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Joshu17
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

How secure is Dropbox, and can I recover deleted data on my account?

I'm thinking about cyber security. I'm just curious how Dropbox saves the data and backup and How often. If we get the data stolen or lost, can we restore quickly?

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

    Hi @, thanks for messaging the Community.

     

    This article should help regarding how Dropbox stores your data on the servers.

     

    Regarding the recovery of your deleted data, this article should help answer some of your questions.

     

    If you need any further assistance, please let me know!

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II

    Joshu17 wrote:

    If we get the data stolen or lost, can we restore quickly?


    Two things to add here. ALWAYS have secondary backups available. Do not, ever, rely upon just one solution (regardless of if that's Dropbox or any other tool). Also, if a file was permanently deleted by somebody on the website it is IMPOSSIBLE to recover. So if a bad actor accessed your account and permanently deleted everything its not recoverable. Hence.... you need backups.