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Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.