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#19331 Indirect backup to Google Drive ?

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Latest post by tampe125 on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:18 CST

Tuesday, 25 February 2014 15:11 CST

user83008
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Description of my issue: I know that I can't DIRECTLY backup to my Google DRIVE. My question is can I do a 'local' backup and have Akeeba trigger a script when it is done to copy/move the backup file to my Gdrive thus giving me a safe, off-server, backup file that 'indirectly' uses my Gdrive for storage? I am not a PHP or linux person, and I don't know if Akeeba has any built-in abilities to trigger scripts when finished with a backup.

There was an article that mention a PHP script 'cp2google' but lots of people confuse Google-drive with Google-storage so I am not sure if it is appropriate or not....

Thanks for being patient with a beginner with an idea of how to do something that seems to be hard to do without spending more money and creating even more accounts....

Wednesday, 26 February 2014 03:24 CST

tampe125
Hello,

I strongly suggest you to make your life easier: there are a lot of remote storage engines that offer free space.
Just think about Dropbox, Amazon, Box.com etc etc

At the moment there isn't any "hook" after completing the script: the only thing you could do is to setup a cron job for the backup, then after an hour or so (to be sure that the backup completed) run another CRON script to upload the files to Google Drive.

However, since you claim you're not a "script-guy" I'd suggest you to use the options that are available out of the box.

Davide Tampellini

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Wednesday, 26 February 2014 06:19 CST

user83008
Thanks. I did end up going with some Google cloud storage. Already had a Google account, just wish there was a way to link the Google cloud with the Google drive, but that's not an Akeeba issue.

Thanks again for the response.

Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:18 CST

tampe125
Can I suggest you to take a look at StorageMadeEasy?
You can configure several different storage engines and access them all from a single interface.
I don't know if it's what you were looking for, but maybe you can take a look at it.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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