I'm more thinking that if you're compiling a project that involves regularly creating and destroying hundreds of MB of libraries, or working with editing multi-GB media files, Dropbox is not going to help you much... if only because sending all that crap up to .us even once (assuming the other machines are local so they do LAN sync) is going to take forever. De-duplication may or may not help, but I wouldn't like to bet on it helping. :-)
Personally I'm very happy with http://crashplan.com/ as my emergency cloud backup provider and I really hope I never have to do a catastrophic restore (of all machines), but it's there just in case. I did do a full crashplan restore of my linux VM when that died horribly, but that was a mere 13GB. :-)
Dropbox I'm keeping just for "a small amount of stuff I like to sync", so the free GB is fine for me so far. I'd be happy to pony up for a bit more if I needed it though.
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Date: 2011-08-12 05:00 am (UTC)I'm more thinking that if you're compiling a project that involves regularly creating and destroying hundreds of MB of libraries, or working with editing multi-GB media files, Dropbox is not going to help you much... if only because sending all that crap up to .us even once (assuming the other machines are local so they do LAN sync) is going to take forever. De-duplication may or may not help, but I wouldn't like to bet on it helping. :-)
Personally I'm very happy with http://crashplan.com/ as my emergency cloud backup provider and I really hope I never have to do a catastrophic restore (of all machines), but it's there just in case. I did do a full crashplan restore of my linux VM when that died horribly, but that was a mere 13GB. :-)
Dropbox I'm keeping just for "a small amount of stuff I like to sync", so the free GB is fine for me so far. I'd be happy to pony up for a bit more if I needed it though.