1. Casey Jones
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I currently use Dropbox to share files with my coworkers, friends, and myself on my personal laptop. I'm using the free version which only affords you 2GB of space and was thinking of upgrading to a paid account. 2GB is a lot of storage when you're just trying to send a file somewhere, but since I mainly use my computer for storing work files, family pictures, home movies, and mp3s of my favorite bands as well as some demos I've made, I'm worried about how long it would take to reaggregate everything if I were to have a harddrive failure.

   Is Dropbox a good service for backing up all of this information or should I look at some of their competitors? I've heard they're a bit different from those companies you hear about on the radio like Carbonite, but I don't really understand how.

   Thanks

2. Muzu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

    

   As a (former) Dropbox user I'd like to recommend SugarSync as an alternative way to backup and sync your data in the cloud. Free accounts provide 5GB of disk space. The best thing is that you don't need to setup a drop box. With SS you choose which folders to backup / sync.

   If you want to try it, feel free to use my referral link that will add 500 MB further bonus to both mine and your account :)

   https://www.sugarsync.com/referral?rf=do5qm2rpjareh
   

   Thanks!

3. Koby Wong
   Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeah, I like being able to select which folders to backup / sync. It makes life a lot easier IMO. Other things I would probably be looking at in an online backup service are:
   
   Versioning
   Ease of setting up the backup
   Ease of restoring files
   Scheduled backups
   Remote access to files
   Security (obv)
   Doesn't take up a lot of computer memory

4. jameszpalmer
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Dropbox and Carbonite, both are having the basic platform for backup of our files searching,automatic backup and remote access.Dropbox has a additional feature like sub-accounts,file syncing and public and private file sharing, because many user need to share specific files with other people.The storage capacity and prices of both are maximum in equal level.

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5. AdirAkerman
   Member
   Posted 4 weeks ago #

   Note that with Dropbox, versioning doesn't mean easy collaboration: I have seen that when a few people are working on a file, Dropbox creates duplicated, or what they call conflicted versions. Then you have to manually merge the files. So when there's a team of people working on something, these online backup services don't usually do the trick (file-sharing but not *collaboration*). Google docs is an option for this, maybe an integration between the two would be best.

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