Dropbox Uploader Script stops when closing SSH client - Solution?

[michi84]

Because dropbox support seems to be broken in AiCloud, i have bee experimenting with Andrea Fabrizis dropbox uploader BASH script. I can get it to authenticate and run via SSH (Putty), it creates ist own Folder and Transfers data, but when i close Putty (because the whole point is to be able to do unattended uploads of large files without having to keep a Computer running) the script stops immediately.

Is this normal, or am i possibly missing something? Do i have to terminate the SSH session in a special way to keep the script running? Or is this something that needs to be adressed by the script author?

All i want to do is the following: Manually specify a Folder which should be uploaded to dropbox. Perhaps i have to set up a cron job to call the script at some specific time?

 

[jernau]

If you have entware/optware installed edit the services-start script in /jffs/scripts to include an additional line;

/path/to/your/scripts/myscript.sh

(you could do this by entering echo "/path/to/your/scripts/myscript.sh" >> /jffs/scripts/services-start via ssh)

or simply start the script via ssh and include an & at the end of the command to detach it from the running shell at execution eg;

/path/to/your/scripts/myscript.sh&

 

[Nullity]

Perhaps setup a cron job?

 

[michi84]

Thanks, setting up a cron job did the trick.

BTW, i get much more upload speed with the script than with AiCloud, which often dropped to almost zero every couple of minutes. Also, AiCloud did not accept files larger than 2 GB, now there seems to be no limit (testet it with one hour of DV-AVI Video, about 13 GB).