05-29-2011, 08:55 PM
mrlynn wrote:
The reason I'm asking, aside from being a worrywart, is that it would be tempting to put my entire Documents folder in the Magic Briefcase, whereupon everything in it would be sync'd between my iMac and my MBP all the time. But, I wonder, what are the potential hazards of doing this? Could a glitch in SS's servers end up deleting (or corrupting) the files? Could a hard-drive crash on the MBP end up deleting the Documents on the iMac?
For those of you who do sync two or more computers using SugarSync (or DropBox, or MM, or some other service), what potential hazards do you see, and what strategies do you use to avoid them?
/Mr Lynn
You won't be using this as a primary backup strategy, right? I mean, you will never lose more than a day's work because of your daily backups of your data, including your Documents folder, right?
I use DropBox, but everything is backed up daily with CCC, plus i run Time Machine on the desktop machine. DropBox keeps previous versions of files and allows for undelete, but for significant storage it's not free. Also, as has been noted recently, it's not entirely secure. Backups are required, and that's your strategy to avoid catastrophe.