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0 pointsdanjl1y ago0 comments

There's are several third party Google backup services for the paranoid...

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p_l1y ago

It's not about backups - it's about loss of ongoing use infrastructure

danjlOP1y ago

The backup mitigates the problem because, if you are banned, which only happens to fools and fakes, you can take the backup and set it up on another service. Sure, you lose a couple of days of time migrating, but that's not a reason to avoid choosing a better solution.

serial_dev1y ago

A couple of days migrating can be a 100K+ outage in lost work if you have around 50 employees.

And for this estimation, I’m really taking your word that migrating 50 people in an emergency is really going to take only a couple of days, which I honestly don’t believe.

Sure, if you get a business account for your solo business, a backup will save you. If you have more people or a non trivial Google setup, the backup recovery is it’s on challenge while you could be working on your business if they didn’t, in this hypothetical but very possible scenario, lock you out of your business tools.

gertop1y ago

> if you are banned, which only happens to fools and fakes

If that is truly how you feel then I pity the fools who give you their business.

justinclift1y ago

> which only happens to fools and fakes

Lots of people have directly stated otherwise. Are you super sure they're wrong?

frmfrm1y ago

it can happen to you

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