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summerdown
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago
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How much space can I backup using dropbox backup?

I've been reading the help files relating to dropbox backup and I'm not quite understanding the limits. Hopefully someone here can give me an answer:   How big an external drive can I save to dropb...
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    Mark
    3 years ago

    Hi summerdown 

    The size of backup is restricted to your quota

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Mark
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
3 years ago

Hi summerdown 

The size of backup is restricted to your quota

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    summerdown
    Explorer | Level 4
    3 years ago

    Thank you for replying so quickly.

     

    It was this page: https://help.dropbox.com/plans/dropbox-backup-plan that was confusing me. In one part it says you can backup "as much as you need," but it wasn't clear whether that meant "up to the quota."

     

    It's disappointing that I can't backup my 10Tb drive, but I guess it is what it is. Thank you for letting me know.

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      Mark
      Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
      3 years ago

      There is, or at least was, a separate backup plan which was independent of the Dropbox plans.... but can I heck as like find it now?! So I'm wondering if it was while Backup was in beta and now its been axed. 

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