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Agreed. Early in my Dropbox days I lost some files due to my account going over the 2GB limit. Since then, I've treated Dropbox as a syncing server, not a backu
by aaronpk 14y ago
Agreed. Early in my Dropbox days I lost some files due to my account going over the 2GB limit. Since then, I've treated Dropbox as a syncing server, not a backup service.
My current scheme is to make rolling snapshots of my Dropbox folder backed up to a local RAID array which backs up to a separate RAID array nightly. More info: http://aaronparecki.com/2010/190/article/1/how-to-back-up-dropbox-automatically-daily-weekly-monthly-snapshots http://aaronparecki.com/2010/190/article/1/how-to-back-up-dr...
Hackernews link for that post if you're in to that sort of thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704667 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704667
- wycx 14y agoGood idea. You could also add a bit to the script explicitly looking for zero byte files and alert yourself to their formation.