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dearuser
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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) a...
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3 years ago
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.

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