ProtonDrive as a cloud backup?

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Hello,

I have a question about Proton Drive and whether it’s a sensible way to create one more place for my backups.
I already run two Time Machine backups—one local every hour and one off-site. I don’t yet have a cloud-based backup.
Could Proton Drive fill that gap, and are there drawbacks I might be overlooking (apart from the obvious fact that it’s cloud-based)?

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Why are you posting this in the Devonthink discussion forum?

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Pretty obvious. I’m talking about backups in a DEVONthink forum—i.e., DEVONthink backups.

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Specifically, what software do you plan to use to do the backups to your Proton Drive? Do you intend to backup DEVONthink databases, or DEVONthink archives?

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It would certainly be nice to have the databases there. Would that work?

Thanks for your time.

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  1. Proton Drive is not a backup application. It’s a cloud service.
  2. You should never put your DEVONthink databases in any cloud-syned location or you could irreparably damage them.
  3. You could periodically use the File > Database Archive command to create a ZIP file of a database to be uploaded to the cloud service.
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That answers my question and becomes a future solution that lets me use something I already pay for (ProtonDrive).
Thanks :slight_smile:

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I backup my Devonthink data both a local drive (TimeMachine), and offsite cloud service (Arq)
The backups are incremental
ProtonDrive isn’t a backup service, but can be used to store zipped archives of your Devonthink databases

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You’re welcome.

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