1.0Lifehacker Australiahttps://www.lifehacker.com.auloganbookerhttps://www.lifehacker.com.au/author/loganbooker/Warning: Your Android Google Drive Backups Can 'Expire', Leading Google To Aggressively Delete Themrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="obydwRJC30"><a href="https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/09/warning-your-android-google-drive-backups-can-expire-and-google-will-aggressively-delete-them/">Warning: Your Android Google Drive Backups Can ‘Expire’, Leading Google To Aggressively Delete Them</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2017/09/warning-your-android-google-drive-backups-can-expire-and-google-will-aggressively-delete-them/embed/#?secret=obydwRJC30" width="600" height="338" title="“Warning: Your Android Google Drive Backups Can ‘Expire’, Leading Google To Aggressively Delete Them” — Lifehacker Australia" data-secret="obydwRJC30" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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Backups are wonderful. They provide peace of mind, a way to protect your future self from potential misery. Unless, of course, those backups get deleted with almost no warning, kind of like what Google will do for your Android device if you don’t use it for a couple of months.