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We host a small community, not for profit site and mailing list, is it possible to rsync to dropbox or a similar (free) service to maintain backup?

Edit: For context, we host on a shared VM and don't want to install anything unless we have to. I'm currently looking at dropbox-uploader which is just a bash script

Thanks

Dr.Avalanche
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Box has ftp (https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/200520128-Using-Box-with-FTP).

AFAIK Dropbox only have http for download purposes

EDIT: By the way, you cannot use rsync with ftp but you can mount ftp as a local mount and use rsync with that folder.

Álex Sáez
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Yes, quite easily. Setup the dropbox folder outside the hierarchy that you will be backing up (for instance, if you are backing up /export/home, setup your dropbox folder as /opt/dropbox), and then setup your job to do a local-to-local rsync.

Hope that helps.

Happy Monday.

DTK
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