Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I use Dropbox with my Legacy folder in it. But (and this is the important part
to me) I also spend $5 a month to have my files backed up every night to
Backblaze. So, I don't worry as to what will happen if Dropbox drops me or
goes out
Ian GARDENER wrote:
This forum is probably not the place for it so if you want to email
me, I’ll email you response.
It’s not hard to set up though, in my opinion the trick is NOT to
schedule backups but to use it’s own internal option to cycle the
backups and/or syncs every x minutes.
MJ SA wrote:
Wow, this is so over my head, I never even heard of syncback. I have
around 300 people on my family tree, I think I should be good with a
thumb drive.
I've not heard of synback before either.
A thumb drive will be good for now but you need to have other back ups
as well. Don't
Are your files in Dropbox being backed up to Backblaze? If so and
Dropbox goes out of business on a different day than Backblaze, then I
suppose you could get yesterday's backup from Backblaze. Is that how it
works? Are they keeping dated backups? Or are they mirroring what's on
or not on your
Yvonne Morehouse wrote:
I use Dropbox with my Legacy folder in it. But (and this is the
important part to me) I also spend $5 a month to have my files backed up
every night to Backblaze. So, I don't worry as to what will happen if
Dropbox drops me or goes out of business.
Am I wrong?
On 8/11/2012 7:33 PM, MJ SA wrote:
I have 2 thumb drives, a desktop (Windows XP) and a laptop (Windows 7)
I am a total scatter brain, or do they call that ADD now? I have so
many family files on my thumbdrives I now date the file so I know it
was the last time I back it up.
Legacy will
On 8/12/2012 6:16 PM, Charani wrote:
There's no reason why you shouldn't keep doing it the way you are BUT
keep another copy on an external hard drive you can lodge with a
trusted friend or a relative. MJ SA's use of a flash drive is good
because you can keep it in your purse so it's with you
] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
On 8/12/2012 6:16 PM, Charani wrote:
There's no reason why you shouldn't keep doing it the way you are BUT
keep another copy on an external hard drive you can lodge with a
trusted friend or a relative. MJ SA's use of a flash drive is good
because you can keep it in your
hwedhlor wrote:
Sorry I wasn't that clear the first time, Charani. Maybe
it's the heat here, which is around 116ºF/46.1ºC in the
afternoon, and drops to a mere 90ºF/32.2ºC during the night.
:-) Good job the humidity seldom climbs above 20%. :-)
SOK. Cloud computing is new to me so I
] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:17:53 +0100
From: Charani charan...@gmail.com
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
I think I'd be more inclined to deposit files in a private area of one
of my domains - so long as I could
Laura Johnson wrote:
I would be very wary of putting anything on a Wordpress site. Wordpress
is a prime target for hackers as it is easily hacked into. I just had
one of my sites hijacked back in February and I am still cleaning up
messes from that.
Any site is capable of being hacked, so
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Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2012 9:11 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary of putting anything on a Wordpress site. Wordpress is a
prime target for hackers as it is easily hacked into. I just had one of my
sites hijacked
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary of putting anything on a Wordpress site. Wordpress is a
prime target for hackers as it is easily hacked into. I just had one of my
sites hijacked back in February and I am still cleaning up messes
my primary legacy file in dropbox was
a bad idea.
Ian
-Original Message-
From: Laura Johnson [mailto:rngad...@madisontelco.com]
Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2012 9:11 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary
@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary of putting anything on a Wordpress site. Wordpress is
a prime target for hackers as it is easily hacked into. I just had one of
my sites hijacked back in February and I am still cleaning up messes from
-Original Message-
From: Laura Johnson [mailto:rngad...@madisontelco.com]
Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2012 9:11 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary of putting anything on a Wordpress site. Wordpress
What more could I do?
Burn a copy to a disk and give it to someone who doesn't live in your
house to keep safe.
Put a copy into cloud storage.
Copy to another computer.
Back up to an external hard drive.
Have more than one backup medium. Backups can fail, and the worst time
to discover
I have 2 thumb drives, a desktop (Windows XP) and a laptop (Windows 7)
I am a total scatter brain, or do they call that ADD now? I have so
many family files on my thumbdrives I now date the file so I know it
was the last time I back it up.
Should I back it up as a gedcom or legacy file etc?
in dropbox
was a bad idea.
Ian
-Original Message-
From: Laura Johnson [mailto:rngad...@madisontelco.com]
Sent: Saturday, 11 August 2012 9:11 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
I would be very wary of putting anything
Legacy file backed up to my documents. Any way you could give
me some details on how you set yours up?
Cheers!
Terry
From: ijg3...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:16:32 +1000
Here's what
Whenever I close Legacy I hit the backup button and make a zip folder.
If the button is not there for you, right-click on the toolbar and drag
it there.
I regularly back up my entire Legacy installation folder, like several
times a day. This is what's called a Syncback 'profile'. Legacy on my PC
understand what you want, backup, sync, or both.
Ian GARDENER
Australia
From: Terry L. [mailto:nemesi...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, 12 August 2012 11:13 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
Hi Ian,
I like your idea with Sychback
On 2012/08/10 00:51, JLB wrote:
The My Dropbox folder on your computer is synced to Dropbox on their
server. If you log into your account and delete a file/folder, as would
happen if they killed your account, it IS going to disappear from the My
Dropbox folder on any of your computers. That's
On 10/08/2012 03:49, hwedhlor wrote:
Having said that I should add that Dropbox also makes it
possible to recover deleted files ifyou reinstate your
account within 30 days.
