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Is there any way I can copy data directly from the Dropbox servers to a UNIX server, without being root or having Dropbox software installed there?
Something like:
rsync -aP myusername@dropbox.com:somepath/ .
(The reason for wanting to do this is that the transfer speed between the UNIX server and the Dropbox server would be much faster since they are both on the backbone, than between my local machine and the UNIX server, which have a home broadband connection).
I don’t believe you have SSH access to the Dropbox server. Think about it, that would mean the Dropbox server would have thousands if not millions of SSH accounts, just in the chance that a user would use it. Additionally, a default Unix user has access to read so much of the Unix OS and restricting it to just a few commands is somewhat of a big deal. Imagine if your Unix user was somehow able to see the data of another Unix user including their Dropbox data. Good idea though.
Edit: capitalization.