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majorvoid
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

the problem was that i didn't choose them seperately inside of the main backup, i thought that i just can't download but i did by selective picking & downloading. very nice, solved

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dgallant
Helpful | Level 5
12 months ago

I had an external hard drive that was backed up using Dropbox Backup fail.

Can I restore an entire hard drive to a new one using Dropbox Backup?

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    12 months ago

    Hi dgallant, the option to restore a backup would only make a copy of a zip file of the external drive for you to download, which you can specify to download anywhere.

     

    Is there anything specific you're looking for regarding restoring the backup?

    • dgallant's avatar
      dgallant
      Helpful | Level 5
      12 months ago

      I get an error that there are too many zip files when trying to copy the entire backup to a hard drive 

      • efo's avatar
        efo
        Explorer | Level 3
        11 months ago

        hi @dgallant  - im in the same boat and can't figure it out. Did you resolve the problem?

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