Dropbox: How to backup other folders than the default Dropbox

I recently tested a couple of online backup solutions and one of them was Dropbox.

If you know the system, you know also that Dropbox requires the user to choose a folder which will be synchronized in the cloud.

That folder is called “Dropbox” and can’t be changed.

I wanted to backup a couple of folders which I have on my Truecrypt partition but I didn’t want to move them in the Dropbox folder in order to be synchronized with the cloud. For that, I created symlinks with the “mklink” command:

cd t:SDropbox

mklink /D name directory_source

 

My Truecrypt partition is called T and in it are folders S together with folders P and N which I wanted to backup.

I added the symlinks to P and N in the folder S.

mklink /D P t:P

mklink /D N t:N

Dropbox sensed that immediately and started to synchronize.

So far so good…

There is a catch:

If you sync another computer with the same Dropbox account, you will have the problem that the folders N and P appear to be in folder S. You can change this by selecting what to synchronized in Dropbox.

 

© Copyright 2012 Sorin Mustaca, All rights Reserved. Written For: Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity

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