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-nikolaos
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3 years ago

DB backup size of external ssd is different than the ssd

So I finished backing up my SSD a few hours ago and when I went to make sure that all of my files got backed up, I realised that there was a huge difference on the file size. So, while the files on m...
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-nikolaos
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
Everything seemed to be okay and synced. I really don’t know what was causing this, but I can’t trust this service. also, from what I understand, the Dropbox Backup is mirroring the external drive I had backed up. So, if I wanted to delete all of my files from the hard drive, everything will get deleted on the cloud.
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Walter
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3 years ago

Yes,  that would be expected when backing up an external drive to Dropbox -nikolaos 

 

You could instead copy or move those files to Dropbox and have them sync normally to be able to delete them from your external drive afterwards. 

 

From there, you could also use selective sync to un-sync them from your computer as well, if needed.

 

I hope this helps a tad! 

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