How to send your calendar backups to Dropbox

You can have each night's calendar backup delivered to your own Dropbox. You sign in to Dropbox from GetCalendario, agree to one permission screen, and from then on each night's file is added to a folder in your Dropbox. There is nothing to copy or paste: no keys, no policies.

Do this from Daily Backups, then Setup: choose Your storage, locked (recommended) or Your storage, not locked, pick Dropbox, and press Connect Dropbox. Daily Backups is on paid plans and during the 14-day trial. For the whole picture, see how Daily Backups work.

What does Connect Dropbox ask me to allow?

Before you are sent to Dropbox, the page shows this warning: a breach of GetCalendario could mean that a bad actor could read the files we put in this folder, and for guaranteed write-only access we strongly recommend Amazon S3 or Azure. Read it; it is covered below.

Then Connect Dropbox takes you to Dropbox's own sign-in and permission screen. GetCalendario is set up as a Dropbox "app folder" app, which is the narrowest kind Dropbox offers. It is allowed to add files to its own folder, to see its own folder's file listing so it can place a file in the right subfolder, and to read which Dropbox account is connected so the page can show it. It is not given your other files.

If you press Cancel at Dropbox, or the attempt takes more than 15 minutes, nothing is connected and you are returned to the Setup page with a message. Start again from Connect Dropbox.

What does GetCalendario get?

Only its own app folder. Dropbox creates the folder for you the first time we add a file, under Apps in your Dropbox, and GetCalendario cannot see anything outside it.

When the connection succeeds, the page says Dropbox is connected and that we put GetCalendario-test.txt there to check. You will find that file in your Dropbox as proof it worked.

Where do the nightly files appear, and what are they called?

Inside the app folder, each calendar gets its own folder, and each night's backup is a file named for the day:

• Folder: GetCalendario/<calendar name> (<number>)/
• File: <YYYY-MM-DD>.gcb, or <YYYY-MM-DD>.zip (see below)

The number after the calendar name keeps two calendars with the same name apart. Characters Dropbox does not allow in a name are removed.

The file type depends on how you lock the backups:

• Locked with a passkey (or a recovery code): a .gcb file, which only GetCalendario's restore screen opens, in your browser.
• Locked with a password: a .zip protected with AES-256 and a strong password we show you once. Open it in 7-Zip on Windows or Keka on a Mac.
• Not locked: a plain .zip.

Each backup contains calendar.ics, raw.json and README.txt. We never delete files from your Dropbox, so old ones stay until you remove them yourself.

Can I make Dropbox write-only?

No, and we say so plainly. With Amazon S3 or Azure you can give us a key that can only upload, and we check after every delivery that it cannot read back. A Dropbox connection cannot be limited like that: we only ever get our own app folder, but we can read what we put in it. If GetCalendario were breached, those files could be read.

The page marks Dropbox connections with GetCalendario can read this, where S3 and Azure show Write-only. That is why locking matters most here. Locked files are unreadable without your passkey, recovery code or password, even to someone who can reach the folder. If you want guaranteed write-only storage, use S3, B2, Wasabi, R2 or Azure.

How do I lock the files?

Choose Your storage, locked before you connect. If you have a passkey, backups are locked to it; if you do not, we make a password and show it once. Either way you can add a recovery code. The steps, and what happens if you lose the key, are in lock your backups with a passkey, recovery code or password.

How do I disconnect Dropbox?

On the Daily Backups page, your Dropbox appears as a card with a Disconnect Dropbox button. The page asks you to confirm: backups stop until you connect storage again. Afterwards we no longer hold the credentials that let us add files to your Dropbox. The files already there stay where they are.

To end the permission on Dropbox's side too, remove GetCalendario from the connected apps in your Dropbox account settings. If you want to move to different storage, Use different storage on the same card lets you pick another service.

If Dropbox stops working

If Dropbox refuses us, for example because you removed the app or your Dropbox is full, the card shows an error and a Reconnect Dropbox button. We try again the next night. Press Reconnect Dropbox and sign in again to fix a revoked permission.

How do I get a day back?

On the Daily Backups page, choose Get a calendar back, pick the calendar and the day, and for Dropbox you get a link straight to that file. Download it, then unlock it in your browser. The steps are in how to restore a calendar from a backup.