> Not really, it's mostly frequency illusion hanging out on HN, but considering Google has multi-billion users, those dozen or so incidents are nothing in comparison. Consumers will only realize this at the point they are fucked and trying to restore their data. Google Backup & Sync is a fucking joke, and Google should be ashamed of themselves for releasing such a shitty product which does not actually help consumers protect against data loss. You won't be able to drag them into your "Google Drive" folder as a workaround either. The Backup & Sync client won't even attempt to download these files, even if you try the dead-end workarounds suggested on the web. The web interface will simply time out when you try to download them. If they are backed up under "My Computer" in Google Drive and you have a decent amount of data (50GB+), you will have no way to restore these files. The files in Google Drive seem to be the only way to "restore" a large amount of files after a data loss event. I had to stop backing up "My Computer" with Backup & Sync and just switched to using Google Drive. It simply does not handle any significant amount of data well. If you are relying on Google Backup & Sync to restore a large amount of data after a data loss event, you are in for a world of pain and disappointment. In my setup, these irreplaceable photos & videos exist on my phone, Google, my desktop, my NAS, and Backblaze. Then I use Google Backup & Sync to create a local copy on my desktop, scheduled SyncToy job to copy it to the NAS, and the NAS has a scheduled job to backup to Backblaze B2. I had to switch to using a third party app to sync my "photo reel" from my phone to Google Drive. However, they got rid of that feature some time in the last year. They used to sync them to Google Drive, so you could at least use Backup & Sync to have local copies. Google Backup & Sync makes it very cumbersome to retain a local copy of your photos. I'm not using Windows for more than a decade so, I don't know anything on that front. Gemini also has similarity search so it can deduplicate similar photos. On mac, Gemini II and Retrobatch would allow for a similar workflow but, I didn't use them as my primary workflow tools. I'm currently using the second path since Digikam is already my primary photo cataloging and managing tool for years and, it works wonders. digikam also has fuzzy search so it can find not only identical but similar images so you can deduplicate them.īoth ways are applicable to videos as well. Index all of the images with digikam and further organize them there.Īnother path would be to add all drives as "removable collections" to digikam and manage all of them there. run exiftool on them to automatically divide them to folders based on any metadata field you like.Ĥ. run jdupes on the dump and deduplicate them.ģ. get all image files with "find", considering they are with a known extensionĢ. By moving to a paying model, the field is more level, and there is more of an opportunity for smaller players to come up with similar pricing but a better product.Ĭonsidering you're using Linux, I'd do something of sorts:ġ. Free shit from big cos is a major reason no smaller players can come up with potentially better offerings, because they will need to charge money to be a sustainable business, while big cos can cross-subsidize it. Industry-serving reason: Big cos can keep offering free shit for way longer than any new player can afford to. Self-serving reason: If the product is free, it's more likely to be killed if it doesn't get that much usage or gets a lot of usage and consumes resources but does not synergize with money-making parts of the company. This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to pay for it!!!", well I guess until you are actually asked to pay for it).Īlso, as a general rule, people should welcome big cos moving away from the "free shit" product model for two reasons. Surprised to see the level of anger here about this.
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