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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
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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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poofy
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

This makes no sense. I don't store any files that need to be backed up on the boot drive and I especially do not store it in the documents subfolder. To limit backups to just that makes no sense and makes the backup feature pointless. 

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    housefly
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    It's implied that if you offer PC backups, that would apply to the whole machine, not just a small selection of arbitrary system files. 

    My only option is to duplicate my files onto my bootdrive into the dropbox folder. Which negates the entire purpose of backing up on the cloud. 
    It's not even that hard to implement, I'm having a very difficult time understanding the logic behind this. Even pre-built computers sometimes have weird drive partitions which would also create problems, so it's not limited to your customer base that builds PC's.

    Offering to put in an enhancement request is laughable, how is this not on your development roadmap like 5 years ago?

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