<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Mark Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:perkins1724@hotmail.com" target="_blank">perkins1724@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br>On 25 Nov 2014, at 1:17 am, "Daryl McDonald" <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com" target="_blank">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Mike Holden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@mikeholden.org" target="_blank">mythtv@mikeholden.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>Stephen Worthington wrote:<br>
> My recommendation, in fact, is to keep the original local weekly<br>
> backup running, alongside the daily Dropbox backup. Backups to<br>
> local<br>
> drives are much less likely to go wrong for strange reasons than<br>
> ones<br>
> that rely on network connections and hardware you do not control.<br>
<br>
</span>A Dropbox folder is likely local to begin with, and then sent out to<br>
the cloud by Dropbox in the background. That's the way mine works -<br>
a local filesystem, /dropbox, contains a bunch of directories,<br>
/dropbox/user1, /dropbox/user2 etc., which is the local repository<br>
for dropbox for those users, Dropbox then takes care of spinning<br>
that data out to the cloud afterwards.<br>
<br>
The suggestion to check your backups, of course, is a piece of<br>
advice that always bears repeating! Indeed, we ought to be testing<br>
them via a restore every now and then, to a fresh system, just to<br>
make sure they are usable backups and not just a useless bunch of<br>
bytes on a disk!<br>
<span><font color="#888888">--<br>
Mike Holden<br>
</font></span><div><div><br>
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