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Everyone hates making backups. Everyone loves them when something happens. There are many free online data storage systems. If you're happy with the privacy im

by casca 13y ago

Everyone hates making backups. Everyone loves them when something happens. There are many free online data storage systems. If you're happy with the privacy implications, it's not hard to run Google Drive, Dropbox and box.net on the same directory for some degree of resilience.

FigBug 13y ago
You can't make backups of gdoc files, the content is never stored locally, it's only on googles servers.
- ISL 13y ago
  It's not possible to schedule an occasional job that copies everything from Google's services to a local hard disk?
- woof 13y ago
  https://code.google.com/p/gdocbackup/ https://code.google.com/p/gdocbackup/
Spittie 13y ago
Note that this wouldn't have helped him in this case. The .gdoc files are only "links" to the online version, which he deleted from the online interface, while clearing the trash. Backuping them over Dropbox/Box/Skydrive/* would have been useless, as he still has those .gdoc files anyway. To actually get a backup, he would have saved the files as .doc/.pdf/any other classic format from Google Docs. I'm not saying that backups are useless, mind you - Only that they wouldn't have helped in this specific case.
- deleted 13y ago
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drhayes9 13y ago
While this is a good strategy for real files, the .gdoc files in your Google Drive folder are nothing but links to web files. They contain no real data.
jchung 13y ago
Can you explain how that would have helped him at all? Backing up gdoc files is useless if the underlying file in the cloud has been deleted.
- farski 13y ago
  Because the backup should have been of the documents, not the gdoc files.
nestlequ1k 13y ago
You might be missing the point. How was he supposed to back up a .gdoc file? In fact he did, it's just when he put the file back it was deleted. Google Drive gives you this fake file pointer that it wants you to think is a document, but then when you try to use it as such (backup and restore), you find out the files actually got deleted. This is a case of shitty UI, plain and simple.

by casca 13y ago

FigBug 13y ago

You can't make backups of gdoc files, the content is never stored locally, it's only on googles servers.

ISL 13y ago
It's not possible to schedule an occasional job that copies everything from Google's services to a local hard disk?
woof 13y ago
https://code.google.com/p/gdocbackup/ https://code.google.com/p/gdocbackup/

Spittie 13y ago

Note that this wouldn't have helped him in this case. The .gdoc files are only "links" to the online version, which he deleted from the online interface, while clearing the trash. Backuping them over Dropbox/Box/Skydrive/* would have been useless, as he still has those .gdoc files anyway. To actually get a backup, he would have saved the files as .doc/.pdf/any other classic format from Google Docs. I'm not saying that backups are useless, mind you - Only that they wouldn't have helped in this specific case.

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drhayes9 13y ago

While this is a good strategy for real files, the .gdoc files in your Google Drive folder are nothing but links to web files. They contain no real data.

jchung 13y ago

Can you explain how that would have helped him at all? Backing up gdoc files is useless if the underlying file in the cloud has been deleted.

farski 13y ago
Because the backup should have been of the documents, not the gdoc files.

nestlequ1k 13y ago

You might be missing the point. How was he supposed to back up a .gdoc file? In fact he did, it's just when he put the file back it was deleted. Google Drive gives you this fake file pointer that it wants you to think is a document, but then when you try to use it as such (backup and restore), you find out the files actually got deleted. This is a case of shitty UI, plain and simple.