Garagiste

This project aims at creating a tool that properly backups the content of a Google Drive folder.

Context

Tools to backup Google Drive exist, but for GDoc and GSpreadSheet documents, they create links to be opened in the browser (maybe backup and sync change that, haven't tried).

Also, these tools usually don't work on Linux...

Goals

• Create a git-versioned backup of a Google Drive folder that properly backups all useful content

Non-goals

• Making a full-featured sync tool

Install

• Create a Google Project
• Activate the "Google Drive API" for this project
• Create "web application" credentials allowing http://localhost/ as redirect URL
• Download the corresponding JSON file credentials and rename it as client_secret.json

Run

(remove any existing drive-nodejs-quickstart.json file if any)

npx github:dtc-innovation/garagiste

## The first time
# This tells you to go to a page starting with `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
# ... which redirects to http://localhost/?code=SOME_CODE
# Take SOME_CODE and feed it to the command line

## All the time
# Provide the Google Drive directory id to backup

This will backup the Google Drive directory to a tmp directory at the root of this project