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sesteynh
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

Dropbox doesn't work well when I need to backup large filesets

I want to use dropbox to backup large filesets from NFS mounted drives directly to dropbox.  The single point of failure of this for me is that when I attempt to copy/move files that are larger than ...
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Hannah
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3 years ago

Hey sesteynh, thanks for reaching out to the Dropbox Community.

 

We definitely appreciate you taking the time to post your feedback about your experience with this.

 

I will make sure to pass your comments along to our team.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

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sesteynh
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

There is actually a very simple solution to this situation that maybe you should inform your support techs of.  If a user is backing up or moving large content that is larger than the NTFS C:\ drive that dropbox app is usually installed to, you can purchase a 1-2 TB external drive, format it NTFS and use it as dropbox cache which will enable the user to move larger number/size of files directly to dropbox cloud.  This was the solution I employed to resolve this problem/challenge....

 

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