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		mostafah on Aug 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox Uploader: Bash script to upload, download,... This is the perfect tool for a simple and free backup solution for servers for configuration files, logs, and even encrypted database dumps.

thund on Aug 5, 2013 | [–]

in the free account files get deleted (see docs) so I would suggest not to use it as a backup system. Also, from same docs, the intended use is sending files, becareful with different use cases ;)

giulianob on Aug 5, 2013 | [–]

Just use S3 for that. There are simple command line tools available.

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