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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from October 2018</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from October 2018</description>
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  10                 <title>Automatic Google Drive sync using grive in Debian</title>
  11                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatic_Google_Drive_sync_using_grive_in_Debian.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 4 Oct 2018 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days, I rescued a Windows victim over to Debian.  To try to
  15 rescue the remains, I helped set up automatic sync with Google Drive.
  16 I did not find any sensible Debian package handling this
  17 automatically, so I rebuild the grive2 source from
  18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webupd8.org/&quot;&gt;the Ubuntu UPD8 PPA&lt;/a&gt; to do the
  19 task and added a autostart desktop entry and a small shell script to
  20 run in the background while the user is logged in to do the sync.
  21 Here is a sketch of the setup for future reference.&lt;/p&gt;
  22
  23 &lt;p&gt;I first created &lt;tt&gt;~/googledrive&lt;/tt&gt;, entered the directory and
  24 ran &#39;&lt;tt&gt;grive -a&lt;/tt&gt;&#39; to authenticate the machine/user.  Next, I
  25 created a autostart hook in &lt;tt&gt;~/.config/autostart/grive.desktop&lt;/tt&gt;
  26 to start the sync when the user log in:&lt;/p&gt;
  27
  28 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  29 [Desktop Entry]
  30 Name=Google drive autosync
  31 Type=Application
  32 Exec=/home/user/bin/grive-sync
  33 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  34
  35 &lt;p&gt;Finally, I wrote the &lt;tt&gt;~/bin/grive-sync&lt;/tt&gt; script to sync
  36 ~/googledrive/ with the files in Google Drive.&lt;/p&gt;
  37
  38 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
  39 #!/bin/sh
  40 set -e
  41 cd ~/
  42 cleanup() {
  43     if [ &quot;$syncpid&quot; ] ; then
  44         kill $syncpid
  45     fi
  46 }
  47 trap cleanup EXIT INT QUIT
  48 /usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh listen googledrive 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot; &amp;
  49 syncpdi=$!
  50 while true; do
  51     if ! xhost &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 ; then
  52         echo &quot;no DISPLAY, exiting as the user probably logged out&quot;
  53         exit 1
  54     fi
  55     if [ ! -e /run/user/1000/grive-sync.sh_googledrive ] ; then
  56         /usr/lib/grive/grive-sync.sh sync googledrive
  57     fi
  58     sleep 300
  59 done 2&gt;&amp;1 | sed &quot;s%^%$0:%&quot;
  60 &lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  61
  62 &lt;p&gt;Feel free to use the setup if you want.  It can be assumed to be
  63 GNU GPL v2 licensed (or any later version, at your leisure), but I
  64 doubt this code is possible to claim copyright on.&lt;/p&gt;
  65
  66 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  67 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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