# Discourse Dropbox Google Drive Backup

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dropbox-google-drive-backup/175370
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 7, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dropbox-google-drive-backup/175370 "2021-01-07T10:22:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![AveyBD](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/aveybd/32/203865_2.png) [@AveyBD](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AveyBD)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dropbox-google-drive-backup/175370/1 "2021-01-07T10:22:29Z")

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The Amazon S3 backup is really awesome but not budget friendly.  
I am a perfect example of Noob and I want to save money.  
Is there any way to implement Dropbox Backup for Discourse or Google Drive Backup ?

Any Plugin or through SSH?

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dropbox-google-drive-backup/175370/2 "2021-01-07T15:05:26Z")

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Yes, you can copy the backup files via ssh/rsync.

```
 /var/discourse/shared/standalone backups

```

Also backblaze has a cheaper S3 offering.

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### Author: ![Ivan\_Rapekas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ivan_rapekas/32/248924_2.png) [@Ivan\_Rapekas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ivan_Rapekas)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-dropbox-google-drive-backup/175370/3 "2021-01-22T21:01:30Z")

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@AveyBD I’ve just completed a guide for Dropbox, hope it will be helpful for you:

> [@Upload backups to Dropbox with crontab and dropboxd](https://meta.discourse.org/t/another-way-to-upload-backups-to-dropbox-command-line/176982):
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> Dropbox has an advantage - it syncs a new backup as soon as it appears in the system. The deal is to put new backup to your local Dropbox folder (with a cron script provided). Before you proceed you have to know: You may use Dropbox to store files as much as your plan allows. You may connect up to 3 devices to Dropbox at free plan (for Android devices this limitation can be bypassed, by the way). When you will run dropbox to your linux server, then you need to synchronizethe only one folder. …