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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. 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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    1. 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.

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

    ...but I prefer my NAS!

  5. 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: 3, Funny

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

    2. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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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