If you're going to use rsync anyway, you might as well ditch Dropbox and switch to a backup service that lets you rsync directly to the server. Using rsync loca

If you're going to use rsync anyway, you might as well ditch Dropbox and switch to a backup service that lets you rsync directly to the server. Using rsync locally into your own Dropbox folder means keeping two copies of everything, a practice that may be space-prohibitive.