![]() When that main hard drive gets full, or I need to archive something etc, I've created an archive folder in my dropbox, and I simply move old projects etc into that folder, from within dropbox, then delete them from the hard drive. (In your case this would likely be your Mac mini)īackup copy on backup external hard drive: once a week at 2AM Mirrored copy in Dropbox: syncs daily at 2 AM, or anytime my Mac Pro is idle for more than 15 minutes. That hard drive project folder gets backed up in the following ways, all via ChronoSync: I have everything under one working folder, called Sessions, for easier sync setup in ChronoSync etc but you could do this in multiple parent folders if you wanted. I'll dive into your specific setup in a second My system is:Īll projects are on an external hard drive, which is my main working drive that I take with me to sessions, work from home on, etc. Here's how I currently have my system set up, maybe that will help give you some ideas. My goal is to be able to access any project, anywhere and to have changes made synced across devices and hard drives. I'd really appreciate some help! Could you share more specifically how your system works? Is there a better option than dropbox? This was my intention in chronosync, but in trying to involve dropbox to have access between my devices and to share with collaborators, I fear I am in a labyrinth of storage and syncing. When the drive is a backup and I try to open a file from another computer, dropbox has conflict errors.įurther, I want all of my projects three times backed up, but in a way that if I make a change to something, it syncs to the backups as well. Ideally I want to be able to access the external drive also from my laptop via Dropbox and have changes made there also be made on the drive, but I do not see how to sync the external drive with dropbox except to set it up as a backup. Obviously the easiest way to do this is to just work within a dropbox folder, but the issue is complicated by the external hard drive where I store most of my projects (instead of directly on the mac's hard drive). My idea is that I want to be able to work on my Mac mini, and have it immediately sync so that if I open the project on my laptop, the changes are automatically there. I use pro tools and logic, and my goal is to have a redundant system between by Mac mini (which is always connected to an external hard drive), my Mac Pro, additional back up hard drives and dropbox. I'm trying to set up my backup/storage system and am really just stuck trying to figure it all out. You're welcome to email them a feature request/suggestion for this though, as I think it would be immensely beneficial to a massive amount of people, and fairly easy for them to set up structurally given they already have that in place for other cloud services.ĬhronoSync and dropbox are currently my main backup/sync solutions, so if you need any further assistance/have more questions please feel free to reach out to me or comment here. ![]() This would be solved very easily if ChronoSync natively supported dropbox and it's API, like it currently does for Google cloud storage or iCloud, but they haven't implemented that as of yet. This ultimately means that if files are replaced on your external hard drive by versions in dropbox during the sink process, those files will be corrupted on the hard drive, because they are looking for their online counterparts in dropbox which don't exist on your hard drive. If it isn't, ChronoSync will sync only the fake dropbox placeholders for the files, and not grab the actual contents of the files/folders. In order for everything to work correctly, anything that sinks from dropbox to somewhere else via ChronoSync needs to be always off-line. ![]() ![]() The short answer is yes, but the longer answer is it's a little complicated, because ChronoSync doesn't understand that dropbox can have online and off-line files. I'm surprised no one answered this for you.
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