Simple directory to Google Drive Backup (SdtGDB)

Features

• This system will backup folders and upload them to Google Drive
• Every backup is encrypted using cryptify
• Backups can automatically done every hour

Should I use this?

Probably not tbh. It's quite complicated to set up, and the project only hase a very small and specific use-case. Why is it called "Simple.." if it's complicated to set up? ~ I am very glad you asked, it's because the code is quite simple and it took not a very long time to develop this "thing".

Installation

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/SCDerox/simple-directory-to-gdrive-backup.git
2. Install dependencies npm ci
3. Enabled the Google-Drive-API in your developer console, create and download the Oauth-Desktop-App-credentials and save them as credentials.json in the cloned directory.
4. Create a configuration-file called config.json in the cloned directory and change the configure parameters (explained below).
5. Then start the script as described below. The system should now ask you to follow a link and enter a token which goolge will issue you after finishing the authentication. Just follow the simple instructions in your console.

Start the system

• If you only want to back up once run npm start in the cloned directory
• To ensure that backups are performed hourly, I suggest to use pm2: pm2 start index.js

Configure

You can change these parameters in the config.json you created earlier.

• key: Password with which the ZIP should be encrypted
• prefix: Optional prefix which should be put before every filenname
• folderID: Your google-drive-folder-ID
• enabledHourlyUpload: If enabled the script will backup your files hourly
• limitHoursTo: Array of strings; Hours to limit the hourly upload to
• folders: Array of the following objects:
  • localFolder: Path to your local folder to back up
  • zipFolder: Path to the backuped folder inside the ZIP
• runCommandsBeforeExecution: Array of commands to run before execution (for example mysqldumpor something)

How do I decrypt the encrypted file?

You can simply use the cryptify -cli and remove the .crypt-extension from the filename.

Acknowledgements

The drive.js file is simply the module drive-upload, but I changed some things because it didn't always work on my system.