How to upload to Dropbox and overwrite a file Using CURL

Question

I'm a small time admin and would say entry level to Linux. I am trying to use CURL to upload to Dropbox a small backup sqlitedb and have had success for the first upload, however, I am trying to accomplish uploading a file to Dropbox every 30 minutes and overwriting the current file in DROPBOX with the new file from my Linux server (as a jerry-rigged offsite backup of my Teamspeak database)

This is the code I have so far :

--header "Authorization: Bearer <dropbox code here>" \

--header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/home/ec2-user/ts3server.sqlitedb.bz2\"}" \

--header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \

--data-binary ts3server.sqlitedb.bz2

After running that code once, it doesn't OVERRIDE the current file in my Dropbox account with the updated file. Any help is appreciated

Answer 1

You need to use mode with parameter overwrite. The default is add.

Add - Do not overwrite an existing file if there is a conflict. The autorename strategy is to append a number to the file name. For example, "document.txt" might become "document (2).txt".

overwrite - Always overwrite the existing file. The autorename strategy is the same as it is for add.

Reference: /upload

curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \

   --header "Authorization: Bearer " \

   --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/Homework/math/Matrices.txt\",\"mode\": \"overwrite\",\"autorename\": true,\"mute\": false}" \

   --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \

   --data-binary @local_file.txt

Comments

Thankyou so much. Its working for me and overwrites the existing file with same name everytime.