But the individual cached files would be pretty much useless. At best, I might be able to back up the cached files. What I’ve found is that even when the files are configured to be available offline, UrBackup doesn’t recognize the GoogleFS mapped drive as a valid drive letter, so it’s ignored. But when GoogleFS isn’t running, all you have is a bunch of anonymous cache files that may or may not even be complete copies of the original files. (xxxxxxx is a random string of characters.) As long as GoogleFS is running, the program emulates a drive letter and a familiar file system. However, the files are actually stored as cached “chunks” in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\DriveFS\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\content_cacheĪlong with metadata stored in an sqlite database. Well…while GoogleFS is running, there is a drive letter that is mapped and you can access files similar to how you would access a local drive letter. I also suspect that I would not be able to recover individual files from the image unless the image was restored in full to identical hardware and Windows was started normally.Īnyone else using Google Drive/File Stream should be aware that they are probably no longer be getting file backups of the files stored in File Stream and their recovery options via image backups may be more limited than they were with Google Drive. I suspect it may, as long as the image is restored to identical hardware and Windows can be started normally after the restore. I’ve not investigated whether or not a full image backup will retain that data. So I’m no longer able to keep my own UrBackup copies of the files stored there. It’s worth noting, however, that Google Drive’s replacement client for Windows, Google File Stream, is completely different and UrBackup does NOT seem to recognize the drive letter or files stored there. UrBackup has worked quite well with it and I’ve been able to keep my own backup copies of all the data stored in my Google Drive. I’ve been using Google Drive for years on my Windows computer.
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