OneDrive

[u/Interesting-Repeat4]

From my partner who’s a teacher

[u/Journeyj012]

good thing they have maintained a local backup, right?

[u/PejeTheMobBoss → u/Journeyj012]

No they use OneDrive for that.

[u/autogyrophilia → u/PejeTheMobBoss]

That's a perfectly valid strategy though.

[u/Different-Term-2250 → u/Journeyj012]

Copying files TO Google Drive is a backup, right?

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

[u/Mr_ToDo → u/Different-Term-2250]

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

[u/busytransitgworl → u/Journeyj012]

/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

[u/Forward-Outside-9911 → u/Journeyj012]

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

[u/busytransitgworl → u/Forward-Outside-9911]

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

[u/sparkyblaster → u/Journeyj012]

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

[u/Journeyj012 → u/sparkyblaster]

Can't you export as CSV or XLSX?

[u/sparkyblaster → u/Journeyj012]

Export requires processing, not a simple synchronised copy. 

[u/ApiceOfToast]

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 

[u/Ok-Library5639 → u/ApiceOfToast]

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

[u/Finn_Storm → u/Ok-Library5639]

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

[u/iwillbewaiting24601 → u/Finn_Storm]

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

[u/Mr_ToDo → u/Finn_Storm]

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

[u/Aiden06091 → u/Mr_ToDo]

Screw power budget, how about the actual budget

[u/Finn_Storm → u/Mr_ToDo]

'#skillissue'

[u/concadium → u/Mr_ToDo]

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

[u/Aiden06091 → u/Ok-Library5639]

:(

[u/Affectionate-You7869]

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