Backup scripts that work in conjunction with overGrive to perform Google Drive backups on a Raspberry Pi.
See this blog post for full details.
Basically this is two scripts:
- syncfiles.py -- syncs one directory to another
- archive.py -- archives a directory to a TGZ
How I'm using them:
- overGrive syncs Google Drive to a Raspberry Pi
- syncfiles.py runs hourly to copy the Google Drive files to another directory on the Raspberry Pi
- arhive.py runs nightly to retain a TGZ of the Google Drive backup
- Notifications on script activity are sent using Pushover
- Create a .env file in the root that has values for the settings outlined in the .envsample file
- Create a virtualenv for the project
pip install -r requirements.txt- Run the scripts manually, or configure to run via cron
- The sync script does a purge of the target directory, i.e. files that exist in target and not in source will be deleted when the sync runs
- Eliminate the dependency on overGrive and use the Google Drive API directly (though for the purposes of this project $5 was a cheap way to save quite a bit of time)