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Of course the author preformed daily backups to removable media and other cloud based services? Let this be a lesson. Data redundancy is important!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_redundancy
We have a term for what you're describing already - Backups
People have been warned about relying on web services already: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
Alright but then how do you safely store your important data? Imagine if the same thing happened with Dropbox (if you're using it).
Definitely a reason I have always paid for Gmail/Drive before it was that. But the actual reason is quite scary why it triggered the issue: "My data was intact save for the last thing I’d worked on–a spreadsheet containing a client’s account numbers and passwords. It seems that Google’s engineers determined this single document violated policy and locked down my entire account. My request to get that document back is…
I'm more appalled that he's storing his client's account passwords in a spreadsheet. It's ridiculously easy to accidentally share the wrong doc with the wrong people.
It seems strange that Google wouldn't have a policy of issuing warnings, escalating warnings, etc., before taking the drastic action of suspending an account. Without knowing the exact reason this person's account was suspended, for all we know it could be a complete glitch.
If by strange you meant "bad", then I agree with you.
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Is there a tool to backup your google everything? If there isn't then what you're doing is called "taunting".
You can download some of your Google data using Google Takeout. It’s far from complete, but if you’re still using Google services, it doesn’t hurt to download a backup once in a while. The Data Liberation Front lists which services can be backed up, and how to do it: http://www.dataliberation.org/
EDIT: Although sadly it looks like Gmail is not part of Takeout :/
I would really, sincerely, love to reply with my opinion on this, what seems by the title at least, wonderful article. But unfortunately people do not seem to have decent enough of a hosting provider and/or server to survive the outcome of getting on the front page of HN and hence I am forced to see "Error establishing a database connection".
Back in the old days before VPS, websites would autoscale leading to huge and unprecedented bills. For example, I hosted a website that contained download links. One day the Chinese found out and hot-linking causing my server bill to jump from $5.95 to over $200. I was 12 and this made me sad.
Definitely a reason I have always paid for Gmail/Drive before it was that. But the actual reason is quite scary why it triggered the issue: "My data was intact save for the last thing I’d worked on–a spreadsheet containing a client’s account numbers and passwords. It seems that Google’s engineers determined this single document violated policy and locked down my entire account. My request to get that document back is…
I'm more appalled that he's storing his client's account passwords in a spreadsheet. It's ridiculously easy to accidentally share the wrong doc with the wrong people.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alright but then how do you safely store your important data? Imagine if the same thing happened with Dropbox (if you're using it).
If it happened with Dropbox, you would still have a local copy. Keep a backup on media you own. Or, at the very least, mirrored across different providers.