How to prevent accidental data loss

Hello,

I have a question on the filesync function in group libraries. If I want to share a big library with a few colleagues, I am wondering, if the whole library would be lost, if one of the collegues messes up by, e.g. accidently erasing all data. Will this be synced automatically and the whole data will be gone? How can I ensure that this won't happen?

Thanks for your comments!
  • edited April 1, 2015
    Yes, if you give members library editing privileges, they can delete everything. (In the future we might add the ability to restrict edits/deletes to items people have created themselves.) Make sure you have daily/hourly automated backups of your Zotero data directory (e.g., using Time Machine on a Mac), and then you'll be able to recover from that if something happens — the same as any other important data on your computer.
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