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

Posted by msmash on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:10AM 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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Re:Then... by flargleblarg · 2017-06-14 09:47 · Score: 2, Informative

So to have Google backup all my computer data? No thanks.
Google cannot "backup" your data.

"Backup" is a noun. You do a backup. Do do not backup something.

"Back up" is the verb you want. You back up something. Google backs up all your computer data.