Paperless cloud backups

I store all of my important (and many not so important) documents in my Paperless-ngx instance running on my homelab. Given this importance, I wanted to add an additional backup of my documents and the metadata. Having them in cloud storage, while not ideal for privacy reasons, would also give me a way to access the documents easily if I am unable to directly for whatever reason. Skip ahead to see the config for scheduled backups or backup on change. I chose to use Dropbox for my backups, because I have a lot of space available from sending invites years ago, and I have it synced onto my laptop which then gives me an additional backup there too. The methods below could also easily be applied to other cloud storage solutions. My initial instinct on how to solve this was to just run the dropbox daemon on my homelab and create a symlink to wherever paperless stores my documents. I quickly found that this wouldn’t work for a couple of reasons: The dropbox daemon doesn’t run on Arm, and my…