“WordPress Backup To Dropbox” has been a very popular WordPress backup plugin, and there are many users with backups created by this plugin.
Like many other backup solutions, it has no facility to restore from a backup – this task has to be done manually, by someone with sufficiently expert skills. And in our opinion, like other backup solutions, it is obsolete: UpdraftPlus can do not only what it does, but many more things besides – but what do you do if you have legacy backups that you still want to use?
Good news: the next release of UpdraftPlus Premium has the capability to restore backups created by this plugin. All you need to do is to download the backup as a zip from the Dropbox website, possibly rename the zip so that it has “wpb2d” in the filename (so that UpdraftPlus can recognise it), and then drag/drop it into UpdraftPlus. From there, you can use it as if it was a backup created by UpdraftPlus itself – whether to restore it into a website that lives at the same location as before, or to migrate it into a new website in a new location.
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
