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When I create a backup, I want it to remain unaltered, available in the future if needed to restore information that had been lost.

The “backup” could be modified, and possibly could involve loss of important data that had been deliberately or inadvertently deleted prior to second Sync.įrom a quality assurance perspective, I don’t regard Sync data as database backup. There’s not permanent retention of the database “backup” in that case. That danger would become real in any case in which Sync was performed afterwards, whether from the same computer or another. Regarding Sync stored data in any form, whether on Dropbox or not, as a database backup can be dangerous. The mantra about not having your databases in your Dropbox folder is so strong that using the supported Dropbox method seems to be frowned on. Although syncing to the Dropbox account is fully supported, and can be used as a means of restoring a database, there is a lot of resistance to regarding this a backup, even though it is. There is some guidance on this in one of the tutorials, and it might be worth buying the Take Control of Devonthink book.ĮDIT you might want to look at this thread for more discussion of this. If you ever needed to, you could recover the database from the Dropbox account, by going to “Import Database” in the Sync prefs, and selecting your Dropbox account as the source. You also need to go Selective Sync in Dropbox and exclude Devonthink in the “Apps” section to avoid it being downloaded to your Dropbox Folder on the computer. Start by going to Sync in Preferences, and add your Dropbox Account in Locations.

This is quite different from having your Database file stored in your Dropbox folder, and is fully supported by DEVONthink… and has the same effect as you want…a remote backup. But you can sync to your Dropbox account.