On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 01:11:43PM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> On 2017-11-07 11:55, Ned Danieley wrote:
> >
> >we use a dropbox business account to archive our data, and I was interested
> >in trying to use amvault to transfer my amanda backups there. however, it
> >seems that there is a fair amount of work that would have to be done to the
> >code base to make that happen, work that is probably beyond my ability.
> >
> >are any plans to include dropbox access in future versions?
> >
> You can do this already without needing any new code.  Just
> configure a virtual tape library inside a Dropbox synced directory,
> set that as a vaulting location, and recursively add the necessary
> read permissions to the directory after each amvault run.

I guess that would work, although I'd have to set up selective sync so I
could remove the files locally without removing them from dropbox. thanks
for the suggestion; I'll give it a try.

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Ned Danieley ([email protected])
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Box 90281, Duke University
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