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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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The people in there are acting like they only uploaded their files to Google Drive? Is "I'll dump all my files on that one place" a common practice? I know it might be mainstream, but one guy says his company's files were only on there..How is something so important to you just backed up into one place? Not even locally? These commenters in that support thread are very odd.
It's "the cloud" man...don't worry about it. This is essentially the attitude I've heard even from professional IT people. I have stuff in Google Workspace, but nothing critical, and even then I'm also paying CloudAlly to back it up for me.