I had been looking for a secured and fast way to upload copy of my website’s backup regularly on a specified interval, to my DropBox account.

This way, I wanted to feel secured with an additional copy stored at Dropbox which can be retrieved in case of need, with minimum dataloss.

Here the steps:

1. Login to your Dropbox account

   If you don’t already have one. Click Create a new Dropbox Account

2. Create Your Ap

   Now visit https://www.dropbox.com/developers and click on “Create Your App”
   
   
   

3. Download Bash Script

   Clone the repository using git (recommended):

   git clone https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader.git
   

   OR
   or download the script manually using this command say under myscripts folder :

   curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh" -o dropbox_uploader.sh
   

   Then give the execution permission to the script and run it:

   $chmod +x dropbox_uploader.sh
   $./dropbox_uploader.sh
   

4. Run dropbox_uploader

   The first time you run dropbox_uploader (you can also use bash dropbox_uploader.sh), you’ll be guided through a wizard in order to configure access to your Dropbox.

   Use the value
   This configuration will be stored in ~/.dropbox_uploader.

5. Install any backup utility

   I personally prefer Akeeba backup for Joomla as well as WordPress. Take the backup and use the following command to upload the backup file using command line from within the script folder where the dropbox_uploader.sh file is located

   bash dropbox_uploader.sh upload PATH_TO_THE_BACKUP_FOLDER/*.jpa ./
   

   Your backup file (.jpa file in case you are using Akeeba Backup) gets uploaded on the Dropbox folder
   You can use cron to upload the backup to your Dropbox account at a regular interval.

6. Read more about how to Automate Akeeba backup using Joomla and WordPress