You want a copy of everything I've ever done? It's on my GDrive

From ZDNet comes the news that seemed likely. If you've ever owned a GMail account you'll know the bliss of never having to throw out an email to save space. That 2GB of space is about half my old Dell laptop had in total.

Well, if you've read things like Hammersley's Hacking Gmail you'll also have had the idea of linking together limitless Gmail accounts to create an online storage system for everything you've got.

Google have now hinted through some leaked PowerPoint slides that GDrive, a bona fide way to use Google's power to store everything you've ever owned in the world of 'e' with unlimited memory space, is not that far away. Get ready to make the Backup Of All Time!

Comments

[John]

Hi Ewan,
Very interesting, I've been using gmail to store files from my favourite app SuperCard via a fairly crude bit of appleScripting the Mail app. This gives you a nice secure feeling (well I backup on an external drive too)
Blogged about this a while back:
Backup from SuperCard to gMail .
I guess it would be possible to extend this to other files via folder actions or somesuch.

[Steve]

Ewan

On a similar theme - you can now get a free Box.net account. Which I think, if memory serves me correctly, is 1GB and you can pay a mimimal fee to get more.

Steve

[Leon Cych]

Manual trackback:

And, of course, the next big thing after all is this is: Where are you going to keep it all, what are you going to call it and how will it fit in with or transform the exam system and school structure? Ian Usher has a few interesting ideas (see also the discussion on that page) on all this as does Ewan Mckintosh.

[Mrs Tosh]

Are you going to use this to back up your blog ;-)

[Ben Werdmuller]

"Get ready to make the Backup Of All Time!"

Hell no! If they're going to be indexing my personal content and using it for advertising analysis, as we know they will be, they'd better make it worth my while. And anyone thinking of using this in education should think again - what are Google doing with student personal data? Their approach may be one to learn from, but not to actually use.