How to sync files with Dropbox and FreeNAS in your SmartHome

If you are like me, you don’t have just one cloud storage account. The trick is remember where the files are stored if you don’t have access to your Dropbox account. With Cloud Sync and FreeNAS, you now have an option of having a local copy of what is in your Dropbox account.

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - What we will be covering in this video 1:14 - Creating Login Credentials for Dropbox 2:14 - Verify Dropbox login credential 2:37 - Verify directory created on FreeNAS for Dropbox files to be stored in 3:06 - Create Dropbox cloud sync task 6:13 - Manual start of Dropbox Cloud sync task 7:18 - Verifying system load with NetData

System - Cloud Credentials Click Add Enter name for this cloud config Select Dropbox Click on Login to Provider Click on Proceed Enter Dropbox credentials if prompted Click on Allow

Remaining fields should now be filled in Click on Verify Credentials just to make sure that everything populated correctly

Click on Save

Tasks - Cloud Sync Tasks Click on Add Enter name for description of task Set direction to Pull Click on Credential Select Credential for this task Select Directory for files to be placed in Click on Save

Go back into sync task and click on Run now if you want it to start copying files from Dropbox Watch directory on FreeNAS and you should start seeing files show up shortly

To see detail on what is being copied, Go to shell option in GUI or SSH to FreeNAS Cd /tmp/middlewared/jobs Do a ls -all to see all files in the directory

Cat name_of_log.log | more

This will give you the details of each configured cloud sync task

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