Dropbox

To send backups to Dropbox storage, you first need to set up a destination in the “Storages” page:

1. Go to the “Storages” page and click “Add Storage” and select Dropbox as the storage destination:

2. In the “New Dropbox Settings” pop-up window, click Authorize with Dropbox button:

3. Allow SqlBak access to Dropbox storage:

4. Once configured, click “Test” to verify the connection. If successful, click “Save & Close” to apply your settings.

These are the basic settings required to configure Box storage as a backup destination.

Advanced Dropbox Settings (Optional)

You can further customize your backup storage with the following options:

• Parallel Upload/Download Threads – Increase the number of threads to boost upload and download performance, especially for large files.

• Validate file checksum after transfer – Verifies data integrity by checking the file checksum after transfer completion.

Steps to add Dropbox storage to a backup job:

1. Return to the Dashboard page.

2. Open the backup job you want to modify (or create a new one), and click the “Edit” button.

3. Navigate to the Storage Destination section.

4. Click “Add Backup Storage”.

 

5. Select Dropbox storage as the destination.

6. In the configuration window, specify the following:

• • Autodelete old backups after – Define a retention period for automatically deleting old backups.

  • Enable minimum backups – Set the minimum number of backups to retain, even if they exceed the defined retention period.

     

    

Optional settings:

• Store the following backup types (Full, Diff, T-Log) – Choose which backup types to store in this destination.

• Auto delete Differential Backups after – Define a retention period specifically for differential backups.

• Auto delete T-Log Backups after – Define a retention period specifically for transaction log backups.

• Enable minimum Differential or T-Log backups – Set the minimum number of differential or T-Log backups to keep, even if older than the retention limit.

• Emergency storage – Use this option to designate Azure Blob as an emergency/failover destination in case the primary backup storage becomes unavailable.