Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files

Re:Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files by aaronpk on Friday October 26, 2012 @07:13PM (#4704684)

Agreed. Early in my Dropbox days I lost some files due to my account going over the 2GB limit. Since then, I've treated Dropbox as a syncing server, not a backup service.

My current scheme is to make rolling snapshots of my Dropbox folder backed up to a local RAID array which backs up to a separate RAID array nightly. More info: http://aaronparecki.com/2010/190/article/1/how-to-back-up-dr...

Hackernews link for that post if you're in to that sort of thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704667

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Re:Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files by wycx on Saturday October 27, 2012 @03:06AM (#4705623)

Good idea.

You could also add a bit to the script explicitly looking for zero byte files and alert yourself to their formation.

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