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Dropbox for synching and backup?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:56 am
by yuendds
Would Dropbox work with OpenDental? If it does then it would be a great way to synch and backup to a home computer
Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 8:23 am
by knowlton0608
Has anyone used dropbox for backup with OD or quickbooks or images or anything?
Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 11:16 am
by Rickliftig
I use dropbox all the time for other programs, like word files and small backups - it's a great utility. However, my Open Dental database is about 70 Megabytes and the Images come to about 2 gigabytes at this time, so I think it would be inefficient at these capacities.
Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 6:15 am
by s0mvnguy
We use Dropbox for FrontDesk data, and Zumodrive for OD and Images. One thing i like about Zumodrive is that it is bandwidth throttling so it won't hog up your internet connection[same with DropB], and its software created a "virtual drive" on your PC. We also use SyncBackSE to backup data to our home through VPN tunnel.
Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 8:51 am
by apollonia
my bet is if you schedule a replicator to copy your database file to dropbox every night at 2:00 AM, it would work well. i'll give it a try and report back.