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Sorry this happened to you, but better backup practices could have avoided it easily.
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Hardly. "Dropbox is a home for all your photos, docs, videos, and files". -- https://www.dropbox.com/tour/1
Not to mention EVERY time I put an SD card in my machine dropbox does the pop-up and offers to store my photos in their cloud. Its actually more than a little annoying.
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The 'different region' requirement might just depend on different things: - How far away are your office and home? - What is your locality? As an example, I don't live in a place prone to earthquakes or hurricanes, and my office is a 20 ~ 30 min drive from my home. What is the risk that both my office and home are destroyed?
It's all just a matter of risk management: - Simply copying your data to a second hard drive in the same machine protects against hard drive failure. - Second disconnected hard drive protects you from ransom-viruses and accidental erasures. - Second disconnected hard drive on the other side of the house gives you some protection from a fire (caught early enough). - Second disconnected hard drive in another building s…
> - Second disconnected hard drive in another country protects against national disasters (eg. invasion, multiple nuclear strikes).
> - Second disconnected hard drive on another continent protects against major disasters (eg. moderate asteroid impact event)
I'm not really sure if worrying about my hard drive will be something high on the priority list in many of these events.
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Backups should be read only. If I can delete parts of a backup, it's just as susceptible to the same human mistakes that make them necessary in the first place.
The "Packrat" feature the parent comment mentioned keeps every version of a file you upload: https://www.dropbox.com/help/113
Sync is not backup. Sync is not backup. Sync is not backup. My strategy: a big external drive used for Time Machine, and a subscription to Backblaze. Both of these are all about retaining multiple versions, recovering from accidental deletion, and continuously backing up in the background. Dropbox is about syncing stuff between computers.
What does HN think? Safe if I went with 2 cloud backup providers?