Setting Google Drive Sync to certain times in the day

[Pete Diemer]

The internet connection used for uploading media files at my location is very slow. I'd like to schedule the uploading of videos to Google Drive during the evening/night, when fewer users are on the the network. Otherwise, the network gets bogged down by the constant need to upload motion-activated videos. I understand there is the ability to only do motion triggering during a work schedule, but we'd like to capture all motion events, even during regular work hours. 

The only option I could find to possibly help would be with Cron, but I am not very familiar with how this works. Could someone please help me out with this? I currently have 4 cameras, each running on it's own Raspberry Pi 4 (2gb) with MotionEyeOS with one of the Pi's being used as a central hub for the other feeds. They are each connected by ethernet through switches and currently each have a 32gb microSD card for local storage. I have the storage set to rollover after 3 days.

Thank you!

Pete

[Kevin Shumaker]

Basically you'd want to write a script, to either mv (move) or cp (copy) the files up to the GDrive.

It could be as simple as

cp -r /data/media/ /path to gdrive/

or

mv /data/media /path to gdrive/

then you'd add a line to crontab like

* 1,2,3,4,22,23 * * * /bin/bash /data/usr/file_mover.sh

I am not in a position to write it up for you, right now, but there are a lot of resources out there.

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[Pete Diemer]

Kevin, thank you for your reply. Sorry I didn't follow up for a couple months!

I'm not familiar enough with how the current gdrive uploading works. Would I need to disable the built-in option so it wouldn't conflict with what I'm trying to accomplish? Do you know if I could then just use the process described here: https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/issues/4  ? Then adjust the crontab to run the sync.sh during the desired hours?

Otherwise, I didn't know where the gdrive directory is located in order copy the files over. Would simply copying files from the output directory over create duplicate uploads or would it work as a sync instead? 

I'm learning as I go along, so I apologize for my novice questions. I greatly appreciate any help!

Thanks,

Pete

On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 5:40:11 PM UTC-4, StarbaseSSD wrote:

Basically you'd want to write a script, to either mv (move) or cp (copy) the files up to the GDrive.

It could be as simple as

cp -r /data/media/ /path to gdrive/

or

mv /data/media /path to gdrive/

then you'd add a line to crontab like

* 1,2,3,4,22,23 * * * /bin/bash /data/usr/file_mover.sh

I am not in a position to write it up for you, right now, but there are a lot of resources out there.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:28 PM Pete Diemer <die...@gmail.com> wrote:

The internet connection used for uploading media files at my location is very slow. I'd like to schedule the uploading of videos to Google Drive during the evening/night, when fewer users are on the the network. Otherwise, the network gets bogged down by the constant need to upload motion-activated videos. I understand there is the ability to only do motion triggering during a work schedule, but we'd like to capture all motion events, even during regular work hours. 

The only option I could find to possibly help would be with Cron, but I am not very familiar with how this works. Could someone please help me out with this? I currently have 4 cameras, each running on it's own Raspberry Pi 4 (2gb) with MotionEyeOS with one of the Pi's being used as a central hub for the other feeds. They are each connected by ethernet through switches and currently each have a 32gb microSD card for local storage. I have the storage set to rollover after 3 days.

Thank you!

Pete

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