Wonderful !<br><br>Thank you Eric, and Happy New Year !<br><br>Le<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nmglug-request@lists.nmglug.org">nmglug-request@lists.nmglug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">From: Eric Krieger <<a href="mailto:grammatoncleric@ubuntu.com">grammatoncleric@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <<a href="mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org">nmglug@lists.nmglug.org</a>><br>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:09:34 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [nmglug] using Dropbox to sync & restore<br>
There's no need for any shell scripts or anything extreme. The process is simple enough...<br><br><br>1. Copy the file or directory that is desired to be synced across systems into the Dropbox directory.<br><br>cp .bashrc Dropbox/Backup/linux/<br>
cp -R .mozilla Dropbox/Backup/linux <br><br>*NOTE: Let Dropbox finish syncing before creating the symbolic link.<br>** NOTE: The path within your Dropbox directory may differ.<br><br>2. Rename the old file or directory... <br>
<br>mv .bashrc .old-bashrc<br>mv .mozilla .old-mozilla<br><br>3. Create a symbolic link to the new location in the Dropbox directory.<br><br>ln -s Dropbox/Backup/linux/.bashrc<br>ln -s Dropbox/Backup/linux/.mozilla<br><br>
<br><br><br>Here's an example of the files and directories that I sync...you may or may not wish to do the same.<br><br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 29 2010-12-31 06:56 .bashrc -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.bashrc<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 33 2011-01-01 09:18 .evolution -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.evolution/<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 29 2010-12-31 06:56 .fonts -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.fonts/<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 29 2010-12-30 17:37 .gconf -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.gconf/<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 30 2010-12-31 06:57 .gnome2 -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.gnome2/<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 29 2010-12-30 17:36 .local -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.local/<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 31 2010-12-30 17:35 .mozilla -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.mozilla/<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 gcleric gcleric 3353 2010-10-30 17:41 .old-bashrc<br>drwx------ 5 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-10-30 17:39 .old-evolution<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-11-14 11:45 .old-fonts<br>drwx------ 4 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-10-30 17:19 .old-gconf<br>
drwx------ 9 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-10-30 17:28 .old-gnome2<br>drwxr-xr-x 3 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-10-30 17:12 .old-local<br>drwx------ 4 gcleric gcleric 4096 2010-10-30 17:20 .old-mozilla<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 30 2010-10-30 17:34 .sshmenu -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.sshmenu<br>
lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 35 2011-1-1 16:26 .thunderbird -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.thunderbird/<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 gcleric gcleric 28 2010-12-24 05:38 .vimrc -> Dropbox/Backups/linux/.vimrc<br><br><br>The one thing I'd be careful of doing is syncing the above across systems running different releases of the same operating system (i.e. Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.10). <br>
<br><br>- Eric<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Le Nguyen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lenguyen0@gmail.com" target="_blank">lenguyen0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Eric,<br><br>I am all ears when you have the time to expound on this subject. I do have a Dropbox account, but it never occurred to me to use it this way.<br>Any shell scripts, procedures, methods you want to share would be highly appreciated.<br>
<br>Thanks to Anthony for starting the email thread, and to the others who contributed, I am learning something!<br><br>Le Nguyen<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nmglug-request@lists.nmglug.org" target="_blank">nmglug-request@lists.nmglug.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Eric Krieger <<a href="mailto:grammatoncleric@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">grammatoncleric@ubuntu.com</a>><br>
To: "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <<a href="mailto:nmglug@lists.nmglug.org" target="_blank">nmglug@lists.nmglug.org</a>><br>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:00:11 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [nmglug] "save the data" fresh install ubuntu 10.10<br>
Lifehacker has a bit one... <br><br><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder" target="_blank">http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder</a><br>
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Works flawlessly and whats best about using Dropbox + sympolic links, apart from keeping everything in sync? When something gets hosed just force the restore from the Dropbox web interface. :) <br><br>I can do a more in depth howto post holidays if there is interest. But it's pretty straight forward. <br>
<br>- Eric <br></blockquote></div><br>
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