that indicates my wife & i would only get 1 TB of space, then we'd have to contact DB for more!!!!! WTF is THAT all about?!?! Next, regarding DB Business's " unlimited space" (a.k.a. Then delete, rinse, & repeat until it's all up there.Īnother question comes to mind -> can't i create a "Symlink" of my Mac's DB folder to an external drive to save the steps'n'time of the above scenario? Then when i've used as much precious SSD space on my Mac as i can spare, turn on the Selective Sync option for all that Then i suppose i would have to little-by-little copy data from the external drives over to my Mac's DB sync folder. Seems to me that i should be able to subscribe to a Dropbox Business account that both my wife & i can be members of So, before i start to strategize HOW to make this happen, i guess i need to know IF this is possible at all -> ? I've also read that DB will not provide a "seed" drive via the mail like others (CrashPlan) does. Then my wife discovered the " Selective Sync" feature in her Pro account, and that got me to wondering if it's possible to somehow send all our data ( currently aprox 6TB) up to DB & use Selective Sync to make sure it's not ALL trying to sync with our computers.īut in what i've read thus far, it's NOT possible to sync an external drive up to DB. but it's never been a place we've considered for "mass storage" because everything that's in our DB's is also synced & resides on our computers. it's been a smooth'n'seemless integration on our Mac's & iOS devices. We've been using Dropbox already for years & have been very happy with it. Yes, i know this would require Internet access any time we want/need to interact with our data - that's not a problem (for us).Īfter researching about ones like CrashPlan, BackBlaze, etc, & even straight up Amazon something'or'other, it dawned on me to look & see if Dropbox could accomodate our desires here. Not only to store & have access to all the data that won't fit on our little MacBook & MacBook Pro SSD drives,īut to also rely on it's redundency/ auto-backup in case something goes wrong in the Cloud with the primary access point. wondering if we can just finally do-away with all the external drives & just rely on a Cloud solution.
SO, i'm starting to research Cloud-based solutions. Plus tired of having drives fail & the hassel of fixing/replacing. Not to mention the hassel of having to have double the need for "backups"
by that i mean, every year or two having to purchase bigger/multiple external hard drives for it all I'm getting tired of using "bandaid" solutions for our ever-growing data space needs. Long-time Dropbox Basic user here (tho did the Pro for about a year once), along with my wife who continues to use Pro.
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