Every time this comes up I remember the questions I asked myself that got me the hell away from working out of Dropbox:
- Why did a file change? Who changed it and why?
- Why did a file I was working on change back? Where did my work go?
- Why am I paying per TB, per user? Alternately, why am I paying a small fortune for a business account?
- Why am I not just using a self-hosted version control system such as GitLab?
- Why aren’t I using the best tool for the job for each individual use case, e.g. version control for code or blueprints, asset repository for assets.
I still want *some *form of cloud backups, so I switched that part to Arq5. Again, it’s self-hosted. Some of my stuff goes into glacier because I’m unlikely to ever need to get it back out, and some of my stuff goes into S3 because I’m constantly working on it.
Dropbox is for mom and pop to back up their photos with. It’s for jerks in suits who want to seem techno-savvy but can’t actually manage it, who want to turn the people below them into an IT production line that they don’t have to talk to. It’s for developers who didn’t take the time to put together a better team system.
Edit: I see this was a necroed thread and I already replied last time. Oh well, enjoy another reply.