Documentation of settings

is there sbd who can please help to explain the settings … ???

Hello wooth,

I did connect do dropbox, it works… it not ticked,what does it mean???

If you want to make backup of your website to Dropbox, the plugin must create a token connection to your Dropbox account, to be able to copy/upload your backup to your Dropbox.

What will be optimized – I don’t want any changes in my DB (it was ticked already)

It doesn’t do changes with your data in your database.
OPTIMIZE TABLE basically does three(3) things:
1. Shrinks the data pages;
2. Shrinks index pages;
3. Computes Fresh Index Statistics;
Conceptually, Dropbox backup and restore plugin operates with OPTIMIZE TABLE functionality like phpMyAdmin.

Backups will be made on dropbox anyway, what does it mean?

Sure, backups will be made on dropbox anyway, but
if you want to see in your WordPress on Dropbox plugin page the list of all created on Dropbox backups – plugin need to read it from your Dropbox account.
if you want to restore not only the latest created backup from Dropbox, you will need to read the full list of available on Dropbox backups.

no clue? where is the local backup and why is it deleted… i thought it is on dropbox?

You have two buttons on plugin page:
“Create backup to Dropbox” and “Create local backup”
local backup – will create the backup of your website and save it locally on the server/hosting of your website.
dropbox backup – this backup will be created in two steps: local backup will be created and then created local backup will be uploaded to your Dropbox folder. To free memory the local backup copy will be deleted from your server/hosting after uploading on your Dropbox.

I hope it helps.

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Thank you,

Dropbox Backup & Restore Support Team

perfect, thanks!

only the first answer is still not clear to me. I do understand that the plugin needs to connect with my dropbox account. this is what I did (it was requested in the setup somehow) and it seems to works. But in the settings ‘Connection to your dropbox app’ the tick box is NOT ticked, but as I said: it works. Do I need to tick this item now it or not?

Please help. Thanks.

Just a remark: this is not “Time Machine” like… too many settings, which are not 100% clear to me… sometimes it also good not offer so many options ??