cloudmount

cloudmount

Linux util to Mount cloud drives

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Example
• Cloud services
  • Google drive
  • Dropbox
• Signals

Installation

$ go get dev.hexasoftware.com/hxs/cloudmount

Usage

$ cloudmount -h

cloudmount-0.4-5-gf01e8fb - built: 2017-07-17 05:09:51 UTC

Usage: cloudmount [options] [<source>] <directory>

Source: can be json/yaml configuration file usually with credentials or cloud specific configuration

Options:
  -d	Run app in background
  -o string
    	uid=1000,gid=1000,ro=false
  -r duration
    	Timed cloud synchronization interval [if applied] (default 5s)
  -t string
    	which cloud service to use [gdrive] (default "gdrive")
  -v	Verbose log
  -vv
    	Extra Verbose log
  -w string
    	Work dir, path that holds configurations (default "$HOME/.cloudmount")

Example

# will default source file to $HOME/.cloudmount/gdrive.yaml
$ cloudmount -t gdrive /mnt/gdrive
# or 
$ cloudmount -t dropbox dropbox.yaml /mnt/gdrive

Source config Configuration files/source can be written in following formats:

• yaml
• json

Cloud services

• Google Drive
• Dropbox

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Google Drive

Setup Google client secrets:

https://console.developers.google.com/apis/credentials

Turn on the Drive API

1. Use this wizard to create or select a project in the Google Developers Console and automatically turn on the API. Click Continue, then Go to credentials.
2. On the Add credentials to your project page, click the Cancel button.
3. At the top of the page, select the OAuth consent screen tab. Select an Email address, enter a Product name if not already set, and click the Save button.
4. Select the Credentials tab, click the Create credentials button and select OAuth client ID.
5. Select the application type Other, enter the name "Drive API Quickstart", and click the Create button.
6. With the result dialog, copy clientID and client secret and create json file as shown in example (this can be retrieved any time by clicking on the api key)

sample gdrive.yaml config:

client_secret:
  client_id: *Client ID*
  client_secret: *Client Secret*

$ cloudmount gdrive.yaml $HOME/mntpoint

Also it's possible to create the yaml file in home directory as $HOME/.cloudmount/gdrive.yaml if <source> parameter is omitted it will default to this file

cloudmount gdrivefs will retrieve an oauth2 token and save in same file

Dropbox

Setup Dropbox client secrets:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps

1. Click Create App
2. Select the API, type of access, and App name
3. Use the values from App key and App secret

sample dropbox.yaml file:

client_secret:
  client_id: *App Key*
  client_secret: *App secret*

$ cloudmount -t dropbox savedfile.yaml /mnt/point

On the first run a link will appear and it will request a token resuling from the link

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Signals

Signal	Action	ex
USR1	Refreshes directory tree from file system	killall -USR1 cloudmount
HUP	Perform a GC and shows memory usage Works when its not running in daemon mode	killall -HUP cloudmount

TODO & IDEAS:

• Consider using github.com/codegangsta/cli
• Create test suit to implement new packages
• Caching: long term caching, maintain most used files locally until flush/change