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This is a badly written Backblaze advertisement. It’s full of incorrect information about the competitors — Dropbox and OneDrive do keep old versions of files,
by Kwpolska 3y ago
This is a badly written Backblaze advertisement. It’s full of incorrect information about the competitors — Dropbox and OneDrive do keep old versions of files, for at least 30 days (Google probably does too, but I couldn’t find a number.)
- relyks 3y agoDropbox also has options for version history to be kept a lot longer than 30 days: https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/extended-version-history https://help.dropbox.com/delete-restore/extended-version-his...
- chillfox 3y ago30 days is way too short. In my experience, people either realise that they accidentally deleted a file immediately or after 3+ months. The day 2-90 period is rarely where a file needs to be recovered from.
- bongodongobob 3y agoA recycle bin isn't a backup solution. 30 days is plenty and anything beyond that is ridiculous. If you need backups, implement backups.
- Brajeshwar 3y agoDropbox has paid add-ons or higher priced tiers to bump your retention to 1-year. I have the add-on and I have used it just once (so far) but I feel happy that I can go back and look for a file that I might have deleted within the last 1-year. This comes in handy when my local Time Machine go as far as just about 6 months or so. I might need to upgrade to a NAS and hook up a larger capacity drive.
- xela79 3y agoindeed, how can this article be impartial, at least they didn't "sponsor" a random site to post the content, and they themselves post it on their blog. But it is very clear that it is hard to take anything written on the blog as truth, seeing as the solution is their own product...