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Backing Up External Hard Drive
I use my laptop to DJ. I have an 256GB internal drive, however my library of audio files is over 1TB. I currently have my audio library stored on an external hard drive and have a 2nd one as a back...
@Mark, thank you for the warning. By delete the data, you mean delete it both from cloud and from the drive itself?
So I think I've managed to do it by installing dropbox on a virtual machine, attaching the external drive to it and putting the Dropbox folder on the external drive. Create a new folder on the dropbox.com website, in the main tree. The folder will appears in your Dropbox folder and you move everything from your drive in that folder.
Then you wait until Dropbox uploads all your files to the server. After that, quit Dropbox app, move everything out of the Dropbox folder on the external drive and uninstall Dropbox and delete the Dropbox folder.
This way you can use Selective sync on your regular workstations to hide the backed up folder or set Smart sync to have it online only.
I guess this is what constitutes "Easily backing up any file or folder" in 2021 for Dropbox.
For comparison, in any other paid cloud storage service I have used, you just select the folders on the drive in the app and click Upload. 🤡
