Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes

Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by meibo on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:52AM (#26193749)

I don't think you can complain about this while using your school-supplied account for that much private data.

Seems acceptable for schools to start enforcing acceptable-use policies that exclude using these accounts for anything but schoolwork if it saves money and resources to spend on other things.

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Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by vangelis on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:38AM (#26194886)

Before abundant cloud storage somebody with internship money had to buy their own NAS. Kids these days.

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Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by WillSlim95 on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:30PM (#26196258)

As a masters student,I am seriously considering doing that since I don't want to depend on streaming and cloud backups anymore.

Any pointers good sir/mam on how to have their own physical backups? Like NAS and others?

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Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by kylehotchkiss on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:21PM (#26196882)

Synology NAS. Seagate Ironwolf hard drives are a good pairing. You can setup your NAS to backup to AWS Deep Glacier or GCP equivalent so you have redundancy still.

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Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by vangelis on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:49PM (#26200649)

Synology is good out of the box. I have a custom-ish U-NAS case.

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Re:Google Workspace for Education storage policy changes by ghaff on Monday March 01, 2021 @12:11PM (#26305089)

Note that RAID isn't a replacement for backups. Personally, I just use USB-connected drives, Time Machine backups (on a Mac), and Backblaze for a secondary cloud backup.

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