Mark Poppen

Seriously, do!
Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don’t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I’m not the only one
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.

The coolest part of it is that it runs in the background. Take my situation:

I have a desktop pc and a laptop. I have Dropbox installed on both pc’s. Dropbox will make a “My Dropbox”-folder in “My documents”. I’ve put all my web design and administration-files in the dropbox-folder. Every time I change or add a file, it gets synchronized with the Dropbox server. When I open my laptop, the program will also synchronize with the webserver, downloading all the changed/added files. That way, I have a backup on the webserver AND on my laptop. If I go somewhere and bring my laptop, I can always work on the files I recently changed or worked on on my desktop pc.

About the revisions, here’s an example:
Say, you’ve created a few websites for different clients, and a client wants you to update a few colors on the site. No problem, you just open the CSS, change the color and upload it to the server. After that you find out you’ve used the wrong CSS file and you’ve overwritten the original with a completely different CSS. You’re up shit creek, right? Nope. Just go to the web version of Dropbox and go to the file you’ve overwritten. There’s a version-history in the listing. All you have to do is download the earlier version, and you’re good to go.

I can recommend this program to anyone. They’ve just gone OUT of private beta, so anyone can download it now, no invitation needed.

Tags: dropbox, Internet, Windows

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