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Method to push data to Google Drive
I just cancelled my SpeedyKVM DAL-STOR 1 service for$50/y after use promo code.
I have google drive account, and i like to backup my server to google drive, do you have experience backup your server to google drive. the other backup still on vps and only use rsync and auto mysqldump for database. so what your method to push data to google drive. thanks
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I use rclone and just recently started using Volumerize for my Docker volumes. Between the two, it keeps everything I need up to date. I do a lot of cross account sync that I have a few VPSs that run persistent syncs on as well.
rclone+1,very easy to use.
thanks, i'll check rclone at github for docs.
any alternative maybe i can check.
update: successfully push data, and can hit 300mbps at ovh.
just another question, is google drive will limit the transfer or not based on other experience. also, its really unlimited storage, i use my collage email for this account. thanks
Upload quota daily will be limited at 750GB. Reset after 24hrs. You can limited your upload at 8MB/s and forget until it's done
It has a 2 files/sec limit, and 750GB/day upload limit. It's really unlimited, but if your collage decides to delete it...
Better option is pay 10$/month for GSuite.
do you pay for Google Drive premium?
I wouldn't trust Google Drive for server backups. It has a nasty habit of just disappearing files it detects as malware. At the very least, I'd encrypt the files so GD can't scan them.
thanks for sharing you experience, i'll limit it on rclone when push data, i'll push weekly backup anyway.
i never had malware experience on DS and kvm vps, but sure if it on openvz and shared hosting, i have experience on openvz, that why im not place important data on openvz vps. and im not sharing any files on that anyway, its pure privately use for website backup, its still google scan file for malware?
I'm curious if you experience the deletions with a paid GSuite account or is that with the free account. I sometimes share malware samples on Google drive with colleagues and I don't remember running into deletions before.
I think they bill colleges, universities, etc. by the bulk, eventually, when you stop being a student, they'll delete your account, so the slot can be used for someone else.
PS: I remember when they forced me to reference my university mail in my thesis otherwise they won't let me graduate - dumbest decision in my life, because i knew the mail is theirs, not mine.
Sorry sounds weird Google drive offering unlimited storage?
This was on a paid standard Google Drive account, and the files weren't shared with anyone. Some of them really did contain malware, since they were backups of ancient virus and trojan samples. At least one file probably did not. I haven't tested this rigorously, but I've seen others report the same thing, so I'm loathe to trust GD too much.
Yes - with GSuite Business and Enterprise. It's unlimited per user.
https://gsuite.google.com/compare-editions/
Read the fine print: 1 TB per user if fewer than five users. I mean, still potentially useful, but it makes the minimum buy-in $50/month.
So I guess i'll add my $0.02
I have a backup process for my WordPress site - about 20-30 GB of object storage (wordpress media) gets rcloned to google drive every day - of course, rclone doesn't upload duplicates. on the 2nd of every month, the last months wp-content gets tar'd and rcloned, and this goes on...
On my other server, at 10 am (nominal timing when i dont get much visitors), the site goes down for maintainance and a mysql dump + file backup gets created.
The database is about 2 gb right now and the site itself is 20 gb (file based cache).
All of this is done daily using ansible tower
Yup - the product is targeted at businesses more than 5 users for the unlimited. It's not a bad deal. In an org with more than 5 users, it probably averages out which I'm guessing why Google can offer unlimited.
I had the impression that Tower was ridiculously expensive—I mean, priced for "enterprises" ahem… Is there an open source, cheap, and/or SaaS version I don't know about?
I've never tried it. But AWX (I.e. Ansible Tower) is open-source - You can find it on Github here - https://github.com/ansible/awx
Tower is free for upto 10 nodes, and AWX is it's upstream OSS counterpart. Feel free to work with either.
I prefer tower for the flexibility. I'm not that good with containers so i stay away from awx.
Nice. I will have to have a look at that somewhere down the road.
Can't contribute, but just want to say thanks for this thread as I have now set up rclone on a couple of VPS's to backup to a dormant google account I had, perfect.
That hasn't been enforced since the beginning. Even 1 user gets unlimited storage.
The limit isn't enforced.
Hmm… I have just the music collection to test that with…
do we need to have a premium account to do such a thing ?
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Wow first time I read that, curious.
Yes, the GSuite 10$/m plan.
Yup, it's been, what, 5 years now?
It's reasonably easy to deploy although they re-use a lot of the tower docs which was a bit confusing when needing a custom virtualenv (needs to be built in the task container and it looks like also the web container or the UI doesn't see it) since the docs don't take into account it being inside a container. (Or didn't at least when I last looked)