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by heroprotagonist 4305 days ago
What were your difficulties with other storage?

S3 is as easy as:

s3cmd put FILE [FILE...] s3://BUCKET[/PREFIX]

Dropbox is automatic, just move a file to a local directory. They have CLI tools, though. If you want the public url, it's just:

$ ~/bin/dropbox.py puburl ~/Dropbox/Public/file.zip

If you don't want dropbox running all of the time, just use the 'start' and 'stop' arguments to dropbox.py.

References: http://s3tools.org/usage

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/using-the-officia...

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There were 2 issues, one copying the script onto every machine and the second one related to login credentials. Some scripts needed an authentication file and others need it on prompt. Unfortunately keys(both S3 and dropbox) are not handy all the times.