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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 deskto...
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Rich
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31 days ago
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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