Best Way to Backup Dropbox to Amazon S3 with a Free Tool

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Apr. 26, 2020 | 3 mins read

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In this post, we will introduce a free and professional cloud file transfer manager, MultCloud, to you to help you back up from Dropbox to Amazon S3 without using traditional way, Download and Uplaod method.

Knowledge of Dropbox and Amazon S3

Dropbox is a file hosting service that can help sync files between computers and mobile devices to bring files, photos and videos anywhere and share them with others easily. It's compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux system. Moreover, you are able to access to the latest version of every file. As such, if you have updated a document through your phone, you can download the same document via your computer.

Amazon S3, whose full name is Amazon Simple Storage Service, is a fully redundant data storage system. S3 makes it easy to store and retrieve any amount of data at anytime from anywhere. It can be employed to store any type of object which allows for uses like storage for Internet applications, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, data archives, data lakes for analytics, and hybrid cloud storage. In this article, we mainly talk about AmazonS3, not Amazon Cloud Drive. Sure, you can find out the difference between Amazon Cloud Drive and S3 here.

Why Backup Dropbox to Amazon S3?

Because Dropbox and Amazon S3 have their own advantages, many people have both storage tools at the same time. But what will you do if you want to copy from Dropbox to Amazon S3? Are you going to manually do it by downloading files from your Dropbox account to your local PC and re-uploading to Amazon S3?

Here in this article, we will recommend a free cloud to cloud file transfer manager, MultCloud, to you. With the help of it, you can quickly move files from Dropbox to Amazon S3.

How to Transfer Dropbox to Amazon S3 with MultCloud?

Step 1. Create Account

Before performing corresponding operations, you need to create one MultCloud account.

Step 2. Add Clouds

Click "Add Drives" button and follow the guide to add your Dropbox and Amazon S3 accounts to MultCloud.

Notes:

When you add Amazon S3 to MultCloud, you need to enter in Bucket Name, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key so your Amazon S3 can be added to MultCloud.
If you do not know how to get the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, please refer to tutorials from here.

Step 3. View Accounts

After adding your Dropbox and Amazon S3 accounts to MultCloud successfully, then will be listed under “Add Cloud Drives” in the left panel and you can manage them.

Manage Dropbox and Amazon S3 — Add Dropbox and Amazon S3 to MultCloud

Step 4. Backup Dropbox to Amazon S3 with “Cloud Transfer”

Create a "Cloud Transfer" task to move Dropbox files to Amazon S3. Select Dropbox as the source, select Amazon S3 as the destination location. Click “Transfer Now” and wait for the process to complete.

Notes:

For “Cloud Transfer” feature, it supports transfer whole drive as the source. If you want to back up entire Dropbox to Amazon S3, you could choose Dropbox as the source while creating the task.
MultCloud supports “Schedule” feature. If you want to backup from Dropbox to Amazon S3 regularly, you can enable this feature.
If there are dozens of terabytes of data to backup, to get it done asap, you could also upgrade your account to the premium account so MultCloud uses 10 threads to transfer your files.

More about MultCloud

You can easily backup Dropbox to Amazon S3 accounts in just four steps with the help of MultCloud. As a multiple cloud storage manager, it supports more than 30 clouds including Google Drive, Dropbox, G Suite, Flickr, Box, SugarSync, Alfresco, Hubic, Evernote, OneDrive, MEGA, CloudMe, Cubby, MyDrive, WEB.DE, Yandex, HiDrive, MySQL, MediaFire, ownCloud, ADrive, BaiDu, WebDav and FTP/SFTP, etc at present.

In additon to “Cloud Transfer” feature, MultCloud also has “Cloud Explorer” and “Cloud Transfer” feature. For “Cloud Explorer”, it can help manage multiple accounts within one account. If you have multiple Dropbox accounts to manage, it can help connect Dropbox accounts with one platform. For “Cloud Sync”, it can help sync one cloud to other clouds. If you are looking for solutions to migrate Flickr to Google Photos, you can make full use of it.