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Also, never ever treat any system as a backup, if you haven't tested that restore actually works. Do that, and a likelihood of loosing your files would get a l

• pinneycolton 14y ago
  Agreed, and it helps to have 2 backups of all your data using different techniques/products. I run a local backup to cheap disk, network backup to remote location, and I suppose my remotely hosted svn is my third backup of most assets I really care about. Most of us here are developers. How many of our products are perfect? Always assume something will fail in a new and interesting way in the future. I'm not letting Dropbox off the hook - their product shouldn't do this - but you'll be happier if you treat backups with the same level of redundancy and planning as the rest of your infrastructure.
  • Luyt 14y ago
    Remote backup is indeed very important. Imagine a fire in the server room. Where was the backup tape? Lying on top of the server? Oops...