I recently saw something in the news about Dropbox having people change
old passwords. Ho-hum.
Then I got one of those e-mails. I have a Dropbox account! News to me,
forgot all about that.
Sure enough, I have a record of it in my master password list, and it
worked to login. They say I've go
I would agree with both Rich and Bill.. In my case Dropbox does serve the
purpose. (Sorry for some typos and brevity, i broke my right index finger)
Today there are a number of ec2 providers. For years I have been backing up
to a local removable drive but in public giving advice about offsite or
o
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
> kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
> ...
> I suspect that many online cloud-based storage solutions will do a similar
> thing. For my purpose, it just c
On 6/12/2016 11:09 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
> kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
Yup. Dropbox can't replicate hard links. The backing storage is AWS
buckets which don't do POSIX.
> I suspect that many online c
The web sites don't show really good good info
It appears that Dropbox stores hard linked files as separate files. This
kills snapshot-type of backups like rsnapshot.
For instance (on my desktop)
-rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 GetStarted.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 2 gaf gaf 692088 May 1 11:20 Get St
Richard Pieri wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> If the encryption is done properly, and can be verified, it doesn't
>> matter where your bits are stored.
>
> Well, yes, actually, it does. Dropbox for example does the encryption
> properly but they can and do hand over the keys to law enforcement upon
>
