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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 e_chao@lemmy.world 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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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's unfortunate.

Did you test restores before this and they were OK?

I definitely recommend having at least 2 backups, so you have 3 copies of your important data at all times.

[–] e_chao@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That was my first time testing the backup. Good suggestion.