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Just adding that you should make backups anyway, possibly on some sort of media that is offline and in a different location. No cloud service is really safe. I'
by laurentdc 10y ago
Just adding that you should make backups anyway, possibly on some sort of media that is offline and in a different location. No cloud service is really safe. I'm not saying Dropbox or OneDrive could disappear tomorrow, but yeah, they technically could, or they could lose part of your data. Even Gmail lost some user emails a few years ago. How many people do you know who backup their mailbox these days? :-)
There's also silent corruption and bit rotting that may happen locally and which you wouldn't notice on any of those services. Particularly if you use old filesystems such as HFS+: there are quite a few stories of people losing pictures or finding artifacts in jpg/raw files years later.
I'm sure you're not, but if by any chance you're relying on Dropbox versioning or whatever similar "backup solution" please consider alternatives.
- Asparagirl 10y agoOr for added peace of mind, you could just sign up for a cheapo Mover.io account, and auto-sync your Dropbox once a week to an S3 bucket.
- codazoda 10y agoI use Dropbox on 2 machines which means I have 3 copies of everything. I use Github for source code (in Dropbox and Github) and I use Google Photo's for my pictures (free and also in both places). I would feel pretty good with just Dropbox but with the combination I'm pretty well covered with the stuff I care about.