Business drive to another business drive in different domain

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There is a SO question on this. you could search sync-everything-from-google-drive-business-to-another-business-account in SO.

The question is mainly about
Does the command line support sync folder from the business drive to another business drive in a different domain?

let say the source folder in account A is Folder A. The target folder in account B is Folder B.

Without rclone. I will do it in this way, I grant account A access to a folder in the shared drive created by account B. Let this folder be Folder C.

Each time period (maybe 1 day) I use python to capture tree structure in Account A. I use the tree to copy Folder A to Folder B. And then copy Folder B to Folder C.

Could rclone do this any better?

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hello and welcome to the forum,

rclone will sync files between any two providers that rclone supports.

in your case, both are gdrive and rclone can do that server-side, so no using local bandwidth.

rclone sync accountA:FolderA accountB:FolderB --drive-server-side-across-configs --dry-run

i use a python script to run rclone....

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thanks! I wonder how rclone achieve this........... btw is it possible that you could share your python script............ very much appreciate.......

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lol, it must be --magic
but seriously, not 100% sure about using it across two different domains, but gdrive allows for that, so rclone makes use of it.
a simple test using a debug log would give the answer.

as for the script, it is over 600 lines, runs only on windows and orchestrates

  • rclone
  • 7zip
  • fastcopy
  • Microsoft VSS - Volume Shadow Copy Service, snapshot technology for backing up in-use/open files
  • complied as a portable .exe file

i have been thinking about writing a post about it here in the forum, and if there is interest, posting it at github.
tho i am not a professional programmer, i have been using it for approx. two years on a bunch of desktops and servers.

if you have a specific question about using python with rclone, please ask....

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