• Mount your box.net (box.com) account in linux

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    Rob
    Published on 01-13-2012 01:13 PM  Number of Views: 2236  
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    Box.net (box.com actually now) is a service that enables you to have a place to put files that you want to access from anywhere. Some people (ehem) use it to back up their workstations..

    Did your box.net mount start failing recently? They've changed a couple things.. use this guide to set it up again.

    First, install davfs
    Red Hat based:
    # yum install davfs2

    Debian based:
    # apt-get install davfs2

    Now, add the mount point:
    # mkdir /box

    Add this line to your /etc/fstab:
    Code:
    https://www.box.com/dav /box davfs rw,user,noauto 0 0
    Add this line to the bottom of the /etc/davfs2/secrets file (replace with your email address and password)
    Code:
    https://www.box.com/dav user@email.com password
    Edit the /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf
    Change:
    # use_locks 1
    to
    use_locks 0

    Now mount it!
    # mount /box

    Show that it's there with 'mount' or with 'df'

    Now.. rsync something to it. Here, i'm rsyncing a 1gb tgz file:
    Code:
    [root@station-222 home]# rsync -avz --progress rob-test.tgz /box/
sending incremental file list
rob-test.tgz
  1154875454 100%   61.06MB/s    0:00:18 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)
sent 1155263231 bytes  received 31 bytes  59244269.85 bytes/sec
total size is 1154875454  speedup is 1.00
[root@station-222 home]#
    It took hardly any time at all over a fios connection - 18 seconds @ 61mb/sec
    This article was originally published in forum thread: Mount your box.net (box.com) account in linux started by Rob View original post