I wanted to downvote but you are just the messenger

They’ll catch up with me eventually.

No backup no mercy. It’s really not different than with any other drive. In this case it’s even in the name, “Drive”, but it’s the same with Dropbox, S3 and all the other cloud storages. Make backups guys.

This is a massive reminder that if you use Google Drive, you must back that up locally, just in case. Just because if issues like this. If you use any cloud hosting provider with data you care about, back that data up.