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G employee. If you are using G to store anything important and if you do not have an offline backup or some other redundancy please reconsider.

andromeduck 5y ago
Agreed. Cloudsync is a car superior product and supports every cloud service ever and full encryption. https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/ https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/
- ApolloRising 5y ago
  Its great tech but why charge per device to personal users?
  - andromeduck 5y ago
    if you want free there's always https://rclone.org/
  - Someone 5y ago
    Options: - to keep things affordable for those who can afford to buy only a few devices - to extract as much money as possible from those who can afford to buy multiple devices It’s a pricing strategy. That doesn’t have to reflect what it costs them at all, but ideally should match what it’s worth to the customer (if it doesn’t, they either leave money on the table or don’t get sales)
numpad0 5y ago
Do people lose data or lose proof of identity when they have had account(s) banned?
- KorematsuFredt 5y ago
  The biggest hurdle would be actually finding someone to talk to if the account gets banned.
  - xyzzy21 5y ago
    The only truly effective way: serve corporate with a lawsuit!
znpy 5y ago
Isn't the idea behind cloud storage to be able no to buy the actual physical storage?
- syshum 5y ago
  Not really. You could do Cloud to Cloud but Cloud like RAID before it is NOT a replacement for proper 3-2-1 backups
  - znpy 5y ago
    Well if you put it like that, then why bother with cloud storage? If I can't trust cloud storage, I might just buy another external hard drive (or a nas) and backup my data there.
- xyzzy21 5y ago
  That's a dangerous and naive plan/intent. Trusting ANYONE ELSE to manage your property is always a bad idea!
rexreed 5y ago
G employee: how does that work for Google Docs? You can only backup export versions of docs, and you lose most of the collaboration capability.
mlangenberg 5y ago
The tools and APIs that your company offers make it really difficult to create such a backup and to keep it in sync. How can I do this for Google Photos? The Google Photo API returns compressed files with missing EXIF info. The Google Takeout option can't be automated and needs third party tooling to convert back into a usable format.
- radicality 5y ago
  fyi you can automate Takeout to a degree. You can tell it to prepare a takeout once every 2 months I think, and you’ll then get an email when it’s ready. You could probably script something to look for those emails, download the compressed tgz files, and then store or upload to some backup location.

andromeduck 5y ago

Agreed. Cloudsync is a car superior product and supports every cloud service ever and full encryption. https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/ https://cloudsync.bdrive.com/

ApolloRising 5y ago
Its great tech but why charge per device to personal users?
- andromeduck 5y ago
  if you want free there's always https://rclone.org/
- Someone 5y ago
  Options: - to keep things affordable for those who can afford to buy only a few devices - to extract as much money as possible from those who can afford to buy multiple devices It’s a pricing strategy. That doesn’t have to reflect what it costs them at all, but ideally should match what it’s worth to the customer (if it doesn’t, they either leave money on the table or don’t get sales)

numpad0 5y ago

Do people lose data or lose proof of identity when they have had account(s) banned?

KorematsuFredt 5y ago
The biggest hurdle would be actually finding someone to talk to if the account gets banned.
- xyzzy21 5y ago
  The only truly effective way: serve corporate with a lawsuit!

znpy 5y ago

Isn't the idea behind cloud storage to be able no to buy the actual physical storage?

syshum 5y ago
Not really. You could do Cloud to Cloud but Cloud like RAID before it is NOT a replacement for proper 3-2-1 backups
- znpy 5y ago
  Well if you put it like that, then why bother with cloud storage? If I can't trust cloud storage, I might just buy another external hard drive (or a nas) and backup my data there.
xyzzy21 5y ago
That's a dangerous and naive plan/intent. Trusting ANYONE ELSE to manage your property is always a bad idea!

rexreed 5y ago

G employee: how does that work for Google Docs? You can only backup export versions of docs, and you lose most of the collaboration capability.

mlangenberg 5y ago

The tools and APIs that your company offers make it really difficult to create such a backup and to keep it in sync. How can I do this for Google Photos? The Google Photo API returns compressed files with missing EXIF info. The Google Takeout option can't be automated and needs third party tooling to convert back into a usable format.

radicality 5y ago
fyi you can automate Takeout to a degree. You can tell it to prepare a takeout once every 2 months I think, and you’ll then get an email when it’s ready. You could probably script something to look for those emails, download the compressed tgz files, and then store or upload to some backup location.