Comment on Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files

otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• MrOxiMoron@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My devices 🤣

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unfortunately I’ve read reports it’s actively syncing deletions to devices.

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    • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh. A google service that keeps working, even after it’s supposed to. That’s new.

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• Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use an external hard drive

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  • Icedrous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dumb question,

    If you have an external hard drive for your cloud backup data, why use a cloud service?

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    • Neato@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Accessible from anywhere and any device. Non-local backups in case of a fire at your house and such.

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      • Icedrous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Makes sense, thank you

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    • Gr0mit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Offsite is always a good idea in case of a disaster like fire.

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      • Icedrous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Offsite? When I googled that it showed a team retreat planning website. How does that work?

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    • hakobo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For any really important data, you should always have at least 3 copies. 1) Your working copy on your computer. 2) A local backup which could be an external hard drive, a NAS, another computer, or whatever. 3) An off-site backup. That could be a cloud service, a computer at a friend’s or family member’s house, an external hard drive in a safety deposit box, etc. The off-site backup is in case your house burns down or is robbed.

      If it’s REALLY important, you may have even more than that. There’s also the issue of how often do you update the backups. A hard drive in a safety deposit box is hard to update compared to uploading to Google Drive which can be automatic, but the hard drive in the safety deposit box is more secure. So you have to weigh your pros and cons.

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      • Icedrous@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can you give me an example of what really important data could look like?

        Genuine question, I don’t work in IT or work with computers very often. I’m tech literate, but the most important thing I really have is my resume and even then I can redo it if I lost it.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you have it plugged in all the time or do you periodically do a full transfer?

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    • Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I do weekly backups. However, if I modify or add something really important I create a backup right at that time

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      • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Makes sense, I’ll have to start doing that

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A regular portable hard drive?

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use rclone and a backup script to periodically download my Google drive contents to a portable external hard drive

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• Getting6409@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Backblaze B2, which I’m pretty sure is a repackaged S3 provider, or you can just skip them and go directly to AWS S3; though, both aren’t drag and drop user friendly like onedrive or gdrive. But both work well if you invest a little time with something like rclone.

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  • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Backblaze B2 is S3 compatible but not built on S3. B2 is also considerably cheaper than S3, so it probably wouldn’t make sense if it was built on S3.

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    • xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Correct, Backblaze is their own host and post on their blog often about their tech and processes. They’ve got a lot of good info on how they designed their server storage racks and stats on drive failures by brand etc

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    • Getting6409@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks, I was wondering why the s3 prefixes were used. If my memory serves, b2 is especially better on the billing rates for retrieval, so a better choice if large disaster recovery is on your mind.

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• good_bot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OneDrive

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