How to Backup PC Files to Dropbox
Question: Can I back up all my computers' files to my Dropbox account?
"So here is my question: Can I backup all my computers files into Dropbox? I have a Dropbox account and I'm trying to use the Dropbox as a backup for all my computer files. But it's too slow to upload files one by one to Dropbox. Do you have any simpler and faster way to back up all computer files into Dropbox?"
Are you having a similar problem that you don't know how to create PC file backups to Cloud account? Here in this article, we'll show you an example about how to fully backup PC to Dropbox with all Desktop files, hard disk partition files, and favorite files, etc with ease.
Method 1. Backup PC Files to Dropbox with Backup Software
To achieve a satisfying result, you need to take two steps to make it done.
Step 1. Download reliable Windows Backup Software
In order to backup PC files including Desktop files, hard disk partition files and other important files in PC to Cloud account such as Dropbox, your very first step is to download a powerful Windows backup recovery software which supports you to backup files into Cloud account.
Qiling Backup is a powerful Windows backup software that you can simply backup all PC files with its File Backup feature into Cloud storage. And it's pwerful to backup all wanted PC files into Cloud such as Dropbox. You can free download it right here now and follow Step 2 to see how to backup PC files into Dropbox.
Step 2. Backup all PC files to Dropbox with Qiling Backup
After download Qiling Backup in your PC, you can now install it and follow below guide likes to simply backup all PC files including Library, My Documents, Favorites, Computer (hard drive partition files), Network(Network shared files) and Desktop files into Cloud with ease now.
Qiling Backup will backup files into Dropbox with compressed images which will not take quite a big space for you and no unexpected problems or false operations would occur.
Step 1. Launch and run Qiling Backup on your computer. Click "File" on the main window.
Step 2. Choose the specific files that you want to backup to your cloud account - Google Drive/OneDrive or Dropbox.
And then, click "Browse" at the destination column to select "Cloud Device" and click the "+" icon to access the cloud storage.
Step 3. Select your Cloud storage - Google Drive/OneDrive or Dropbox and sign in to allow Qiling Backup access your account for saving backup images.
Step 4. Click "Proceed" to start backing up your files now.
Wait for the process to finish, and all your videos will be saved to your cloud storage with a compressed format by taking up a small space.
After this, all you need is to wait until this software finished the file backup process from PC to Dropbox. If you prefer to manually backup and upload all PC files into Dropbox, you may follow the below offered alternative suggestion to do the job now.
Method 2. Manually Upload/Backup Files on PC to Dropbox
If you are quite familiar with Dropbox file upload process, you can also choose to manually upload files one by one into Dropbox.
Here are the steps of how to manually upload files on PC to Dropbox:
1. Sign in dropbox.com and click upload icon;
2. In the popup, select "Choose File" and then choose the files on your computer that you want to add to Dropbox;
3. You can choose as many files as you need and then click "Start Upload".
Note: 1. The only problem is that it would take quite a long time and energy to select files and upload them.
2. You shall be very careful while selecting files to upload to Dropbox in case of data loss error due to false operation.
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