[gumby]

If only Google Drive's app actually worked reliably (see the discussion from the day before yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14732023 -- "It's been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me") this might be worth trying out.

Since they can't even reliably sync the Drive folders they claim they can, who would trust their "backup" of the rest of the system?

[dkonofalski]

Just like the discussion in that post, that user is such a far out edge case that it's just flat out disingenuous to say that the Google Drive app doesn't work reliably. It's not perfect, but it works for 99.9% of the people using it. 700,000 files at more than 2TB is not the typical use case for Google Drive.

[gumby]

The backup case is of the same scale as the original poster's situation.

My team found it unreliable for much smaller directories as well. 6 people, 6 independently unhappy with it. It was only on a conference call when we realized we were looking at different copies of files that we all complained of the same symptoms. Anecdote rather than data, I admit, but it's disturbing that each of us silently assumed we were the only ones having trouble.

(FWIW we stuck to google for realtime shared docs, but moved to DB for general file storage, including spreadsheets and presentations)