Sync with Google drive

[lekkerlinux]

Is there no easy way to synchronize my documents folder(on my PC) with Google drive in Ubuntu?

As far as I know it only works on Windows and Mac.

 

[atanere]

This seems fairly current below, but I don't use it and can't comment as to its quality or usefulness.

https://linuxconfig.org/google-drive-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

Cheers

 

[lekkerlinux]

This seems fairly current below, but I don't use it and can't comment as to its quality or usefulness.

https://linuxconfig.org/google-drive-on-ubuntu-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

Cheers[/QUOTE

Thanks! I saw something like that, but that's the complicated way. I was just wondering if there is a simpler solution. I think maybe I can just upload the folder I want to back up say every two weeks to Google drive, after deleting the older version first.

 

[Rob]

I used to do this a while ago, then stopped one time when I installed a new distro. I totally forgot about it

I do remember there were some good options out there.. i think there's a super-easy one that unfortunately goes through a 3rd party company that i 'believe' charged for it.. I never looked into that option, but I do think there's a few ways to accomplish this.

I can't tonight, but maybe over the weekend i'll look into it again and see what I come up with.

Rob

 

[lekkerlinux]

Thanks Rob! The easiest way, would be to upload the documents folder on my PC to Google drive and delete it say every two weeks and upload it again to a more current version of my documents. It's mostly PDF files that reference reading kind of stuff.