Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
by sombremesa on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:01PM
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If you use a Dropbox like solution, some of your data is already off-site in the form of the end user machines (e.g. laptops). It's not exactly a "backup" (in that it's not a timestamped snapshot), but it does mean your data is replicated.
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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B
by Chris_Newton on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:41PM
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But please be careful because if you use anything based on automatic synchronisation, such as RAID or a DropBox-like service, there is also a danger that anything you accidentally delete or corrupt will then propagate. If there’s no historical version saved as part of the system, or if there is but you don’t notice the problem before it disappears, you can end up damaging your “backup” copies of your data in exactly the same way as the original if something goes wrong.