Comments on: Sync Files to Dropbox with TrueNAS or FreeNAS

By: Michael Dexter

Michael Dexter — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 01:50:15 +0000

In reply to Wonho Lee. Did you apply permissions recursively to the dataset?

By: Martins

Martins — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 13:38:24 +0000

In reply to Joe.

So – can changes be updated to dropbox if I edit files thru SMB share on TrueNas server?
Or is it the case mentioned in comment in this thread by:
Sirui on December 1, 2019 at 3:54 am

By: Wonho Lee

Wonho Lee — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:39:09 +0000

I have synced to a sub-directory in my dataset which is shared via nfs. The sync was successful but now I can’t access the files from my nfs client. Does it change some permission by doing so? I can see the files when I ssh into my freenas box though.

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Fri, 08 May 2020 23:33:51 +0000

In reply to Andrey. Please file a ticket here: jira.ixsystems.com! Might be a permissions issue on Dropbox's end. You can submit a thread on their forums as well.

By: Joon Lee

Joon Lee — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:20:29 +0000

In reply to Francesco. That's great! Glad you found this guide useful.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 06:39:25 +0000

Thank you for this guide, I can now back up my Dropbox to FreeNAS, which is great

By: Andrey

Andrey — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:21:25 +0000

Okay so I set everything up exactly how this guide suggests.
After the task downloaded all of my Dropox account contents, it failed and returned “DropBox restricted content”.
Any help here?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 02:24:40 +0000

In reply to Tim Henderson. Agreed. In the end I had to move away from the way I was previously using Dropbox, which ultimately is a good thing from a data security perspective. I now use Nextcloud for access to my files as needed, which has replaced most of the Dropbox functionality (so far) and solely use Dropbox as an offsite backup my encrypted data .

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 02:20:26 +0000

In reply to Tim Henderson. Head to the shell, use the 'top' command to see which process rclone is running as and kill it using the kill command followed by the process number. E.g. 'kill '

By: Tim Henderson

Tim Henderson — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:43:25 +0000

In reply to Tim Henderson. However, being able to kill the service after it is running without having to reboot would be nice. In figuring out the right way I wanted to backup folders in DB I changed my mind a couple of times. Would be nice to kill the current running task without being an shell expert.

By: Tim Henderson

Tim Henderson — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 17:41:25 +0000

Works for me. I use the FNAS as my local storage device and it is great to finally have an easy way to push backup of my photos, videos, and important file to DB for that extra piece of mind.

By: Sirui

Sirui — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:54:06 +0000

That might work when you are looking solely to back up data, but it is not viable for syncing. The problem is that you don’t have real time syncs, but only prescheduled sync tasks. E.g. I have a push & pull at the same time for a folder. When I added a file in my freenas folder and let’s assume the pull task finishes before the push task, my file would just get deleted instead of it being copied to my dropbox.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 01:02:22 +0000

In reply to Wajahat. Pull would grab files from your Dropbox to your FreeNAS, if you are trying to move files off the FreeNAS to Dropbox you would need to set as Push.

By: Wajahat

Wajahat — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:51:31 +0000

I’ve followed all the steps and it connects but the file upload from freenas to dropbox is stuck at 0%.
Ive set it as PULL and Move so that the files are uploaded and deleted from freenas folder

By: Nathan Clendenin

Nathan Clendenin — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:24:43 +0000

I am hoping to see an implimentation of filtering – to eliminate .DS_STORE files that OS X creates, because right now those files throw an error from Dropbox, which prevents the sync. So if I remove a file from the server and there are .DS_STORE files, the file will remain on Dropbox. This is a hassle more than anything, but still.
Right not my work around is deleting the invisible files via Terminal, but with many directories, it takes a very long time to scan all the files.

By: Jens Olsson

Jens Olsson — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 19:21:41 +0000

I think this is awesome! To be able to have a local copy if disaster strikes.
The snapshot feature is also a great addition!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 03:55:44 +0000

In reply to Justin Sevakis. The Sync option should be the one your looking for. Syncs any changes - new files or deleted files between the two places.

By: Justin Sevakis

Justin Sevakis — Sat, 04 May 2019 03:22:08 +0000

Wait… So copying to and from Dropbox requires separate tasks, and deleting something in one place doesn’t delete in the other place? That’s… not a very good implementation. I hope we can do better than this in the future, because this is not really a usable solution for me.

By: Thorsten Behrens

Thorsten Behrens — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:53:59 +0000

This is truly ugly. I am looking forward to FreeNAS gaining the capability to act as the app – I think that’s called OAuth. Planned for 1.3? https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/64233
There is another way to do this, via rclone on FreeNAS and a second box with a web browser. That way, it’s not necessary to pretend to be an app developer.