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posted by janrinok on Sunday September 17 2017, @07:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the use-it-or-lose-it dept.

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Google will automatically [begin a delayed - Ed] delete all of a user's Android backup files — stored in his Google Drive account — if the user does not use his phone for two weeks. After Google detects this period of inactivity, it will start a 60-day counter for old Android backup files. After that counter reaches zero, Google will delete the backup files from the user's Drive account.

The auto-delete function was discovered this week by a Reddit user who used it to create backups for a defective Nexus 6P. The user sent back the phone, and while he waited for a replacement, he saw that his Nexus 6P backup files stored were marked for deletion.

[...] People who rely on Android's built-in Drive-based backup system should keep an eye out on the Backups folder. Storing backups offline or using specialized backup & restore Android apps is an alternative.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/google-will-auto-delete-android-backups-if-users-dont-use-their-phones-for-2-weeks/


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:54PM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday September 17 2017, @11:54PM (#569532) Journal

    So according to Google, two weeks is a "long" period of time?

    Well for a device that normally connects to google continuously (push notification sockets have a time out of somewhere between 10 and 20 minutes and need to be refreshed after that time), two weeks is an eternity.

    Your phone is stolen, lost, confiscated, broken, or replaced. You will probably not be coming back on line with that phone after two weeks.
    I bet they (google) have statistics to prove it.

    Still two weeks seems way too short. I can go on vacation for two or three weeks and leave my work phone switched off at home. I suppose when it reconnects, it will again back up all settings to Google, but any settings lost from apps on the phone would be , well, lost.

    I wonder if they do this to active duty deployable service men/women , like Navy sailors out on ships or submarines for three months at a time. There are specific laws about that sort of stuff.

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