Backs up your dropbox folder recursively and incrementally to a file named by the month and year. Meant to run as a cron job.

backUpDropbox.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Starting Dropbox Backup"
echo "-----------------------"
echo `date`

cd ~
mkdir -p "Dropbox Backups"

echo "Archiving './Dropbox' to 'DropBox Backups/Dropbox_YEAR-MM).zip'.."
echo ""

# add --encrypt to pwd protect
zip -r --update --test "Dropbox Backups/Dropbox_$(date +"%Y-%m").zip" ./Dropbox

echo ""
echo ""
echo "Done Archiving."
echo ""
echo "Printing all empty folders in the '~/Dropbox' which are empty and not in a hidden folder."
echo "Be on the lookout for new empty ones, means Dropbox may be messed up:"
find ~/Dropbox -type d -empty -not -path '*/\.*'
echo ""

echo "Total empty folders:"
find ~/Dropbox -type d -empty -not -path '*/\.*' | wc -l
# find ~/Dropbox -type d -empty -not -path '*/\.*' | tee >(wc -l)

echo ""
echo ""
echo ""