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by klingon78 1933 days ago
Not on purpose at least.

In early evolution of Drive when I was using Google for backups with their client, which was called something else that I’ve forgotten, one day when I tried to delete or overwrite something, it corrupted all of the data and it was lost. I was glad I had a different backup, and I’ve been spoiled since then by Drive because it’s not failed in past years.

Keeping another backup offline is critical.

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>Keeping another backup offline is critical.

It boggles my mind that people have to even be told this. Keeping your only copies of anything on anyones service is a bad idea.

Convenient - but a HORRIBLE idea. You would think the 90's photo sharing site fiascos would have driven this home but I guess many have short memories?

A surprising number of people who are adults now were still children in the '90s.