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Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is turning Drive into a much more robust backup tool. Soon, instead of files having to live inside of the Drive folder, Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to. That can include your desktop, your entire documents folder, or other more specific locations. The backup feature will come out later this month, on June 28th, in the form of a new app called Backup and Sync. In some other news, Box announced on Wednesday desktop apps for its storage service.

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  1. Nice try, NSA... by LordHighExecutioner · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but I prefer my NAS!

  2. Re:Then... by sinij · · Score: 3, Funny

    For some unknown reason, after backing up my "personal data" drive to Google, I started to get a lot of equestrian advertising.

  3. Backing up important data by sinij · · Score: 4, Funny

    This move by Google likely guarantees that porn would be sufficiently duplicated to survive collapse of our civilization.

  4. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh just stop with that nonsense! If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.

  5. Any folder? by apoc.famine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google will be able to monitor and backup files inside of any folder you point it to.

    Even /dev/urandom?

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