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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
Super User II
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.
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.
