A simple script to backup files to Dropbox. Client installation not required.

To use the script first you should register a new app at dropbox.com [https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps](developer area), get Dropbox API key and secret values, and acquire an access token using gettoken.py script:

python getaccess.py <dropbox-api-key> <dropbox-api-secret>  <output-file-name>

This command will ask you to visit a confirmation URL, and create a file named according to <output-file-name> argument with the following lines:

1. Dropbox API key
2. Dropbox API secret
3. Access token key
4. Access token secret

python dbup.py <dropbox-tokens-file> /directory/to/backup <output-file-name>

Where <dropbox-tokens-file> is a path to dropbox.tokens from the first part, and the second argument is a path to the directory to zip and upload to Dropbox.

Dropbox API documentation example code was used gratefully.