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Surely a Dropbox upload wasn‘t the only version you had. Couldn‘t you restore easily?
by Hendrikto 4y ago
Surely a Dropbox upload wasn‘t the only version you had. Couldn‘t you restore easily?
- hammyhavoc 4y agoYou'd be amazed that folks even today misunderstand it to be a 'backup' instead of a sync service.
- chrisseaton 4y agoIt is a backup. Any copy of your data is a backup. It just shouldn't be the only backup (obviously, like any backup.)
- lovecg 4y agoA copy of your data that can be easily modified (whether through bugs, malice, or even just you mistakenly deleting a file and Dropbox happily deleting it everywhere for you) is not a backup. It’s definitely way better than nothing, but people relying on Dropbox as the only “backup” will be in for nasty surprises occasionally.
- dymk 4y agoAny backup which is the lone backup isn’t a backup at all.
- fknorangesite 4y agoYeah: two is one, one is none.
- chrisseaton 4y agoAll backups are vulnerable to deletion, loss, or corruption. That’s why you have many. Dropbox is no different.
- bin_bash 4y agoDropbox calls it a backup service: https://www.dropbox.com/backup https://www.dropbox.com/backup
- hammyhavoc 4y agoDropbox Backup is not Dropbox the file sync app. See here: https://www.dropbox.com/backup#dropbox-backup-plan https://www.dropbox.com/backup#dropbox-backup-plan
- bin_bash 4y agoIt is included and turned on by default for any of the paid plans: https://www.dropbox.com/plans https://www.dropbox.com/plans In practice it basically just means 30 day recovery for any modifications/deletions. I used to work there FWIW. Internally it's certainly considered a backup solution for customers.
- lobocinza 4y agoThe backup you can't trust! This should be their slogan.
- TheRealDunkirk 4y agoTo be fair, they didn't say it was the only copy they had.