Add remote backup destination Dropbox

Actually, Dropbox is very cheap...$10/mo. for 1TB of storage! Plus, almost every business requires Dropbox to share/transfer files, so it makes more sense to use what you already have to pay for.

I like the Dropbox idea. I just know DB has some limitations in their API and I've experienced timeouts when transferring things such as large backups to DB. It might take several days to send a single backup.

No update yet, but it's still on our radar. I'll definitely post one once we have it.

The new backup system I think does do what you're asking. There's a 'Retain backups in the default backup directory.' checkbox that can be unchecked in order to ensure a local copy of the backups is not retained.

Awesome! Looking forward to it!

Thanks for your feedback, and welcome to the feature request site! I can definitely see how the cloud storage providers' additional disaster recovery might make it feel a bit more secure. The other side to consider is that it also potentially opens you and your users up to any potential security flaws on the side of the provider. That's our biggest hesitation internally with this sort of request, but we're working on adding and expanding the pluggability of the backup system in version 66 that might make this easier. Once I have more insight into how that's going to look, if it will help this request I'll definitely be back to let everyone know!

Perhaps simply encrypting the backups with a private key tied to the WHM owner would solve that?

That's certainly one potential solution. We've got a pretty old, and not highly voted, feature request for encryption on backups here: https://features.cpanel.net/topic/backups-encryption-of-backups-symmetric-and-asymmetric

I understand your concern for security, but the fact that you allow remote ftp backups already means that there are risks for security flaws. Heck, that fact users can self host cPanel and have local backups opens up the chance for a security vulnerability to be exploited.

I'd argue that Dropbox, Google, and Microsofts servers are much more secured than a lot of servers that are running a self hosted version of cPanel.

Those points could take us down a rabbit hole of a conversation that probably isn't relevant here, but definitely know that your points are heard!

I will join to club of people who are interested in this solution. Currently using 3rd party plugin to connect to dropbox, but this not doing incremental. so i found somewhere (don't remember where) linux service to connect to dropbox and doing incremental to local folder with synchro to dropbox. and weekly directly to dropbox. but this incremental take space as is done every 3h. So please help us :)

We're using the Amazon AWS solution for offsite storage right now, but we would much rather be using Dropbox. It's a cheaper solution for us (we already pay for a very large storage pool) and the cost difference would permit us to retain backups for longer.

Benny - First, thank you for the script!

The linked blog page invites us to "Feel free to fork us on GitHub and be sure to share with us your custom backup transport scripts!" That's great except ... the license in the script states "This code is subject to the cPanel license. Unauthorized copying is prohibited."

Can the license be changed to something more permissive, or do any cPanel customers risk liability for "Unauthorized copying"?

Hi Ethan, the license has been updated:

https://github.com/CpanelInc/backup-transport-dropbox/commit/48ebb844a670c66f843fffc7ebaeea6189ca5e78

Benny and William,

Great news and thank you very much! Time for me to get to work on adding encryption parameters to the backup blob.

Hi - just finding this blogpost. backup-transport-dropbox has been deprecated. I'm still trying to backup from cpanel to my dropbox - any ideas on how to do this now?