brotherton-erpnext/docs/user/setup/docs.user.setup.third_party_backups.md
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Third Party 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

Third Party Backups

On 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. The third step is to click on Allow Dropbox Access.

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

Backup Manager

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

Dropbox Access

Open Source Users

Installing Pre-Requisites

pip install dropbox
pip install google-api-python-client

#### Create an App in Dropbox

First create your Dropbox account.After successful creation of account you will receive app_key, app_secret and access_type. Now open conf.py and set app_key as dropbox_access_key and app_secret as dropbox_secret_key


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