Issue

You are looking for dropbox linux command line upload client
You want to upload your server backups from Linux server to Dropbox accounts.

Resolution

With the Dropbox command line client, You can upload any files to your Dropbox account from the linux BASH terminal. This is as simple as copying files from a linux terminal , Like cp file1 file2 This can be used in any scenario like uploading backups from your server to your dropbox account etc. The bash script available for dropbox at GitHubwhich can be used with Various OS.

TESTED ENVIRONMENTS
– GNU Linux FreeBSD 8.3 MacOSX Windows/Cygwin Raspberry Pi
Portable: It’s written in BASH scripting language and only needs cURL (curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, available for all operating systems and installed by default in many linux distributions).
Secure:
It’s not required to provide your username/password to this script, because it uses the official Dropbox API for authentication process.

How to Setup

– Create an account on www.dropbox.com (if you dont have one).
– Now go to your linux box, (curl and bash must be installed)[sociallocker]
admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ cd /tmp admin@AWSADMNZ:/tmp$ wget https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh admin@AWSADMNZ:/tmp$ sudo cp dropbox_uploader.sh /usr/local/bin/droptobox admin@AWSADMNZ:/tmp$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/droptobox

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Now you can access the program anywhere from the terminal by running droptobox command
– Lets run the command first time to setup the authentication.
admin@AWSADMNZ:/tmp$ droptobox
– It will ask you for the “App Key and App secret”, Lets create it from the Dropbox web.
– Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps and create an app.
Give “Full Access” while filling the App details.
– It will display an “App Key” and “App Secret” after successful creation.
– Copy both and give paste it on the terminal setup and give “f” in the access options.
App key: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx App secret: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Access level you have chosen, App folder or Full Dropbox [a/f]: f

– Then it will display a Link, Copy and paste it on the web browser and Allow the API access. [
– Click “Allow” to allow the CLI access.
– Now on the terminal, Hit Enter, and your setup is now completed.

Command Usage

/usr/local/bin/droptobox COMMAND [PARAMETERS]… Commands: upload [LOCAL_FILE] <REMOTE_FILE> download [REMOTE_FILE] <LOCAL_FILE> delete [REMOTE_FILE] list <REMOTE_DIR> info unlink

Uploading Files

– Upload the files to your dropbox / directory
admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox upload file1 – Upload the files to your dropbox /Photos directory admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox file1 Photos/file1 – Upload Files with Space in their file name. admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox upload "My File.txt" "My File 2.txt"

Deleteing Files

-Delete the file Photos/file1
admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox delete Photos/file1

Downloding Files

– Download file1 admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox download file1
– Download Photos/file1 admin@AWSADMNZ:~$ droptobox download Photos/file1

Resources

GitHub ReadMe

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