Nightly n8n backup to Dropbox

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Built by Joey D’Anna Joey D’Anna
Created on June 07, 2026

Description

This template will create a nightly backup of all your n8n workflows to a Dropbox folder. Each night, the previous night's backups are moved into an "old" folder, and renamed with the date they were taken.

Backups over a specified age are deleted. (this is disabled by default for safety until you manually enable and verify it with your own setup)

Prerequisites
Dropbox account and credentials
A destination folder for backups

Setup
Update all dropbox nodes with your credential
Edit the Schedule Trigger node with the desired time to run the backup
Edit the DESTINATION FOLDER node to specify the path in dropbox to upload to. This should be a folder and include the trailing /
If you want to automatically purge old backups
Edit the PURGE DAYS node to specify the age to purge
Enable the PURGE DAYS node, and the 3 subsequent nodes
Enable the workflow to run on the specified schedule

Nodes Used (1)

Dropbox
n8n-nodes-base.dropbox