Fortunately for me, I have always had a huge distrust issue with paid online backup space like Dropbox, Google Drive, Sync, etc. So, I never bother trying to adopt them and have actively discouraged my clients from doing so.
Instead I have always relied on systems that I can control completely myself. Protecting yourself is ALWAYS your responsibility and if you entrust it to some other party, then you have no recourse for when the 3rd party does not save you. Would you depend on a police officer to save you from an attacker trying to hurt you in your home? After all the police department is responsible for such things, and besides they are only 15 minutes away when you need them to save your life… right? NEVER place your full trust in the service of a 3rd party. Always have a plan of your own that YOU can depend on!!
Personally and for all of my clients, I use The Poor Man’s Backup System (v2) in addition to anything my clients “think” is a safe backup plan. I spread the copies of the backups across several servers in several locations around the country to minimize the potential for failure.
So, anyway… I have no worries about the Dropbox issues, but I will start probing for anything else that might be problematic. Thanks for the tip.
BKM