Sync Google drive or dropbox

[Zygizz]

Helllo ,

 

 in home using unraid with parity drive but i want to have extra defense incase terrible hard drive failure 

 

i want sync files with google drive or dropbox , but they dont support syncing network drives  any ideas how to make it work or different solutions? maybe trying different google drive client as insyc ?  ( but i dont if that sort of stuff is legit or not  ) 

 

Thanks in advance ^^ 

[dalekphalm]

2 hours ago, Zygizz said:

Helllo ,

 

 in home using unraid with parity drive but i want to have extra defense incase terrible hard drive failure 

 

i want sync files with google drive or dropbox , but they dont support syncing network drives  any ideas how to make it work or different solutions? maybe trying different google drive client as insyc ?  ( but i dont if that sort of stuff is legit or not  ) 

 

Thanks in advance ^^ 

If your NAS OS was Windows based, you could install the Google Drive client onto the host.

 

Alternatively, you could create a Windows VM, install Google Drive client, then use RSync to sync between your shared drive and the Google Drive "folder".

[jde3]

3 hours ago, Zygizz said:

Helllo ,

 

 in home using unraid with parity drive but i want to have extra defense incase terrible hard drive failure 

 

i want sync files with google drive or dropbox , but they dont support syncing network drives  any ideas how to make it work or different solutions? maybe trying different google drive client as insyc ?  ( but i dont if that sort of stuff is legit or not  ) 

 

Thanks in advance ^^ 

If you can mount them then you can just use rsync from cron.

Edit your crontab to something like..

@daily /usr/bin/rsync -a /source /dest

add -z to compress, add --delete to remove files at the destination that don't exist at the source. man rsync for more switches

 

Pretty sure Linux can mount dropbox and google drive from fuse so check for packages for that.

[Zygizz]

10 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

If your NAS OS was Windows based, you could install the Google Drive client onto the host.

 

Alternatively, you could create a Windows VM, install Google Drive client, then use RSync to sync between your shared drive and the Google Drive "folder".

Yes , i bit forgot to include it am using Windows Vm in my server for some applications, am gonna try out RSync 

[dalekphalm]

4 hours ago, Zygizz said:

Yes , i bit forgot to include it am using Windows Vm in my server for some applications, am gonna try out RSync 

For Windows, you'll have to use RoboCopy or XCopy, if you want to use first party utilities. I don't think Windows has native RSync support yet.

 

They're pretty similar, just different syntax.

[Zygizz]

On 2018-06-29 at 4:06 PM, dalekphalm said:

For Windows, you'll have to use RoboCopy or XCopy, if you want to use first party utilities. I don't think Windows has native RSync support yet.

 

They're pretty similar, just different syntax.

Thanks for replay , i was away for a while maybe you know some programs with gui interfaces?