Originally Posted by atikovi
Originally Posted by uc50ic4more
Fellas, I am seeing a
WHOLE LOT of you listing Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. as your "backup" solutions; but please be aware that these are NOT backup services, they are *
synchronization* services. If your data becomes buggered at some point, that buggery will be *
synced* to the cloud immediately, presuming the sync service is running. Errant deletions, ransomware encryptions and overwrites will all sync. You want a backup that is **
decoupled** from your other copies of data.
Don't understand what you're saying. Synchronization? Buggered? Decoupled? I have Google Drive. If I want to backup something, I have to go to my Google Drive and copy and paste the files from my computer that I want to backup, into the Drive.
Yes, and then if you screw up the data (errantly deleted it, overwrote it with something errant, corrupted it, etc.) you've "backed up" to Google Drive, that screw-up syncs to the Google Drive version (and cascades also to all other devices syncing via that Google account). Google Drive is not a backup - it is a synchronized copy. You mess up your data, your messed up data gets synchronized.
Backups need to be decoupled.
If that it still not making sense, try these:
https://www.howtogeek.com/346265/whats-the-difference-between-cloud-file-syncing-and-cloud-backup/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/sync-vs-backup-vs-storage/