You can still use it as a target for a more sophisticated backup solution though, like borg. Borg handles the versioning, integrity, and encryption, so online backup can just be used as dumb storage location. If the online backup deletes your data or locks you out, just use your other copies to recreate the backup into another dumb online storage. In this way, your online backup target doesn't have to be very reliable, as long as it doesn't fail at the exact same time as your other backups.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you’re going to go through all that trouble, you’re not going to target Google Drive outside of a proof of concept, just remove it from your workflow and make life way less complicated.
Buy inexpensive server access in a neutral country and apply that logic to it. So much more freedom & privacy, so much more reliability.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If your backups are encrypted and stored on a Google Drive account, there are no privacy issues minus Google knowing you are doing backups.
I wouldn’t personally do it, but I don’t see any issues with it if someone does this.
There are so many places to store data online. Just encrypt and upload it where you have space available.
AWS is cheap. Google Drive and iCloud are convenient. pCloud, sync.com, and any other online storage service are also great options. Just get your data offsite to avoid regional catastrophes.