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Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 11 months ago by haxor@derp.foo to c/hackernews@derp.foo

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[–] Savaran@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While shitty of Google, let this be your daily reminder to have multiple backups, in different places, of anything you deem important.

[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 11 months ago

I don't think it's quite that simple to have multiple backups of almost 250TB of data. And even then, it says that all his computer equipment was seized by the FBI over some bogus legal claims, so even if he did have local backups, losing those was out of his control.

[–] FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

This happened to me, too. Luckily I was only using Google as a backup, not my primary storage.

Google can go play in a microwave.