| >- Works on Linux. >- Relatively lightweight. I was once asked to backup all the data in our Dropbox for Business account. 30 users, around 400GB (total). I installed the Dropbox client on a VM in our data center and waited more than a week while it tried to sync files. It used a lot of memory, and good lord the download rate was poor. Under 10MBit/sec for a VM which had a Gigabit connection to the internet. The nail in to coffin for me was that Dropbox for Business administrators don't have access to all the data within the organization. No, every single shared folder must be shared with the account you are using to sync the data. If a user creates a folder in Dropbox and doesn't share it with the backup user, that data won't be available. Sadly, in spite of the above, my company is still using Dropbox. We've just given up completely on having a backup of the data in it (IMHO, a decision they will come to regret). But the experience (also with Dropbox for Business support, who took multiple days to respond to a customer paying them over $5k/year) ruined them for me. For personal files I use syncthing now. But your points are valid. The reason others in the company like Dropbox are the client "just works" and their web interface is nicer than OneDrive/Google/NextCloud. |