One of my big suspicions regarding my laptop previous to its latest recent fatal crash was that Google Drive auto-sync has been interfering with my laptop battery & sleep management. So one of my big hesitation right now is whether or not to install again the Google Drive auto-sync daemon/app on my freshly reformatted/reinstalled Windows 10 system.
Without auto-sync I would of course have to manually back-up my files at a regular & consistent schedule, using calendar reminders etc.
I am going to keep using Google Drive though, regardless, for my off-site file backup. I find it very valuable that someone could (knock-on-wood) steal and/or physically destroy my laptop and I could still download most if not all of my most impotant files & data from the cloud down into my new laptop. So far I already pay around US$10.00 per year for 200 gigabytes of space, paid yearly, and with my current unemployment status that's right about at the limit of what I can manage/afford to pay.
Ideally of course I'd rather have a multi-terabyte NAS backup solution with offline mirroring like what's offered by Synology or other similar providers, but that's neither here nor there now is it. Or maybe at least one of the one terabyte offers from any of the big cloud storage providers (Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, NextCloud etc.)
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