guides:computing:dropbox_backup
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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
Moved storage to secondary HDD by making symlinks
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
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