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Re:Where's my petabyte disk drive? by ladzoppelin on Sunday March 27, 2016 @05:11PM (#11371574)
"The I put all the information I don't want to lose in dropbox." I don't think its healthy to consider cloud storage backup. For example I am pretty sure you could loose everything to Ransomware.
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Re:Where's my petabyte disk drive? by lwf on Sunday March 27, 2016 @06:20PM (#11371795)
In re the Ransomware point, Dropbox provides all users with access to snapshots of their files going back 30 days:

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/11

So, as long as you notice before the clock runs out, you should be able to recover from ransomware via file history.

[I work for Dropbox, but am not speaking on behalf of my employer.]

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Re:Where's my petabyte disk drive? by ValentineC on Sunday March 27, 2016 @06:33PM (#11371827)
I know Dropbox sells Extended Version History [1] as an add-on, but it'll be awfully nice if Pro users had maybe 60 days of file history, versus 30 days for free. Just a thought.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/113

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