From TEIDESAT Project and Hyperspace Canarias
GDrive-Backup is an small python application designed to maintain a local backup copy of the Google Drive cloud files.
Files are downloaded into a local backup folder. Each time the application is re-run the local backup folder gets incrementally updated with changes. Old files, deleted or modified, are moved into a revisions folder. Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations and other Google files are exported as pdf (files bigger than ~10MB can't be exported using the API, so they are exported using the export url).
The credentials.json file from a Google Cloud Platform project is needed (an empty example
is provided in credentials_user.json) which is used to access the API service. Change any options
in the configuration file:
{
"root_folder": "HyperSpace",
"backup_dir": "../backup",
"revisions_dir": "../revisions",
"tree_pickle": "../saves/tree.pickle",
"token_pickle": "../token/token.pickle",
"credentials": "../token/credentials_teidesat00.json",
"scopes": ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.readonly"]
}Note that modifying the files when the backup update is taking place may result in multiple file errors.
Task scheduler example command for windows: powershell.exe -windowstyle minimized -c python -u "C:\...\GDrive-Backup\src\run_backup.py" | Tee-Object "../saves/log.txt" -Append
- Python modules
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib