Hi,

I would appreciate help to understand how to handle SkyDrive just as cloud backup tool for local databases.

For instance, one of my databases is from a citation manager software (Zotero - www.zotero.org), other from a data mining tool (Knime - www.knime.org), etc. This databases are very dynamic and dozens, maybe hundred of files and tables are created daily.

The databases are stored in my local drive (C:) and I use a dedicated cloud backup that I intend to stop using bearing in mind that SkyDrive can be able to handle my needs.

I intend to create and store in my SkyDrive local folder the database folders (e.g. DatabaseA, DatabaseB). Considering my computer crashes and I will need to restore my backed up files, I am looking for the best way to handle that.

I would prefer to restore the files from my local backup, since it would be much faster. Skydrive would be a contingent backup, to be used just if some problem happens with my local backup. Then, I would install again Skydrive folder in the new brand and/or formatted computer, but I won't choose folders for sync. Actually, I thought on recreate the same previous folder structure inside SkyDrive local folder (e.g. DatabaseA, DatabaseB), restoring my local backup into them. Then, I would choose the folders to sync in SkyDrive settings.

=> After this last step, there is a 'black box' in my mind. A couple of questions:

a) Will SkyDrive be able to sync (backup) from the last state my computer was before it has crashed? I mean, I would like that Skydrive recognizes that the local folder content (copied from the local backup) is the same content that was previously stored in SkyDrive Cloud, just sync files that changed.

b) My main concern is that any kind of file conflict could appear, and files from the Cloud would be sync/restored into my local drive. If this happens, the databases can become corrupted forever! Does this possibility exist? I mean, if there is (it seems there isn't) a way to set SkyDrive just to mirror my local drive it would be great. 

Many thanks,
Cadu