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Tommy_D
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4 years ago

Backing up internal hard drives

Hello All,   Hopefully I can get some help with this situation that I am having.   I have a custom built PC with the following Hard drive configuration:   NVME 1 (500 GB): Boot drive (Has...
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Rich
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4 years ago
Tommy_D wrote:

Anybody run into this issue and figured it out?

There are no options to back up internal drives. Dropbox isn't a real backup service. It's a file sync service that happens to have a "backup" (and I use that term loosely) option for certain system folders and external drives. It's not a full-featured backup service.

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