Erwin likes to put stuff in boxes for safekeeping and synchronisation across devices, using Google Drive as cloud storage service. He's both useless and useful, until you try him for the first time :).
Synopsis • Installation • Usage • Why Erwin • Compatibility • Contribute
Erwin is a cloud storage synchronisation service. Currently, it works with Google Drive and allows you to have a local mirror copy of the files stored on your Google Drive account.
There are some known restrictions at the moment. There is no support for Google Docs, which means that you won't see these files in your local copy. Furthermore, Google Drive allows for multiple files to have the same name within the same directory. Most local file systems don't allow for a similar thing, so Erwin will work as expected for you only if you make sure never to use the same name for files within the same folder.
Erwin can be installed directly from GitHub with
pip install git+https://github.com/P403n1x87/erwinOnce installed, Erwin can be launched with
erwin
On the first boot, you will be prompted to enter some configuration, like an
alias for your account, and the path where you want the files to be synchronised
locally (e.g. /home/gabriele/GoogleDrive).
It is recommended to wrap Erwin around a systemd (user) service for easy control and automatic startup on login (see, e.g., https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User for details).
Erwin is similar to other Google Drive solutions like google-drive-ocamlfuse, the main difference being that it behaves more like services such as Dropbox. Files are synchronised from the remote cloud storage to the local file system. This means that your files will be available even when you are offline. Any changes are pushed and pulled as soon as they are available and your system is connected to the public network.
Erwin has been tested with Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 18.04.
Any help with improving Erwin is very welcome :).