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Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Not your drive, not your data.

Isn't this like saying "not your house, not your possessions" ? But landlords cannot just take or misplace my stuff, especially if I pay rent and have some rights.

What rights do you have in this case?

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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post #6

Not your drive, not your data.

Isn't this like saying "not your house, not your possessions" ? But landlords cannot just take or misplace my stuff, especially if I pay rent and have some rights.

I'm sure the commenter did not mean this literally.

They probably meant trusting a cloud provider can have consequences.

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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I recently set up rclone to do nightly backups of my entire OneDrive to Dropbox, I feel pretty safe with this in terms of reliability, I find it unlikely that both services will catastrophically fail like this at the same time.

Would recommend rclone to anyone, it has worked pretty consistently so far.

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