This is my ongoing project to have a continuous, versioned backup system of my Plex content, preferably to multiple cloud services. Currently it is rather basic, serving as little more than a wrapper to rclone, backing up only to Google Drive. This is a limitation not only due to the age of this project, but also because of my 20 mb/s internet upload speed.
Note: the name of this project comes from the Snowden movie.
The purpose of this project is simple. To provide a simple, secure backup of data to multiple cloud sites.
Because the goal of this project is to eventually be more distributed with multiple cloud backends, rclone was a natural choice. It is a simple interface for a ton of cloud backends. It also allows a significant amount of control over what you what.
The runtime environment for this script is pretty unique. It is designed to be
run on my QNAP TS-1685 NAS. Due to the way QNAP's OS works, its hard to add new
programs to the $PATH variable. Instead, everything has hard coded paths.
It is also designed to be run in a rather slow internet environment, with only 20 mb/s upload speed.
If you have any questions/comments/concerns/suggestions please feel free to make them. Open an issue, or contact me directly. PRs are also welcome.
So, when I was creating these scripts I wasn't planning on putting them in revision control and sharing them. The scripts weren't that complex and wouldn't be hard to recreate. However, while I was working on planning this project out, I came upon a number of "edge cases" with rclone where I had no idea how it would respond. Through experimentation I was eventually able to track a number of them down. However, I think it would be good to keep a public record of what I had tested for so that maybe someone else can learn from it.