Tag Archives: backups

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups  Ars Technica Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google shares details on how to restore Google Drive backups after a bug wiped off user data  Neowin Source link

Google is making some changes to the terminology it uses in Google Photos to describe the options and choices users have when backing up photos and videos to their Google account. In a new support page under the Google Photos Help banner, Google says that it is not making any changes to how your photos and videos are stored but is “only simplifying the terminology as it appears in the Photos app, on the web and in our Help Center.” This isn’t rocket science. With the… Source link

T-Mobile is introducing a new Google One membership option for its customers that revives Google’s unlimited photo storage backup service… for a price, of course. For $15 per month, it includes 2TB of cloud storage, all of the benefits of Google One membership, and unlimited original resolution photo and video backups to Google Photos. When Google brought its gravy train of free photo storage to a halt in 2021, a weary world sighed and looked for new storage options. Sure, the… Source link

Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app — even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your free Google storage allowance of 15GB. If you need more you need — you guessed it — a Google One membership to buy more storage or delete data you no… Source link