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dearuser's avatar
dearuser
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Local One-Way archiving of Dropbox account

Hi there,

We use dropbox for work and would like to have an off-site backup of the entire account to a local external drive. The main issue is that it needs to be one-way (cloud to local storage) and not respect any deletions (if, for instance, someone deletes a file from the DB account, it remains on the local drive.) Does any solution exist that would fulfil this goal?

Thanks so much.

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    dearuser wrote:

    We use dropbox for work and would like to have an off-site backup of the entire account to a local external drive. The main issue is that it needs to be one-way (cloud to local storage) and not respect any deletions...


    Dropbox has no such feature. Dropbox is a synchronization service, meant to sync all changes across your devices. You can certainly copy all of your data and put it on an external drive, but it would be a manual process.

     

    An alternative would be to use a third-party utility (such as SyncToy or Robocopy, if you're on Windows) to sync a copy of your local Dropbox folder to an external drive. This assumes that you're syncing your full Dropbox account to a local drive, of course.

  • Claire0's avatar
    Claire0
    Helpful | Level 5

    Cloudsfer and MultCloud as a cloud service can help you to backup from Dropbox to Local or from Local to Dropbox .

    On the other hand, you can use a third-party tool instead of these cloud services to directly do this job and for example, you have Rclone and Gs Richcopy360. 

     

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