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Dropbox Backup

Local backup of adc's Dropbox account on bluey home PC.

Installation of Dropbox Linux software

From website:

https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux

2025-03-02
Performed “headless install via command line” from that page.

Also downloaded the dropbox.py script, moved it to /home/anthony/., made it executable, and made a symlink to it (named dropbox without any extension) in /usr/local/bin, which is on PATH.

Now can run commands using this script from the bash command line, e.g.:

dropbox status
dropbox help

2025-03-02

In /home/anthony/., did:

mv ./Dropbox/ /media/dbox_backup/Dropbox
ln -sf ./Dropbox/ /media/dbox_backup/Dropbox
mv ./.dropbox/ /media/dbox_backup/.dropbox
ln -sf ./.dropbox/ /media/dbox_backup/.dropbox

Also tried doing same for .dropbox-dist dir, which holds the dropboxd Dropbox daemon app, but that created errors when trying to run dropboxd. So I moved that dir back to home.

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