Uploading tar files to dropbox

[charmaex]

I'm trying to upload tar files to the dropbox using this:

get_client().put_file(path_for_tar_in_db, see_below ,True)

I tried so far:

see_below = open(path,'r')
see_below = path
see_below = tarfile.open(path,'r')

Nothing helped so far.
First one makes corrupted files.
Second creates txt files.
And last one just errors.

Can somebody please help me? :)

[JonB]

try open (path,'rb').

[charmaex]

Sadly it isn't working. Still getting a ReadError :-/

[ccc]

You wrote:

get_client().put_file(path_for_tar_in_db, see_below, True)

but perhaps it should be:

get_client().put_file(path_for_tar_in_db, see_below, overwrite=True)

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This self-archiving code works for me: tarball_to_dropbox.py

Running this puts a copy of the current script at the root of a new local .tar file and then pushes that .tar file up to Dropbox. After I run this I can open a terminal on my Mac and:

$ tar -tvf ~/Dropbox/my_archive.tar

-rw-r--r-- 0 501 501 5276 Jun 6 15:09 tarball_to_dropbox.py

$ tar -xvf ~/Dropbox/my_archive.tar

x tar_to_dropbox.py

$ cat tarball_to_dropbox.py

[ ... ]

[omz]

Could it be that you didn't close the tar file after writing to it? That might explain the corrupted file.

[charmaex]

Thank you ccc I changed the upload to the way you wrote it and the upload seems to work fine now.

Still getting ReadError when downloading the files like this:

download_file(s[0], ziel)
tarfile.open(ziel, 'r:*').extractall('')

The file appears within the folder still not able to untar.

[ccc]

Here is the other half of the puzzle. It does roughly the opposite of the script above. It reads the tar file from Dropbox and writes a local copy. It then does a tar extractall on that local copy to recreate the original script (!! It will overwrite !!)

tarball_from_dropbox.py

[charmaex]

Thank you all!
cccs solution works fine :)

[ccc]

@charmaex, if it works for you the star my repo.