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Originally Posted by eschwartz
All cloud storage sites serve as a form of backup. If you copy files to a flashdrive, that too is a backup.
Yes, same as when you copy a folder called "folder1" from the "Downloads" folder to the "Documents" folder... if there is already a "folder1". The two folders will be merged.
Yes.
They will indeed remain untouched. This is why...
Just move the files into your cloud storage, and the n you always have to edit that copy.  Keeping multiple copies of the same file in different places is, ehm, inadvisable -- for that exact reason. enterprise-grade backup solutions (can be cobbled together by kowledgeable people using rsync) handle those extra copies automatically, using versioning -- which is why they are acceptable. You can manually, laboriously do versioning yourself, by copying files and appending dates to the filenames, b ut it is probably not worth the effort.
Do NOT try keeping the latest version in multiple places, it will only frustrate you. |
Thanks eschwatz. That was
super-helpful.
So, say I combine my two Documents folders (one from each computer) into the Copy folder. Then I have all my documents there combined in my Copy folder. Then I delete (or 'cut and paste,' whatever) my Document folders that are not in the Copy folder on both computers?
If so, that makes me nervous. What if Copy.com screws up? Their TOS is all about 'we are not responsible if you lose data.'
Do you think it's safe?
I like the idea. No, I
love the idea of having everything in the Copy folder. It's like having both computers in one place. But it's scary.
Do you think rsync and stuff like Deja Dup are over my head or more than I need?
And for back-up are there any that are free and simple (or maybe I should just stay with Copy.com)?
Here's all these Linux backup things:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...03/Backup.html
One of them should work, don't you think?