[SOLVED] Backing Up To Google Drive with Duplicity Not Working

Backing Up To Google Drive with Duplicity Not Working

I'm trying to backup to Google Drive with Duplicity, and I can't seem to figure it out. I run this:

GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS=gdrive duplicity / pydrive+gdocs://*******[:*********]@other.host/server-backup

and I get this:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pydrive/auth.py", line 314, in LoadClientConfigFile
    raise InvalidConfigError('Invalid client secrets file %s' % error)
InvalidConfigError: Invalid client secrets file ('Error opening file', 'client_secrets.json', 'No such file or directory', 2)

I saved my client ID and client secret bits in the gdrive file (for GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS), but no matter where I try, I cannot seem to figure out where to put the client_secrets.json file. I would appreciate any help in getting this working.

Solution

the manpage http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect22 says to give the settings filename as the GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS env var. locationwise i would guess it would be placed in the current user's home folder. alternatively try setting an absolute path to the file.

make sure that the file is formatted as the manpage states.

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