Just lost 3 months of video edits because I trusted the cloud sync

My Dropbox corrupted a project folder last night and I had no local backup since January. Has anyone else had cloud storage eat their work without warning?

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umamartin2mo ago

Man, that's brutal. I feel for you, I really do. Something similar happened to a buddy of mine who does video work and he lost a whole wedding edit because his cloud drive decided it was time to "clean up" old files without asking. It's one of those lessons you pay for with blood, sweat, and tears, and it stings like crazy. Hope you can piece some of it back together from your local trash or an older version.

casey162mo agoMost Upvoted

@umamartin Your buddy's story about that wedding edit hits way too close to home. I had a similar gut punch a few years back with a freelance project I'd been hammering on for weeks. Cloud services are great until they aren't, and automated cleanups are just a disaster waiting to happen. The only thing that saved me later was setting up a local backup on an external drive that runs every night, no cloud involved. If you or your buddy don't have something like that going, it's a cheap fix compared to redoing a whole project from scratch.

gavinw451mo ago

Yeah, I gotta push back a little on the local backup thing. It's not a bad start, but external drives fail too. I had one die after I dropped it off my desk. That was a fun week. You're better off using the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of your data, on two different types of media, with one copy offsite. Something like Backblaze or a cheap NAS in a friend's garage covers that last part way better than a single drive.