How to automatically sync network folder and local folder in Ubuntu 16.04?
I am trying to sync between my local folder(say on Desktop) and google drive. I followed this tutorial "Easily Mount Google Drive" and was able to access google drive from nautilus(from the explorer window). Now I can drag and drop folders from anywhere onto this window and it uploads them to Google drive, which is nice, but I want to automate this process so that say a folder on my desktop keeps getting synced every week or so.
How do I go about doing this? I heard about cron job or something, but I am unable to access this google drive folder(which appears in nautilus manager) through command line itself to begin with.
31 Answer
Consider drive.
It is a free, open source command line utility that can copy files and folders to (push) and from(pull) a Google Drive. The usage is quite extensive, and with some wise parameter choices I suppose a complete sync job could be made.
It uses an initial drive init command to ask for your Google user's permissions in a web browser. However, it can also run with an OAuth2 service credentials file instead.
