Back Up Windows to Dropbox — Automatically and Encrypted
Turn your Dropbox into a real backup target: scheduled, AES-256 encrypted, versioned backups of any Windows folder — encrypted so Dropbox can't read them.
Dropbox is great at keeping one folder identical across your devices. It's not a backup — but the storage you pay Dropbox for makes a perfectly good backup destination. BackupKit backs up the folders you choose to your Dropbox on a schedule, encrypted locally first, with version history you control.
Sync vs. backup, briefly
Sync mirrors changes both ways — including deletions and corruption. Dropbox keeps deleted-file and version history for a limited window, but only for files inside your Dropbox folder, and it isn't a per-folder backup with retention rules. BackupKit writes deliberate, versioned, encrypted archives of whatever folders matter, so a mistake today doesn't erase a good copy from last week.
- Back up any folder on any drive, not just the Dropbox folder.
- Versioned archives + retention by age or count, set by you.
- AES-256 before upload — Dropbox stores an archive it can't read.
BackupKit encrypts client-side with a password only you hold, so the contents stay private even though Dropbox holds the bytes. Keep that password somewhere safe — without it the backup can't be decrypted.
Set it up
- Connect Dropbox in BackupKit and authorize access.
- Create a job: source folders, Dropbox destination folder.
- Configure encryption, schedule, retention, compression, and filters.
- Activate — runs unattended, alerts you on failure.
Common questions
Yes. Backups consume your Dropbox quota; compression and retention keep usage reasonable. For very large datasets, a NAS or FTP destination is usually cheaper per gigabyte.
Yes — run two jobs against the same source for a 3-2-1 setup: one local copy, one off-site in Dropbox, each with its own schedule and retention.
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Coming August 2026
Back up anything to anywhere — encrypted, scheduled, automated. Join the waitlist and be first to know when BackupKit is ready — early subscribers get 20% off at launch.