Odrive for dummies?

[Tony]

Hi @mh12,
If you unsync a file, the local content is removed and the file is replaced with a placeholder file. A placeholder file is a representation of the file you have in the cloud. It doesn’t have any data in it (0 bytes) but allows you to see what you have available in your linked storage.

For backup, many folks will use odrive as a form of backup (or protection), although it is not a traditional backup solution.

There is a post I wrote a while ago that goes into sync vs backup and how I use odrive for my own needs. It may be of interest to you:

Backup (one-way sync)

Hi @Chris.D, Your thinking is correct. Sync can be considered a form of backup. There are plusses and minuses to using full, bi-directional sync to “backup” your data. Since we don’t have traditional backup available, there are users that use “sync to odrive” for their own backup use case. Sync is a much heavier process than traditional backup, so when you apply sync to more massive data repositories, like multi-terabyte external drives, or NAS, it can make odrive work really hard to continual…