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Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Backblaze B2, which I'm pretty sure is a repackaged S3 provider, or you can just skip them and go directly to AWS S3; though, both aren't drag and drop user friendly like onedrive or gdrive. But both work well if you invest a little time with something like rclone.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Backblaze B2 is S3 compatible but not built on S3. B2 is also considerably cheaper than S3, so it probably wouldn’t make sense if it was built on S3.

[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Correct, Backblaze is their own host and post on their blog often about their tech and processes. They've got a lot of good info on how they designed their server storage racks and stats on drive failures by brand etc

[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I was wondering why the s3 prefixes were used. If my memory serves, b2 is especially better on the billing rates for retrieval, so a better choice if large disaster recovery is on your mind.