• djdarren@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    One of our departments at work keeps all of its documentation in Google Drive. We audited them a while back where they were pleased to report that yes, they do back up a copy of it frequently.

    Except all they were backing up was the links to the documents. If the drive ever disappeared so would the data.

    That was a learning experience, that’s for sure.

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        15 hours ago

        In fairness, when you carry out that backup Google seem to word it such that you do believe that you’re downloading the actual files.

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          9 hours ago

          I guess that makes it better on the users part and just makes it a classic Google “fuck you”

          What’s the backups purpose even, than? To get the links to multiple files at once or something? I don’t really get why you would want that