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by ajsnigrutin 938 days ago
The main idea of a backup is to have a >COPY< of your data backed up somewhere... if the only copy is on google drive, you have no backup at all.
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whatwhaaaaat 938 days ago
I don’t think you understand this issue at all. The issue is that the backup utility deleted local files.
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Ferret7446 938 days ago
If it's under a sync utility, it's not really a copy. The point of a backup is if something happens to one copy, you still have the other copy.

If you have sync enabled, then if the cloud copy gets deleted (e.g., account compromise), so does your local "copy".

So GP's point stands.

(This is also why Syncthing, a Google Drive "replacement" of sorts, is careful to point out that it is not a backup)

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whatwhaaaaat 938 days ago
Remind me the last time rsync (without a doubt a sync utility) purged someone’s local files?

We figured out these problems 20+ years ago.

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rcxdude 935 days ago
If you set up bidirectional sync with rsync in a manner similar to google drive, you absolutely can wipe out the local copies as well. Backup utilities should generally be set up to only go in one direction, as opposed to both.
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