Dropbox

• dropbox.com is a US based commercial company.
• Any data saved via dropbox, are affected by US laws.

• At UZH, the recommended alternative to dropbox is Switchdrive: http://drive.switch.ch.

• Advantages of Switchdrive against dropbox:
  • Swiss data protection laws are respected.
  • Diskquota: 50GB.
  • All major OS are fully supported.

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• Applications > Internet > Dropbox

• Disk usage of Dropbox is separated from I-MATH home quota.

Linux client and ext4

• End of 2018, dropbox limits the linux client to only operate on ext4 filesystem - this is no option for the I-MATH infrastructure.

• To fulfil the requirements we've installed a workaround.
• Please follow the above instructions carefully, to get a running dropbox installation.

• If you run into trouble, please contact the IT-support