Move to Dropbox

1. Uploads all files from the mounted folder to dropbox
2. Removes the files after a successful upload

Ideal for back-ups.

Known limitations:

• Breaks when there are folders in your locally mounted folder (this is not supported)

Create your dropbox app

Creating your own dropbox app is required for this container to work.

• Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers
• Create a new app
• Make sure your app controls its own folder (not your entire dropbox)
• Make sure your app has read and write access
• Copy the DROPBOX_APP_KEY and DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN
• Generate a DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN:
  • Get your access token from (replace DROPBOX_APP_KEY) https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=DROPBOX_APP_KEY&token_access_type=offline&response_type=code
  • Authorize at the API to get a refresh token (replace BASIC_AUTH with your access token):

    curl --location --request POST 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token' \
    --header "Authorization: Basic BASIC_AUTH" \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    --data-urlencode "code=$ACCESS_CODE_GENERATED" \
    --data-urlencode 'grant_type=authorization_code'

  • Grab the refresh token from the response.

Environment variables

• DROPBOX_APP_KEY: create your own dropbox app to get this
• DROPBOX_APP_SECRET: create your own dropbox app to get this
• DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN: See the secton above
• Mount the folder (of which you want to move its files to dropbox) to /opt/dropbox-uploader/uploads/

Running locally

• run ./Taskfile in the project root
• Create file ./src/.env with the environment variables above.

Running with docker

Run the following docker command. In this example we mounted to ./backups folder.

docker run \
    --rm \
    --tty \
    --interactive \
    --volume ./backups:/opt/dropbox-uploader/uploads \
    --env DROPBOX_APP_KEY=redacted \
    --env DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=redacted \
    --env DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN=redacted \
    rickvdstaaij/move-to-dropbox:latest

Running with docker compose

Add this to docker-compose.yml, and run docker compose up. In this example we mounted to ./backups folder.

version: '3'

services:
  dropbox:
    image: rickvdstaaij/move-to-dropbox:latest
    container_name: dropbox-backup-upload
    environment:
      - DROPBOX_APP_KEY=redacted
      - DROPBOX_APP_SECRET=redacted
      - DROPBOX_REFRESH_TOKEN=redacted
    volumes:
      - ./backups:/opt/dropbox-uploader/uploads