Re:Dropbox App Won’t Die
by gargravarr on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:49AM
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Right when I was contemplating actually paying for Dropbox to use it as a proper cloud backup system and get around the 3-device limit, they pull this BS. At least it happened before I handed over my card details...
Seriously Dropbox, you used to be the simplest, easiest-to-use cloud-storage system on the planet. That's all you needed to be. You'll wind up like Evernote at this rate, destroying your originally exceptional product and your reputation along with it. Here's to 10 years as a loyal customer, and no more!
Re:Dropbox App Won’t Die
by skinnymuch on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:21AM
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I don’t completely get the tweet. Maybe I haven’t been updated to whatever that is. But for now i much prefer the convenience of Dropbox over doing it on my own like you’ve done. It’s not even close for me. Just my personal opinion.
Re:Dropbox App Won’t Die
by SyneRyder on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:50AM
(#20467102)
Looking at other replies to the tweet, the Mac version is randomly launching itself and making itself the front-most window with focus.
I stopped using the Dropbox app a while back and switched to interfacing with Dropbox via Mountain Duck instead on Mac & Windows: https://mountainduck.io/
Re:Dropbox App Won’t Die
by ogeiczvm on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:43AM
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I have a nextcloud instance (alongside a few other things).
I run it on a $10 VPS (disk is a RAID1 array between the local VPS disk and a remote disk (ceph?) that the provider gives. That's the 1st level of storage redundancy.
I periodically (every 10 minutes) rsync everything across to another VPS (different provider). (you can use mysql replication, mysqldump, etc)
Every hour I run an rsync with --link-dest to a storage VPS and once a month I tar everything up (I take the midnight backup of each day) and it goes to long term storage. The resulting archive is only marginally (10-20%) more than the real size on disk as it mostly contains diffs on top of the actual data.
I can failover easily between instances if the primary one goes down so it's reasonably highly available.
If you want less complexity you can use the S3 backend (IIRC nextcloud supports encrypted data at rest) and just ensure that's backed up regularily.
Nextcloud itself has versioning for changed data.
Seriously Dropbox, you used to be the simplest, easiest-to-use cloud-storage system on the planet. That's all you needed to be. You'll wind up like Evernote at this rate, destroying your originally exceptional product and your reputation along with it. Here's to 10 years as a loyal customer, and no more!
> 10 years as a loyal customer, and no more!
So, not a customer?
Good bye Dropbox :)
I stopped using the Dropbox app a while back and switched to interfacing with Dropbox via Mountain Duck instead on Mac & Windows: https://mountainduck.io/
I periodically (every 10 minutes) rsync everything across to another VPS (different provider). (you can use mysql replication, mysqldump, etc)
Every hour I run an rsync with --link-dest to a storage VPS and once a month I tar everything up (I take the midnight backup of each day) and it goes to long term storage. The resulting archive is only marginally (10-20%) more than the real size on disk as it mostly contains diffs on top of the actual data. I can failover easily between instances if the primary one goes down so it's reasonably highly available.
If you want less complexity you can use the S3 backend (IIRC nextcloud supports encrypted data at rest) and just ensure that's backed up regularily. Nextcloud itself has versioning for changed data.