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Backup, sync, external drives and local backup
Hi.
I want help to see if I'm doing the right thing here. Maybe I'm being dumb and you have a better idea for my problem.
My computer has 500GB of space.
I work on my projects locally a...
It really depends, it sounds like if anything goes wrong, your most recent work will be on dropbox, and your last sync of the files from your external HDD will be available via your offsite backup. So for me this sounds like the optimal solution and I wouldn't really change anything unless for whatever reason you feel that in the event of some problem, you want to access your folders from your HDD quickly, rather than wait for the external backup copy.
You can have the google drive folder located on an external drive, but it can cause some occasional issues if it isn't connected 24/7. In my experience it's usually fine, it'll just wait until you plug it in and not do much in between.
Jay
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Jay, thanks for the quick reply. I’ll take a look and see how I can adjust. Thank you for your help!
Jay post is very good and will help you. Thank you, Jay!
Our cases are very similar. I decided to do not trust Dropbox 100%. 🙂 I know it is more work, but:
- Sync app do not open at startup.
- External drive is not connect all the time.
- So, like every 2 to 3 days I connect the drive, open the Sync app and let them talk to each other. 🙂
- Until now, everything is okay.
I know it's not the idea, but like you, I have less SSD than I need. Anyway, I keep backing up the external drive to another external drive (different location, don't worry) once a month.
Hope it helps you too.
