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Meriadoc  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear hubski, when was the last time you backed up your important data?

I love the age of Google Drive. I used to keep redundant externals and servers of redundant externals and servers. Nowadays much anything I need is kept online. Documents, movies, and files on drive, music in Play. There's not much else I need backed up. I keep images of my computers on my work server, so I suppose if I ever leave this job, I'd have to migrate those over elsewhere, but then again 60% of my computers are owned by this job, so it wouldn't be that big an issue.





dublinben  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you only have one copy of your data, you don't have a backup. All it takes is your Google Account being disabled or locked, and you've lost access to everything, since you have no local or third party backups.

Meriadoc  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh no, I absolutely have multiple google accounts with things, and there's tons of overlap between computers on truly important things. I just feel safe enough that I have the original copy on a computer and a backup on Google. There isn't usually much more need for things for me anymore, and I cleared out a ton of tech clutter over the years because of it.