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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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Post by max_hammer »

Medox wrote: post #6
jqpabc123 wrote: post #4

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.

But you control the access to the house. Your landlord won't enter your house and rearrange or remove your furniture.

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by shp0ngle »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #104

Anecdotal, but with Google Photos, I've observed data loss to the point where I no longer trust the service with anything valuable. Photos I know I've taken are missing. There are periods of time when I walked around a city 10+ years ago taking a large volume of photos, like when I first moved to Seattle. Going back to that window of time in Google Photos, I only have a handful of photos from that walk. There are als…

I have backup both to Google Photos and iCloud.

The probability of both failing and/or both deciding to just delete my account because I look "suspicious" is very small. But I _have_ had iCloud mysteriously not being able to retreive old photos.

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by gbalduzzi »

fareesh wrote: post #114
sebmellen wrote: post #24

This is why I run a personal Google Workspace account which has regular (hourly) backups managed by a self-hosted CubeBackup instance. It's quite a nice system: I get daily email summaries from CubeBackup via email, and I'm able to back up all the Google Drive/Email/Contacts/etc. data to both my local Synology NAS and Backblaze B2. I have absolutely no affiliation with CubeBackup, but I highly recommend it (and a per…

$5/yr + hosting, which is way more than $5 unless you have a terabyte going unused in a box somewhere

Google storage for a personal account is 15gb if I'm not mistaked, why would you need 1tb?

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by sergiotapia »

r3trohack3r wrote: post #104

Anecdotal, but with Google Photos, I've observed data loss to the point where I no longer trust the service with anything valuable. Photos I know I've taken are missing. There are periods of time when I walked around a city 10+ years ago taking a large volume of photos, like when I first moved to Seattle. Going back to that window of time in Google Photos, I only have a handful of photos from that walk. There are als…

The Google photos user this is really fucked up. I primarily use Google photos to manage my kids pictures as well what did you move to?

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by SamBam »

fareesh wrote: post #114
sebmellen wrote: post #24

This is why I run a personal Google Workspace account which has regular (hourly) backups managed by a self-hosted CubeBackup instance. It's quite a nice system: I get daily email summaries from CubeBackup via email, and I'm able to back up all the Google Drive/Email/Contacts/etc. data to both my local Synology NAS and Backblaze B2. I have absolutely no affiliation with CubeBackup, but I highly recommend it (and a per…

$5/yr + hosting, which is way more than $5 unless you have a terabyte going unused in a box somewhere

I assume that "self-hosted" meant precisely that they own the box. A hard drive is under $10/terabyte.

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by shadowgovt »

vachina wrote: post #132

Be me, self host my own cloud drive. No fees, no surprises, infinitely scalable, insanely fast local backups.

I'm sure everyone reading Hacker News can cobble something together in a weekend or two or knows someone who can.

What should the rest of the world do?

(Also, my hats off to you that you're seeing "no surprises." So you never discovered your backup machine has a flaky wifi card or bad Ethernet jack? Never had bit-rot or errors on your backing store, or are you just not detecting them until it's too late? You're testing your local backups regularly to make sure there isn't a script error that means none of those bits can actually be restored? And are you backing up offsite so when your residence burns down you still have your backups?

Lots of us are "backing up" using ad-hoc bespoke solutions that we will discover were broken only when we need them.)

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by itissid »

sebmellen wrote: post #24

This is why I run a personal Google Workspace account which has regular (hourly) backups managed by a self-hosted CubeBackup instance. It's quite a nice system: I get daily email summaries from CubeBackup via email, and I'm able to back up all the Google Drive/Email/Contacts/etc. data to both my local Synology NAS and Backblaze B2. I have absolutely no affiliation with CubeBackup, but I highly recommend it (and a per…

With cost of storage pretty low and AI being so good, I wonder if having a home based thing for everyday use, especially photos (Sort, tag, Memory creation, junk detection etc.) will become easy enough that cloud usage declines.

There are still tech hurdles yes, but NAS + a decent GPU for photos, email organization, assistant is going to be a killer business.

Re: Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data

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Post by bonton89 »

jacquesm wrote: post #58
sebmellen wrote: post #24

This is why I run a personal Google Workspace account which has regular (hourly) backups managed by a self-hosted CubeBackup instance. It's quite a nice system: I get daily email summaries from CubeBackup via email, and I'm able to back up all the Google Drive/Email/Contacts/etc. data to both my local Synology NAS and Backblaze B2. I have absolutely no affiliation with CubeBackup, but I highly recommend it (and a per…

Have you tried a restore?

I was going to say, if Google is silently losing and corrupting files then backing up from there is just duplicating the failure. But perhaps his backup scheme accounts for this unreliability.
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