that google gives cloud backup relatively low priority. When backups haven't happened for a number of days allowing it even when the device is not charging (but on Wifi)Īllowing manual trigger of a backup in settings Working resolving this, in all likelihood by:Ī) providing an option in settings to be more aggressive to backup,Į.g. Those who don't have the luxury of an unlimited data plan).

That would not have a terribly positive effect on your data usage (for That we theoretically can get up to 25MB of data to backup per app and

The device being on Wifi, idle and charging. However, our newer mechanism (Autoīackup for Apps) covers SMS and apps (~25% covered) is restricted to Will upload over any network connection and without requiring the Regarding my question about what conditions will allow backup to continue, the same answer from the google employee provides some useful information:Ĭovers call history, device settings and a small subset of apps and Meeting backup criteria (excluding the condition that bugs need to be fixed) We are not sure yet if this is the only issue, so will We're working on fix for upcoming Google Play Services We have been investigating why some devices are rarely (or never)Īttempt to back up and have identified a bug within the backup The answer in the linked post from a google employee says, My best guess is that my particular problem is a bug from 2016 that is still to be fixed (see this post).

Google cloud backup has been broken since 2016 We might guess that these issues have either not been prioritised, have been too difficult to fix, have been fixed and reoccured due to poor quality code or whatever. Unfortunately, bug reports from users indicate that google have had issues for some time with backups not being scheduled. In general it should be enough to leave your phone on charge, with Wi-Fi available overnight to trigger backup.

Google drive upload waiting for wifi