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<blockquote data-quote="wht93gted" data-source="post: 14231732" data-attributes="member: 137363"><p>Well, I haven't used Google Drive in a year or two, but basically what you did was create a folder on your computer and designate it as a drive folder. Meaning, everything you put into that folder, would be synched\mirrored\put into your Google Drive cloud account. I think you get about 15GB free, over that, you start paying. </p><p></p><p>But it relies on you copying the files you want saved into that folder on your local machine. If you delete something from there, it gets deleted from the cloud site too (moved into trash, and deleted after some time). They do offer encryption, but your files are encrypted as they're uploaded, using Google supplied key; meaning, at any time, they could decrypt your information since they posses the key.</p><p></p><p>With something like CrashPlan, you install the software on your computer. Then you configure which directories\folders to backup. So if you already have a large config, you can just point-click which things get backed up. You can use 448bit encryption, with your own custom key that never leaves the computer, meaning they could never decrypt your data; ever. HOWEVER, you lose that key, the data is gone, there's no way to get it back. It also has deduplication built in, meaning you don't back up the same files more than once. Sometimes you make have the same pic\video in more than 1 place on your computer, it will only get backed up once. You can schedule backups to happen automatically, on content change, etc. To run backups with Google drive, you need 3rd party software like duplicati or something (there's a few).</p><p></p><p>Example, my home PC, I have a separate HDD which stores all my pics. My CrashPlan is configured for the 'e:\' and thats it. Anytime I offload pics, the Canon utils will put them in 'E:\date' folder, and CrashPlan will just start backing it up. If I turn off my computer before it's done, it just stops. When I turn it back on, it picks up where it left off. I can access those pics from my phone (using app), or other PC. It also backs up to my external HDD at the same time. So I have cloud and local copies.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wht93gted, post: 14231732, member: 137363"] Well, I haven't used Google Drive in a year or two, but basically what you did was create a folder on your computer and designate it as a drive folder. Meaning, everything you put into that folder, would be synched\mirrored\put into your Google Drive cloud account. I think you get about 15GB free, over that, you start paying. But it relies on you copying the files you want saved into that folder on your local machine. If you delete something from there, it gets deleted from the cloud site too (moved into trash, and deleted after some time). They do offer encryption, but your files are encrypted as they're uploaded, using Google supplied key; meaning, at any time, they could decrypt your information since they posses the key. With something like CrashPlan, you install the software on your computer. Then you configure which directories\folders to backup. So if you already have a large config, you can just point-click which things get backed up. You can use 448bit encryption, with your own custom key that never leaves the computer, meaning they could never decrypt your data; ever. HOWEVER, you lose that key, the data is gone, there's no way to get it back. It also has deduplication built in, meaning you don't back up the same files more than once. Sometimes you make have the same pic\video in more than 1 place on your computer, it will only get backed up once. You can schedule backups to happen automatically, on content change, etc. To run backups with Google drive, you need 3rd party software like duplicati or something (there's a few). Example, my home PC, I have a separate HDD which stores all my pics. My CrashPlan is configured for the 'e:\' and thats it. Anytime I offload pics, the Canon utils will put them in 'E:\date' folder, and CrashPlan will just start backing it up. If I turn off my computer before it's done, it just stops. When I turn it back on, it picks up where it left off. I can access those pics from my phone (using app), or other PC. It also backs up to my external HDD at the same time. So I have cloud and local copies. [/QUOTE]
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