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Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished

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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

And my wife wonders why I asked for an 8 TB NAS drive for Christmas.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

You're putting all your files on a single drive? You said nas, but then singular version of the word drive.

Make sure you have multiple drives with your data, and then take that and back it up to something like backblaze if you want your files to be safe.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Even a ZFS mirror is better then nothing

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed, some sort of mirror, raid or zfs. Sure a raid is not a backup, but it'd certainly better to resync a new drive than to have to figure out everyth9ng that was on the drive and start downloading them all again. Assuming the original posts or torrents Eben still exist.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Important files and Docker configs have a copy on Google Drive also, and everything else is ultimately unimportant and can be recovered (yarr). GDrive and the local drive are copies of each other for what would actually be a pain to lose. I'm avoiding a full thorough NAS machine setup because I already get weird looks for the basics I have now!

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