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Flocculate
New member | Level 2
31 days ago

How do I mirror my entire Dropbox to e.g. an external hard drive?

Would would be great:

rsync -a my_drop_box/ /mnt/big_disk/
username: bob
password: ******
...

I don't expect it to be that easy, but I also don't want to install, configure and babysit the desktop client (if I can help it).

I did see dbxcli but it's old and "unofficial", but if that's what I want I thought I should ask here first.

What is the easy way to accomplish this? I don't have a computer with a big-enough disk, but I do have USB drives that are big enough. Can I do this simply?

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    Flocculate wrote:

    I did see dbxcli but it's old and "unofficial", but if that's what I want I thought I should ask here first.


    That's what you want. The only other ways would be to install the app and let everything sync, or download manually through the Dropbox website.

     

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