[Duplicity-talk] New Google Docs storage backend

[Carlos Abalde]

Hi guys!

First time in this mailing list :) I just want let you know I've created a new 
Duplicity branch on Launchpad 
(https://code.launchpad.net/~carlos-abalde/duplicity/google-docs) adding 
support to use Google Docs as a backend for duplicity 
(http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_guide_python.html).

The implementation is pretty simple and depends on python-gdata libs (apt-get 
install python-gdata on Ubuntu). Apart form minor changes in other files, the 
core implementation are less than 100 lines of code,

  
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~carlos-abalde/duplicity/google-docs/view/head:/duplicity/backends/gdocsbackend.py

Be friendly, it's my first time in Python and also my first time using the 
Google Data API. It need some improvements, but it seems to work fine and I'm 
sure it would be useful for all that people (like me) that want to use the 
extremely cheap Google storage space to store their Duplicity backups.

The new backend URI format is gdocs://user[:address@hidden/some_dir (example: 
gdocs://carlos.abalde:address@hidden/backup). Note that 'some_dir' must be the 
name of an existing folder in your Google Docs account. Also note that 
'other-host' usually will be gmail.com, but it should also work with Google 
Apps accounts using other domains (no tested yet).

My plan is to include some improvements and start using it for my personal 
backups asap, but I also would like to hear your feedback and include any 
changes in order to make this small contribution useful to other people :)

Thank you!

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Carlos Abalde