I’m doing pretty good on my backup strategy. Yes, I have a backup strategy: for right now, I’m using Mac OS X’s built-in Time Machine for hourly backups of both of my computers, and once a week I use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a complete, bootable incremental backup as a second copy.
Just to be safe, though, I’d like to start backing up really super important stuff to the cloud, using Dropbox or something similar. It’d also be nice to have some way to access important documents on my iPhone.
I’ve seen so many amazing, cool, and geeky uses for Dropbox around the internet, though, that I’m having trouble deciding what will fit into my free 2GB of space. Most of what I’d be saving are text documents; those don’t take up much storage. But consider some of these cool ideas:
- Using Dropbox as a password syncher.
- Storing preference files on Dropbox so they persist across computers.
- Getting a lead on a laptop thief via Dropbox.
- Create a personalized start page hosted on Dropbox (since you can have a public URL link to your Dropbox share, you can put HTML forms there).
There’s likely more but that gives you an idea.
So my question is: how on earth do I decide what to do, and what not to do? I have a feeling that once I start, I’m going to run out of space before I run out of ideas.
Anyone out there using Dropbox in a clever way? Feel free to share!
