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Hi, |
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* felix@×××××××.com <felix@×××××××.com> [24.09.2010. @21:11:46 -0700]: |
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> I have recently discovered Dropbox as an interesting thing to |
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> experiment with, not without its drawbacks, but interesting. |
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> I have it running on a work Mac laptop and an Android phone, and it is |
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> another interesting idea to put it on Linux. However, its downloads |
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> are for Fedora and Ubuntu, or a source file which requires Nautilus. |
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> Also, I don't want its daemon running constantly, altho that feature |
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> is part of what makes it interesting wth the laptop and phone. |
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> Searches bring up various pages, but nothing really promising, either |
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> old or rather convulated or still using Mautilus. One involves a |
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> python script which apparently runs the command over and over, each |
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> time creating one more fake lib to make up for the Fedora/Ubunto ones |
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> required. No thanks ... while an interesting hack, it's not my idea |
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> of a way to the future :-) |
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> So the question is ... does anyone have experience with Dropbox on |
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> gentoo? My system is ~amd64, running fvwm when necessary, neither KDE |
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> nor Gnome. I'd really like a command line program which I could run |
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> for manual syncing. |
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I'm using Dropox to synchronize few conf files and data between my |
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Gentoo boxes (desktops and server). I only use it in CLI, without |
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nautilus or something else (my server has no X server). |
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Since I do not want to let Dropbox having clear data, I encrypt |
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them with encFS. Lokk at these few links I used : |
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https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx (official page, the first |
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solution is for server install) |
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http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall (the |
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tutorial itself) |
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https://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/dropbox.py (the CLI script) |
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http://pragmattica.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/encrypting-your-dropbox-seamlessly-and-automatically/ |
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(an encFS+Dropbox tutorial, very useful) |
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Then I run .dropbox-dist/dropbox (or .dropbox-dist/dropboxd if I want it |
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as a daemon) when I want a synchronization. Run it without '&' and type |
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ctrl-C to stop it after sync, or write a simple start/stop script. |
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Regards, |
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JC |
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