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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

Jan 24, 2021

A few months ago I experimented with DigitalOcean spaces as my backup solution -that could replace Dropbox -eventually. That solution -worked quite nicely, and I was amazed how smashing together a couple of existing -solutions would work this fine.

I have been running that solution in the background for a couple of months now -and kind of forgot about it. But recent developments around deplatforming and -having us people hostages of technology and big companies speed up my goals to -become less dependent on -Google, -Dropbox -etc and take back some control.

I am not a conspiracy theory nut, but to be honest, what these companies are -doing lately is out of control. It is a matter of principle at this point. I -have almost completely degoogled my life all the way from ditching Gmail, -YouTube and most of the services surrounding Google. And I must tell you, I feel -so good. I haven't felt this way for a long time.

Anyways. Let's get to the meat of things.

Before you continue you should read my post about syncing to -Dropbox.

Also to note, I am using Linux on my machine with Gnome desktop environment. -This should work on MacOS too. To use this on Windows I suggest using -Subsystem for Linux -or Cygwin.

Folder structure

I liked structure from Dropbox. One folder where everything is located and -synced. So, that's why adopted this also for my sync setup.

~/Vault
-   ↳ backup
-   ↳ bin
-   ↳ documents
-   ↳ projects
-

All of my code is located in ~/Vault/projects folder. And most of the projects -are Git repositories. I do not use this sync method for backup per see but in -case I reinstall my machine I can easily recreate all the important folder -structure with one quick command. No external drives needed that can fail etc.

Sync script

My sync script is located in ~/Vault/bin/vault-backup.sh

#!/bin/bash
-
-# dconf load /com/gexperts/Tilix/ < tilix.dconf
-# 0 2 * * * sh ~/Vault/bin/vault-backup.sh
-
-cd ~/Vault/backup/dotfiles
-
-MACHINE=$(whoami)@$(hostname)
-mkdir -p $MACHINE
-cd $MACHINE
-
-cp ~/.config/VSCodium/User/settings.json settings.json
-cp ~/.s3cfg s3cfg
-cp ~/.bash_extended bash_extended
-cp ~/.ssh ssh -rf
-
-codium --list-extensions > vscode-extension.txt
-dconf dump /com/gexperts/Tilix/ > tilix.dconf
-
-cd ~/Vault
-s3cmd sync --delete-removed --exclude 'node_modules/*' --exclude '.git/*' --exclude '.venv/*' ./ s3://bucket-name/backup/
-
-echo `date +"%D %T"` >> ~/.vault.log
-
-notify-send \
-	-u normal \
-	-i /usr/share/icons/Adwaita/96x96/status/security-medium-symbolic.symbolic.png \
-	"Vault sync succeded at `date +"%D %T"`"
-

This script also backups some of the dotfiles I use and sends notification to -Gnome notification center. It is a straightforward solution. Nothing special -going on.

One obvious benefit of this is that I can omit syncing Node's node_modules -or Python's .venv and .git folders.

You can use this script in a combination with Cron.

0 2 * * * sh ~/Vault/bin/vault-backup.sh
-

When you start syncing your local stuff with a remote server you can review your -items on DigitalOcean.

Dropbox Spaces

I have been using this script now for quite some time, and it's working -flawlessly. I also uninstalled Dropbox and stopped using it completely.

All I need to do is write a Bash script that does the reverse and downloads from -remote server to local folder. This could be another post.

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