Yuuuup... another reason why I'm glad to have spent nearly the GDP of a small country on my own NAS and backup drives...
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Between this and the ZFS bug, a lot of people are having a bad week
The people in there are acting like they only uploaded their files to Google Drive? Is "I'll dump all my files on that one place" a common practice? I know it might be mainstream, but one guy says his company's files were only on there..How is something so important to you just backed up into one place? Not even locally? These commenters in that support thread are very odd.
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No Backup, No mercy
When you're performing a backup, a backup alarm (like on certain vehicles) should be sounding. That would remind you of what's happening.
Ehh better to nag when something goes wrong rather than expecting me to notice something suddenly isn't there.
...and on top of this, also something that repeatedly warns when a successful backup wasn't performed within the last X days.
As sometimes the issue is that the backup just never triggered to start in the first place.
Also saves time looking into old warnings that have since come good.
Sucks that so many systems don't do this. I ended up writing my own thing that wraps all my cronjobs etc, and sends the exitcode + output to one of my web servers. Every type of "checkin" has an expiry period so that it's marked as an "expired" form of failure if it just hasn't been heard from within X hours/days.
Currently got 870 things doing regular checkins. Really sucked handling that in the past just using emails, which didn't even get sent if the thing didn't run in the first place, and didn't tell me not to bother looking into it if it was already working again since the email sent.
Two is one, and one is none.
What does this mean?
Sweep the single point of failure, Johnny
I wonder if this is just consumer accounts and if workspace accounts are affected or not.
I think in the sysadmin sub some people were talking about data loss in their workspace accounts but I could be delusional
What does "consumer" and "workspace" mean in this context? "Google Workspace" pops up now whenever I start Gmail, so I figured it's just their new branding, but now I don't know what the difference is here.
Paid organizational e-mail with a custom domain vs. free private e-mail with @gmail.com address.
Thanks
Really interested when we, hopefully, read the press statement from them regarding how much data was lost, even temporarily!
Almost no chance of that ever happening.
time to double check my backups
Do we know if there's a way for me to check if I've been effected without trying to download every file I have on Drive?
Believe the files are just gone
Not your keys, not your coins. Wait, where am I?
r/CoinHoarder
Not your filing cabinet, not your files?
How about 'Not Your Drive, Not Your Data'?
This is it. This is our mantra now.
I bet there's at least one idiot out their with their bitcoin wallet stored on Google drive, and didn't bother to write down the seed...
Buttcoin moment
Good reminder to back mine up.
Yup, doing a full local backup of all my Google data now. GDrive client hasn't been syncing for a few days on a couple of my machines for a couple weeks, but everything looks to be there.
It was only a matter of time considering how these companies consider consumers necessary pests and put the least possible effort in their services that are consumer facing.
Im glad I got rid of that stupid ass desktop app but gotta go check my drive now… well i backed up data there just recently, hope its safe in both places
So from the rest of the comments it seems to be the desktop client. That thing is a bit of a dog of a program to be honest. I have a couple of offsite backups. I think I will keep them as archival moving forward and get even more backup drives. Anyone know a good tool I can use on a mac to compare my old backups with my current drive contents to check for missing folders / files? I use freefilesync at the moment to backup my plex library, I suppose that would be a good place to start?
I use the client but only for streaming files, not sync. Maybe I'm in the clear?
What's really scary is that even if it's just a fraction of a percent, it's still tens or hundreds of TB of what's stored there. *SHUDDER*
News reports coming in.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/
Makes you go...Hmmmm... LOL
Not really. Google has been getting progressively worse at search for years. The results were probably there, you just didn't see them under all the ads and sponsored results (AKA more ads).
i have noticed in 2022 that some of my files have disappeared from Google Drive. It’s happening because of toxic 2020 purge
THERE ARE ONLY 2 FILES ON MY DRIVE LEFT WTF. Luckily i don't think i ACTUALLY lost anything, but what the hell!
*its
This happened to me on aws last night. We woke up at all our database instances are deleted
Imagine keeping your only copies of files on google drive of all things... do people not know how to do proper backups?
Yep, the cloud is always going to be more reliable than self hosted.
Mhmmm.....yep.....right....
Amazing website. I'm unable to load the last 10 messages. It says it loads them sucessfully but it does nothing.
Never forget,"the cloud" is just someone else's computer.
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