My files just start appearing in the place they should go. Resuming work is easy because I don't have to spend a day or week setting things back up just the way I like. And when the files are done downloading from the cloud, it's exactly as I left it. No picking where to put files nor selecting a date to restore from. For a Restore of my files on a new compuer, I wanted to the entire process to flow be just this:

I wanted access to all my files from my phone, not just what I put in my Dropbox folderĭropbox fits this bill nicely, particularly for numbers one and four above.duplicating my preferences and development environment across more than one computer always ended up with some level of delta.settings and preferences I adjusted over time were inevitably lost and hard to set back up in the exact same way.

restoring from backups was never a seamless or pain-free process.

I originally developed this method for four reasons:

4 min read Note: This post is about is a homegrown solution to backups/restores I developed four years ago, not the newly-announced Dropbox Backup.

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