zm2drive

A tool for archiving ZoneMinder events to Google Drive, written in Node.JS.

ZM events are zipped before uploading. Events that have already been uploaded are skipped.

Usage

usage: app.js [-h] --eventsDir DIR --clientSecret JSON_FILE [--tokenDir DIR]
              [--fromDate DATE] [--toDate DATE] [--targetDir REMOTE_DIR]

Run zm2drive --help more info.

Requirements

zip command-line tool

For reasons outlined below, you will need to have the zip command-line tool installed on your system.

Creating the Google Drive credentials

Follow Step 1 of the Google Drive Quickstart Guide.

Examples

Upload all events between the 12th and 13th of March, 2018, from ./zm_events, to a folder on Google Drive called ZmEvents.

$ zm2drive --eventsDir ./zm_events \
    --clientSecret client_secret.json \
    --tokenDir ./token \
    --targetDir ZmEvents \
    --fromDate 2018-03-12 \
    --toDate 2018-03-13

Notes

Use of zip command-line tool instead of archiver

In order to ensure that zip files give the same checksums when their contents are the same, we need to strip metadata. The zip command provides a -X/ --no-extra option for this. Unfortunately, the archiver library does not support this option. So for the time being we have to defer to the command-line zip tool.