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This basically describes my use of Dropbox. Anything important to me that's not code is stored in Dropbox. Every computer I have dropbox on and which has 100GB

This basically describes my use of Dropbox. Anything important to me that's not code is stored in Dropbox. Every computer I have dropbox on and which has 100GB free, has a copy of those files so if Dropbox vanished, I still have a replicated copy of my files on one of my machines. I never have to backup those files because they're replicated to any running machine with Dropbox installed. One of those machines has my dropbox share on a Drobo, so I'd need a catastrophic failure of my Drobo disks, Dropbox and my laptop in order to lose those files.

deong 14y ago
Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every client". Granted, Dropbox has some rudimentary versioning, so it's pretty likely that you'd be able to recover, but still, I wouldn't advise anyone to use Dropbox sync exclusively as a backup solution.
- euroclydon 14y ago
  Well said. Happens to me every couple of months, that I know of. Heck Dropbox might have just deleted a file from all my computers right now, how would I know? Last time it happened the deleted files didn't even show up in the Dropbox event log, but they did show up as deleted files. The only way I know it happens is when a build fails -- shame I don't build my documents. I wish I'd never started using Dropbox, but now I'm too busy to switch my workflow off of it.
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jervisfm 14y ago
> I never have to backup those files because they're replicated to any running machine with Dropbox installed. But you really should have a separate actual backup of your data though. What would happen in the scenario that somehow your drop-box data is deleted ? Won't this deletion also be replicated to all your synced devices ?

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This basically describes my use of Dropbox. Anything important to me that's not code is stored in Dropbox. Every computer I have dropbox on and which has 100GB

by ericmoritz 14y ago

deong 14y ago
Dropbox is software, and like any software, it has bugs. One of those bugs could easily result in "delete this file and then propagate the deletion to every client". Granted, Dropbox has some rudimentary versioning, so it's pretty likely that you'd be able to recover, but still, I wouldn't advise anyone to use Dropbox sync exclusively as a backup solution.
- euroclydon 14y ago
  Well said. Happens to me every couple of months, that I know of. Heck Dropbox might have just deleted a file from all my computers right now, how would I know? Last time it happened the deleted files didn't even show up in the Dropbox event log, but they did show up as deleted files. The only way I know it happens is when a build fails -- shame I don't build my documents. I wish I'd never started using Dropbox, but now I'm too busy to switch my workflow off of it.
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jervisfm 14y ago
> I never have to backup those files because they're replicated to any running machine with Dropbox installed. But you really should have a separate actual backup of your data though. What would happen in the scenario that somehow your drop-box data is deleted ? Won't this deletion also be replicated to all your synced devices ?