Dropbox CentOS installer Addon (maybe discussion) ?

Anyone interested in a Dropbox installer for CentOS for Centmin Mod usage ? By default Dropbox free accounts give you 2.5GB of free space. Might be enough for syncing some server files as a backup ?

Referral Link
My Dropbox referral link if you haven't created a Dropbox account yet https://db.tt/RSWa3cqn

Never used Dropbox like this before myself, but it seems it was pretty easy to setup by following guide at http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/install-dropbox-centos-gui-required. I had to modify the /etc/init.d/dropbox script a tad to properly use with root user to get the start, stop and status options working. I also added an additional option to the /etc/init.d/dropbox script to report the Dropbox version number as well as syncing status output.

Right now, very rough early draft of the Dropbox installer just does the default and setup /root/Dropbox as the default syncing folder. Need to figure out how to change the default syncing folder's path

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Code:

ls -lah /root/Dropbox/
total 16K
drwx------   3 root root 4.0K Jun  8 23:17 .
dr-xr-x---. 10 root root 4.0K Jun  8 22:25 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   49 Jun  8 23:06 .dropbox
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Jun  8 23:16 .dropbox.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    0 Jun  8 23:17 text2.txt

Example of the /etc/init.d/dropbox script setup as follows:

Code:

service dropbox status
dropboxd for USER root: running (pid 29680)

service dropbox
Usage: dropboxd {start|status|stop|restart|version|syncstatus}

service dropbox version
Dropbox 2.8.3

service dropbox syncstatus
Syncing "1.8.31.3.tar.gz" (5 mins left)
Uploading "1.8.31.3.tar.gz" (368.2 KB/sec, 5 mins left)

Code:

touch /etc/sysconfig/dropbox

echo "DROPBOX_USERS=\"root\"" > /etc/sysconfig/dropbox

touch /etc/init.d/dropbox
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/dropbox

cat > "/etc/init.d/dropbox" <<EOF
# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: Startup script for dropbox daemon
#
# processname: dropboxd
# pidfile: /var/run/dropbox.pid
# config: /etc/sysconfig/dropbox
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: dropboxd
# Required-Start: \$local_fs \$network \$syslog
# Required-Stop: \$local_fs \$syslog
# Should-Start: \$syslog
# Should-Stop: \$network \$syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start up the Dropbox file syncing daemon
# Description:       Dropbox is a filesyncing sevice provided by dropbox.com
#                    This service starts up the dropbox daemon.
### END INIT INFO

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# To configure, add line with DROPBOX_USERS="user1 user2" to /etc/sysconfig/dropbox
# Probably should use a dropbox group in /etc/groups instead.

[ -f /etc/sysconfig/dropbox ] && . /etc/sysconfig/dropbox
prog=dropboxd
lockfile=\${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/subsys/\$prog}
config=\${CONFIG-/etc/sysconfig/dropbox}
RETVAL=0

start() {
    echo -n \$"Starting \$prog"
    if [ -z \$DROPBOX_USERS ] ; then
        echo -n ": unconfigured: \$config"
        echo_failure
        echo
        rm -f \${lockfile} \${pidfile}
        RETURN=6
        return \$RETVAL
    fi
    for dbuser in \$DROPBOX_USERS; do
        dbuser_home=`cat /etc/passwd | grep "^\$dbuser:" | cut -d":" -f6`
        if [[ "\$dbuser" = 'root' ]]; then
            daemon --user \$dbuser /bin/sh -c "~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd&"
        else
            daemon --user \$dbuser /bin/sh -c "\$dbuser_home/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd&"
        fi
    done
    RETVAL=\$?
    echo
    [ \$RETVAL = 0 ] && touch \${lockfile}
    return \$RETVAL
}

status() {
    for dbuser in \$DROPBOX_USERS; do
        dbpid=\$(pgrep -u \$dbuser dropbox | grep -v grep)
        if [ -z \$dbpid ] ; then
            echo "dropboxd for USER \$dbuser: not running."
        else
            echo "dropboxd for USER \$dbuser: running (pid \$dbpid)"
        fi
    done
}

stop() {
    echo -n \$"Stopping \$prog"
    for dbuser in \$DROPBOX_USERS; do
        dbuser_home=`cat /etc/passwd | grep "^\$dbuser:" | cut -d":" -f6`
        if [[ "\$dbuser" = 'root' ]]; then
            killproc ~/.dropbox-dist/dropbox
        else
            killproc \$dbuser_home/.dropbox-dist/dropbox
        fi
    done
    RETVAL=\$?
    echo
    [ \$RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f \${lockfile} \${pidfile}
}

ver() {
    echo 'Dropbox '`cat ~/.dropbox-dist/VERSION`
}

syncinfo() {
    ~/bin/dropbox.py status
}

# See how we were called.
case "\$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    status)
        status
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    version)
        ver
        ;;
    syncstatus)
        syncinfo
        ;;
    *)
        echo \$"Usage: \$prog {start|status|stop|restart|version|syncstatus}"
        RETVAL=3
esac
exit \$RETVAL
EOF

service dropbox start
chkconfig dropbox on

 

Also some of the command line options from dropbox.py http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-official-dropbox-command-line-interface-cli

 

Well Dropbox do have paid upgrades for 100+GB storage and/or referral link bonuses for 500MB per referral up to 16GB, so with 32 referral/invites you can have 2.5 + 16 = 18.5GB free space.

Also with Dropbox with Android and other clients you can also sync files between your server and mobile devices.

But there's also free own hosted ownCloud alternative too https://community.centminmod.com/resources/how-to-install-owncloud-on-centmin-mod-nginx.1/