UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.

The issue has been rumbling for a few days, with one user logging into Google Drive and finding things as they were in May 2023.

  • GonzoVeritas
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    1 year ago

    Google is fine for most people, but it shouldn’t be the sole backup. If you don’t have (at least) 3 separate instances of a backup, you don’t really have a reliable backup strategy. Preferably an onsite hard backup, an offsite hard backup, and a cloud backup.

    • @Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOP
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      131 year ago

      I know quite a few tech oriented people and I don’t know anyone who actually has the holy trinity of backups. I know quite a few who have physical backups at home and cloud though.

      • @cybersandwich@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I do.*

        • I have never restored from my off-site because who the fuck as a spare nas with decent storage or bandwidth to do that??
    • @theherk@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Considering data durability for some data services are providing 11 9’s, just two of those leads to extremely high durability. So to say that is unreliable is just not reasonable. I have no problem with being risk averse but that is a bit extreme.