Regular backups using Grive2 on Ubuntu

Grive is a Google Drive client for Linux that can do two-side synchronization between Google Drive and a local folder. The synchronization is done whenever the user launches the application, either from a launcher or from command line (it is a CLI application).

By adding grive to crontab, periodic backups of important folders can be made. And no user interaction is required because the process is automated. Here is how to do it in Ubuntu. There is no system load when the process is not running, but this comes with a disadvantage: no filesystem monitoring. Any updates are made during the automatic execution of Grive.

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