I tried to make it work with Dropbox and OneDrive, using tools like Boxifier or Microsoft Synctoy… and at one point managed to make a recursive backup system that kept backing up my SSD over and over again until the entire hard drive was full. That puts one more moving part in my setup, between my backup program (Cobian 11) and the cloud storage service itself.
To get the same thing done in the other services I tried, I’d have to either move my entire cloud folder to the big, slow hard drive (not ideal for frequently-used Photoshop templates), or sync files back and forth between the drives. Google Drive allows me to keep a “primary” folder of synced cloud items on the desktop-a sort of quick “pocket” for frequently-used files that I often access from multiple devices-while also syncing my gigantic backup folder to the cloud. That’s a problem for me, since I use a speedy SSD for my desktop’s primary storage drive and a massive, cheap hard drive for backups and other space-hogging files. For all of them, even if you’re paying for terabytes of space, you need to keep all your synced items in a single folder. Microsoft OneDrive, Box.com, and Apple’s iCloud don’t do it: ditto.
Dropbox doesn’t do it: everything you want to put on Dropbox’s cloud drive has to be within its specific folder. See that option to add external files to your account? It’s an obvious feature…but one that’s actually very rare, as these backup services go. But then you get to this page in the small program:
Log into the service, pick a primary folder location on your drive, and start downloading things from the cloud as the initial sync begins. When you install Google Drive’s desktop component, blandly titled “Backup and Sync from Google,” it’s all pretty straightforward.
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