Uploading files to Drive with GAM

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Danny

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Jan 11, 2018, 7:20:58 AM1/11/18
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Hey,

I want to use GAM to upload a bunch of files to Google Drive for backup purposes.

Unfortunately I only seem to be able to create folders with GAM; I can't use the 'localfile' parameter.

When I try the following command, 

gam user danny.admin add drivefile localfile C:\GAM\test.mp4

I get the following error, even when elevated - 

 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gam.py", line 12881, in <module>
  File "gam.py", line 12709, in ProcessGAMCommand
  File "gam.py", line 4492, in createDriveFile
  File "gam.py", line 713, in callGAPI
  File "gam.py", line 578, in checkGAPIError
AttributeError: 'function' object has no attribute 'credentials'
[11332] Failed to execute script gam
 
Any ideas?

Thanks!

Eric Dannewitz

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Jan 11, 2018, 9:51:14 AM1/11/18
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Why don’t you get something like https://www.arqbackup.com/ instead? 

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Ross Scroggs

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Jan 11, 2018, 3:02:35 PM1/11/18
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Danny,

As Eric pointed out, GAM is not the best tool for bulk uploading.

I want to verify why your particular upload didn't work.
Do: gam user danny.admin check serviceaccount
What are the results?

Ross

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Eric Dannewitz

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Jan 11, 2018, 3:05:22 PM1/11/18
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On the Mac, there is a great app called transmit that works really well for putting stuff on Google Drive.

For my backups, I have a Google drive instance on a Linux box where all my servers put their tar.gz or .xz files in, and that puts them up on Google Drive. 

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Samuel Petat

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That's an old topic, but since it still shows up while googling, I suggest Rclone for Google Drive as a good answer.
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