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I find this kind of odd. I wouldn't store anything valuable on my own systems either unless I held the encryption key.

When it comes to accidental data loss, I trust cloud services a lot more than my own little server. Ditto as far as security is concerned (in that I assume neither of them are safe from being compromised).

If you encrypt it yourself, Dropbox is an excellent place to store anything valuable. Just make sure it's not the only place you store it.

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> Just make sure it's not the only place you store it.

This is the main problem for me. I'd love to have my working files (say photoshop files) in dropbox so I could access them on any mac I use, but I don't trust it to hold the master file. All it takes is for it to be flattened in one place and I lose layers everywhere.

Does anyone know of products that clone files to Dropbox? Almost like TimeMachine with dropbox as the target?

I think the versioning support built into Dropbox solves that problem. Should someone flatten your psd you can always go back a version and be okay.

It's not a version control system for Dropbox -- but you could also use LayerVault (http://layervault.com/) to keep a nice backup of your files incase Dropbox does fail.

I use it exactly as a master for my PSDs for a year or so and I've been really happy with it, even when the file is open on another machine or two while I'm editing it on a a third. If there's a potential to flatten the file upon save, I'd create a second directory for those files and keep them separate from the PSDs. If you really don't trust accidents not to happen, maybe create read-only or password-protected masters in addition to those editable PSDs. They've also got the backup/versioning service you can pay for.

I use http://sugarsync.com personally which provides versioning and also lets you arbitrarily sync directories, not just the 'dropbox' one.

Nice to see a sync solution that lets me sync arbitrary folders. I was thinking of building a layer on top of dropbox for myself, but this works great. Thanks for the recommendation!

Our current Shop Setup.

All files are backed up to Time Machine (including DB shares) and Backblaze. Then all files are saved and shared via DB. This covers our asses all over the place, is relatively low cost and works.

Setup your backup software to backup any content you add to Dropbox. That way you have multiple copies. If DB kills your account and somehow deletes everything from your local disk you'll still have everything.

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