Save the account by clicking the button “Save”. In the image below you can see how to create a Dropbox account using the App Key and App Secret generated in the Dropbox “Developer Console”: You can choose a fixed name or you can make it dynamic using special variables (for example, Iperius can automatically create new folders using the week day name).

You can put your backup directly into a subfolder on your Dropbox space. Once you created the Dropbox App and obtained the authentication code, add a new cloud destination and create a new Dropbox account into Iperius.Īs you can see in the image below, to add a cloud account you must simply click on the button circled by red. You can create an unlimited number of accounts, and you will see all of them in the list. Among the other available options, you’ve the number of copies to retain, the possibility to protect zip files with a password, give a custom name to zip files, limit the upload bandwidth, etc. In order to see how to get the authentication token, read the dedicated tutorial: Create a Dropbox App and get the authentication token.

Sign in to the “Developer Console” of your Dropbox account and generate the authentication codes needed by Iperius to access your Dropbox space and send a backup to it. To do that, you’ve to obtain first an authentication code from Dropbox. Now you need to create and select a Dropbox account into Iperius. Iperius Backup can make backups also to other important cloud storage services, such as Google Drive, OneDrive and Amazon S3.ĭropbox is a free file sharing service that can be also used as an online storage solution to save data to a different geographic location.įrom the Iperius main window, create a new backup job:Īdd the files and folders you want to backup to Dropbox: This tutorial shows how to make an automatic backup to Dropbox (online backup) using the Iperius cloud backup features.

Dropbox developer account