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IceDrive silently lost 12% of my files (3,000+ files) over 3 years. Check your backup NOW. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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IceDrive lost thousands of my files without any notification. Their support escalated my ticket, then ghosted me for 2 weeks before closing it. I'm sharing a script to check if your files are actually backed up: https://github.com/rupumped/NicksAPPS/blob/main/Python/IceDriveVerification.py. Note that it requires argparse.

Usage: python IceDriveVerification.py C:\Documents C:\Photos C:\Projects --backup-root I:\

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think your mistake was trusting someone else with your backups.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even if you backup locally there can still be bugs or misconfiguration that causes data loss, just gotta test the backups.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I use Restic for online and Synology active backup for local.

    For restic I either restore the backup if I have the space, or if not just mount it and compare, and restore a portion of it.

    For active backup since they are bootable images I restore to a VM and test.

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