bernardjason/drivedog

a tool for Linux to provide something similar to Dropbox for GoogleDrive

drivedog, beta release!

DriveDog is a project I started Nov 2015 to use the 15gb free storage on GoogleDrive in a similar fashion to DropBox from my Linux box. I wanted to copy files to a directory as a backup mechanism and they appear on GoogleDrive. I also wanted to be able to view them via GoogleDrive gui as and when for reference. Same way I can for Dropbox.

Seemed easy enough but it was more invovled than I expected. This is the first version, I will be using it in anger myself as of 31st December 2015. Providing fixes when i find problems.

Renaming files from GoogleDrive browser gui being reflected on Linux DriveDog directory is still a TODO item. Other operations are supported.

What DriveDog does is create a directory $HOME/drivedog that will mirror your My Drive on GoogleDrive. It will add an icon to the status bar that has options to

• Do a full resync from GoogleDrive to Linux directory rather than changes since last run. normally DriveDog uses a marker file called .drivedog_ to keep track of changes so that it can try and do the minimum work required. This option will remove this file so that DriveDog checks everything.
• Pause DriveDog stop what its doing.
• Display a list of recent changes A popup gui showing recent pulls and pushes
• Basic help

If running for the first time, run at the command line so that you can authorise on Google permission for DriveDog

java -jar target/scala-2.11/drivedog-assembly-0.1.jar

you will get this like message

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=669332608425-qnjtmnuu275n2ugcb0lklv3e5d6fgo4p.apps.googleusercont..........

use this link to grant permission for drivedog to upload and download files. This is the same granting as other applications wishing to use GoogleDrive must do.

##Running after this I copied target/scala-2.11/drivedog-assembly-0.1.jar to $HOME/bin

Added this entry to my .bash_profile

nohup java -jar $HOME/bin/drivedog-assembly-0.1.jar

Also worth adding this to your environment to ignore hidden .drivedog files on file complete

export FIGNORE=.drivedog

##Building

sbt assembly

will skip unit tests as assembly.sbt contains

test in assembly := {}

and will create drivedog/target/scala-2.11/drivedog-assembly-0.1.jar

to run tests

sbt test

##File Conflicts Conflicts happen when both the local linux drive copy of a file in $HOME/drivedog has been edited and the same file on Google Drive has been edited. DriveDog doesn't know which one to keep.

###Resolve conflict, keep file copy on google drive

remove the file on local storage and the conflict indicator file. For example rm football.txt rm .drivedog/.football.txt.conflict

###Resolve conflict, keep local file edit on Linux

Go to Google Drive and remove the file to the bin, then remove the conflict indicator, e.g. rm .drivedog/.football.txt.conflict

if you remove the file permanently then DriveDog will delete the file locally.

drivedog's Issues

network errors pop up a warning box

occasional network error when waking up from hibernate or minor network outage should be silently ignored unless they repeat themselves

logs are very verbose

perhaps less logging or rollover logs more frequently