Protecting your Files on Team Drives I

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Organizations that use G Suite have two places to store files: My Drive and Team Drives. Users control the files on My Drive. They’re files the user created, stored, or allowed to be stored on My Drive. A Team Drive, in contrast, gives more people access: Every member with full access can add files to … Continued


Three Reasons for Google Drive Backup

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Google Drive backup is an absolutely necessary practice for any enterprise that utilizes Google Drive for its operational needs. But why exactly is the backup so necessary? Let’s find out! Data breaches As horrifying as it is to see the news on massive data breaches like those at Yahoo! and so many healthcare organizations and … Continued


Google Team Drives Access Management

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A Team Drive provides shared storage space for people in organizations that use G Suite Business, Education, or Enterprise edition. What differentiates a Team Drive from a person’s standard My Drive is that the Team Drive acts as the owner of any files and folders created or added to the Team Drive. As a result, … Continued


Team Drive and Google Drive: Pros and Cons

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Team Drive used to be the most anticipated G Suite feature before its release in early 2017. Although When you actually start sorting out your data there comes a choice between normal “My Drive” folders and Team Drives. Which one is better? As you might have guessed there is no clear answer to this question: … Continued


UpDates. Vol IX, February 2019

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UpSafe has done a lot of improvements into our Office 365 Backup and G Suite Backup systems in February. Here are some of the most significant things we managed to improve during the last month: Our system can now keep original Modification date for restored OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint and Team Drives items, reducing the amount … Continued


Comparison: Google Drive vs Google TeamDrive

In terms of file management and maintenance G Suite offers two interconnected solutions: Google Drive and Google TeamDrive. The question I am looking to answer in this article is the following: does Google TeamDrive produce any value for customers’ in corporate usage, compared to simply Google Drive. Although the main difference between them might see … Continued


Team Drives Management Tips

Google gives people who use G Suite Business, Enterprise, Education, or Nonprofit editions two distinct types of Google Drive storage: My Drive and Team Drives. Both serve as a reliable place to store, organize, and share files. Yet, there’s one major difference between the two: When you add a file to a Team Drive, all … Continued


Tips to Make Use of G Suite

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G Suite — formerly known as Google Apps for Work—has recently enhanced its enterprise appeal, adding new collaboration and productivity tools in efforts to compete with options from Slack and Microsoft. As of January 2017, more than 3 million businesses were using the G Suite in the workplace, the company reported, including Whirlpool, PWC, and … Continued


UpDates. Vol VII-VIII, December 2018 – January 2019

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Here’s the special New Year entry of our monthly digest. UpSafe has done a lot of improvements into our Office 365 Backup and G Suite Backup systems in December and January. Here are some of the most significant things we managed to improve during the last two months: Point-in-time restore has been added for OneDrive, Google Drive, … Continued


Google Drive: Cleaning Up

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Google gives you 15GB of free space in Google Drive, which seems like a pretty good deal compared to Dropbox’s 2GB and Box’s 10GB. But there’s a catch — that 15GB limit includes not only your Google Drive, but also your Gmail account (messages and attachments) and Google Photos. If you use Gmail as one … Continued