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I haven't checked Dropbox t&c's but I wonder whether backups come under its 'suitable for' uses. Ie: do they consider it a highly reliable form of storage. Pers
by wintersFright 13y ago
I haven't checked Dropbox t&c's but I wonder whether backups come under its 'suitable for' uses. Ie: do they consider it a highly reliable form of storage.
Personally I wouldn't trust any cloud storage with hundreds of gigabytes of family photos and movies. I have multiple disks on site and one truecrypt terabyte disk offsite which is rotated regularly.
For work/code though the vm + cloud is a good solution.
- PeterisP 13y agoT&C is a fairly useless as a suitability measure of anything. Sure, I'd use another "proper" backup service - but the expectation is that I'd use Dropbox in 99% of restoration needs and the other one only in the chance that, say, Dropbox dies - which hopefully happens less often than my computers die. For personal data, Dropbox's versioning has been a lifesaver for me - if I have overwritten or changed something, I can get back also the previous versions; quite a few backup solutions don't keep the history. But for me the important data is various documents, so it's not that large - for example, I personally don't see the reason for making family videos, as even for our wedding video we just browsed through it once and haven't touched it in all the years afterwards, there's new stuff to do instead of watching old stuff.
- wintersFright 13y agoDon't tell your wife this :)