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GTFreymann's avatar
GTFreymann
Explorer | Level 3
10 months ago

Dropbox on Debian 12. But it wants to sync all of my Dropbox files down to the debian box.

I successfully installed Dropbox on a headless Debian 12 VPS. I authorized it and it works.    I am hoping to be able to backup files on the debian machine to my Dropbox account, as I have lots o...
  • Здравко's avatar
    Здравко
    10 months ago

    Once again: Your command will work only when your current working directory is the Dropbox folder! In such a way the folder name is path too. Otherwise no.

    To work in all cases you may try something like:

    ~/dropbox.py exclude add ~/Dropbox/Apps

    Good luck.

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