Database backups của Drupal site vào Dropbox

You can lose all your hard earned user generated content in a flash if you don't regularly create backups of your Drupal database. You can recreate Drupal's code like core, contrib modules and themes, but what you can't create is your Drupal database if you don't have a backup. And losing data often means stress. 

We don't like stress, we like Drupal, so at minimum you'll want daily backups of your Drupal database to a secure server at a different physical location, but you have several reasons why that's just not yet happening.
You sometimes forget to make them, or creating another hosting account costs money, or the dog ate your paper... 

The solution here is to let Drupal create a daily / hourly backup of your database for you, so the "Drupal won't hit the fan" if your webhost contacts you with an email saying 'sorry, a problem occured'. 

Have a look at this nifty module:
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_dropbox 
It's a neat little addon for Drupals Backup & Migrate module.

Dropbox syncs files between your PC and the cloud and if you prefer it will also sync selected directories to  your mobile phone. With the 'Backup and Migrate Dropbox' module Drupal can put your database backups into your Dropbox. The backups are then safely stored to the cloud and all the PC's, phones and tablets you desire. Or just store it only to the cloud if you find the database information too security sensitive.

Step 0: Create a Dropbox account, it's free. At the moment of this writing you get 2000 MB of storage space for free, and if you signup through this link: http://db.tt/wEDJDglC you'll get another 250 MB or 500MB for free giving you the total of 2250 MB for free. And for every buddy you add you'll get another 250/500MB for free, currently to a maximum of 8 GB.

Step 1: Install the Backup and Migrate module if you didn't already do it (Dude!)

Step 2: Install the Backup and Migrate Dropbox module

Step 3: Configure the Backup & Migrate settings and make sure your cron runs

That's it. Go on - make your Drupal life more fun.