Backup your Dropbox share with bacula

I don't like cloud storage, especially I don't like Dropbox security history.
Anyway Dropbox and others cloud storage are damn cheap and easy to use, I use it for sharing non-important documents.

This little howto explain how you can backup your Dropbox share with Bacula.

First you must install Dropbox in your server:

• Download the python CLI script from here: wget https://linux.dropbox.com/packages/dropbox.py
• and install: LC_ALL=C python26 ./dropbox.py start -i
• run it: LC_ALL=C python26 ./dropbox.py start
• Now Dropbox start reply with a link:

To link this computer to a dropbox account, visit the following url:  

https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=4258saj1921sa123aa17329a12e3&cl=en_US  

• Copy and paste the in your browser and insert you DropBox credentials, after you can restart Dropbox.
  Dropbox will sync your storage with your ~/Dropbox folder. You can check the status with the command: LC_ALL=C python26 ./dropbox.py status *When your Dropbox folder is fully syncronized you can stop Dropbox LC_ALL=C python26 ./dropbox.py stop

This little script starts local dropbox sync process and check the status, the script exit with success if your Dropbox folder is in-sync, and with an error code you a timeout event is reached (configure maxwait and recheck variabales). You can use this script as Pre-client-script in your bacula job.

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#!/bin/bash

maxwait=20 #number of maximum re-check
recheck=2 #seconds between recheck
dropbox="python26 /root/dropbox.py"


do_ok(){
        $dropbox stop
        exit 0
}

cd ~
# start DR
export LC_ALL=C
$dropbox start


x=0
while [ $x -le $maxwait ]
do
        sleep $recheck
        status=$($dropbox filestatus Dropbox | cut -d \  -f2-)
        [ "$status" == "up to date" ] && do_ok
        x=$(( $x + 1 ))
        echo "Dropbox not updated.. ($x)"
done
echo "Timeout reached."
$dropbox stop
exit 255

Following the bacula configuration for this job: Job definition and FilSet:

FileSet {
  Name = "DropBox Full Set"
  Include {
    Options {
      signature = MD5
    }
    File = /root/Dropbox
  }
}

Job {
  Name = "BackupDropBox"
  Client = stoker-fd
  FileSet = "DropBox Full Set"
  JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
  RunScript {
    RunsWhen = Before
    FailJobOnError = Yes
    Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/sync-dropbox.sh"
  }
}