Backup in a Box Cloud Storage

If you are an owner of the Box account, you will need to back up your Box data for some reasons:

• You may want to transfer your data to another Box account or even to another cloud service.
• You may wish to have a copy of your Box cloud content in some other place.
• A viable reason for backup is mere a protection of your account data from malfunction.

You can just make Box backup and recovery manually, although this method is highly unsafe and prone to a risk of a human errors. Therefore, we are recommending you using Handy Backup, allowing automating Box.com backup and restore through a Box option or a WebDAV interface.

Recommended Solution

Multiple Storage Support

Besides Box backup, you can use almost any of modern storage methods either as data source or as backup destination in Handy Backup. Thus, you can easily transfer files from Dropbox to Box, making Box online backup for local user folders, or save some database content to a Box account – no problem!

Additional Methods to Backup Box Files

With Handy Backup, you can compress and encrypt your Box backup data, make partial backup (incremental, differential or mixed) for different data sources, run external software before or after executing a Box backup service task, and much more – all in a single interface!

Theoretically, you can use WebDAV interface for Box online backup, although we do not recommend you this complex and somewhat unstable method. Instead, please use the dedicated "Box" plug-in provided by Handy Backup. To use this instrument, please follow the next sequence:

1. Open Handy Backup and create a new task by selecting a menu item or by clicking a button.
2. Choose the backup task type, select advanced mode, and then proceed to Step 2.

4. Then select the "Box" plug-in in the "Cloud" group on the left panel. A new window will appear.
5. Click "Create a connection…" to open a dialog for setting an access to your Box account.

5. Enter your Box.com account email and password into the appropriate fields. Click OK.
6. You will see the account name you entered in the Box plugin window. Click on it.

7. Select data you need to back up from your Box, by marking checkboxes on these data.
8. Press OK to return to the data selection step. Proceed to Step 3.
9. Now select storage for your backups, as well as any other backup parameters on next steps.
10. Make partial backup, compress and encrypt data, schedule your task if you need on next steps.
11. Finally, give your task a name and finish the task wizard. Your task is ready to run!

Handy Backup provides a complete cycle of Box backup and recovery. To create an automatic restoration task, please follow these steps:

1. Make a new task, select "Restore", and an advanced mode if you plan to use extra options.
2. Proceed to Step 2, there open storage with your Box backup and select a file backup.hbi in it.
• Click "Change Location".
• Select a new vault or destination for recovering your Box automatic backup.

3. Click "Next" to continue. In advanced mode, you can restore from Box to another place.
4. Continue creating a recovery task step by step, as described in the User Manual.

As an alternative, you can utilize a WebDAV protocol to get access to Box backup. For doing this, please select "WebDAV" instead of "Box" on Step 2 or Step 3, respectively. Then create a new WebDAV connection and set up your Box WebDAV access parameters.

Handy Backup is a capable and fast Box backup client. Please download a free 30-days trial version of Handy Backup and try to back up your Box data in a fully automated mode – just now!