Overview
This is a memo for using gdrive in a LAMP environment launched on Amazon Lightsail. This enables file backups to Google Drive, among other things.
Steps
First, access Amazon Lightsail and press the “Connect using SSH” button on the target instance.
You can access the server as shown below.
Linux ip-172-26-5-202 4.19.0-19-cloud-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.232-1 (2022-03-07) x86_64
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*** Welcome to the LAMP packaged by Bitnami 7.4.28-14 ***
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Last login: Thu May 12 03:25:13 2022 from 72.21.217.186
bitnami@ip-172-26-5-202:~$
Installing golang
Install golang as follows.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ sudo apt-get install golang
You can verify the version as follows.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ go version
go version go1.11.6 linux/amd64
Installing gdrive
Run the following.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ go get github.com/prasmussen/gdrive
You can verify the version as follows.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ ./go/bin/gdrive version
gdrive: 2.1.1
Golang: go1.11.6
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Authentication
When you run the following, a URL is displayed.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ ./go/bin/gdrive about
Authentication needed
Go to the following url in your browser:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=...
Enter verification code:
After pasting the obtained authentication code, the following is displayed.
User: XXX
Used: XXX TB
Free: XXX B
Total:
Max upload size: XXX TB
For example, running the following lists the files on Google Drive.
bitnami@ip-172-26-1-210:~$ ./go/bin/gdrive list
Summary
This summarizes the method for using gdrive in a LAMP environment launched on Amazon Lightsail.
You can check gdrive usage at the link below. I hope this is helpful for use cases such as file backups.