DropBox is a fantastic content-synching or file sharing service, but it is NOT designed as an Online Backup tool, and has severe limitations that make it unsuitable for this purpose:
Soteria | DropBox | |
Protection | You can select any files or folders in any location that you want backed up. | ONLY files in your DropBox folder will be protected |
Security | Your files will be protected with 256bit encryption | Your files are unencrypted |
Replication | Your data is replicated to both a primary and secondary location in different cities | Your Data is stored on one remote server, which is a single point of failure. |
Monitoring |
Your backups are pro-actively monitored by Soteria support and they will contact you if they see a problem |
No active monitoring |
Local Backup | You can use Soteria to perform local backups for local storage or for "initial seeding" | You cannot backup locally with DropBox |
Bare-Metal Backup | You can backup or restore an entire server including Operating System and Configuration with one click. | Bare-Metal backup is not supported, you can only backup limited files. |
PlugiIns | With our plug-ins you can backup live Outlook, Exchange, SQL Server, MySQL etc | You cannot protect open files or databases with DropBox |
Versioning | Each historical file change is stored and you can revert a file or document to an older version | Versioning/Archiving is not supported |