Insight Guide Using Dropbox To Share Server Files

Using Dropbox To Share Files

You can share the Centmin Mod server files like nginx, PHP or instal log files via a Dropbox basic user free account dedicated for Centmin Mod use at Dropbox Personal Plans for Individual Use - Dropbox You can sign up for Dropbox account using my referral link so I get an extra 500MB storage quota

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Dropbox allows you to in your settings enable email to Dropbox feature. So Dropbox will provide you a custom email address where you can send files to and they will automatically be uploaded to Dropbox account under Email Attachments folder.

So once you enable email to Dropbox feature. You can send the files to a provided Dropbox email address. I suggest you compress the file before had to save space and make your free Dropbox accounts 2GB storage space last longer.

And example is if you want to share a log file at /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log, you can compress it first

Code (Text):

pigz -9k /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log

Original uncompressed is 1.7MB and compressed is 86KB!

Code (Text):

ls -lah /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.7M Dec 31 01:50 /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  86K Dec 31 01:50 /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log.gz

Then send the compressed pcre2log.log.gz log via email. You assign to email_to variable your provided Dropbox email YOUR-EMAIL@addtodropbox.com replacing YOUR-EMAIL with your specific email. And then run the 2nd command to email the log as an attachment

Code (Text):

email_to='YOUR-EMAIL@addtodropbox.com'
echo "pcre2log $(date)" | mail -s "pcre2log $(date)" -a /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log.gz $email_to

If you don't receive the attachment in your Dropbox Email Attachment folder, make sure sending emails from server is working properly as per https://community.centminmod.com/th...ver-email-doesnt-end-up-in-spam-inboxes.6999/.

The Dropbox Email Attachment folder will then show the sent file which you can select to share and generate a share link.

 

Creating a Dropbox send script. You can also create a very simple Dropbox send script called /usr/local/bin/dbsend. Note: You can sign up for Dropbox account using my referral link so I get an extra 500MB storage quota

Set your DROPBOX_EMAIL_TO to your Dropbox email address in
persistent config file /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc.

Code (Text):

#!/bin/bash
######################################################
# send files to Dropbox account email defined by
# DROPBOX_EMAIL_TO variable.
#
# You can add it to persistent config file
# /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc
# which will override the variable within the script
######################################################
# variables
DROPBOX_EMAIL_TO='YOUR-EMAIL@addtodropbox.com'
######################################################


if [ -f "/etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc" ]; then
  # default is at /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc
  dos2unix -q "/etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc"
  . "/etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc"
fi

dbsend() {
  file="$1"
  filename=$(basename $file)
  filename_only="${filename%.*}"
  file_ext="${filename_only##*.}"
  echo "dbsend.sh $filename $(date)" | mail -s "dbsend.sh $filename $(date)" -a "$file" "$DROPBOX_EMAIL_TO"
  err=$?
  if [[ "$err" -eq '0' ]]; then
    echo "sent $file to Dropbox Email Attachments folder"
  else
    echo "error: unable to send to Dropbox Email Attachments folder"
  fi
}


######################################################
case "$1" in
  send )
    if [[ -f "$2" ]]; then
      dbsend "$2"
    else
      echo "error: $2 is not a file that exists"
    fi
  ;;
  * )
    echo "$0 send /full/path/to/file"
  ;;
esac

ensure it's executable

Code (Text):

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dbsend

Usage examples

If you don't specify the path to to file, you will get a reminder for the command syntax

Code (Text):

dbsend
/usr/local/bin/dbsend send /full/path/to/file

If the specified file doesn't exist

Code (Text):

dbsend send a
error: a is not a file that exists

Code (Text):

dbsend send /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log.gz
sent /root/centminlogs/pcre2log.log.gz to Dropbox Email Attachments folder

 

Example of viewing and sharing your logs via Dropbox. Dropbox allows you to natively view compressed .gz logs just by clicking on the compressed .gz log too