Hi Mike,
If you've got access to a shell something like http://rclone.org/ should do
the trick. Basically rsync solves exactly this sort of problem.
Best regards,
Nick
On 27 January 2016 at 08:57, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Question: are any of you serving your (collection) images direct from
> Dropbox..?
>
> Or: do you have a nifty way of syncing between Dropbox and your web
> hosting? (Preferably a way which isn't "use sync software on my desktop"
> but something server-side which spots file changes and SSH's them up to
> hosting or similar)
>
> My assumption would be that direct serving is kind of risky - all it takes
> is someone to delete a file or Dropbox to get gnarly about their bandwidth
> limits or X other thing to change and your site is full of broken images.
> But I've yet to find a solid looking solution for the sync option, short of
> running GoodSync on my Mac - which is an obvious weakpoint in the chain..
>
> I want to leave Dropbox in the equation because it's so obviously a great
> way of people to digitise and share images internally. Just the web-side
> bit which is leaving me a bit stumped.
>
> Thoughts...?
>
> Mike
>
>
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