https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqW5upASa-8

“And that’s how I met my FBI officer.”

“No backsies!”

That doesn’t make syncing the same as backing up, that’s an actual backup service with a sync feature added to it.

By all means, share links to such services if you have any.

When I was six I fell asleep with my head on a pile of Hotwheels.

Now I have to spend ten minutes beating an expensive pillow into just the right shape.

If you’re going to go through all that trouble, you’re not going to target Google Drive outside of a proof of concept, just remove it from your workflow and make life way less complicated.

Buy inexpensive server access in a neutral country and apply that logic to it. So much more freedom & privacy, so much more reliability.

synth montage music

It does not excuse Microsoft eight bits. ;)

You’re conflating syncing with backing up, and unfortunately that very thing is what confuses so many not-tech savvy people into thinking cloud syncing is the same as an actual recoverable backup.

If you found a service that does actual hard backups with versioning and still makes accessing those fils as easy as cloud storage, awesome! Post links to that.

That is a valid offsite backup solution. Google Drive is not.

Anything that syncs doesn’t actually backup. It’s just a mirror. If something happens to one of them, that deletion/corruption might get synced to the other one before you can recover it.

Online backup is a different and valid thing, it’s an actual static preservation of a version of the files at some point in time that isn’t automatically edited or removed based on the file’s status of another device.

Cloud storage is NOT A BACKUP!

PSA: I’m worried that people are going to read this thread and be confused or get the wrong idea.

Syncing = A dynamic copy of files that are on your computer, if you edit or delete the file on the computer, the file in the cloud is edited or deleted automatically as well.

Cloud Storage/Drive = A static copy of a file is uploaded to the cloud, typically with a limited amount of time, storage space, or number of downloads imposed. This varies wildly from service to service, especially free services, and is subject to a number of caveats that make your data less than safe even if you’re paying for it.

Neither of these should be considered a reliable backup of your data. Especially in the event of data loss. If for no other reason than the title story of this post. And corporate cloud storage is the exact opposite of private.

If you want online backup, pay for a dedicated backup service that is supported by a service fee. Do not trust your data to free services. Especially with data protection, you only get what you pay for. In the long run, and for what you’re getting they are typically very inexpensive. If you like to DIY, buy space on a server farm and use software of your choice to backup to that.

DO NOT take 9tr6gyp3’s backup advice. Google Drive and the like are NOT suitable replacements for a real offsite backup.

And “the cloud” should absolutely NOT be your only copy of anything no matter how safe and secure it i seems to be.

That joke had to come from a femur dream.

I’m 75% sure my mother would buy this.

The Katy Freeway isn’t that bad, but dammit it’s TRYING!

I still think Kart 64 is one of the best of the series, but I don’t get the prejudice against ghosts. :)

what kind of punk doesn’t repel

The kind that are afraid of heights.

“I mean, I do love lamps… BUT NOT BECAUSE I’M A MOTH!”

This is worse than the iOS 7 betas.

Everyone who wants out starts shaving without lotion.

“Do you realize what you’ve done? Now we’ll have to compete on merit!”