My work-flow for dealing with backups

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Hmmm ... your Dropbox folder and its contained files are _still_ entirely resident on your hard-drive too (till they are deleted in the DropBox "folder")! This is how they allow "off-line" work as well, when not connected "on-line" on the Internet.

In essence, it just is another folder on your drive that is treated _like_ a separate top-level drive/folder, even though it really isn't! This is a convenient approach though.

The Dropbox client on your computer/laptop/phone then performs an effective "replication" of the files within that folder when they are changed, to the DropBox cloud storage systems so that you can access them from elsewhere on the Internet or private network - on other computers and smart phones.

Which also, by the way, keeps _duplicate_ copies of the files on _all_ your synced Dropbox systems too! Can be a good backup system if you have enough space, I suppose! :)

Also, as far as I know, Microsoft's OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) and Dropbox operate the same way. They are basically "automatically sync my folder and its files into the cloud" storage mechanisms. 

However, Google Drive _can_ be set up to be "in-the-cloud-only" storage that keeps things off your drive, although it has the same sync'ing folders method available as an option. Makes it more complex to use in the only-in-cloude mode though - you have to manually load the files and delete them if you want. Not automatic folder sync'ing like OneDrive or DropBox.

Amazon Cloud Drive is one that primarily (perhaps only?) keeps the files in the cloud on their systems. WIth 5GB free storage if you have one of their Kindle Fire readers. This is also a "manual load of the files" approach ... I have not looked to see if they have any automatic folder/file sync option, but I doubt it.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Boss
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:55 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: My work-flow for dealing with backups

I have stopped saving multiple backups on my system and instead keep all active work in a Dropbox folder. Active files are automatically backed up online and to my laptop,  and all saved versions of a file are available for
30 days from the Dropbox site. No more clutter!

David

Boss Communications
www.bosscommunications.com 

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