Google Drive vs Dropbox--What's your experience?
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I've been using Dropbox for years, the 1 TB account and I think it's great. I have some clients that use Google Drive and they think it's great--until lately. One of the users deleted a bunch of random files in many different folders. Being familiar with Dropbox, I was thinking that it was going to be simple to restore these deleted files from the trash. I would just go in there (past the meatloaf from last week, egg shells, etc) and sort the trash folder by date deleted or date modified and restore the data back to its original location. Apparently, it's not that simple. The trash is all mixed together. It has a "last modified" and "last opened" column option but there is no chronological sorting when those options are selected. Please say that I'm missing something here. I googled, "google drive restore by date deleted files" in hopes to find someone else that had this issue. I found an old Google productforums page and the conclusion by the Google Drive tech was, "Thank you for posting and sorry you're running into this issue. The only way for you to restore files on specific days is to do it manually." So, no sorting in the trash? You must restore the whole thing and then sort through it? I checked out Dropbox again and I see that you can sort the deleted files by date/time deleted. Please let me know if you have some experience with this or if Google Drive is not a good option. Thank you!
I've been using Dropbox for years, the 1 TB account and I think it's great. I have some clients that use Google Drive and they think it's great--until lately. One of the users deleted a bunch of random files in many different folders. Being familiar with Dropbox, I was thinking that it was going to be simple to restore these deleted files from the trash. I would just go in there (past the meatloaf from last week, egg shells, etc) and sort the trash folder by date deleted or date modified and restore the data back to its original location. Apparently, it's not that simple. The trash is all mixed together. It has a "last modified" and "last opened" column option but there is no chronological sorting when those options are selected. Please say that I'm missing something here. I googled, "google drive restore by date deleted files" in hopes to find someone else that had this issue. I found an old Google productforums page and the conclusion by the Google Drive tech was, "Thank you for posting and sorry you're running into this issue. The only way for you to restore files on specific days is to do it manually." So, no sorting in the trash? You must restore the whole thing and then sort through it? I checked out Dropbox again and I see that you can sort the deleted files by date/time deleted. Please let me know if you have some experience with this or if Google Drive is not a good option. Thank you!
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All of office 365 is hipaa compliant among other things. As far as encrypted I am not sure without looking up and on.my phone now.
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I found this article and it looks like data at Onedrive is encrypted: https://en.share-gate.com/blog/office-365-data-protection-infographic Thanks again for the help Scott! Have a good night!
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Thanks for the help Scott! You're very knowledgeable and kind!
This is the info from Microsoft.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Data-Encryption-in-OneDrive-for-Business-and-SharePoint-Online-6501b5ef-6bf7-43df-b60d-f65781847d6c
Client communication with the server Communication to OneDrive for Business across the Internet uses SSL/TLS connections. All SSL connections are established using 2048-bit keys.
Data movement between datacenters The primary reason to move data between datacenters is for geo-replication to enable disaster recovery. For instance, SQL Server transaction logs and blob storage deltas travel along this pipe. While this data is already transmitted by using a private network, it is further protected with best-in-class encryption.
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Each of these three storage components—the blob store, the Content Database, and the Key Store—is physically separate. The information held in any one of the components is unusable on its own. This provides an unprecedented level of security. Without access to all three it is impossible to retrieve the keys to the chunks, decrypt the keys to make them usable, associate the keys with their corresponding chunks, decrypt any chunk, or reconstruct a document from its constituent chunks.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Data-Encryption-in-OneDrive-for-Business-and-SharePoint-Online-6501b5ef-6bf7-43df-b60d-f65781847d6c
Encryption of data in transit
In OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, there are two scenarios in which data enters and exits the datacenters.Client communication with the server Communication to OneDrive for Business across the Internet uses SSL/TLS connections. All SSL connections are established using 2048-bit keys.
Data movement between datacenters The primary reason to move data between datacenters is for geo-replication to enable disaster recovery. For instance, SQL Server transaction logs and blob storage deltas travel along this pipe. While this data is already transmitted by using a private network, it is further protected with best-in-class encryption.
Encryption of data at rest
Encryption at rest includes two components: BitLocker disk-level encryption and per-file encryption of customer content.:
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Each of these three storage components—the blob store, the Content Database, and the Key Store—is physically separate. The information held in any one of the components is unusable on its own. This provides an unprecedented level of security. Without access to all three it is impossible to retrieve the keys to the chunks, decrypt the keys to make them usable, associate the keys with their corresponding chunks, decrypt any chunk, or reconstruct a document from its constituent chunks.
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Thanks for your comments and wisdom. I too like O365 and have several clients using it with much success. I did read something lately (https://www.cloudwards.net/dropbox-vs-google-drive-vs-onedrive/) that O365 Onedrive data is not encrypted as it sits in Onedrive. Do you know if that's true as of course you can't believe everything you read on the Internet, right? Google Drive seems like a really bad option since you can't restore multiple files by the date the files were deleted. Hopefully this client will switch away from Google drive to something more competent. Thanks again!