One feature of Akeeba Backup Professional
is to allow you to automatically
store the backup
on a remote location.
Dropbox is a very popular option
as it provides you with 2 gigabytes
of cloud storage space free of charge
and it is very simple
with Akeeba Backup Professional
to configure your backups
to be saved
in to your Dropbox folder.
To begin go to the Configuration
scroll down to the processing engine.
Here you can see many options
including upload to Dropbox.
Once that's selected
choose Configure.
In order for our web site
to talk to Dropbox
we need to authenticate it.
Click on the authentication button
and a popup will open.
and you may be asked
to login to dropbox.
Now, click on the complete
authentication button.
The directory that we want to store
the backup in
is by default the root of our dropbox account
but we can store it anywhere we want
including a subdirectory.
As you can see a token
has been automatically entered.
Once you have configured Dropbox
Save and Close your configuration
and you are now ready to perform your first backup
with the files being saved in Dropbox.
Once the backup has completed
we can go to our Manage Backups
and here we can see
the backup just took place
it is a Remote Backup
and the files are stored remotely.
From this link we are able to
bring the backup
back from Dropbox
directly on to our web server.
or our desktop.
Now every time a backup
is performed by Akeeba Backup Professional
the backup file itself
is being stored remotely in our Dropbox account.