Does this plan let you access other people's account without a password?
New Dropbox Pro plans
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#102Videos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)
I guess it all adds up, you can easily shoot 1GB of photos on a weekend with current cameras.
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Regarding sensitive / confidential info, why not set up a volume with TrueCrypt that you can just mount when needed for sensitive stuff?
Because dropbox will save bandwidth by only updating the parts of files that have changed. If you use truecrypt the entire file will change for every small change you do. Basically you lose any advantage of using dropbox over a standard FTP system.
Yeah but you can opt to only use encrypted volumes for certain files that don't have to be accessed daily.
You don't take advantage of Dropbox fully, but it's still pretty convenient to be able to sync that small encrypted volume containing tax reports etc.
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#104I really wish there was a plan between free and 50G (now 100G). Kudos foe the increased storage though. Not having the pricing page live yet is kinda weird.
If I may just say: I have Google Drive, and am loving it. It's much cheaper than dropbox, as I pay only $5 and get 100GB of space. That's WAY more than I need, but it syncs to all my devices. However, I will be the first to say that DropBox has some really great features that Google Drive lacks. For example, there is no public folder for Google Drive, like there is for Dropbox, and I cannot throttle the speed at whic…
p.s. the Public folder is going away.
http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-really-removing-...
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#105If I'm calculating this correctly, S3 costs about $12.50 per 100GB per month (and that's not including any http requests you make). How is Dropbox (I assume they store data in S3) offering a lower price than that? I know they de-dupe data but is there enough common data being stored for them to be able to charge so little?
1) Not everyone has their account at max 2) They get bulk discounts from Amazon that take the price down quite a bit 3) They only store one copy of a file across their user base, so even though they bill you for 100GB and you have it completely full, it's possible they are only storing a small fraction of that. A folder of music for example is likely to not actually take up any space at all, but they get to bill you…
Except that the metadata on your MP3's is likely different, whether you've purchased them or just edited the genre in ID3 data.
I've often wondered if backup services "parse" MP3's into data and metadata for backup purposes, just because it can enhance deduplication so much. I've never heard of them doing it, but it's the first thing I would do...
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Please don't trust Dropbox as a journaled backup solution. I powered up a virtual machine that had been down for a while and had dropbox installed. I tried to SSH in. My password kept being rejected. I verified my key through the console, and then it dawned on me that the VM's clock was off, and that's why SSL didn't work. So I set the clock. I think I set it a couple seconds into the future. Fast forward a couple of…
To summarize all the replies to euroclydon... Free and non-Pack-Rate paid accounts can have their files restored for up to 30 days into the past. A support ticket is required for batch restoration; otherwise you have to restore files one-by-one. (brlewis is wrong in thinking that non-Pack-Rate paid accounts have an indefinite history.) Pack-Rat paid accounts can batch restore all files no matter how old and without a…
Thanks. I love Dropbox. What is the UI like for a batch restore? I can't find anything on it or it's features.
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#107Videos I might believe, but I'm skeptical that family documents and photos are filling 50 and 100 GB accounts. :)
Photos half a meg each so 2000 per gig. 100k photos might happen, I have a couple of filing cabinets full of 35mm negatives and contact sheets (ok not family snaps). Put some music and videos in there and you are away.
Even easier, RAW photos at 8MB each. Just 125 per gig.
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#108so, it's 2x of Amazon cloud's price?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
In case you didn't know they invented the "Backblaze Pod" to reduce storage costs. I don't think their costs are unreasonably low. 1 TB of double-redundant bare HDD space costs about $250 for five years (they have an interesting blog post where they candidly admit that they buy high-warranty drives and the manuf's eat the loss of drives). Even if you manage to upload 1 TB to their servers, they still don't lose money…
I don't think their costs are unreasonably low. Fair enough. For me, though, there are so many possibilities for things going wrong when it comes to storage, I'd rather not trust it to a company trying to squeeze a profit from taking in a few dollars a month - and that's before processing costs. Also, why would I go for the cheapest option when I get so much greatness for the equivalent of buying a few coffees/beers?…
I used to use Mozy and then switched to Backblaze when Mozy upped the prices. I see your point about pricing and data security, but for me I'm willing to risk it to save some money because it isn't like Backblaze is the only source of my data.
I've got the local active copy, a local backup to a home server and then Backblaze for off-site. While Backblaze could theoretically disappear any day as far as I know, the chance of all three of my data sources being lost simultaneously is very small. Small enough that if it ever happened I suspect I'd have bigger problems to worry about than my data backups.
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Set "Camera upload" to On in Settings in the app
Doesn't this require you to launch the DB app to upload new photos? I don't think third-party apps can be automatically invoked when you take a picture.
You can also set it to upload your photos when you plug-in your device. The dropbox client accesses the files on the device as if it was a camera.