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John B.106's avatar
John B.106
New member | Level 1
10 years ago
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Uploading direct to Dropbox server via FTP

Is it possible to attain a server address in order to make a very large upload via FTP (40gb+)?

Thanks,

  • No, I'm afraid Dropbox does not support FTP or any method of uploading data other than via the clients, the website or the API (over HTTP/HTTPS).

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    Not sure if this does it but Mover.io lets you move between cloud solutions so they may have something. 

  • Michael B.74's avatar
    Michael B.74
    New member | Level 2

    You could set up a spare pc as a ftp server, you can do it with Filezylla. Then all you have to do is install the dropbox software and point both dropbox and Filezylla to the same folder

  • Evangelos B.'s avatar
    Evangelos B.
    New member | Level 2

    hi,

     

    are there some suggested ip cameras where they upload directly to dropbox with no DVR needed.

    i wanna buy 1TB in dropbox and what cameras let you assign the url to the cloud service and put your username - password  ?

    all commercial ones are locked on their cloud service only ..

     

    please help me here 

    thank you

     

  • Rick_M's avatar
    Rick_M
    Experienced | Level 13

    Evangelos,

    If you have a security camera that takes single frames then those can be put directly into your dropbox-folder.

    Be careful in choosing cameras because some will only store a stream as a single file and as long as frames arrive the file is open and DB cannot sync it until the file is closed.

     

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    i wanna buy 1TB in dropbox and what cameras let you assign the url to the cloud service and put your username - password  ?

    Dropbox will not work that way. The only way for a camera to support Dropbox directly is if the creator of the camera also developed their software to connect to Dropbox using the Dropbox API. There is no way to upload files to Dropbox simply by a link with username and password.

    (And before someone mentions it, File Requests do not work that way either.)

  • Alexander W.11's avatar
    Alexander W.11
    New member | Level 2

    Microsoft Flow can connect FTP -> Google Drive and then you can use IFTTT for example to run Drive -> Dropbox :)

  • Snahbah's avatar
    Snahbah
    Explorer | Level 3

    Hi, there is a way to do this using a program called Mountain Duck. It'll mount your Dropbox as if it was an external drive, however it'll run the transfers as FTP. Hope that helps :)

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