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Mechanical or SSD for offsite storage that’s updated at least yearly? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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I have about 100gb and growing that is critical for my business. File size growth is slow, so it will be years and years before it even gets to 200gb.

I have multiple local copies and a copy in google drive, but I want to leave a hard drive at my mother-in-law’s house.

I only want 2.5 form factor or smaller as my mother-in-law will be carrying it here when she comes to visit us on the city.

I’m not sure what the recommendation is. I’m not a millionaire, I’m just freelance. So, I’d like to minimize cost.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Google Drive does not count as cloud backup, especially for something business-critical.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    On its own, no, but it can be used, like any cloud storage solution, as part of a robust backup strategy. Particularly, if the desktop sync feature is enabled, every client machine that has the sync application installed will download and synchronise the contents of the Google Drive locally. If the Google Drive servers go kaput this still means you've essentially got several off-site backup copies of the data on Google Drive.

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