Grive

A Golang Google Drive Parallelization Tool

What Is It?

• Combine multiple Google Drives into one continuous storage space.
• Allows you to bind an infinite amount of Google Drives altogether.

What Does It Do?

• It splits a large file into small chunks and upload them on the Google Drives.
• The chunks are stored across all available Google Drives with no obvious sequences.
• The chunks can be encrypted(TODO) and the sequence is recorded locally.
• The Google Drives can be configured to be a RAID(TODO) in case you lose access to one of your Google Drives.

Why Do I Need It?

• If an attacker gains access to one of your Google Drives, they won't be able to access the complete data, as the chunks are obfuscated and mixed across Drives.
• Infinite Backups...
• Large sensitive files to be stored safely on cloud.

Usage:

• $ grive file: Show a list of files in Google Drives that's being uploaded by Grive.
• $ grive file upload [filename] [chunk size in MB]: Upload a file onto Google Drives.
• $ grive file get [filename]: Download a file from Google Drives.
• $ grive file delete [filename]: Remove a file from Google Drives.
• $ grive accounts: Shows the accounts details that is connected to Grive.
• $ grive space: Show Google Drives space usage.

Setup Tutorial:

1. Install Golang environment, and install dependencies for Google Drives: go get golang.org/x/oauth2 and go get google.golang.org/api/drive/v3.
2. Create two folders: uploaded and downloaded in this repo after git clone. uploaded directory will be used to store uploaded files' configurations, and downloaded directory contains all files that are downloaded by Grive.
3. Goto https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/quickstart/go and click ENABLE THE DRIVE API, then DOWNLOAD CLIENT CONFIGURATION and rename the credential.json into any JSON file you like. (In my case, I just renamed it to be my {AccountName}.json)
4. Place the JSON file into accounts/ folder.
5. Add the name of your JSON file without the suffix into accounts/accounts.txt in a newline. (In my case, just {AccountName})
6. Execute $ grive accounts and Grive will ask you to click the link and paste the token in the terminal, do so.
7. You are good to go :D

Build Grive

• Easy, just run $ go build -o grive *.go

TODO

• Utilize goroutines to increase network I/O efficiencies
• Craft a frontend & backend for Grive (use websocket)