DriveSync

DriveSync is a tool for uploading local contents to your Google Drive. Written in Golang with support for gccgo-6, DriveSync aims to support for a wide range of Unix-like distributions. Tested platforms include:

• macOS High Sierra with go 1.9
• Gentoo Linux on SPARC with gccgo-6 and gccgo-7

Further tests on other platforms are welcomed.

DriveSync was created to solve the nuisance of uploading BitTorrent downloads to Google Drive automatically. More using scenarios await your discovery!

Install

Export GOPATH and run the following (same for updating):

go get -u -v github.com/KireinaHoro/DriveSync/...

Don't forget the three dots (...) at the end of the above command. It's recommended to add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH so that you can access the executables easily.

Directory structure that DriveSync maintains

[Google Drive Root]
├── archive-root/
|   ├── Music/
|   |   ├── My Great Record/
|   |   |   ├── track01.flac
|   |   |   ├── track02.flac
|   |   |   └── ...
|   |   ├── My Great Single.flac
|   |   └── ...
|   ├── Software
|   |   ├── Install panicOS Low Sierra.app.tar.gz
|   |   ├── My Awesome Tools
|   |   |   ├── busybox.tar.gz
|   |   |   ├── bash.tar.gz
|   |   |   └── ...
|   |   └── ...
|   └── ...
├── Your Other Awesome Folders
|   └── ...
└── ...

How it works

DriveSync has two commandline tools available:

• drivesync works in an one-shot manner, while
• drivesyncd forks into the background, scaning a target directory at given frequency

They sync files on your local system to your Google Drive, under /${ARCHIVE_ROOT}/${DEFAULT_CATEGORY}. Both commands have commandline options available. Invoke with -h to find out how to use them.

Though DriveSync requires that you provide it with a category (either fixed-default or provided every time on commandline) for now, support for guessing the most appropriate category according to the object basename is planned. You can learn more about this here. Pull requests are welcomed.

Usage & configuration

First of all, obtain your own client secret for DriveSync to run. You can obtain your own client_secret.json here.

After you've obtained your client secret, launch drivesync with -interactive to set up the configuration files and credentials. Note: you need to do this for every user you intend to use the tool with. Edit the configuration file according to your needs.

Configuration file

Both of the commands read configurations from a JSON file present at:

• ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config"}/drivesync/config.json
• /etc/drivesync/config.json

If the command fails to locate a valid configuration, it will create a sample one with the default values filled in. The configuration items are explained below.

var DefaultConfig = map[string]interface{}{
	"archive-root":        "archive",                           // the name of the archive root
	"client-secret-path":  "${CONFIG_ROOT}/client_secret.json", // path of client_secret.json
	"create-missing":      false,                               // whether to create missing archive roots or categories
	"default-category":    "Uncategorized",                     // the default category to store content in
	"force-recheck":       true,                                // whether to check if MD5 of local and remote versions of file matches
	"log-file":            "${LOG_ROOT}/drivesyncd.log",        // location of log file
	"pid-file":            "${RUN_ROOT}/drivesyncd.pid",        // location of pid file
	"proxy-url":           "",                                  // http proxy url
	"retry-ratio":         2,                                   // ratio of expotential backoff each time a retry is triggered
	"retry-starting-rate": 1,                                   // starting rate to wait for when retry occurs
	"scan-interval":       "100ms",                             // interval to wait for when scanning for target change
	"target":              "",                                  // path of target directory to be scanned for new objects
	"use-proxy":           false,                               // whether to use proxy for connection
	"verbose":             true,                                // whether to write logs and outputs verbosely
}

In the above default config,

• CONFIG_ROOT will be expanded with /etc/drivesync if the user invoking the command to create the config file is root, or ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-"$HOME/.config"}/drivesync otherwise;
• LOG_ROOT will be /var/log and RUN_ROOT will be /var/run if invoked as root, or both will be ${HOME}/drivesync otherwise.

NOTE: for ease of use, DriveSync will fall back to the permissive path listed above if the one configured in config.json is not available for writing for the caller. This behavior is for scenarios of users trying to launch drivesync or their own instance of drivesyncd without a user-specific config.json, which, if without this behavior, would fail due to missing permissions to write to system paths.

You can reload the configuration file for a running drivesyncd with:

drivesyncd -s reload

...or send SIGHUP to it. SIGTERM and SIGQUIT can also be sent via the -s switch. Use drivesyncd -h to find out more.

NOTE: due to limitations of the watcher API, target and scan-interval options won't get reloaded with a configuration file reload. You'll need to restart the daemon to reload these options.

License

DriveSync is licensed under AGPLv3. The full license text is available in the repository root, named LICENSE-AGPLv3.txt .

Donations

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