After reading Michael Lopp’s book “Being a Geek,” I started using Dropbox as a means of synchronizing files between my home computer and my work computer. It was fantastic, it really makes it easy to keep track of the latest files you are working on.
My question is related to the experience of people with this tool, especially programmers who may have used it to develop larger projects.
Currently, I see 3 main uses of Dropbox:
1. synchronize files between home and work computers
2. version control (you have to log into the dropbox site to access previous versions)
3. off-site backup
Now I use it as the main backup tool, which I'm not sure is a good idea. But now I have a local (working) copy of my entire project “checked” on each computer (my home laptop and my working computer), and, in addition, my entire project is stored on the Dropbox website. Therefore, I think that if something happens to one of my computers or both, I will still have an off-site backup, and I just have to reinstall dropbox to access all my files.
Does anyone have any experience with this? Has anyone done a major file recovery with Dropbox? Or is it even widely used? Thank you for your feedback.
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