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Tommy_D
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Backing up internal hard drives

Hello All,   Hopefully I can get some help with this situation that I am having.   I have a custom built PC with the following Hard drive configuration:   NVME 1 (500 GB): Boot drive (Has...
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Walter's avatar
Walter
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3 years ago

So, you'd like to backup your internal hard drives Dropbox using the Dropbox Backup feature. Is that correct wonsnot?

 

If that's so, I'm afraid it's not possible at the moment as you can only backup your computer's OS folders like Downloads, Desktop and Documents and supported external drives at the moment with Dropbox. 

 

I hope this clears things up. 

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Stupid System
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

If this is the case, why on earth are you advertising this as a "backup" service? Why have I paid for 2TB of storage space that it now seems I can't use? What a mess.

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