Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files
It's always important to remember the difference between a <i>syncing</i> service and a <i>backup</i> service. A syncing service sometimes feels like a backup, because you can use it to recover files if a local device is destroyed or lost. HOWEVER, any service capable of syncing files is equally capable of destroying them.<p>It's important to have an automated <i>one-way</i> backup system that you can manually restore from. Something like Tarsnap [1] looks like a really good possibility (I haven't used it myself, but it seems solid)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/gettingstarted.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tarsnap.com/gettingstarted.html</a>