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Dropbox-style mirroring is still susceptible to the hypothetical "service problem killed/corrupted a file, the mistake was happily sync'd down to all mirrors."
by roc 16y ago
Dropbox-style mirroring is still susceptible to the hypothetical "service problem killed/corrupted a file, the mistake was happily sync'd down to all mirrors."
In short: if you're reliant on the cloud service for your backups (as distinct from your sync'ing), you're at risk.
- sdizdar 16y agoOf course, simplistic mirroring solutions will have these problems. However, the right mirroring solution for syncing information (documents, presentations, etc.), should provide auditing, providence of created documents, and rewind for all actions.
- kkowalczyk 16y agoAt which point you're using technology even more complicate than dropbox and you have to trust that it works just as you have to trust that dropbox works. Not to mention that anything that can write to primary store (i.e. the "rewind for all actions" in your hypothetical solution) is just as likely to corrupt that store as dropbox is.
- cezary 16y agoDropbox stores different versions of files so even if files are corrupted/deleted and this change is sync'd up to them, you can still restore your files.
- edanm 16y agoBut so does Google Docs. The problems start happening when all versions of a document are corrupted.