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Backup, sync, external drives and local backup
Hi.
I want help to see if I'm doing the right thing here. Maybe I'm being dumb and you have a better idea for my problem.
My computer has 500GB of space.
I work on my projects locally a...
It really depends, it sounds like if anything goes wrong, your most recent work will be on dropbox, and your last sync of the files from your external HDD will be available via your offsite backup. So for me this sounds like the optimal solution and I wouldn't really change anything unless for whatever reason you feel that in the event of some problem, you want to access your folders from your HDD quickly, rather than wait for the external backup copy.
You can have the google drive folder located on an external drive, but it can cause some occasional issues if it isn't connected 24/7. In my experience it's usually fine, it'll just wait until you plug it in and not do much in between.
I've read that, too, but I don't see a downside.
If the drive has a problem, everything is still on the cloud.
Having a 4TB drive be my "Dropbox Drive" allows me to keep all files "local" and eliminates the frustration when files mysteriously sync on my harddrive, fill it, and crash my computer -- causing about 2 days of very frustrating fixes.
I've been using an external drive for about 6 months and I'm really happy with the way it's working.
Your mileage may vary.
Thank you. Very interesting. I'm really tempted to give it a try now. hahaha.
But how do you manage it? Do you make changes to the files in Dropbox, or just in the HardDrive? I do not plan to update anything in Dropbox site directly, just sync what I have in the External Drive.
Thank you!
