Setting Up Dropbox Backups

If you wish to store your backups on a periodic basis,on Dropbox, you can do it directly through ERPNext.

Setup > Manage 3rd Party Backups

Step 1: Click on Integrations > Backup Manager

In the Backup Manager page, enter the email addresses of those people whom you wish to notify about the upload status. Under the topic 'Sync with Dropbox', select whether you wish to upload Daily, Weekly or Never.

Step 2 Click on Allow Dropbox Access.

Tip: In future, if you wish to discontinue uploading backups to dropbox, then select the Never option.

Step 3

You need to login to your dropbox account, with your user id and password.

Open Source Users

Step 1: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps

Step 2: Create a new app

Step 3: Fill in details for the app.

Step 4: After the app is created, note the app key and app secret and enter in `sites/{sitename}/site_config.json` as follows,

{ 
 "db_name": "demo", 
 "db_password": "DZ1Idd55xJ9qvkHvUH", 
 "dropbox_access_key": "ACCESSKEY", 
 "dropbox_secret_key": "SECRECTKEY" 
}

Step 5: Setup dropbox backups from the backup manager as shown in previous section.