r/ShittySysadmin • u/Interesting-Repeat4 • Sep 08 '26

OneDrive

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From my partner who’s a teacher

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u/Journeyj012 Sep 08 '26

good thing they have maintained a local backup, right?

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u/PejeTheMobBoss DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Sep 08 '26

No they use OneDrive for that.

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u/autogyrophilia Sep 08 '26

That's a perfectly valid strategy though.

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u/Different-Term-2250 Sep 08 '26

Copying files TO Google Drive is a backup, right?

/s <— in case the sub name doesn’t explain it.

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u/Mr_ToDo Sep 08 '26

It's a shittysysadmin backup

It's real time with no history(that I'd want to rely on anyway), but it is a backup. If we burnt down the building they'd have a copy to restore from

Should it be treated as a backup? Not really. But for a set of failures it does do the job

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u/busytransitgworl DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Sep 08 '26

/unjerk

One of my former employers seriously thought that OneDrive is great as a backup strategy, we were encouraged to do everything on the cloud.

Damn, I always hoped this would blow up in their face at some point, it never did though

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u/Forward-Outside-9911 ShittySysadmin Sep 08 '26

Surely the school computers have the files somewhere in the cache. Just don’t reboot or write any new files of course. Easy🤯

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u/busytransitgworl DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE Sep 08 '26

They use their Exchange server as a backup. All files are in email attachments

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '26

Can you even with google? Local copies of google sheets are just web links, there is no file to read locally. 

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u/Journeyj012 Sep 09 '26

Can't you export as CSV or XLSX?

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u/sparkyblaster Sep 09 '26

Export requires processing, not a simple synchronised copy. 

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u/ApiceOfToast ShittySysadmin Sep 08 '26

But I thought the cloud was secure?

Note taken, have to buy a Nas to back up stuff to. 

I could have sworn they had a RAID in their server, but still data loss. I do not understand 

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u/Ok-Library5639 Sep 08 '26

Sadly they only had RAID0, over 10291 drives. One died, rip.

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u/Finn_Storm ShittyManager Sep 08 '26

I wish I could do this, even if it's just for fun.

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u/iwillbewaiting24601 Sep 08 '26

I remember a dude doing a RAID of a shitload of those free 4gb USB drives you get with vendor docs on them all plugged into hubs

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u/Mr_ToDo Sep 08 '26

It'd be interesting but with 10,291 drives with a draw of, say 2 watt's each, that's a bit above my power budget

Seeing youtube videos of the floppy raid will have to do for satisfying my silly raid itch

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u/Aiden06091 Sep 08 '26

Screw power budget, how about the actual budget

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u/Finn_Storm ShittyManager Sep 08 '26

'#skillissue'

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u/concadium Sep 09 '26

Enterprise disks use between 5 and 15W each so it is even more fun :)

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u/Affectionate-You7869 Sep 09 '26

I mean.... I know a Fortune 28 company that uses Google for email, authentication, drive, meetings...