I'm a Dropbox fan. I love that it's cross-platform: Win, Lin and Mac.
I haven't tried it with really large files yet. Is anyone using it to
backup large files such as Outlook or Thunderbird database/files? I'm
wondering if RSync (or similar) is at play underneath the scenes and
makes it more efficient in only transferring changed portions of files.
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Kevin Cully wrote:
> I haven't tried it with really large files yet. Is anyone using it to
> backup large files such as Outlook or Thunderbird database/files? I'm
> wondering if RSync (or similar) is at play underneath the scenes and
> makes it more efficient in only transferring changed portions of files.
Define large. I send a 165MB backup file once a week. Speed is nothing
to write home about, but not unreasonable, and since it happens in the
background, I just keep working.
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Yes, large along the lines of hundreds of megabytes.
So, you leave Dropbox off and then turn it on when you want to backup
your files?
Vincent Teachout wrote:
> Define large. I send a 165MB backup file once a week. Speed is nothing
> to write home about, but not unreasonable, and since it happens in the
> background, I just keep working.
>
>
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Kevin Cully wrote:
> Yes, large along the lines of hundreds of megabytes.
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You wouldn't want to use this with active/open foxpro free tables, would
you?
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We think DropBox is great.
One thing to watch out for is using a dropbox folder for a web site. This is what I mean: We have a web site on Win2003
with C:\Apache2triad. Works great and easy to set up for many domains to share a single IP address. If you drop
Apache2Triad into your DropBox, the web site will not work. You will get a message about illegal redirection or
something like that. We are going to try to put the dropbox on a different drive and so it is a copy of the
C:\Apache2triad and see how that works. Not sure how this might affect other things.
I know when you move a folder to your dropbox on the same drive, any shares you have are broken. You can re-share them
after you move them to the dropbox and they work fine on the local network.
No doubt that dropbox is a very nice product. You just need to be sure you have good backups before you begin moving
things into and out of the dropbox.
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Kevin Cully wrote:
> Yes, large along the lines of hundreds of megabytes.
<snipped>
You wouldn't want to use this with active/open foxpro free tables, would
you?
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Kevin Cully wrote:
> Yes, large along the lines of hundreds of megabytes.
>
> So, you leave Dropbox off and then turn it on when you want to backup
> your files?
Naw, it's a tray service. It stays on all the time. When I do a
backup, I drop the file into the dropbox, in the appropriate folder, and
continue working. As I work, i'ts automagically uploaded to the server,
and if the other computer(s) are on, downloaded (synced) to them.
If I shut off before the file is uploaded, it stops, then resumes next
time I'm online. Very painless method for storing a quick backup on a
remote server that I can access from anywhere, as well as among my other
computers.
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Kevin Cully
<kcully@cullytechnologies.com> wrote:
> I'm a Dropbox fan.