Google Drive Will Soon Back up Any File or Folder on Your Computer

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Starting June 28th, Google will make it easy to automatically back up your hard drive with an update to their Drive app called “Backup and Sync.” Instead of having to upload files to Drive, the process will be a lot more straightforward: users may merely select the folders they wish to back up, and everything will sync to Google Drive. Unfortunately, 1 TB of storage still costs $99.99 a year.

On June 28th, 2017, we will launch Backup and Sync from Google, a tool intended to help everyday users back up files and photos from their computers, so they’re safe and accessible from anywhere. Backup and Sync is the latest version of Google Drive for Mac/PC, which is now integrated with the Google Photos desktop uploader. As such, it will respect any current Drive for Mac/PC settings in the Admin console.
 
Jim Kim said:
"Don't be evil", well that didn't last long.
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You can't keep that mantra when your corrupted from within, especially when the government comes and says they want a backdoor to everything and you have no choice in the matter.
 
schizo said:
You can get unlimited (literally unlimited) storage if you have your own domain and sign up to GSuite for Business at $10/month. I have over 8 TB in my GDrive.
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Currently shows "Unlimited cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)" on that plan. :(
 
Awesome idea, but no thanks. Wonder if your backup will become searchable on Google. ouch.
 
Doesn't seem like a deal to me.


for backup, I just pay Crashplan $50/year for unlimited for my main machine, and have my other machines back up TO my main machine which in turn gets backed up to Crashplan.

I currently have 3.3TB sitting on CrashPlan.

I do wish the software wasn't so damn goofy though
 
I don't understand these backup services, just buy an external hard drive for less than 50 bucks and be done.
 
Galvin said:
I don't understand these backup services, just buy an external hard drive for less than 50 bucks and be done.
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It's off-site backup which is part of a well balanced backup plan. If you go the external drives route, you'd be swapping externals (one would go to cold storage), for a similar level of protection.
 
Been fine doing this for the last 20 years, dont need offsite. You're just wasting money. Maybe if you're a business it makes sense. Also upload is so slow, meh to me its just a waste of money.
 
Galvin said:
Been fine doing this for the last 20 years, dont need offsite. You're just wasting money. Maybe if you're a business it makes sense. Also upload is so slow, meh to me its just a waste of money.
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Hope you never have a fire. Or flood. Or a flaky drive that fails when you go to restore.

Multiple layers of backup are a good idea no matter who you are.

If you don't feel your data is important enough to recover, then by all means, don't back it up. But keep in mind while that external drive is connected, it is also liable to get encrypted with ransomware.
 
BigJayDogg3 said:
Hope you never have a fire. Or flood. Or a flaky drive that fails when you go to restore.

Multiple layers of backup are a good idea no matter who you are.

If you don't feel your data is important enough to recover, then by all means, don't back it up. But keep in mind while that external drive is connected, it is also liable to get encrypted with ransomware.
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I'm very anti cloud. I just dont trust a 3rd party with my data. Everyone is so fixated on a cloud, till the cloud service gets scewed then you're screwed. But what ever. use a safety deposit box then. Still better than cloud imo.
 
The Google philosophy: Past, present, and future...

Past: Don't be evil

Present: Do the right thing

Future: Do something
 
Nukester said:
Awesome idea, but no thanks. Wonder if your backup will become searchable on Google. ouch.
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Of course it will, that's practically part of the ToS for such cloud based storage services nowadays, but there's nothing stopping you from encrypting your content locally with whatever product(s) you wish to use then dumping it on Drive at a later time.
 
Galvin said:
Been fine doing this for the last 20 years, dont need offsite. You're just wasting money. Maybe if you're a business it makes sense. Also upload is so slow, meh to me its just a waste of money.
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Not when you have FIOS Gigabit :)
 
NAXDON said:
The Google philosophy: Past, present, and future...

Past: Don't be evil

Present: Don't, be evil

Future: Government restrictions forbid you asking our philosophy
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Fixed for you.

As for cloud backups, their are workable solutions out there using your own reaources. Most people are just too cheap and lazy to seek them out and employ them.
 
No it won't. If I have any say in it. And no cloud storage for that matter.
 
Galvin said:
I'm very anti cloud. I just dont trust a 3rd party with my data. Everyone is so fixated on a cloud, till the cloud service gets scewed then you're screwed. But what ever. use a safety deposit box then. Still better than cloud imo.
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I was too, but the simple fact is the cloud server is statistically much safer. Especially if you are encrypting it yourself so they cannot even access it, just storing it for you and providing access.

As for google drive... Eh, no thanks...
 
I use netdrive as netdrive uses all of my "3MB/s" upload bandwidth to upload to gdrive vs google drives 700KB/s upload limit.

They need to fix that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I upload to google drive at 90 megabytes/sec on my fiber connection. Your poor upload speeds aren't on google's side.

Also for those concerned about google reading your files, I use rclone to transparently encrypt my data and mount the encrypted drive, rather than using the google drive software to sync to it.

https://rclone.org/
 
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