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MattFoster
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

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...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey 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.

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    MattFoster
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago

    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

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