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Originally Posted by cybmole
Hi chaley, Do you trust dropbox to never sync old over new or do you also have a local folder backup plan. I cant get past the risk of sync damage if ever a drive needs replacing from an out of date system image. I have just been googling how onedrive handles that scenario , driveimage restore ,and do not find reassurance, rhe restored image can be treated as newer than cloud,and so propogated to all machines?
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I have backups all over the place, including on 2 cloud providers, on a virtual server in a data center, and on a RAID NAS in my apartment.
I have restored failed drives from backup and dropbox did the right thing, updating the old install with new data from the cloud. However, if when restoring a system you are concerned about having the old data become current, simply restore with the network disconnected, uninstall dropbox and delete its folder, then reconnect and reinstall it.