.... Except, a file added to your dropbox will only appear in your local box the next time you create a local file -- there is nothing to wake the local entr when a file is remotely added to dropbox.
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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
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Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#62rclone is great, i have been using it to make backup of google photos. I had tried so many different solutions before achieving this. Great to see it being here on HN.
rclone is such a great tool indeed. This is almost the only viable approach for transferring your data from one cloud to another. Huge thanks to the creator and contributors!
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.
No, it's not FUD. encrypted ext4 is encfs and ecryptfs, not xy on LUKs, and yes, they did drop support.
Just FYI: Ext4 has file-level encryption built-in now [1, 2], so 'encrypted ext4' is actually different from encfs and ecryptfs.
[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.19/filesystems/fscrypt.ht...
[2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Using_file-based_e...
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#64> Recently, the proprietary Dropbox Linux client dropped support for all Linux file systems except unencrypted ext4. What the heck. Anyone has more information about that? Any announcement? And why would it fail to work on an encrypted (LUKS?) ext4 FS when encryption seemed to me to sit below the filesystem (since AFAIK ext4 doesn't support encryption itself)?
It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.
In fairness, it's pretty difficult (read: impossible) to enable full-disk encryption on an NVME drive (read: most Ultrabooks including the Dell XPS "Developer Edition.")
https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/XPS-1...
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#65> Recently, the proprietary Dropbox Linux client dropped support for all Linux file systems except unencrypted ext4. What the heck. Anyone has more information about that? Any announcement? And why would it fail to work on an encrypted (LUKS?) ext4 FS when encryption seemed to me to sit below the filesystem (since AFAIK ext4 doesn't support encryption itself)?
It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.
When installing Ubuntu from scratch and follow defaults you end up with ecryptfs, not LUKS
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#66I setup Syncthing [1] to do the same for my vimwiki folder. It was surprisingly easy, and doesn't require any external storage services. And it can even automatically sync files without internet, over the local network. [1] https://syncthing.net/
Sadly, the Android-App still can't save stuff on the SD card. My main show-stopper.
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#67> Recently, the proprietary Dropbox Linux client dropped support for all Linux file systems except unencrypted ext4. What the heck. Anyone has more information about that? Any announcement? And why would it fail to work on an encrypted (LUKS?) ext4 FS when encryption seemed to me to sit below the filesystem (since AFAIK ext4 doesn't support encryption itself)?
Doesn’t work on ZFS either. I dropped Dropbox because of this.
You can create a zvol for your dropbox folder and format it in ext4 and it'll work: https://pthree.org/2012/12/21/zfs-administration-part-xiv-zv...
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.
In fairness, it's pretty difficult (read: impossible) to enable full-disk encryption on an NVME drive (read: most Ultrabooks including the Dell XPS "Developer Edition.") https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-Developer-Systems/XPS-1...
Full-disk encryption usually means encryption at the block layer below the filesystem. It doesn't actually have to cover the full disk.
There is almost always at least one unencrypted partition on machines with full-disk encryption, since the boot loader and then the decryption routine have to be launched from somewhere. And yes, OEM recovery partitions or similar laptop-specific needs are another case.
Full-partition would be a more accurate term than full-disk.
Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client
#69I setup Syncthing [1] to do the same for my vimwiki folder. It was surprisingly easy, and doesn't require any external storage services. And it can even automatically sync files without internet, over the local network. [1] https://syncthing.net/
If you don't need mobile support, you (not parent, but someone else reading this) should try Unison. I use it and can vouch for its reliability, and if your use case is simple (sync files between N computers with a central server), then it's probably the best tool for the job as it's considerably faster than syncthing.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any Dropbox-like service that lets you control your own private keys, without resorting to the ugliness of uploading an encrypted image to Dropbox?
Spider oak? https://spideroak.com/
It's important to note though that their client is not open-source, so if one goes through all that trouble to use end-to-end encryption, it seems a bit unsatisfactory to me to then trust this company to actually keep the private keys on my machines (and encrypt things correctly).
Personally I used syncthing which doesn't do encryption but also only uses my own devices, so I can keep the data on my machines at all times.
In the past I used seafile which does support encryption (and it's self-hostable): https://www.seafile.com/en/home/