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Not to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.
by samolang 13y ago
Not to mention redundancy. That's the biggest plus for me. Don't want to have to worry about hard drive failures.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoYou still do. Replication =! Backups. You should be taking snapshots in time of your Dropbox account (unless you're using their Packrat offering, which provides versioning).
- samolang 13y agoIf my hard drive breaks it doesn't delete the file from their servers. You'd need to have a hard drive break in a specific manner in which it corrupts the file and then have the corrupted file be replicated. Even then Dropbox maintains copies of all versions of your files for 30 days, so you'd have to not notice the corruption for 30 days in order to actually lose the file.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoBe careful on both. The hard drive doesn't need to "break", you just need filesystem corruption. If the file is readable by the Dropbox client, away we replicate corrupted data. Also, there have been instances where Dropbox has been unable to recover lost data, 30 days or not. It's your data though, be as cautious (or not) as you feel you need to be.
- samolang 13y agoPerhaps I am being too trusting of their service. Thanks for the wake up call. I'll back up my data.
- toomuchtodo 13y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+lost+data https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+lost+data