Can we have more folder options like custom folders or sub-folders to add to Computer Backup?

[helenavelikaja]

Right now, the automated backup option in Dropbox allows me to sync my Documents, Desktop and Downloads folders. By far the biggest - and most important - folder on my computer is the Music folder though. I can imagine for other people it's Pictures. Could we have a way to automatically backup those folders too?

To be really ambitious: would we be able to clone our computer on Dropbox? I used to have an Apple Time Machine that allowed you to do just that. If your computer broke down or was stolen, you could buy a new one, let it download the clone, including not just your documents but your applications and presets too, and you'd be good to go!

Please let Dropbox be the new Time Machine.

[Emmet]

This idea is currently being worked on by our internal team, and is already available for external drive backups. External Drive Backups are available to all of our users. You can find out more about computer backups in our Help Centre.

Computer backup is currently being worked on by our teams. If you are interested in participating in beta testing new features to our backup solutions, you can find out how to opt in here. 

[knudkp]

Especially becasue they are fast when they want our money for the subscription, but not when they need to develop

[DraGonDuck]

It's baffling that this extremely basic feature is not supported by DropBox until today.

[wooper]

The current status of this feature is that you can now backup external drives as well as any arbitrary folders within your own user folder. I would prefer to be able to select any folder within the C drive, since I do place some documents at the top of my C drive, though I am probably just weird. This feature is in a much better place than when this idea was posted over 2 years ago, but maybe the developers can be convinced to remove this one last restriction? 🙂

[Pirx]

Actually, no, there has been no meaningful progress of any kind at all. This is for how many years now?

And, no, if you happen to have your Documents, Pictures, etc., folders in anything but the default location, you will not be able to backup anything whatsoever. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Dropbox will ask you to move these folders to their default location, which is rank idiocy, and simply impossible for anyone who had a good reason to move those folders in the first place.