Dropbox with GnuCash?

[Colin Law]

On 31 December 2010 10:25, Anthony Nelson <tonyn at openlearning.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have an opinion on whether it is safe and reasonable to store my
> GnuCash files on Dropbox and launch the application from Dropbox?
>
> It all seems to work, Dropbox claims military level security for both data
> in flight and data at rest, and the files are automatically backed up
> whenever they change.  It seems like a nice way to ensure GnuCash data is
> never lost.

I have not looked, but I am confident that if you look at their terms
and conditions you will find that they cannot be held responsible for
anything that happens.  Therefore you cannot rely on them keeping your
data secret (which may or may not matter to you anyway) and in
particular you cannot rely on their backup strategy being foolproof.
One must be responsible for ones own backups.  That does not mean that
their is anything wrong with using dropbox, just make sure you have
your own backup strategy in place also.

Colin