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I have all my digital life on dropbox, a few hundred gig. One of my greatest fears is that thousands of files might disappear without me noticing for years. I
by kwijibob 12y ago
I have all my digital life on dropbox, a few hundred gig.
One of my greatest fears is that thousands of files might disappear without me noticing for years.
I use selective sync and twice I was looking for something that has disappeared and I have to restore it. I assumed maybe my wife accidentally deleted some files, but maybe it was dropbox?
What is the solution to this anxiety?
- jeffpetes 12y agoDon't put all your eggs in one basket. Keep all the same data stored on another service, as well as on a physical backup that you keep yourself. If it's really important data you might keep a copy in a safe deposit box.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoPerhaps you can have a cron job run against your local dropbox folder(s) and do an "md5deep" reporting only differences (or sha1deep or whatever, perhaps test which uses least resources, maybe nice it heavily too). Then you could have the output report saved to a folder (not a dropbox one!). Perhaps add another job to email/alert you if the "count" of lines in the report is greater than a certain number? Crude, for sure.