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.
The shortcut on the desktop isn’t the same thing as the program (but it can be if someone did something inadvisable). Gah.
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.
I am genuinely terrified by some people their tech illiteracy
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.
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