Third-party backups of Box

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jc

• November 23, 2020 18:09

Any experience with backing up Box to a third-party service? Due to regulatory requirements for our industry we have to keep backups of all deleted or modified files for a number of years.

I understand that I can set the trash to not delete on Box, but I would like to have a second version of our files somewhere in the cloud. Has anyone used a third-party service to back up Box, and if so would you provide details?

 

Thanks,

Joe

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  Philip Owen-Burke

  • November 24, 2020 02:27

  I too would like to know if anyone has found a 3rd party external backup.

  thanks

  Philip

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  Shaun August

  • November 29, 2020 18:41
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  I'm doing this using Goodsync (https://www.goodsync.com). I download box folders nightly to an offsite server (mac mini) and then I use Backblaze to sync all the files on the server to the cloud. This way I have a local and offsite backup of all our data. Probably overkill but I'm paranoid! I believe you can also use Goodsync to sync box directly to Amazon, dropbox or Backblaze too but I've never set it up that way.

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  Tom Szauer

  • February 21, 2023 15:04

  The issue I see with sync scenarios is the dependent version of that backup. In case of a ransomeware attac, a sync setup would simply sync these now encrypted files to your backup location. An independent thrird party backup solution (e.g. cloud based) could help but I have experienced very long restore times which make the backup (while working nicely) useless in cases where large amounts of data get corrupted (e.g. ransomeware attack).

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