External HDD for History

[Fletch1373]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

It also replicates deletions, even accidential ones. That means that if you don't detect your mistake in a timely manner the data could be perminantly lost on all devices. This is easier to have happen than it sounds. I had this issue, but I didn't notice the missing data for over a month. Luckly I had nightly local backups of the machine I could restore the data from.

It is always best practice to keep at least two copies of the data, in different locations, and on different media (online, hdd, optical media, tape, etc.).

yes it does... but the website portion of it also keeps a record of file activity as well as shadow copies stored for every file in your dropbox(including deletions)... all I can say about your problem is that it's your own fault for not noticing for over a month, but I know dropbox will allow you to recover accidentally deleted files for at least a reasonable period of time

I do agree with you that best practice would be to keep multiple copies, but that can also be achieved by a small script, an extra hard drive, and a scheduled task(or cron if you're running linux).

-Eric