dropbox team teamfolder replication

Copy an entire team folder with all contents to another team account for migration or backup (Experimental, and Irreversible operation)

Creates an exact duplicate of a team folder preserving structure, permissions, and content. Use for creating backups, setting up test environments, or preparing for major changes. Consider available storage and replication time for large folders.

Security

watermint toolbox stores credentials into the file system. That is located at below path:

Please do not share those files to anyone including Dropbox support. You can delete those files after use if you want to remove it. If you want to make sure removal of credentials, revoke application access from setting or the admin console.

Please see below help article for more detail:

• Dropbox for teams: https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/third-party/business-api#manage

Auth scopes

| Description | |————-|

Authorization

For the first run, tbx will ask you an authentication with your Dropbox account. Please copy the link and paste it into your browser. Then proceed to authorization. After authorization, Dropbox will show you an authorization code. Please copy that code and paste it to the application.

watermint toolbox xx.x.xxx
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Licensed under open source licenses. Use the `license` command for more detail.

1. Visit the URL for the auth dialogue:

https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&response_type=code&state=xxxxxxxx

2. Click 'Allow' (you might have to login first):
3. Copy the authorization code:
Enter the authorization code

Installation

Please download the pre-compiled binary from Latest Release. If you are using Windows, please download the zip file like tbx-xx.x.xxx-win.zip. Then, extract the archive and place tbx.exe on the Desktop folder. The watermint toolbox can run from any path in the system if allowed by the system. But the instruction samples are using the Desktop folder. Please replace the path if you placed the binary other than the Desktop folder.

Usage

This document uses the Desktop folder for command example.

Run

Windows:

cd $HOME\Desktop
.\tbx.exe dropbox team teamfolder replication -name NAME

macOS, Linux:

$HOME/Desktop/tbx dropbox team teamfolder replication -name NAME

Note for macOS Catalina 10.15 or above: macOS verifies Developer identity. Currently, tbx is not ready for it. Please select “Cancel” on the first dialogue. Then please proceed “System Preference”, then open “Security & Privacy”, select “General” tab. You may find the message like:

“tbx” was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.

And you may find the button “Allow Anyway”. Please hit the button with your risk. At second run, please hit button “Open” on the dialogue.

Options:

-dst-peer-name

Destination team account alias. Default: dst

-name

Team folder name

-src-peer-name

Source team account alias. Default: src

Common options:

-auth-database

Custom path to auth database (default: $HOME/.toolbox/secrets/secrets.db)

-auto-open

Auto open URL or artifact folder. Default: false

-bandwidth-kb

Bandwidth limit in K bytes per sec for upload/download content. 0 for unlimited. Default: 0

-budget-memory

Memory budget (limits some feature to reduce memory footprint). Options: low, normal. Default: normal

-budget-storage

Storage budget (limits logs or some feature to reduce storage usage). Options: low, normal, unlimited. Default: normal

-concurrency

Maximum concurrency for running operation. Default: Number of processors

-debug

Enable debug mode. Default: false

-experiment

Enable experimental feature(s).

-extra

Extra parameter file path

-lang

Display language. Options: auto, en, ja. Default: auto

-output

Output format (none/text/markdown/json). Options: text, markdown, json, none. Default: text

-output-filter

Output filter query (jq syntax). The output of the report is filtered using jq syntax. This option is only applied when the report is output as JSON.

-proxy

HTTP/HTTPS proxy (hostname:port). Please specify DIRECT if you want to skip setting proxy.

-quiet

Suppress non-error messages, and make output readable by a machine (JSON format). Default: false

-retain-job-data

Job data retain policy. Options: default, on_error, none. Default: default

-secure

Do not store tokens into a file. Default: false

-skip-logging

Skip logging in the local storage. Default: false

-verbose

Show current operations for more detail.. Default: false

-workspace

Workspace path

Results

Report file path will be displayed last line of the command line output. If you missed the command line output, please see path below. [job-id] will be the date/time of the run. Please see the latest job-id.

Report: verification

This report shows a difference between two folders. The command will generate a report in three different formats. verification.csv, verification.json, and verification.xlsx.

If you run with -budget-memory low option, the command will generate only JSON format report.

In case of a report becomes large, a report in .xlsx format will be split into several chunks like follows; verification_0000.xlsx, verification_0001.xlsx, verification_0002.xlsx, …