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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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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The downside of using a lesser known cloud service, you take chances like this. I had never heard of ice drive previously.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Even with the popular ones, there's a risk of unrecoverable loss. They don't test your backups, so if there's undetected corruption, they may not be restorable.

    An untested backup is worth nothing.

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