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John M.153
4 years agoHelpful | Level 5
Redundancy for Plus Users
I am wondering if Dropbox keeps duplicates/multiple copies of my files on their servers (for redundancy purposes)? For instance, if I upload a file, do they save two copies of it (in case one get...
- 4 years ago
John M.153 wrote:
Say I upload importantfile.pdf to Dropbox, do they keep one copy of that file on one server and a second copy on a second server (in case their first server crashes?)
That's not how it works, but you can pretty much guarantee that there are redundancies in place. You can't operate a storage operation the size of Dropbox's without having redundancy.
John M.153
Helpful | Level 5
Thank you for the reply Rich , though that's not quite what i meant.
Say I upload importantfile.pdf to Dropbox, do they keep one copy of that file on one server and a second copy on a second server (in case their first server crashes?)
Thanks
Rich
4 years agoSuper User II
John M.153 wrote:
Say I upload importantfile.pdf to Dropbox, do they keep one copy of that file on one server and a second copy on a second server (in case their first server crashes?)
That's not how it works, but you can pretty much guarantee that there are redundancies in place. You can't operate a storage operation the size of Dropbox's without having redundancy.
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