sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa
sudo apt update && sudo apt install google-drive-ocamlfuse
google-drive-ocamlfuse
mkdir ~/googledrive
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive
after you finished, disconnect the google drive
fusermount -u ~/google-drive
Now this is the real thing, how to backup your googledrive to your linux pc
- I create a script to connect the google drive, sync it to my linux pc and disconnected it
google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/googledrive cd googledrive ./dobackup cd .. ./putusgoogle
- first is mounting the googledrive to my googledrive folder using google-drive-ocamlfuse
- go to googledrive folder and execute ./dobackup
- below is dobackup script
rsync -arvz --exclude-from=/home/ronny/backupgdrive/exclude.txt --log-file=rsync-`date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S'`.log --no-perms --no-owner --no-group --delete --progress * ~/backupgdrive/backup/
- dobackup script is sync the data from cloud to your PC’s
- after finished, do disconnected the google drive using this ./putusgoogle script below
sudo fusermount -u ~/googledrive