Benefits of Backing Up Mac to Dropbox?
As one of the most popular personal cloud storage service, Dropbox has accumulated a large
number of users. For Mac users, backing up files to
Dropbox is a good option to protect their Mac data. Besides that, there are many
other benefits of backing up Mac to Dropbox:
☛Data in Dropbox is far away
from your local hardware, so you can avoid data loss due to hardware failure or natural
disasters.
☛Files stored in Dropbox can
be accessed from any device including PCs, mobile phones, tablets, etc. at any time.
☛If you backed your Mac to
Dropbox, you can restore all the data to another Mac easily especially when there is
something wrong with your old Mac and you buy a new one.
You may need to backup Mac using Dropbox for different reasons. If you are looking for
effective ways to backup Mac to Dropbox, please read on to find the methods here.
How to Backup Mac to Dropbox via Dropbox Website?
If you only want to backup a few files from Mac to Dropbox, you can go to the website of
Dropbox to upload files or folder manually.
1. Go to the Dropbox website on your Mac and log in your
Dropbox account.

2. Click on Upload files or Upload folder on the right side
of the page and then you can choose the files or folder that you want to backup to Dropbox
from your Mac computer and then click Open.

✎Note: Every file
or folder you choose to backup to Dropbox via dropbox website can’t be bigger than 20 GB.
3. After that, the selected files or folder will be backed up to Dropbox.
How to Backup Mac to Dropbox via Dropbox Desktop App
While you can always access your data from the Dropbox website, in the long run, it's
easier to install the Dropbox desktop app. If you want to backup a large number of files or
folders to Dropbox at once, you can use Dropbox desktop app to backup Mac with dropbox
automatically. And the Dropbox desktop app allows you to upload files or folder bigger than
20 GB.
1. Go to Dropbox website and install Dropbox app
to your Mac computer. When the download is complete, a window containing a Dropbox icon will
appear on the screen.
2. Click Open my Dropbox Folder. This folder enables you to store and access
files even when away from your computer. For Mac users, the Dropbox folder is created in the
Home (main) folder.
3. When Dropbox is installed on your Mac you will see a Dropbox tab in the Finder, just drag
and drop anything into that folder and it will be backed up to Dropbox automatically.

How to get more free backup space in Dropbox?
Dropbox offers 2 GB free storage to each register. However, 2 GB of storage space can be run
out of quickly. If you want to get more free backup space in Dropbox for your Mac data, you
can use a cloud manager like CBackupper to merge Dropbox accounts and
combine the free storage of each account into a huge backup space.
CBackupper is a free web-based cloud manager service that allows you to add and combine cloud storage to get more
free backup space. Then, you can take full use of the huge backup space to protect more
data. Let’s see how to get more Dropbox backup space for free with CBackupper:
1. Create an account and sign in. Just go to the main page of CBackupper, click “Sign
up” at the upper right side, then type your email, password, and name. After that, sign
in your account.

2. Click “Add Clouds” under “Clouds” tab, select your
clouds and click “Add”. Then sign in your account and authorize CBackupper
to access your files on the cloud.

3. Follow the steps above, you can add Dropbox accounts as many as you have. After adding,
all your Dropbox accounts are listed here. You can click the three-dot icon next to each
cloud drive and select “Allocate Space” option to adjust the storage space
you want to use for backup flexibly with three options.

✎Note: CBackupper
also has a PC client tool that is designed for Windows PC. If you want to do cloud backup
for Windows 10/8/7/XP, you can use CBackupper to backup your Windows files to AOMEI Cloud.
CBackupper offers a 15-day free trial to each user, you can download it to have a try.

Conclusion
That’s all about how to backup Mac to Dropbox, you can choose the most suitable way to backup
Mac files to Dropbox according to your situation. To protect more data on Mac, you can
easily combine the backup space of multiple Dropbox accounts for free with CBackupper.