Whitelist for Dropbox CLI selective sync + backup script + DockerCloud stackfile

backup.sh

#!/bin/sh

echo "Backing up data folders"

for i in *; do
  echo "Archiving $i to .dropbox/data/Tutum/$i.tar.gz ..."
  tar -cf - "$i" | gzip -9 - > ".dropbox/data/Tutum/$i.tar.gz"
done

echo "Done"

stackfile.yml

cron:
  environment:
    - 'CRON_ENTRY=0 0 * * * cd /opt/tutum && ./.backup.sh'
  image: 'lodatol/cron:latest'
  restart: on-failure
  volumes:
    - '/mnt/data:/opt/tutum'
dropbox:
  entrypoint: |
    bash -c 'bash -s <<EOF
    trap "break;exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
    /root/dbox_whitelist.sh &
    /root/run
    EOF'
  image: 'janeczku/dropbox:latest'
  restart: on-failure
  volumes:
    - '/mnt/data/.dropbox/config:/dbox/.dropbox'
    - '/mnt/data/.dropbox/data:/dbox/Dropbox'
    - '/mnt/data/.dropbox/whitelist.sh:/root/dbox_whitelist.sh:ro'

whitelist.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "whitelist script init"

while :; do
  sleep 10 # check every 10 seconds

  EXCLUSIONS="" # this will contain the files/folders to be excluded
  WHITELIST="Folder1;Folder2/Folder3;File1" # files and folders you wish to whitelist

  for f in *; do
    OLDIFS="$IFS"
    export IFS=";"
    
    for w in $WHITELIST; do
      if [ "$f" != "$w" ]; then
        dropbox exclude add "$e"
      fi
    done

    export IFS="$OLDIFS"
  done
done