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> in short, everything I care about is in Dropbox. That statement should be one of embarrassment, not of triumph. You're only one disaster short of an angry "e
by brian_cloutier 14y ago
> in short, everything I care about is in Dropbox.
That statement should be one of embarrassment, not of triumph. You're only one disaster short of an angry "everything I cared about was in Drop box and now its all gone" blog post. Please, look into backing your data up. The cloud doesn't make the need for backups disappear, it only makes you feel better about not having any.
- edanm 14y agoWell, technically, everything is auto-synced using Dropbox to 2 computers at all times, so I do have a backup. Unfortunately for my peace-of-mind, if Dropbox ever decided to go wonky and delete all my files, it could do so from both my computers at the same time without me being able to stop it in time. Not too worried about this, but it is something I think about once in a while. I do occasionally do a complete backup to a hard-disk, but only very occasionally.
- alexqgb 14y ago3-2-1: Three copies, two local, one remote. That's backup. Anything less is "backup". I use Time Machine for local and Backblaze for remote. Very happy with both. Dropbox is great for stuff I want to sync across machines or share with others. And my local Dropbox is watched by TM and BB, so even if DB implodes, locks me out, and wipes everything from my local drive, I maintain local and remote copies that its system can't reach. The best part is that I never think about any of it. All this just runs in the background, keeping (virtually) up to the minute copies of whatever I'm working on. And I've tested the recovery features well enough to be confident that I can fully restore where ever and when ever needed. I consider backup a solved problem.