TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX MANUAL
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TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX MAC

TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX MAC

And guess what? That spreadsheet hadn’t been synced locally to the Mac mini.

TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX MANUAL

This makes Dropbox another manual effort and point of failure.

TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX DOWNLOAD

In my case, that means I need to ensure everything I hold dear on Dropbox is kept as a local file on the Mac mini (you can choose to keep files on Dropbox and only download them when needed in order to preserve local storage). The worry with storing practically everything on Dropbox is that it’s only ever going to be backed up by yours truly if a physical copy of each file resides on the drive you are backing up. That is unless you’re inclined to check file modification dates and times, which I’m not, because, well, I have a big to-do list and friends and stuff. Then, you’re in a whole world of pain, and often without any forewarning. I’ve used it for many years to make switching between devices – and setting them up – as simple as possible. I’m acutely aware that most of my important stuff sits on Dropbox. I also don’t use Time Machine these days, which means I had no option of reverting to an earlier version of the said spreadsheet. As a result, my backup routine didn’t help one bit during my frantic search for the right version of that spreadsheet. There is, clearly, far too much manual stuff involved here, and, as we all know, the weakest part of the chain in any tech ‘stack’ is the human.

TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX ARCHIVE

The archive drive and entire contents of the Mac mini – including another external SSD buried neatly within its AGPTEK hub – then get backed up daily (and, thankfully, automatically) to Backblaze. You know, nothing important – just my life’s work. I also have to remember to copy my exported YouTube videos to that archive drive, from my external Sandisk SSDs. This was silly, long-winded, and littered with potential pitfalls. The archive drive isn’t involved in any kind of automation I simply manually copy stuff to it when I feel I need to.įor instance, yesterday, I brought it home from the studio and copied the entire project and library files for my new Skillshare class to the drive for safekeeping. My backup ‘routine’ consists of an M1 Mac mini connected to a BackBlaze account and a 4TB external archive drive. Sharing it would be like sharing my post-workout stretch routine, which is also dreadful. This is for one simple reason: my current backup routine is rather dreadful. My response is usually, “Yeah, of course – I’ll do something in the future”.

People often ask me to reveal my backup routine as part of a YouTube video dedicated to the subject. This resulted in much swearing, an unlikely saviour, and a valuable lesson learned. That meant I had been sitting there adding rows, formulas, and formatting to my lovely spreadsheet, blissfully unaware that I was updating an old version. Something had gone wrong with the Dropbox sync (it hadn’t synced my changes from Sunday, to be more precise). It’s where they send you if you’ve been really naughty during your life. I was entering the bowels of Spreadsheet Hell.

More frustratingly, I’d only spotted their absence after I’d updated a bunch of stuff in the spreadsheet. With some tweaks to the appearance I'm very pleased with the result: inevitably there are one or two compromises but on the whole it's working well.Then, it hit me on Sunday, I’d spent a good hour or so adding some particularly important items to the costs section of my cash flow forecast.

TIME MACHINE TO DROPBOX ANDROID

My android tablet can access the backup folder through Google Drive and can read, but not write to, the text of notes (images don't show). I export in HTML automatically once a day (using Keyboard Maestro) to my Documents folder, which is backed up to Google Drive. I don't necessarily recommend this method: it's OK for one person using a couple or three desktop computers but not for more widespread use. The big caveat is that it's vital not to have the app running on both Macs at the same time. The syncing is immediate so no danger of quitting it before the next sync. It works perfectly well (so far) with a lot of use and rebooting as I've worked on the css. I'm syncing it between two Macs by doing precisely what we are advised not to do: I placed the 'joplin-desktop' folder in Dropbox and routed the app on each Mac to it using a symbolic link. I know I said I'd decided to go with Apple Notes, but having had it lose a couple more notes (I did have backups) I'm back with Joplin.

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