Redundancy for Plus Users

[John M.153]

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 gets corrupted?).  Does it make a difference if I have it synced to my hard drive (do they keep fewer copies if it's stored offline on my hard drive?)

Thanks!

(Am a plus user, not business, if that makes a difference)

[Rich]

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@John M.153 wrote:

I am wondering if Dropbox keeps duplicates/multiple copies of my files on their servers (for redundancy purposes)?

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You have the ability to recover deleted and previous versions files for the last 30 days.

• https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/recover-older-versions
• https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/restore-delete/recover-deleted-files-folders

[John M.153]

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 · Accepted solution]

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@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?)

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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.