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Can I have multple drop boxes (dropbox.com) or Ubuntu One accounts on a single machine (Ubuntu 9.04 or 10.04) to backup multiple projects ?

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This question might be more appropriate on our SE sister site Ask Ubuntu – Chris S Jan 3 '11 at 15:15
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Or not appropriate at all since multiple dropbox accounts to circumvent the quotas are a violation of Dropbox's TOS – GregD Jan 3 '11 at 15:37
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Keep in mind that Dropbox provides exactly zero guarantee of data or service availability. If your data is lost, corrupted, stolen, or they discontinue their service and it is in any way detrimental to you or your business you'll be SOL. I would never trust my backups to a service that specifically disclaims any liability or service level agreement.

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@Chris S Uhm ok, what about Ubuntu One ? I actually need to know if I can install multiple accounts on a single machine, because if I cannot then I'm forced to abandon this path. – Patrick Jan 3 '11 at 15:06
I don't see anything in Ubuntu One's Terms and Conditions regarding limitations on the number of accounts you have. They do specifically disclaim liability. – Chris S Jan 3 '11 at 15:19
Even if Dropbox disappeared overnight, your data would still be stored on the various hard drives of the computers and or devices that Dropbox was installed on. That's how it works. Also, a free service like DB has no choice but to add such a disclaimer, it's ludicrous to expect otherwise. No lawyer in the world would go along with that. – Michael Jan 3 '11 at 16:13
@Michael However my main issue is that I cannot install multiple accounts of dropbox on a server, so I cannot consider this option. – Patrick Jan 3 '11 at 16:16
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@Michael, there are plenty of paid backup services which do not disclaim all liability, lawyers write contracts and SLAs all the time. I'm well aware of how Dropbox works. Additionally, you only need the backup copy when your local copy is not available. Obviously keeping a "backup" in only one place isn't actually a backup at all. I don't think you're approaching this question from a Professional SysAdmin's point of view (ServerFault), which is where this question was originally posted, and where I originally answered. – Chris S Jan 3 '11 at 16:22
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There is a way to get multiple different dropbox accounts to run under one Windows account. I'm not going to list them here because

Third party applications and hacks that are designed to get multiple Dropbox instances running at the same time for one user is not recommended, not only because they are completely unsupported (by the Dropbox team at least), but also because Dropbox is not meant to be utilized in such a manner. So the chance of issues is a lot higher than running Dropbox as per normal.

PS: Also, please keep in mind that using multiple Dropbox accounts to circumvent our quota limitations is against our ToS.

I suspect the same for Ubuntu One.

Having said this, it would piss me off to no end if Dropbox decided to do away with their free accounts because so many people took advantage of it.

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