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Can I use Mac OS Time Machine?
Having levelled up from the free version of Dropbox and using Time Machine alongside for years, and now on a professional plan and being told to ditch Time Machine. This is a potential deal-breake...
Hannah
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHey MattFoster, thanks for posting your query to our Community.
Even though Dropbox offers a backup solution, indeed, it's not a backup service in itself.
However, if a file is added to Dropbox and saved in our servers, it's safely stored and easily recoverable, in case of a deletion.
Have you looked into our Dropbox rewind feature?
Let me know how you find it.
Hi Hannah, thank you for your reply.
Yes I have looked in to the Rewind feature and it is great. I love Dropbox overall, I just like to have 2 physical versions of my project data and 1 Cloud version.
Of course it worries me that Dropbox recommends not to use Time Machine. As I have a 4 TB internal hard drive that is beyond the limit of backing up to Dropbox - plus other project drives. How may I have a local physical back up too if not Time Machine?
Is it possible that I use Dropbox whenever I need to roll back or Rewind a file? And only use Time Machine as backup without accessing the Restore features? Or perhaps get Time Machine to back up everything that Dropbox is not backing up.
For example I have Dropbox backup for the Dropbox Folder, Mac Desktop and Documents. If I have an additional folder outside of those, I can have Time Machine choose to back up only that later folder and not the Desktop etc
Much thanks, Matt
