Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of your Dropbox account

Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by amelius on Saturday August 31, 2019 @07:12AM (#20845641)

Perhaps a better solution is to use cron to rsync the system files to somewhere in your Dropbox tree. That at least gives you a one-way backup of these files. And you probably don't want to write these files in the other direction.

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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by chongli on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:13AM (#20846084)

If you're going to use rsync anyway, you might as well ditch Dropbox and switch to a backup service that lets you rsync directly to the server. Using rsync locally into your own Dropbox folder means keeping two copies of everything, a practice that may be space-prohibitive.

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