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Isn’t Google Drive supposed to be a mirror, duplicate, of your data for ease of access? Their desktop app seems designed around this idea from the very beginnin
by jug 3y ago
Isn’t Google Drive supposed to be a mirror, duplicate, of your data for ease of access? Their desktop app seems designed around this idea from the very beginning.
Sounds like very risky to do as some users have reported and running their company off Google Drive with no local drive counterpart! Why in heavens name not. Drives are cheap.
Even many years ago, I had some issues uploading a few thousand files at once and never really relied on it as a critical infrastructure service but always saw it more like an automated cloud backup or convenience service geared for consumer use at best.
You need to be in good charge of your own data first and foremost. Then it can be nice if a recovery scenario helped you in that Google had some files too of course.
- mort96 3y agoDrives are cheap, but creating a system and process to ensure you always have a local copy of everything on the Google Drive is not cheap. It requires ongoing monitoring and maintenance like all other infrastructure.
- danaris 3y agoNo; Google Drive is designed to act like a separate, well, drive that you can store data on. In earlier times, their desktop app would synchronize the files in Google Drive with a folder you designate on your computer, because that was what was supported; these days, it mounts as if it's a network drive (at least on macOS; I don't believe I've actually seen the desktop app in operation on Windows recently).