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		nfm on April 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Drive I don't like being pedantic, but a sync'ed copy isn't a backup. It might protect against hardware failure, but it won't help against accidental deletion or corruption. I'm not sure if GDrive has file versioning/restoration built into it or not, but there is an important distinction to be made here.

carey on April 25, 2012 [–]

https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans... notes that old versions are saved for 30 days or 100 revisions, which does provide some protection.

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