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Ha. Amateurs. I disappeared YEARS of my files by self-hosting.

I've used MEGA for about 6 years now, previously Dropbox. I switched after Dropbox lost over 2TB of my data.

MEGA hasn't lost my data but something glitched on their side and duplicated every file, and with the amount of data I had in there it wasn't feasible to manually fix. So I had to delete everything and start again.

I have all my cloud data stored on a NAS at home, that is backed up to a second NAS decice, a MEGA sync client running on home server keeps it all in sync to the cloud. I selectively sync folders from MEGA on different devices, or access files directly from the MEGA app when remote, or work with the local copy of my data when connected to home LAN. At least MEGA works cross platform, and MEGAcmd for Linux allows easy scripting and other automation possibilities.

All commercial cloud storage has one major problem, your files are hostage to their increasing subscription fees (which will always increase because capitalism). e.g. I was paying $60 a year with Dropbox, if I were still using it, it would be $140 a year now - and I'd have no choice but to keep paying.

Perfect example of why letting some company that doesn't give two shits about you, hold your important documents or whatever is a stupid idea...cloud storage is inherently bad and no company can be trusted more then storing your own data at home on a secure drive or two.

I switched to Sync because Google Drive reports that all my files are synced when they are not. There is no way to correct it or force Drive to upload the missing files and there's no way to know when it is lying. I had to constantly check manually, which was a pain in the ass. They lied constantly.

Sync.com has been excellent. They are cheaper, easier to use and do everything Google Drive did, including sharing folders for uploads and downloads with non-subscribers (which even Dropbox can't do). Oh, and they don't fucking lie. Fuck Google.

Self-hosting my files with Nextcloud and couldn't be happier

I've been migrating away from Google, little by little. Drive is my next step, I think.

What do people use to have backups of their google drive content?

Imagine losing your beloved dog's last photos just cuz you decided to back them up onto someone else's computer.

Glad I took all my stuff out of Google Drive

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some posters on the company's support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.

There is little information regarding what has happened; some users reported that synchronization had simply stopped working, so the cloud storage was out of date.

Others could get some of their information back by fiddling with cached files, although the limited advice on offer for the affected was to leave things well alone until engineers come up with a solution.

A message purporting to be from Google support also advised not to make changes to the root/data folder while engineers investigat the issue.

European cloud hosting provider OVH suffered a disastrous fire in 2021 that left some customers scrambling for backups and disaster recovery plans.

Earlier in 2023, the company's europe-west9 region took a shower after water made its presence felt inside a Parisian Google Cloud datacenter.

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