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ggtello
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

No additional space on Business Advanced

Dear community, I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
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Tomato2515's avatar
Tomato2515
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

@Dominus

 

Then you are caught in the cross-fire and should never believe the word "unlimited storage". Google Workspace is now enforcing limits and Dropbox will too. The only re-course is to migrate to locally storing and use Blackbaze as a backup.

 

Also, why are you storing security footage online? It's best kept OFFLINE is it not? You are violating AUP too as you are backing up too.

 

The "cloud" is someone else's computer..

 

I should be more clear, these accounts are storing 50,100,200,300+ terabytes of data. Most users will not be storing this insane amount of data. If you only check accounts doing this on or after March 2023; you can get almost all the big offenders.

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DoctaK
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

@Tomato2515

 

I think you're reading into their AUP a little too much.

 

Why would Dropbox offer a business plan if you cannot use the service to back up your files as a business ?

 

  • use the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services;

All this means is you cannot create a cloud ecosystem using the storage supplied by Dropbox, not that you can't backup your business files. If this were the case, Dropbox wouldn't offer business plans.

As for the encryption, not sure if this is the case where you are, but where I live, if we are backing up data that has sensitive information held within it, we MUST encrypt this information by law or we can be fined. 

I understand your frustration, but Google is still offering unlimited storage to business accounts with 5 or more users, just like Dropbox has a limitation of 3 users. But calling for banning users from using encrypted data is downright silly. Do a little more homework before spouting such nonsense. 

  • Tomato2515's avatar
    Tomato2515
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    I'm saying these users have 200, 300 TB of encrypted data. That points to one thing; copies of movies and TV.

     

    And no, Google does not offer unlimited anymore. Go read....

    • SirHenryTheNerd's avatar
      SirHenryTheNerd
      Helpful | Level 5
      3 years ago

      "

      I'm saying these users have 200, 300 TB of encrypted data. That points to one thing; copies of movies and TV."

       

      That is bull**bleep**. Pardon my French.

      • Tomato2515's avatar
        Tomato2515
        Explorer | Level 4
        3 years ago

        OK, then show us what is in the files 🤣

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