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Does anyone have recommendations on how to protect against this kind of thing?
by cammil 3y ago
Does anyone have recommendations on how to protect against this kind of thing?
- Gigachad 3y agoThere is a service called Google Takeout which lets you do a full data dump of Drive and any other google product.
- gumby 3y agoBut allegedly can’t export google slides of any significant size.
- aix1 3y agoIt's also highly manual (at least for local backups). One can only set up backups for six months at a time, plus downloading the files involves waiting for an email notification and using download links in that email. If anyone has figured out a way to automate all this, I'd _love_ to hear about it.
- RockRobotRock 3y agoAs another user suggested, backing up your cloud storage to another provider is important. with S3-like object lock ideally. rclone is awesome :)
- HariPavan 3y agoThe most you can do is backup the files and save them on a physical drive or another online cloud service.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoI back up my gdrive to a synology, which is in turn backed up to rsync.net. The notifications get fed into checkcentral. This arrangement is pretty capable and I feel good about it. I've been thinking of going full archivist and burning all the family photos onto blurays though.
- Yodel0914 3y agoI have a full sync of my cloud storage on my media PC, which rsync's nightly to an external drive. I have another external drive that lives at work, which I bring home and sync every month or so. In theory I think that covers most scenarios I care about (cloud provider failure, HDD failure, house fire etc). It has been a long time since I used Drive, so I can't remember if has a Dropbox-like desktop sync app, so this may not apply.
- alexey-salmin 3y agoDoes rsync replicate or ignore file deletion?
- Yodel0914 3y agoIt depends on what flags you call it with - it can do either.
- alexey-salmin 3y agoSurely, but in your setup?
- Yodel0914 3y agoI have it mirror deletes. I'm comfortable enough with this because my cloud storage provider has version history and deleted file restoration, plus my air-gapped month-old backup gives me some time to notice any accidental deletes. I used to have it not mirror deletes, but then if you ever have to do a full restore it's a bit of a mess.
- system2 3y agoUse local synology NAS + Synology C2 cloud. By doing this you will have a solid system.