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I've had weird issues with my whole Dropbox getting deleted - in the middle of the night, with my machine off, have never figured out why - and while your Dropbox can be restored through the web interface, it's just one file at a time. In the case of a "mass delete" you actually need to e-mail support and generally wait a couple of days before they restore everything, which is less than ideal.

The last time it happened (the third time!) I wrote some scripts myself using their API to do the restore rather than wait on support. It really doesn't make for an ideal backup solution, though!

I use it like that. iTunes, development, documents, all sorts of things. Easily synced to a new machine if needed.

On top of that I pay for Backblaze, just for a little bit more protection.

Dropbox is not a backup service, it's for synchronizing local folders.