I tested something at a smaller scale. My use case was to back up some application data which I had compressed into a tar.gz and passed through gpg to encrypt it as it was somewhat sensitive data.
However, I was able to follow the directions at rclone (https://rclone.org/drive/) and get Oath working in an interactive session and mount my google drive to my local filesystem. This means a simple cp or mv (or rsync if you're so inclined) will write a file to your google drive.
Downsides I can see:
- your "write" to google drive is, of course limited by your upload speed
- I so far only enabled the logged in session mode of rclone. There is a service account method which should allow the connection without an active session
Because I haven't used it much, I can't say much about stability other than that the rclone service can get in a stuck state if the network connection gets interrupted (I did something stupid and can't remember exactly what). The google drive was simultaneously reported as not unmounted, not able to be used, and not able to be remounted. I eventually resorted to a reboot to clear it up.
I have not searched for commercial products, though I would think that any cloud backup service that offers a linux client could be a candidate, provided that they don't limit the uploads too much to be useful.
However, I was able to follow the directions at rclone (https://rclone.org/drive/) and get Oath working in an interactive session and mount my google drive to my local filesystem. This means a simple cp or mv (or rsync if you're so inclined) will write a file to your google drive.
Downsides I can see:
- your "write" to google drive is, of course limited by your upload speed
- I so far only enabled the logged in session mode of rclone. There is a service account method which should allow the connection without an active session
Because I haven't used it much, I can't say much about stability other than that the rclone service can get in a stuck state if the network connection gets interrupted (I did something stupid and can't remember exactly what). The google drive was simultaneously reported as not unmounted, not able to be used, and not able to be remounted. I eventually resorted to a reboot to clear it up.
I have not searched for commercial products, though I would think that any cloud backup service that offers a linux client could be a candidate, provided that they don't limit the uploads too much to be useful.
Statistics: Posted by buffalobill — Sat May 18, 2024 3:07 am