Re: OT-ish: Dropbox sanity check

On Tue, 29 May 2012 17:13:24 +0100, Sara
<saramerriman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <kks9s7dsgkeb2403665icuus9tkjlp0j06@xxxxxxx>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:18:31 +0100, eastender <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

As I've racked up 9GB free storage on Dropbox by running a shared
project folder, I've decided to use it as a backup medium but am a bit
concerned about losing things.

What I've done is move several main work folders into the Dropbox
folder, then make aliases of them and put the aliases on the desktop. I
also run Superduper and Time Machine backups to external drives.

I presume that the Dropbox folder behaves like any other local folder?

It does, and it indeed is. It just happens to be a local folder that
Dropbox looks at to see what to copy in and out.

Dropbox isn't a very good backup medium though, since it replicates
deletions and has no versioning. I'd recommend something like
Crashplan instead. Zoara and I have 20ish gig of each other's hard
drive space dedicated to each other's backups, and that's completely
free. I host for much of my family too.

If by versioning you mean it can go back in time to let you get at a
previous version of a document saved there, then Dropbox does have it.
I've got myself out of trouble once or twice that way. I'm not sure how
many copies of a document it keeps, but it does let you chose to pull
off an older-than-the-current copy.

What what what? Blimey, so it does. Did that come in sometime
recently, or am I just blind?

Cheer - Jaimi
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If you can't measure it, it's not science.
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