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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. I could use this! by GameboyRMH · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is something I could use every day...when pointed to reverse encFS mounts, that is ;-)

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  2. No. by mrdogi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, no it won't.

  3. Privacy? by GLMDesigns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wonder how much of your data will be parsed, stored, collated and available to the IRS, NSA and others at their discretion?

    Wish such thoughts were tin-foil conspiracy type things.

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    1. Re:Privacy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. -- Richelieu