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Old 11-03-2016, 12:13 PM   #3
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I use Google Drive and pay $2/month to get 100Gig, which is probably low compared to other services, but I like being able to add files to gmails directly, or move attachments straight to the drive. The desktop app could use some refinement to the UI but it works. There's also mobile apps to access your files which is nice when I'm on a job site and need to pull up a pdf or attach something to an email. Just download the program and set the folders you want it to manage. It auto uploads/downloads any new or updated files.

I used to use an external hard drive and looked at a networked drive but prefer cloud because the thought of losing all my business files in a fire/disaster is like Edmonton (No Good).

One negative with cloud backup for me is with the large file sizes of projects I work on I can't have autosaves backed up as it would be uploading to the cloud all day long. At least with my slow Telus upload bandwidth.

Another thing that bugs me is if I save a file, it begins to upload to the cloud, and then if it hasn't finished uploading yet the next time I do it sets the file read only and makes you save as another name. Which then uploads that new file also and you end up with multiple files to manage. So when working in CAD (where saving frequently is very necessary) I turn Drive off and twice a day turn it on just to backup.

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