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IanG1
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4 years ago
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DropBox backup plan, but I want to select multiple drives.

I am interested in buying the backup 2Tb subscription for my desktop which has two hard drives in it. It says to just select the drive you want to back up. Do all the files have to be on one drive an...
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    IanG1
    4 years ago

    Thanks Nancy, it is becoming clearer. I didn't know if when Dropbox created that folder it had to reserve the space at that point in time. As I have c 1.7Tb of data it would be physically impossible to create a second folder big enough to match that on a 2Tb drive.

    I assume the Dropbox folder provides the logical boundary for the data in it and when I load stuff into it the content of the Dropbox folder increases logically but doesn't increase the overall space required on the hard drive.

    So my order of work seems to be:

    Turn the two logical drives on my main 2Tb hard drive into one by temporarily clearing the logical drive I am going to get rid of and store that on other drives

    Turn the whole hard drive into a single partition

    Load the files already on that drive inc Outlook files into the Dropbox folder

    Add back the other files I want backing up that have been temporarily stored where back into the Dropbox folder. 

    That way Dropbox will be backing up the 1.7Tb currently on on my main drives.

    Does that sound correct?

    Thanks

    Ian

     

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Megan
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4 years ago

Hey IanG1, that sounds like a good plan indeed. 😊

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IanG1
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Thanks to all who replied.

Ian

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