Raspberry Pi | Setup gdrive to sync local folder to Google Drive

setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
# gdrive client: https://github.com/gdrive-org/gdrive
# inspired by https://github.com/gdrive-org/gdrive/issues/205#issuecomment-423759052

# Create directory ~/backups (must be empty at the beginning)
rm -rf ~/backups && mkdir ~/backups

# upload it the first time into a parent directory
# 1234 => id of the parent directory on google drive
# eg. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1234
./gdrive upload -p 1234 -r backups

# get the list of the last uploaded files and directories
gdrive list -m 1
# Id Name Type Size Created
# 45678 backups dir 2018-09-22 18:59:26

# copy the id from the previous command and start syncing
./gdrive sync upload --delete-extraneous ~/backups 45678
# Starting sync...
# Collecting local and remote file information...
# Found 0 local files and 0 remote files
# Sync finished in 6.312699642s

# get a list of all synced folders
gdrive sync list
# Id Name Created
# 45678 backups 2018-09-22 18:59:26

# see backup.sh for the next step: https://gist.github.com/natterstefan/45a79301937026d4df0e12b4a1095ea4