What do you usually do when you have important data in Dropbox that needs to be moved to Backblaze? This article provides an easy and direct way that requires only 3 steps without upload and download operations.
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Move files from Dropbox to B2 without re-uploading?
There are some services but they seem sketchy and costly. I have about 1TB of stuff in Dropbox I want to move to B2. Any way to go directly from Dropbox to Backblaze so I don’t have to re-upload?
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I think more people know Dropbox than Backblaze in the world. Dropbox is popular for common people while Backblaze is used by some professional users.
Dropbox comes earlier in the cloud drive field. Its easy-to-use and clear interface makes it a great service for personal and businesses to store files online. And, its free account can satisfy many basic requirements and its pro account is not expensive thus it gets millions of customers.
Backblaze, whose name is similar to backup, is a newer service in the online backup market. Now it can backup about every type of file, such as large ISO (DVD backup) images, and entire virtual operating system backups (VMWare, parallels, and other virtual machines).
Backblaze creates a zip file of all your files for you to download, thus decreasing the volume of data and increasing the speed of the download since it’s one connection instead of multiple that need to be opened and closed for a list of files. However, it has some limits too. For example, not compatible with Linux, has no person-to-person file sharing, and no synchronization function.
In simple terms, Dropbox is a cloud file storage and synchronization tool, while Backblaze is a cloud storage and data backup tool.
Although both Dropbox and Backblaze can provide you with cloud storage services, there are some differences between the two.
| Dropbox | Backblaze | |
|---|---|---|
| Free space | 2 GB, expandable to 16 GB by recommendation | 10 GB of free storage directly provided |
| Intended-use | File sync | File backup |
| Easy-to-use | Yes | Yes |
| Reliability and Safety | SSL, two-factor authentication | SSL, two-factor authentication, and private encryption keys |
| Pricing | More expensive | More affordable |
Backblaze and Dropbox take cloud storage and other useful services from very different directions. How to choose the best of the two products depends on your needs.
In the process of using these two services, data transfer will inevitably be involved. Maybe some important files in Dropbox need to be backed up to Backblaze, and maybe some pictures in Backblaze need to be transferred to Dropbox. When that happens, you may want to transfer Dropbox to Backblaze or vice versa.
Usually, when it comes to data transfer between two cloud drives, many users will choose the upload and download methods, because there is no direct transfer entry between cloud drives. But this method often consumes a lot of time and energy, because you have to watch the whole process by the computer to avoid interruption of transmission.
For faster and more efficient data transfer across cloud drives, you can only ask for the help of third-party tools. Here is a cloud file transfer manager --- MultCloud. MultCloud provides 3 core functions that can help you better migrate data between Dropbox and Backblaze without the cumbersome upload and download steps.
✔️Cloud Transfer: It can directly transfer files, pictures, or videos from one cloud storage service to another, such as FTP to FTP transfer. ✔️Cloud Sync: 10 sync modes support you to sync data in two or more cloud drives, and keep the data up-to-date with "Real Time Sync". ✔️Cloud Backup: It can back up important data to a cloud drive, you can directly backup Dropbox to Backblaze, which can avoid data loss.
Then, you can use the 3 excellent features above to directly and automatically transfer, backup or sync Dropbox to Backblaze or vice versa without downloading and uploading. Before starting, you need to add your Dropbox and Backblaze accounts first.
Step 1. Enter the MultCloud homepage, and then enter the corresponding information to register. If you are afraid of trouble, you can also use Facebook, Google and Apple ID to directly authorize the registration.
Step 2. To use MultCloud to manage Dropbox and Backblaze, you should add them into MultCloud. Click "Add Cloud", then select Dropbox and Backblaze to authorize MultCloud access to the account.
After adding, you can see files in the cloud from “My Cloud Drives” of MultCloud. Editing and other processing operations for files and folders are similar to Windows Explorer. You can create a new folder, upload, download, delete, rename, cut, copy, paste, share, preview files in the cloud.
Now, it's time to move from Dropbox to Backblaze with the 3 core features.
Go to the "Cloud Transfer" interface, then select a file or folder in Dropbox as the source, Backblaze or folders in it as the destination, and finally click on "Transfer Now". To transfer files from Backblaze to Dropbox, you can directly switch the source and destination locations in the "Cloud Transfer" interface.
Below the "Cloud Transfer" interface, you can also set some other functions:
As mentioned earlier, MultCloud also supports "Cloud Backup". If you want to backup important data from Dropbox directly to Backblaze, you can follow these steps: Go to "Cloud Backup" and select Dropbox or a folder within it as the source directory and Backblaze or a directory within it as the destination directory. Then click "Backup Now".
Notes:
By turning to MultCloud for assistance, you don't have to sit in front of your computer all the time to oversee the backup process. Once a backup task is started, MultCloud can run the task in the background even if the network is disconnected or the computer is turned off.
If you need to sync data between Dropbox and Backblaze, just go to "Cloud Sync" and select Dropbox or a folder within it as the source directory and Backblaze or a directory within it as the destination directory. Then click "Sync Now".
MultCloud, as a multiple cloud storage manager, supports adding more than 30 cloud storage services, such as Dropbox, Backblaze, Google Drive, OneDrive, MEGA, Flickr, FTP, Box, pCloud, Amazon S3, even NAS, WebDAV, FTP/SFTP, Shared with me and Shared Drive, so that you can manage Backblaze and Dropbox in one interface. And, 3 core features can help perform Dropbox to Backblaze migration easily. What's more, MultCloud offers the following features to help manage data better.
You have learned the difference between Dropbox and Backblaze from the above content. When you need to transfer files from Dropbox to Backblaze or vice versa, you can use MultCloud, a practical tool, to transfer directly across the cloud without downloading and uploading steps.
In addition, you can also add your most frequently used cloud drives to MultCloud, and then use MultCloud to manage multiple cloud storage accounts so that you can manage cloud files or folders in the same interface without frequently switching accounts, which is extremely convenient.