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I use Google Drive as a trailing safety backup. Client installed on a machine that updates once a month with all the files from drive. Manual process. In case s
by pgrote 4y ago
I use Google Drive as a trailing safety backup. Client installed on a machine that updates once a month with all the files from drive. Manual process. In case something happens and a folder gets wiped off of Google Drive I can walk over and transfer the files from the trailing safety backup since Google Drive actually copies the files.
Under the new process the files will no longer exist on the drive, but will now be links to files on Google Drive. Is that correct?
- judge2020 4y agoIf you're actually copying the files then no; this removes the ability for a file ID to be able to exist in two places at once, but if you're copying drive->another medium->drive a new file ID is being created on the user's drive. This is regardless of whether or not the file is being de-duped behind the scenes.
- pgrote 4y agoThank you for the clarification. I should have specified I turn on sync through Google Drive once a month and not a direct copy. Going forward if I stay with Google Drive I'll need to switch off sync and just do a direct manual copy.