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04-13-2012, 09:57 PM
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Question Dropbox
I haven't earned a free VPS yet, and this post isn't spamming to get more points. I'm just looking to know if you can run dropbox on the VPS servers for easily transferring files. I'm planning to run a minecraft server and I would use dropbox to transfer the game files from the VPS to my computer and back.

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04-13-2012, 11:30 PM
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RE: Dropbox
I used to use DropBox but I am using SpiderOak now.
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04-14-2012, 01:33 AM
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RE: Dropbox
Check out this link to install Dropbox on Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx

But, if you just want to transfer files from the VPS to your computer, you could just do that with SFTP.
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04-14-2012, 01:35 AM
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RE: Dropbox
Quote:But, if you just want to transfer files from the VPS to your computer, you could just do that with SFTP.
I wonder why SFTP is really slow for me but normal FTP is very fast.
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04-14-2012, 01:35 AM
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RE: Dropbox
(04-13-2012 11:30 PM)aatish910 Wrote:  I used to use DropBox but I am using SpiderOak now.

I'll give SpiderOak a try, I've never heard of it before so I will have to give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

How would you get such programs to work with no GUI?

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04-14-2012, 01:38 AM (This post was last modified: 04-14-2012 01:38 AM by aatish910.)
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RE: Dropbox
Quote:How would you get such programs to work with no GUI?
https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/67/h...mmandline/
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04-14-2012, 01:38 AM
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RE: Dropbox
(04-14-2012 01:35 AM)aatish910 Wrote:  
Quote:But, if you just want to transfer files from the VPS to your computer, you could just do that with SFTP.
I wonder why SFTP is really slow for me but normal FTP is very fast.

I think this is because SFTP is Secure and secure connections are generally slower. FTP is unencrypted so it can go like lightling Smile
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04-14-2012, 01:40 AM
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RE: Dropbox
I use FTP over TLS but it is really faster than SFTP.
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04-14-2012, 01:40 AM
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RE: Dropbox
(04-14-2012 01:35 AM)aatish910 Wrote:  
Quote:But, if you just want to transfer files from the VPS to your computer, you could just do that with SFTP.
I wonder why SFTP is really slow for me but normal FTP is very fast.
Hm, SFTP is just as fast a normal FTP for me Tongue

(04-14-2012 01:35 AM)cwilkinson1998 Wrote:  
(04-13-2012 11:30 PM)aatish910 Wrote:  I used to use DropBox but I am using SpiderOak now.
I'll give SpiderOak a try, I've never heard of it before so I will have to give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

How would you get such programs to work with no GUI?
You just use the command line Smile
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04-14-2012, 01:49 AM
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RE: Dropbox
Thanks for the replies everyone, I think I have file managing sussed for VPS. If there was a thanks button I would click it. Smile
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