PHP Google Drive backup

A (very) simple CLI tool that I used to backup my www directory and my database from OVH to Google Drive, in a cronjob.

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Disclaimer

⚠️ You should never trust a script found on GitHub to backup your data!

🔥 I made this script in a few hours. It not perfect, but it works very well.

Getting started 🔧

You need to configure your Google Cloud Console account first.

• Create a new project and an OAuth from quickstart.
  • Download the credentials.json.
  • Upload it in the root directory of this project.
• Activate Google Drive API.
  • Go to "OAuth authorization screen" and edit application.
  • Enable field .../auth/drive in order to create/remove some files.
• Add a test user with the email you wish to use.
• ❌ Do not activate the "production review" since:
  • You do not need it.
  • It will make you unable to continue the process.
• Run the project using CLI (locally if you have to).
• Then, generate the proper token.json file by logging with the given URL from CLI.
  • Authenticate yourself with your Google Account...
• All good! ✅

Environments variables 🚀

The following environment variables must be declared.

If you do not know how it works, just create a file named .env in the root directory with your own configuration.

(The .env.dist file contains a skeleton.)

Example:

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_USER=username
DB_PASSWORD=password
DB_NAME=database_name
DB_PORT=3306
DIRECTORY_TO_BACKUP=www
DELETE_UPLOADED_BACKUPS=false
ONLY_CLI=false

Feel free to fill it with your config!

Launching cronjob from OVH to Google Drive

Here is my cronjob configuration.

• I decided to run the job the first and the fifteenth of each month: 0 0 1,15 * *
• Logs are sent by email
• All good! ✅

Developer resources 📝

• Google Quickstart with Google Drive API in PHP.
• Documentation & examples googleapis/google-api-php-client (used by this project).
  • API documentation (for old school developers 💪 ).