Re:Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO
by Asparagirl on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:32PM
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Or for added peace of mind, you could just sign up for a cheapo Mover.io account, and auto-sync your Dropbox once a week to an S3 bucket.
Re:Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO
by codazoda on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @03:48PM
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I use Dropbox on 2 machines which means I have 3 copies of everything. I use Github for source code (in Dropbox and Github) and I use Google Photo's for my pictures (free and also in both places). I would feel pretty good with just Dropbox but with the combination I'm pretty well covered with the stuff I care about.
There's also silent corruption and bit rotting that may happen locally and which you wouldn't notice on any of those services. Particularly if you use old filesystems such as HFS+: there are quite a few stories of people losing pictures or finding artifacts in jpg/raw files years later.
I'm sure you're not, but if by any chance you're relying on Dropbox versioning or whatever similar "backup solution" please consider alternatives.