Copy files to Google Drive?

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I got Duplicati working with Google Drive, but what I need is for the original files to just be copied from a local drive to google drive so that others in our organization can access them remotely.

Does duplicati have a “copy files” mode instead of its normal sort-of-incremental-type-backup mode?

What I need is if I drop a file called “myDoc.docx” into my local folder, I want that file to get copied to google drive so that others can just access that folder and see myDoc.docx and download it.

And no I can not use the google drive desktop app as I have several individual folders that need to be uploaded to specific folders on google drive, and the google drive app does not let me have that fine of control.

Thanks

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Well, to answer my own question, it appears that Duplicati does not just copy files, so I can not do what I want with it, unless somebody is aware that it can be done.

I see that might be able to use the command line tool Duplicati.CommandLine.BackendTool.exe so will investigate that now.

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You need synchronization tool, not backup for what you want to achieve.
You can try rclone tool - it may do what you want.

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So I looked at Duplicati.CommandLine.BackendTool.exe and this can be used to just copy files to Google Drive, however it would require some extra coding/scripting to do checks to see if the file is new and/or has changed.

I checked out rclone.org and this tool is exactly what I need. The rclone copy command will only copy files from the source to destination that are new or have changed, so no coding required!

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