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    <title>topic Secondary backups using sign-in-as-user via API in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Secondary-backups-using-sign-in-as-user-via-API/m-p/258984#M15033</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;We're looking for a way to make a backup of all our Dropbox business files on local machine. Currently, the PC is logged in with Admin rights and synchronising Team folders - a script simply copies the whole Dropbox folder to a separate drive.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;However, this doesn't backup any files that the user has saved outside a Team folder, since the Admin account does not synchronise them. The 'sign in as user' functionality only appears to be available via the Admin console for one user at a time, so won't work as an automated backup.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I appreciate this feature is probably by design to discourage misuse, and there's already the 'backup' of the Dropbox server - but we need a local copy of ALL user files.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It doesn't appear&amp;nbsp;there's any third-party apps or Dropbox partners that provide this&amp;nbsp;functionality, but is it at least exposed via the API? i.e. if we find a freelance developer to code us something simple that can run locally...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:16:22 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>eie_bp</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:16:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Secondary backups using sign-in-as-user via API</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Secondary-backups-using-sign-in-as-user-via-API/m-p/258984#M15033</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;We're looking for a way to make a backup of all our Dropbox business files on local machine. Currently, the PC is logged in with Admin rights and synchronising Team folders - a script simply copies the whole Dropbox folder to a separate drive.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;However, this doesn't backup any files that the user has saved outside a Team folder, since the Admin account does not synchronise them. The 'sign in as user' functionality only appears to be available via the Admin console for one user at a time, so won't work as an automated backup.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I appreciate this feature is probably by design to discourage misuse, and there's already the 'backup' of the Dropbox server - but we need a local copy of ALL user files.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It doesn't appear&amp;nbsp;there's any third-party apps or Dropbox partners that provide this&amp;nbsp;functionality, but is it at least exposed via the API? i.e. if we find a freelance developer to code us something simple that can run locally...&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:16:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Secondary-backups-using-sign-in-as-user-via-API/m-p/258984#M15033</guid>
      <dc:creator>eie_bp</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:16:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Secondary backups using sign-in-as-user via API</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Secondary-backups-using-sign-in-as-user-via-API/m-p/258993#M15035</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;It is possible to access all team member files via a&amp;nbsp;Dropbox Business API app with &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#access-types" target="_self"&gt;the "team member file access" permission&lt;/A&gt;, using &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#teams-member-file-access" target="_self"&gt;the "member file access" feature&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In short, once a team admin authorizes such an app to access their team, the app can use the user API endpoints to &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder" target="_self"&gt;list&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-download" target="_self"&gt;download&lt;/A&gt; files from any team member account.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:10:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Secondary-backups-using-sign-in-as-user-via-API/m-p/258993#M15035</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-01-04T18:10:27Z</dc:date>
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