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No additional space on Business Advanced
Dear community,
I'm here to advice that the support have been denying us additional space for two weeks, first telling us that there was a momentary problem, then that we had made a request before...
@Shamrock22
You know WHY they are encrypting; to avoid copyright infringement of scanned files. 😆 That provides me all I need to know.
Like I said, any REAL company would not be using Dropbox as a BACKUP. They would USE REAL BACKUP SERVICES. Dropbox is to SHARE files.
And conspiracies? You can see people discussing and using Dropbox for mass uploading files and mounting Dropbox with Rclone at the forum links I provided in my OP. 🤣
I use Dropbox and using encryption to store the security videos from my clients. We encrypt because we don't want those files getting leaked online. I understand Dropbox scanning files for piracy, but I don't want them scanning our files and accessing them so easily. Who know what some hacker group might be able to do if they got access to something like that. Better the encrypt the files and be safe. Doesn't mean you are pirating at all. Plus we are using this because it's a lot cheaper are was supposedly more reliable then the other options out there.
@Dominus
Then you are caught in the cross-fire and should never believe the word "unlimited storage". Google Workspace is now enforcing limits and Dropbox will too. The only re-course is to migrate to locally storing and use Blackbaze as a backup.
Also, why are you storing security footage online? It's best kept OFFLINE is it not? You are violating AUP too as you are backing up too.
The "cloud" is someone else's computer..
I should be more clear, these accounts are storing 50,100,200,300+ terabytes of data. Most users will not be storing this insane amount of data. If you only check accounts doing this on or after March 2023; you can get almost all the big offenders.
@Tomato2515
I think you're reading into their AUP a little too much.
Why would Dropbox offer a business plan if you cannot use the service to back up your files as a business ?
- use the Services to back up, or as infrastructure for, your own cloud services;
All this means is you cannot create a cloud ecosystem using the storage supplied by Dropbox, not that you can't backup your business files. If this were the case, Dropbox wouldn't offer business plans.
As for the encryption, not sure if this is the case where you are, but where I live, if we are backing up data that has sensitive information held within it, we MUST encrypt this information by law or we can be fined.
I understand your frustration, but Google is still offering unlimited storage to business accounts with 5 or more users, just like Dropbox has a limitation of 3 users. But calling for banning users from using encrypted data is downright silly. Do a little more homework before spouting such nonsense.I'm saying these users have 200, 300 TB of encrypted data. That points to one thing; copies of movies and TV.
And no, Google does not offer unlimited anymore. Go read....
NOt alowed backups on Dropbox ??
https://experience.dropbox.com/en-gb/resources/windows-cloud-backup#:~:text=The%20best%20solution%20will%20prioritise,PC%20in%20three%20easy%20steps.
Please explain, also doesnt matter why someone is backing up secruity footage or in our case video editing we have done for clients under strick NDA's.
Also I am glad you speak for all companys and know what all companys are using for backup services, Guess Dropbox has a buisness section for no reason with no clients by your theory.
As for cross fire, why should legit companys pay the price for those breaking the law? Pretty sure thats not how it should work.
Anyways like I said, your "easy fix" doesnt actually fix anything but put Dropbox into a situation where companys will sue them.
Also I have heard poeple are selling slots for Dropbox, meaning they will have more than 3, so the ones thats will/are using loads of storage on more than 3? Whats you "easy fix" going to do about those?
The picture is alot bigger than you or I, or I am sure Dropbox would have shut down alot of accounts.
Also you claim I am breaking their AUP, They know I am backing up client data, had many live chats with defferent staff members, so you can keep throwing their AUP at me, Dropbox are aware and they are fine with it.
Next?No one is going to get sued as Dropbox is covered in their AUP, Terms of Service, etc. and has lawyers. 🙂
Let this be a lesson learned; unlimited is NOT unlimited. When people abuse it, it is tested and the real truth is found out.
Is Blackbase not the same as GDrive and DBox?
Unfortunately not.
Restoring data from backblaze (and crashplan) is slow and expensive.
There was times when one could order from them harddisks with the files but they stopped this.
Dropbox, box, google-drive and those storage services are basically 'hot storage' with no cost of downloading stuff.
Governmental agencies for example use services like backblaze due to certain requirements but private companies are free to choose.
But this whole discussion is nonsense.
Dropbox is a international, giant stock company. They have analysts and accountants that came up with the idea to offer _Unlimited Space_ to people. They thought they could make money that way. Or do you really think they made a mistake and did not foresee this?
This is all bollocks.
If you offer All you can eat in your hotel and then guests arrive that eat more than you have expected you cannot simply throw them out. This is your fault.
