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Re:Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive by spacedog11 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:51PM (#20167367)
How can you trust your computer? What if your hard drive fails? How would you recover your photos then?
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Re:Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive by seanlane on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:22PM (#20167696)
Given his involvement, I'd imagine the answer would be https://relicabackup.com/
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Re:Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive by namanyayg on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:57PM (#20167418)
> "Since I do not trust any cloud service with the master/only copy"

All photos still exist in the cloud, backed up on a hard drive. Multiple copies are unlikely to fail at the same time.

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Re:Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive by doesnt_know on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:33PM (#20186445)
Cloud providers are notorious for automated systems that will lock you out of your account, with no recourse and no ability to talk to a human about it.
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Re:Google Photos will stop syncing to Drive by mrunseen on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:57PM (#20167420)
My guess would be RAID 1?
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