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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.
Hi.
Interesting moment I get your message, Miraflor9000. I just bought a new 8TB external drive and decided to sync DropBox to it. After a week, it finished last Sunday. It is working okay. Thank you for sharing your experience. I don't know why Dropbox says syncing to External Drives are a problem, it looks fine until now.
Thank you again!
Gotcha! haha so random cause I was just randomly looking at the forum.
hmm so you just purchased an 8TB? That's gotta be a drive that's plugged in with an AC adapter for power, correct?
Not sure if you already have the set up, but I highly recommend purchasing something like an APC or Cyberpower Battery Backup Surge Protector. I have any external drives that run on AC wall outlet power attached to these. So just in case the power goes out, they won't get damaged internally by a power outage or something. The internal battery of the surge protectors will switch on and they keep the drives powered long enough for me to be able to disconnect and power them off myself.
As Rich has mentioned above, a power outage could damage any hard drive and result in failure.
Welp, hope your drive stays alive and works.
& when in doubt, always make a backup of your backup and you'll be fine.
