- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.
The issue has been rumbling for a few days, with one user logging into Google Drive and finding things as they were in May 2023.
What do people use to have backups of their google drive content?
My devices 🤣
Unfortunately I’ve read reports it’s actively syncing deletions to devices.
A regular portable hard drive?
I use rclone and a backup script to periodically download my Google drive contents to a portable external hard drive
Backblaze B2, which I’m pretty sure is a repackaged S3 provider, or you can just skip them and go directly to AWS S3; though, both aren’t drag and drop user friendly like onedrive or gdrive. But both work well if you invest a little time with something like rclone.
Backblaze B2 is S3 compatible but not built on S3. B2 is also considerably cheaper than S3, so it probably wouldn’t make sense if it was built on S3.
Thanks, I was wondering why the s3 prefixes were used. If my memory serves, b2 is especially better on the billing rates for retrieval, so a better choice if large disaster recovery is on your mind.
OneDrive