gdrivebackup

Backup scripts that work in conjunction with overGrive to perform Google Drive backups on a Raspberry Pi.

Overview

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

Configuration and Usage

• 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

Caveats

• 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

Future Ideas

• 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)