Google drive / Backblaze

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Is there support for personal google drive for back ups?

On GPL s3 back ups, it says its for AWS but will it work for backblaze S3?

Thank you!

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No. In Pro, we support:

  • Amazon S3 and most compatible providers.
  • Rackspace Cloud Files
  • Google Cloud Storage (this is not the same as Drive)
  • Dropbox (this is the closest thing to Google Drive, I guess)
  • Backblaze
  • Azure Blob Storage

In GPL, I believe it’s just S3 (and most S3-compatible providers) and Rackspace Cloud Files.

Google Drive is not cost-effective for this kind of thing (Dropbox isn’t, either, but it was often requested…we probably should have skipped it, but at the time there weren’t so many competing options). Most of the cloud options will end up costing pennies on the dollar compared to Drive or Dropbox.

The S3 protocol has become sort of a de facto standard for cloud blob storage, so it’s supported by a bunch of providers now. I think that’s probably the way to go.

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Thank you joe,

I am not sure what to enter for the host name for backblaze

Thought i did everything correctly and i get this error.

" Warning! The AWS command is installed, but not working : An error occurred (InvalidAccessKeyId) when calling the ListBuckets operation: The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records."

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Actually Joe, $12 / month gets you 2Tb google drive (used to be unlimited only a year ago) and backups work perfectly. We use the handy “command to run after backup” in the scheduled backups and use rclone to seamlessly backup our “cloud” copy to google drive.

After you have rclone installed and the google drive client created (gdrive in example below) it’s as simple as adding in that command input something like the following:

rclone sync /your-local-backup-directory gdrive:/google-drive-backup-path/
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Man i tried rclone before and confused me so bad with google drive

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Its really pretty straight forward. They have exact config on their website I have always used.

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did you setup IAM user name

I notice they don’t use IAM roles, that could be the issue.

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Do you need to mount the google drive or the vps?

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I did not, thats probably my issue

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Did you create a key?

this might help on the hostname

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I did, Im going to try google drive with rclone

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  1. Install rclone on your system
  2. Follow the commands exactly as on the rclone link I posted to setup the rclone config
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