Dropbox for synching and backup?
Dropbox for synching and backup?
Would Dropbox work with OpenDental? If it does then it would be a great way to synch and backup to a home computer
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Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
Has anyone used dropbox for backup with OD or quickbooks or images or anything?
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Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
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.
Another Happy Open Dental User!
Rick Liftig, DMD FAGD
University of CT 1979
West Hartford, CT 06110
srick@snet.net
Rick Liftig, DMD FAGD
University of CT 1979
West Hartford, CT 06110
srick@snet.net
Re: Dropbox for synching and backup?
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?
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.