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bzp85
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Backup plan

What’s the difference between the Dropbox Plus plan and the Dropbox backup plan ? The backup plan is about half the price.
I can’t find any information about this.

  • Hey bzp85!

    The Backup plan has all the features the basic plan provides. You can still connect up to three devices, and one of them can have the computer backup feature enabled.

    The content you want to back up does not count towards the basic plan's 2 GB of storage space.
  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    bzp85 wrote:
    What’s the difference between the Dropbox Plus plan and the Dropbox backup plan ?

    Where do you see a plan named the Backup plan? The plans available are typically Basic (Free), Plus, Family, Professional and the various levels of the Business plan.

     

  • Megan's avatar
    Megan
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    Hi bzp85, I'd be happy to answer this one for you! 

    The Dropbox Backup plan is a paid subscription that provides all the space that you need for automatic cloud backups of one computer.

    It also includes 30 days of file version history, including Dropbox Rewind, and all the features of the Dropbox Basic plan.

    To learn more about the Dropbox Backup plan, see the following link:  https://help.dropbox.com/accounts-billing/plans-upgrades/dropbox-backup-plan

    If you have any questions, let me know. 
    • bzp85's avatar
      bzp85
      Explorer | Level 4
      Thanks for your reply Megan.
      So compared to the Plus plan it works only on one computer ? Does this also count for the features from the Basic plan or only for the backup function?

      So let’s say I want to sync documents (fitting within the basic plan quota) between multiple computers and want to backup a folder with photos (1 Tb) on one computer. I could work with the Backup plan, or do I still need the plus plan because of the syncing ability of multiple computers for the documents?
      • Megan's avatar
        Megan
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        Hey bzp85!

        The Backup plan has all the features the basic plan provides. You can still connect up to three devices, and one of them can have the computer backup feature enabled.

        The content you want to back up does not count towards the basic plan's 2 GB of storage space.

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