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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One of our departments at work keeps all of its documentation in Google Drive. We audited them a while back where they were pleased to report that yes, they do back up a copy of it frequently.

Except all they were backing up was the links to the documents. If the drive ever disappeared so would the data.

That was a learning experience, that's for sure.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I am genuinely terrified by some people their tech illiteracy

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

In fairness, when you carry out that backup Google seem to word it such that you do believe that you're downloading the actual files.

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

I guess that makes it better on the users part and just makes it a classic Google "fuck you"

What's the backups purpose even, than? To get the links to multiple files at once or something? I don't really get why you would want that