Imagine keeping your only copies of files on google drive of all things… do people not know how to do proper backups?
No, they really don’t.
Never forget,“the cloud” is just someone else’s computer.
need a backup of a backup these days
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.
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*
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.
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
time to double check my backups
No Backup, No mercy
Two is one, and one is none.
What does this mean?
Sweep the single point of failure, Johnny
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.
I was affected!! It’s so strange, first time something like this happened to me, it’s like I won a local lottery or something, don’t know what to feel now.
All my newer files are still there, but the older ones and all bin, zip, tar and 7zip are not there anymore.
So glad I started the homelab / self-hosted thing a few weeks ago, I have copies of everything locally on multiple storages.
As the stickied post said, we shouldn’t rely on cloud storage because X, Y, and Z but good god the whole point of these companies buying out missile silos, building in tons of redundancy, etc. was to prevent this shit. Google’s billions are no better than my $500 NAS, it would appear.
Google’s billions are no better than my $500 NAS, it would appear.
It probably is still better. They have a billion users. Not saying this is not bad, they have one job and it should not happen. But Ive lost equipment at home for different reasons even though raid, surge protection etc etc. I doubt I statisticly could do better.
Not with that attitude you won’t! You need multiple redundant RAID arrays with their own redundant RAID arrays to assert your dominance over data loss.
Were you using the Drive Desktop client?
Not now, i installed it a couple of times before but never actively used it, nor do I have it installed at the moment on any machine, besides my android.
Do you have any tips or tutorials to begin the homelab/self hosting?
Between this and the ZFS bug, a lot of people are having a bad week
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
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).
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.
