Yeah, stuff like this is glad I didn’t immediately start putting everything on Drive like they want us to at my job now. I do everything on my iPad and computer, then upload a copy to Drive. Having to work with Classroom daily has made me lose all trust in Google stuff, I swear.
2 Different Media. Think Cloud vs HDD vs NAS vs CD vs Thumb Drive
1 Off-site. Typically the cloud but you can use another physical location so long as it isn’t likely to be affected by the same disaster (read: fire, flood).
If you follow the three rules - no single event can destroy your data.
But if you want to talk about probabilities - this is the one time Google Drive has lost a significant amount of data in 11 Years. Millions of local storage devices in the form of iPads and Computers have died while Google Drive has been alive.
Right ,I guess I meant no single event where you would care about that data afterwards.
A massive solar flare could destroy all digital data on the entire planet, and send us back into the stone age. Hundreds of thousands would die. Suddenly those TPS report backups won’t be as important as you thought they were.
Yeah, stuff like this is glad I didn’t immediately start putting everything on Drive like they want us to at my job now. I do everything on my iPad and computer, then upload a copy to Drive. Having to work with Classroom daily has made me lose all trust in Google stuff, I swear.
The rule to backups is 3-2-1.
3 Total Copies.
2 Different Media. Think Cloud vs HDD vs NAS vs CD vs Thumb Drive
1 Off-site. Typically the cloud but you can use another physical location so long as it isn’t likely to be affected by the same disaster (read: fire, flood).
If you follow the three rules - no single event can destroy your data.
But if you want to talk about probabilities - this is the one time Google Drive has lost a significant amount of data in 11 Years. Millions of local storage devices in the form of iPads and Computers have died while Google Drive has been alive.
Chicxulub impactor disagrees
Right ,I guess I meant no single event where you would care about that data afterwards.
A massive solar flare could destroy all digital data on the entire planet, and send us back into the stone age. Hundreds of thousands would die. Suddenly those TPS report backups won’t be as important as you thought they were.
“But youre still coming in to work on monday, right?”