Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by Grishnakh on Friday July 15, 2016 @03:55PM (#12103419)

>Hell, I've hosted most of my personal domains' email accounts via Google. A few months ago one of them was deleted. I never really used the email, but I certainly had things on their I would like to have for posterity.

That's what you get for not making backups. This isn't rocket science. You're using someone else's free service, and they have zero obligation to continue to provide that service to you. Even if they didn't intentionally delete your account, mistakes do happen sometimes. Who actually thinks it's a good idea to keep only one copy of data that you value? Especially on a site with the name "Hacker News"? Do hackers these days not understand backups?

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by 67726e on Saturday July 16, 2016 @12:13AM (#12105207)

Maybe I'm just a lazy fuck? I know backups, I get it, but you know what? I'm human.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by bigB on Saturday July 16, 2016 @05:18AM (#12105756)

A very very lazy human if you cant backup for 14 years....i hate mowing my lawn or doing my shopping but i have to do it. Going to work each day is a chore but somehow it happens...being lazy and human is the poorest excuse ive heard for not backing up over such a long period of time, and I deal with data loss whiners every day. If you dont want to lose it, make a copy, end of story.

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Re:Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work by sctb on Sunday July 17, 2016 @03:41PM (#12111448)

Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News.

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