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21 days agoThat number seems very low compared to Discords users, my guess is, that those are the photos of not yet verified accounts. Contrary to some commenters speculating that they lied in their FAQ. On another note: You can think of Discord what you want, but your politicians mandated age verification, not them. Direct your anger/outrage/whatver at them.
All the important login information should just be present somewhere in your home folder. If you back that up and restore it later you should be fine, no need to save the dropbox binary.
If that is no option and you only want to back up dropbox files and nothing else follow the instructions below (I can’t guarantee that they will work, but they should):
Look at the documentation for dropbox to see which files are relevant and need backing up. Its the Dropbox folder with all the files, but will probably be some folders/files in your $HOME too, which store login information. Lets hope that they don’t store some metadata there that will invalidate the config if it’s running on a different machine (to prevent what you are trying to do).
If there is no documentation, you can stop dropbox completely. Look for dropbox processes that don’t get stopped when you stop the GUI with something like
pgrep -f -i dropbox.Once you are sure all dropbox processes are stopped run
inotifywait -r -m ~. That command wont exit unless you stop it by issuing ^C. It will list all filesystem events in your home directory. Now start dropbox and see which files it accesses, those are the files you need to back up. It will probably be one or more whole directories in~/.configand~/.local.Add those files to a tar archive using something like this:
tar cvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz [list of folders...]. Savre the resulting tar file somewhere else, reinstall and extract it usingtar xvJf dropbox_config.tar.xz. Take care to run those commands from the same directory.References