A backup isn't very independent if it's stored in the same place.

A backup isn't very independent if it's stored in the same place.

One question I've been thinking about while building Syncrix:

If your files are in Google Drive, where should your backup live?

Creating another copy in Google Drive gives you redundancy, but you're still relying on the same provider.

A different approach is:

Google Drive → Amazon S3

Or:

OneDrive → S3

Dropbox → another cloud

This is the idea behind scheduled cross-cloud backups in Syncrix.

You define:

Source → Destination → Schedule

and let the job run automatically.

No local download.

No manual upload.

No need to remember to run the backup every week.

I'm particularly interested in this for important documents, archives, business data and other files where losing access to the primary cloud would be painful.

The bigger idea is simple:

Use the cloud for your work. Use another cloud for your backup.

How many independent copies do you keep for your most important data?
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