Simple Google Drive backup script with automatic authentication for Google Colab...

ghost

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Oct 10, 2018

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Hi Robin, Your technique seems to persist data in Colab Notebook - I used the following config and don't see any data in google drive folder ( id obfuscated for privacy reasons below ) , but data is persistent in Collab Notebook over Browser re-loads and GPU runtime restarts - how do we store a copy of the data in Google Drive - I originally downloaded the data from Kaggle - and used your code to attempt to sync data into GDrive Folder.

The refresh token changes everytime i run the code in collab, but dont see any link or text box, is it because i am already logged into Google and using GDRIVE in another browser session

folder_id = '************************'
dir_to_backup = '/content/data'
mycreds_file_contents = '{"_module": "oauth2client.client", "scopes": [], "token_expiry": null, "id_token": null, "user_agent": "Python client library", "access_token": null, "token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token", "invalid": false, "token_response": null, "client_id": ".apps.googleusercontent.com", "token_info_uri": null, "client_secret": "####################", "revoke_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/revoke", "_class": "GoogleCredentials", "refresh_token": "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$", "id_token_jwt": null}'
mycreds_file = 'mycreds.json'

Will the data be synced and deleted from Google Drive ? And only kept in Collab Folder ? Or should I begin with data in GDrive ( meaning download data into GDrive and then sync with Colab ?

Thanks for your time !