Dropbox-Allowlist

Author:	Weisi Dai <weisi@x-research.com>
Date:	Jun 4, 2014
license:	MIT License

Want to sync only selected directories on your Linux server? Dropbox's selective sync is not enough, because it's a disallowlist strategy rather than a allowlist one.

This utility makes use the dropbox exclude command to implement the allowlist scheme. Actually it tries to exclude all the directories that should be excluded.

It's written in F# so we need the F# compiler fsharpc and the .Net runtime mono.

Quickstart

1. Clone this repo to a folder, say, ~/dwlist. Go into the directory.

2. Write a allowlist file and save it to ~/dropbox.wlist using the following format:

   Files/Directory/A
   Files/Directory/B
   Public
   Photos/Alice
   Photos/Bob
   

3. Build it:

   make
   

4. Add the crontab entry:

   $ crontab -e
   

   Add the following line:

   * * * * * /path/to/dropbox_wlist_wrapper.sh
   

Assumptions

We assume the Dropbox frontend script is ~/bin/dropbox and the Dropbox folder is ~/Dropbox. If not, modify the corresponding values and rebuild.