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TartanTrumpet
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11 months ago

Scheduling a daily back up frequency of my internal and external drives.

I'm new to Dropbox and I'm experimenting with the free trial. I want to be able to use Dropbox for daily back ups of my internal and external drives. How do you select a back up frequency? I'm ...
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TartanTrumpet
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

Dropbox say, "Once you plug in your external hard drive and agree to back it up, your files will get backed up to Dropbox Backup". They also claim, "your backup will update automatically every hour while your external hard drive is plugged in". 

Hmm.... is that really happening, or not?

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    Mark
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    11 months ago

    Apologies the above applies to internal drives such as C:\

    You can back up full external drives as it says above. However, that is external only, not internal. 

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