Debian 11
Sharolyn Uriegas
So my Dropbox has all sorts of files in it... and I don't want any of those files/folders to be synced down to the Debian box. I can't figure out the syntax to use to tell dropbox on the debian box to ignore syncing specific folders that are in my dropbox.
Once I can get dropbox to stop pulling down all those files, then I just want to symlink a backup directory into the Dropbox folder on the Debian box, and have those backup files go out to Dropbox. That should be as easy just dropping files into the Dropbox folder on the debian box.
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My big issue is I don't want Dropbox to sync all of my files from Dropbox in the cloud to the Debian VPS at all. I'm just trying to sync files from Debian to/from Dropbox, and as stated, none of the commands I've tried have told debian dropbox to not sync anything else to the debian dropbox.
I have Dropbox.com - it contains a lot of files I want to keep in the cloud. On some of my windows computers, I don't sync the entire collection as some folders are meaningless to have on every computer that I have the Dropbox client installed on.
Now I have a Debian VPS and I want share backup files on the Debian VPS with Dropbox.com but I don't want to have all of my Dropbox.com files shared down to the Debian VPS. When I run the dropbox client on the Debian box it immediately wants to sync my entire Dropbox.com file collection. I don't want any of my other dropbox.com files to sync on this particular device.
On the Debian client, I don't want *any* of these folders to sync from Dropbox.com TO the debian box. But I need to know what commands to run to tell the debian client to ignore 13 folders.
All your steps you have till now are correct and matching to your intention! The only incorrect thing is the interpretation of the sub-commands names. Here "remove" means to remove something from a list of excluded folders! Do you have some folder excluded at the moment? ? I suspect no. So no any result may be expected. Opposite, "add" means to add the pointed folder to the exclude list and remove from the local Dropbox folder (not opposite , as you might think).
Opposite of any logic, set a checkmark in GUI Selective sync preferences is the same like removing folder from exclude list and opposite - adding folder to exclude list is the same like removing checkmark from Selective sync preferences.
You are running Debian stable, because you prefer the Debian stable tree. It runs great, there is just one problem: the software is a little bit outdated compared to other distributions. This is where backports come in.
Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called"testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. Because thepackage is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade yourstable+backports system once the next Debian release comes out. (In a fewcases, usually for security updates, backports are also created from the Debianunstable distribution.)
Despite of the documentation buster-backport was still available on themirrors, that changed recently with the archival of buster-backports.Unfortunately we missed to create an announcement in 2022 which led so somesurprise. Please take this as the missingannouncement.
From now on you can upload packages to those two distributions. Pleaseensure to follow the rulesof those distributions (yes, that means youcan't upload packages to bullseye-backports now that are not intesting ;))
Announcing security updates didn't worked well in the past. Wetherefore decided to change the mechanism security announcements work.Every Debian contributor (DM/DD) can now send a signed mail to thedebian-backports-announce mailinglist. Please follow the templatewhen doing so. The contribution document also shows how to reserve a BSA bydoing a merge request to the website.
Please keep in mind that backports doesn't follow LTS. Which means that we will dropsupport for oldstable (stretch) around one year after the release of buster. Thats in syncwith the - official - security support for oldstable
We plan to switch the security-announce mailinglist to keyring based authentication, which means thatevery DD and DM is able to publish its own BSA advisories. We will send out a seperate announcementafter the switch happened - and of course update the documentation
Thanks have to go out to all people making backports possible, and thatincludes up front the backporters themself who do upload the packages,track and update them on a regular basis, but also the buildd teammaking the autobuilding possible and the ftp masters for creating thesuites in the first place.
We started supporting backports as long as there is LTS support as anexperiment. Unfortunately it didn't worked, most maintainers didn'twanted to support oldoldstable-backports (squeeze) for the lifetimeof LTS. So things started to rot in squeeze and most packages didn'treceived updates. After long discussions we decided to deprecate LTSsupport for backports. From now on squeeze-backports(-sloppy) is closedand will not receive any updates. Expect it to get removed from themirrors and moved to archive in the near future.
We - the backports team - didn't scale well in processing BSA requests.To get things better in the future we decided to change the process alittle bit. If you upload a package which fixes security problemsplease fill out the BSA template and create a ticket in the rt tracker(see for details).
From time to time its necessary to not follow the backports rules, likea package needs to be in testing or a version needs to be in Debian.If you think you have one of those cases, please talk to us on the list before upload the package.
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