OneDrive Sync Mechanics
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I've decided to wipe my hard drive and start from scratch with Windows 10.
I have a LOT of stuff in my local OneDrive folder. Too much that I wouldn't want to wait for it sync all back down.
If I copy the files to the new computer into the OneDrive folder, should it be smart enough to realize they are indeed the same file that is already in the cloud?
I can obviously just test it, but was wondering if one of the ML geniuses knew.
And yes, I called you geniuses!
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It will not deep scan a file. So if they are the same but the timestamps are different you will have to resync.
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Doing a little Googling, it seems like it might actually make duplicates of everything. Ugh.
Yet another reason to only store these files in the cloud, I guess!
I guess I could move all the files out of my OneDrive Folder, which would effectively delete them from OneDrive. And then copy them back and let them resync. Kind of what it would do the other way around. Half of one, I guess...
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@BRRABill said:
Doing a little Googling, it seems like it might actually make duplicates of everything. Ugh.
Yet another reason to only store these files in the cloud, I guess!
I guess I could move all the files out of my OneDrive Folder, which would effectively delete them from OneDrive. And then copy them back and let them resync. Kind of what it would do the other way around. Half of one, I guess...
Why the hell would you do that? Typically, your upload bandwidth is lower than downstream on commodity connections.
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Do you really need them all synced?
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@JaredBusch said:
Why the hell would you do that? Typically, your upload bandwidth is lower than downstream on commodity connections.
I like doing things crazily backwards because I think they make sense?
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@Dashrender said:
Do you really need them all synced?
No.
BUT ... I am too lazy to upload stuff all the time.
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@Dashrender said:
Do you really need them all synced?
Honestly, I am still afraid of having all my data there and there only.
I understand the odds of OneDrive losing all my data is slim. But wouldn't I look like an idiot if they did?
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@BRRABill said:
@Dashrender said:
Do you really need them all synced?
Honestly, I am still afraid of having all my data there and there only.
I understand the odds of OneDrive losing all my data is slim. But wouldn't I look like an idiot if they did?
You and a zillion other people. Little comfort but I've heard misery loves company.
I share your distrust/caution of "other people's computer" (I refuse to use the C word one more time today)
I think there's a way to back it up to / from another cloud provider (probably amazon) if you want to keep it out of meat space.
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It's not like I think my local machine is any better. I just worry about myself doing something dumb, or something like what happened to SAM where they just messed up.
If I have it in OneDrive, and then sync everything locally, I can just back that up and I am done. Have copied multiple places.
I looked into services that backup from on c-word to another, but they are pretty sloooooow considering the data I have.
It's also the reason I am hesitant to trust 100% anything, even, say, Amazon Cloud Drive. I lose all my kid's pictures...Let's just say I'll be moving in with one of you.
I'm not sure in an industry where we preach backups how we can be confident in any of these cloud services. Even if they do "backup" our data. Has anyone actually tested that yet?
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@BRRABill said:
I'm not sure in an industry where we preach backups how we can be confident in any of these cloud services. Even if they do "backup" our data. Has anyone actually tested that yet?
Confidence in a specific service (never lump any two services together, that makes no sense and never think of "cloud" as a single thing, each service is unique, just as Super Mario Bros. 3 and MS Office 2013 are not related but both are proprietary, on premises software) has no relationship to preaching backups. We preach backups as a specific thing that is needed. This is no way violates that any more than a user relying on their IT department to run backups violates that rule.
Do you expect your users to all run their own backup mechanisms at work because "would they look foolish if they trusted that IT guy... does he even test his restores... and all their data was lost?"
Remember, you are the end user, they are IT. If you don't trust your provider, okay. But then, why are you using them, really?
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But data loss happens in more ways than your provider losing data.
Are you not a fan of the 3-2-1 philosophy?
I mean, we have no idea what these services are doing, right? You are contending that by "trusting" them we'll be able to reliably get back data?
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@BRRABill said:
I mean, we have no idea what these services are doing, right? You are contending that by "trusting" them we'll be able to reliably get back data?
So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?
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@BRRABill said:
But data loss happens in more ways than your provider losing data.
Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.
I inadvertently overwrite all this week's soccer pictures with pictures of the same name by mistake.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Give an example that isn't covered by versioning.
I inadvertently overwrite all this week's soccer pictures with pictures of the same name by mistake.
But versioning would cover that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?
No, but I still have multiple copies of stuff as an IT person for them, because stuff happens.
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@BRRABill said:
@scottalanmiller said:
So.... this is how you feel that your customers or users should feel about you or your IT department?
No, but I still have multiple copies of stuff as an IT person for them, because stuff happens.
So you feel that in your role as a user that you should act differently than you want other users to act? Do as I say, not as I do?
