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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. Then... by sycodon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...they will examine it all for clues to provide targeted advertising.

    Next will be looking for hate speech and porn and reporting it to the authorities.

    No thanks.

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  2. Re:No thanks... by enjar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What happens when your house floods, catches fire, electrical storm fries the machine, RAID controller fails and writes gibberish, OS update goes sideways, you fat finger an rm command, etc? Offsite backups can be very useful. Maybe you don't push everything offsite but there's probably a class of data you'd like to know will survive when something happens to your freenas.

  3. Android first, maybe? by Imazalil · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So, um, maybe Google could actually roll this out to android first so that users have a proper full device backup. Just an idea?

    Also, Yay, now both Microsoft & Google get all may data.