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Dropbox backup in External Drive - Mac
Hi. I have a 4Tb DropBox account and I would like to backup this data. I do not sync to my computer (256Gb only) but want to know if it is a good idea to: 1. Buy a 4Tb external drive 2. Install s...
Thanks for the additional info and clarifications Luis - most appreciated!
I understand you'd like to use Dropbox mostly as a back up of your files in your external drive and that's OK - just note that this will be a static copy of your files at the moment you sync. If you choose to run Dropbox sporadically as you described though, you'll need to sync from time to time as you mentioned, for your back-up copies to be up to date.
As mentioned, you should always make sure that the external drive is connected when you start-up the desktop app or else, file loss could occur.
My colleague Jay has provided an extensive guide on this on the thread below:
I hope this helps to some extent Luis and please keep me posted on your progress!
Dear Walter,
Thanks for your answer. Let me explain:
- I use DropBox to share files with some people in our offices around the world. Sometimes, very big files for video projects.
- Some production houses share files in DropBox with me, and I copy to my account to keep them together.
- It works fine, and I can share the files without any problem.
- I really trust in Dropbox and I don't think anything can go wrong, but maybe will be good to have a local backup of these files.
- So what I want is to copy my DropBox content to somewhere. I just have the content in DropBox, not in any computer. I think now you see my problem. ;)
- Because of the size of some files (some with more than 10Gb), instead of downloading, I'll need to Sync.
- Because I do not have space, I'll need an external drive.
- But it will be not syncing every time, it's just to make a copy of everything.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Luiz
Walter
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the additional info and clarifications Luis - most appreciated!
I understand you'd like to use Dropbox mostly as a back up of your files in your external drive and that's OK - just note that this will be a static copy of your files at the moment you sync. If you choose to run Dropbox sporadically as you described though, you'll need to sync from time to time as you mentioned, for your back-up copies to be up to date.
As mentioned, you should always make sure that the external drive is connected when you start-up the desktop app or else, file loss could occur.
My colleague Jay has provided an extensive guide on this on the thread below:
I hope this helps to some extent Luis and please keep me posted on your progress!
Dear Walter,
Perfect! Thanks! I just read Jay's link, it's very complete.
Thanks again.
Luiz