Can't tell you how pleased I am you said that! I accidentally deleted a
file from DB a few days ago and was furious with
hwedhlor wrote:
Perhaps I should have been more clear on my philosophy for
using Dropbox. I consider any Dropbox folder to be part of
the Dropbox server system, even if that folder resides on my
local drive. The Dropbox sub-folder under My Documents on
you hard drive will certainly be
Ian GARDENER wrote:
I don't use dropbox orany cloud function for backup purposes, it's
there so I can sychnronise the three different machines I use. I
back up Legacy to an external HD each time I exit the program but I
have many other files that are not part of legacy, ebooks,
references,
Sorry I wasn't that clear the first time, Charani. Maybe
it's the heat here, which is around 116ºF/46.1ºC in the
afternoon, and drops to a mere 90ºF/32.2ºC during the night.
:-) Good job the humidity seldom climbs above 20%. :-)
Dropbox is a good secondary storage area, and can provide a
With SugarSync, on the other hand, you don't move files to a folder such
as 'My SugarSync'. Right-click on Legacy in its default location and
'Add Folder to SugarSync'. If your SugarSync account disappears, Legacy
will still be on your hard-drive.
---
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology
da..ed sure that it can't happen
-Original Message-
From: JLB [mailto:j...@jgen.ws]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:53 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
With SugarSync, on the other hand, you don't move files to a folder such as 'My
that it can't happen
-Original Message-
From: JLB [mailto:j...@jgen.ws]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 10:53 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
With SugarSync, on the other hand, you don't move files to a folder such as
'My
Hi Ian,
Nearly all of the services such as Dropbox have an
expiration date for files kept there. Those expiration dates
are generally either 30 or 90 days. Inactivity on the app is
the usual trigger for deletion of files by the provider.
Only Amazon's cloud service does not have an expiration
to be corrected, but certainly mine
are there today.
Cheers
Jan
-Original Message-
From: hwedhlor [mailto:hwedh...@cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 16:43
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
Hi Ian,
Nearly all of the services such as Dropbox
This limitation/restriction applies to free accounts only. There is
no time limitation/restriction on paid subscription accounts.
Ron Bernier
Woonsocket, RI
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:43 AM, hwedhlor hwedh...@cox.net wrote:
Hi Ian,
Nearly all of the services such as Dropbox have an
The one thing I'm a bit confused about is whether "inactivity" refers to the individual file, or to the account in general. I have activity on my Dropbox account virtually daily, but certain files (e.g. multimedia) have been dormant for more than ninety days and nothing has ever been deleted.
Paul Gray wrote:
The one thing I'm a bit confused about is whether inactivity refers to the
individual file, or to the account in general. I have activity on my Dropbox
account virtually daily, but certain files (e.g. multimedia) have been dormant
for more than ninety days and nothing has ever
The inactivity to which I referred was to the overall
account, and the files deleted would not be deleted from the
subscriber's computer, but from the provider's server. These
services do not have access to our computers.
John
John Zimmerman
Mesa, AZ
On 8/9/2012 6:45 AM, Charani wrote:
Paul
Their server/your computer - in this case it amounts to the same thing.
Anything inside the My Dropbox folder would be gone when it's deleted on
'their' side. I think.
---
JL Beeken
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 8/9/2012 11:42 AM, hwedhlor wrote:
These services do not have access to our computers.
Actually, that is not totally correct. Any service that allows
synchronization between computers does have access to your computer
(otherwise it wouldn't be able to synchronize the files between computers).
In other words, if I move my
hwedhlor wrote:
The inactivity to which I referred was to the overall
account, and the files deleted would not be deleted from the
subscriber's computer, but from the provider's server. These
services do not have access to our computers.
How do they sync then if they don't have access?
--
On 8/9/2012 3:22 PM, GeoPappas wrote:
 These services do not have access to our computers.Â
Actually, that is not totally correct. Â Any service that allows
synchronization between computers does have access to your computer
(otherwise it wouldn't be able to synchronize the files between
: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:28 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
On 8/9/2012 3:22 PM, GeoPappas wrote:
 These services do not have access to our computers.Â
Actually, that is not totally correct. Â Any service that allows
synchronization
it. Now that's cruel for both
the kids and their family friends. :)
-Original Message-
From: Charani [mailto:charan...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, 9 August 2012 7:24 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox Syncback
Ian GARDENER wrote:
I currently
Isn't that only if you back it up on your computer? If you are storing it
on DropBox doesn't it disappear if they delete it?
No attachments this time.
Marie
Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL
Melchiori Research Services, L.L.C.
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from your
machine. I've tested it, the webinar stated that Dropbox have confirmed it.
Its even in their terms.
-Original Message-
From: hwedhlor [mailto:hwedh...@cox.net]
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:42 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy Dropbox
The My Dropbox folder on your computer is synced to Dropbox on their
server. If you log into your account and delete a file/folder, as would
happen if they killed your account, it IS going to disappear from the My
Dropbox folder on any of your computers. That's what syncing means.
The files are
Hi,
I currently have all my legacy files, both multimedia data, in my dropbox.
I have also just become aware that if I don't access my dropbox for 90 days,
the dropbox people may
delete my files from their server. If I then use my pc, dropbox will
automatically delete the files on my pc
Yes, I definitely wouldn't keep anything in Dropbox that you could lose
for whatever reason. I used to and changed my mind about it. Now I only
keep my shared folders and portable apps there. But I also backup My
Dropbox to my external hard-drives.
Dropbox, by the way, is a more complicated way
I also do periodic backups to an external hard drive in addition to using
dropbox as my primary folder for saving my genealogy files, including
Legacy; it's always best to use multiple back up types for something as
important as genealogy research -- it would be difficult, if not
impossible, to
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