![]() You can’t just have 2 or 3 machines on your LAN syncing up between them, and bypassing the DropBox servers. EVERYTHING has to go up to their servers. See, that’s one of the problems with DropBox. My search eventually led me over to the BitTorrent Sync website, and what appeared to be a too-good-to-be-true piece of software to create your own “cloud” over either a local network or the internet. I needed something a bit more “local”, but just as reliable. I have far too many files here to be practical for online storage.Įven if I could get everything uploaded as I create it over the course of however months or years there are between now and my next crash (it will eventually happen, don’t kid yourselves!), it will take days, if not weeks, to download it all again on a fresh system – and my ISP would probably be screaming at me for it. While the internal drives (including the one that died) were backed up to external USB drives, I’d still like to find better alternatives to my current way of doing things (which is using Microsoft SyncToy).ĭropBox was never going to be a solution, nor was any other online backup solution. I don’t need masses and masses of space for that, but I’ve still never really been all that keen on the idea of keeping things online in “the cloud” (which is basically just a fancy new term for the same old servers we’ve always had) as a form of file backup.Īfter recently having had a pretty major crash on one of my machines (motherboard died, taking the processor, RAM and a 2TB hard drive along with it), I’ve rebuilt and started looking into other potential backup solutions. It’s reliable, fairly quick (bandwidth permitting), and fantastic for delivering work to clients and models.ĭelivery of final work to clients and models I’ve shot with has been pretty much my sole reason for using DropBox, and it will probably remain that way, at least for the foreseeable future. I’ve been using DropBox for probably about 3 years now, and it’s rather good. ![]()
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