rClone script to backup files to google drive. You need to have rclone installed in your server (https://rclone.org/install/). After installing an rclone configure Google Drive (https://rclone.org/drive/). You can call this script from Linux crontab

rClone script to backup files to google drive

#!/bin/bash

##############################################################################
# An rclone bash script to backup files by Anuj Subedi ([email protected]).
# 
# Copyright (C) 2020 Anuj Subedi <[email protected]>
#
# This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
# https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#
# Runs the 'rclone sync' command.  Designed to be used as a cron job.
#
# 1) Backup Source
#    In our case backup source is dir /home/backup/
#
# 2) Backup Destination
#    This particulat script sync datas to Google Drive
# 
# 3) Logs:
#    Logs can be found in this dir /home/sysadmin/backup/logs/
#   
##############################################################################

# rclone source to sync

SRC_DIR='/home/backup'

# rclone remote storage

REMOTE_PATH='GoogleDrive:Server/Backup'

# rclone sync log path 

RCLONE_LOG='/home/sysadmin/backup/logs/rclone-sync-gdrive-daily.log'


###################################################
## 
## Let's run the sync command here 
##
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/usr/bin/rclone sync $SRC_DIR $REMOTE_PATH --log-file=$RCLONE_LOG --log-level INFO --transfers=3

# Once job is done, Exit the script 

exit