I have been trying to get duplicity to backup to google drive. But it looks like it is still using the old client API.
I found some thread saying that the new API should be supported but not much details on how to get it to work.
I got as far as compiling and using duplicity 7.0.3 but then I got this error:
BackendException: GOOGLE_DRIVE_ACCOUNT_KEY environment variable not set. Please read the manpage to fix.
Has anyone set up duplicity to work with Google Drive and know how to do this?
Now that Google has begun forcing clients to use OAuth, using Google Drive as a backup target has actually gotten very confusing. I found an excellent blog post that walked me through it. The salient steps are:
Install PyDrive
PyDrive is the library that lets Duplicity use OAuth to access Drive.
pip install pydrive
should be sufficient, or you can go through your distribution's package manager.
Create an API token
Navigate to the Google Developer Console and log in. Create a project and select it from the drop-down on the top toolbar.
Now select the "Enable APIs and Services" button in the Dashboard, which should already be pulled up, but if not, is in the hamburger menu on the left.
Search for and enable the Drive API. After it's enabled, you can actually create the token. Choose "Credentials" from the left navigation bar, and click "Add Credential" > "OAuth 2.0 Client ID." Set the application type to "Other."
After the credential is created, click on it to view the details. Your Client ID and secret will be displayed. Take note of them.
Configure Duplicity
Whew. Time to actually configure the program. Paste the following into a file, replacing your client ID and secret with the ones from the Console above.
client_config_backend: settings
client_config:
client_id: <your client ID>.apps.googleusercontent.com
client_secret: <your client secret>
save_credentials: True
save_credentials_backend: file
save_credentials_file: gdrive.cache
get_refresh_token: True
(I'm using the excellent Duply frontend, so I saved this as ~/.duply/<server name>/gdrive).
Duplicity needs to be given the name of this file in the GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS environment variable. So you could invoke duplicity like this:
GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS=gdrive duplicity <...>
Or if you're using Duply, you can export this variable in the Duply configuration file:
export GOOGLE_DRIVE_SETTINGS=gdrive
Running Duplicity for the first time will begin the OAuth process; you'll be given a link to visit, which will ask permission for the app you created earlier in the Console to access your Drive account. Accept, and it will give you another authentication token to paste back into the terminal. The authorization info will be saved in a .cache file alongside the gdrive settings file.
At this point you should be good to go, and Duplicity should behave normally. Good luck!
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I have installed the TeamCity server on my infrastructure. I was e.g. able to silently configure the external database and some other stuff through the TeamCity configuration files. Now, when I start TeamCity, I am facing the "TeamCity First Start" web page, where I can choose if I want to restore my system from a backup or if I want to proceed with a First Start.
I would like to automate that installation as much as possible. Is there a reliable way, e.g. through the TeamCity API, to trigger the action underlying the "Proceed" button of that web page, other than writing a bot that browses the web page and clicks the button? I found no such thing in the API documentation, but I might have missed something.
I think something like this could be called on the server host:
curl -X POST http://localhost:8111/mnt/do/goNewInstallation
but I don't know what data to post and how to get the necessary authentication to be allowed to run that command. Indeed, running the above command yields the following error:
The session is not authenticated. Access denied.
At that time, the super user authentication token has not yet been displayed to the server log file.
I just started with the Google Cloud Platform and created my first VM instance (Debian).
It all worked in a pretty straight-forward way, I hit the SSH button next to my instance and it opened up a command-line interface in a new browser window. My username was the handle (pre-#) part of my gmail.
However, I wanted to use Terminal on my macbook as a CLI for accessing it. Looking at the guides, this seemed to be a long convoluted process. I followed this process (detailed below) but now I can only access some new account on the VM; the username is my full gmail address this time (but with underscores replacing non-alphabet characters, so like the orignal but with "_gmail_com" tacked on to the end). I can no longer access the original account that seems to be the proper account with admin privileges. Note that I can sudo into the root account and open up the directories and files owned by the original account but this seems very dumb.
I've tried posting in the forum for this stuff, Google's group for Google Compute, "gce-discussion", but my posts are held at approval for some reason. It's as though Google are just hoping I cave and pay for technical support.
My aim is to have a python session running a discord bot that continues while I log off. It'd also be good to be able to serve up files (images) via http.
Thank you for any help you can be!
The steps I followed in the convoluted process given in the guide are as follows:
I created an SSH keypair (private and public)
I downloaded and installed the Google SDK to get the gcloud CLI applciation
I issued the gcloud command to set the public key up on my instance
it had me log in at a google page (OAuth-like thing)
I started an SSH session on Terminal, invoking the file containing my private key, trying with different permutations of options
finally got it to connect and log in using my-handle_gmail_com (ie the second username on my instance)
when I tried to access the SSH from within the Google Cloud Platform page, the browser-based CLI automatically logged my into this same second account, "my-handle_gmail_com". So now I have no access to the original.
Thanks!
Thanks for getting back at me. Sorry for the late reply, it was bed-time this time. I need to connect the Cloud SQL database that I have created to my application that is in App Engine. I tried to follow the online tutorials but when I do apply such info I would get then gcloud app deploy it return a connection error. Please help. Also clarify here: When I execute the gcloud app deploy command I suppose it takes my local file to Google Cloud where I would see the entire folder and files of my project on the project I was deploying but I am seeing the old version of my project while presentation has changed to the latest version. Also last one how can I link domain nam from http://domain.google.com to my app in http://cloud.google.com . Please help I am dying with stress I have been trying in here
Given that you haven't provided any information as to what settings you are using, or what error has been provided it is impossible to know what kind of problem you are running into.
I suggest taking a look at the "Connecting to App Engine" page here. It should answer a lot of your questions around connecting from an App Engine app.
I see two questions here.
1.
I need to connect the Cloud SQL database that I have created to my
application that is in App Engine. I tried to follow the online
tutorials but when I do apply such info I would get then gcloud app
deploy it return a connection error. Please help. Also clarify here:
When I execute the gcloud app deploy command I suppose it takes my
local file to Google Cloud where I would see the entire folder and
files of my project on the project I was deploying but I am seeing the
old version of my project while presentation has changed to the latest
version.
I see your problem here to be with CloudSQL and GAE connectivity. Depending on whether you use GAE Standard or Flex and CloudSQL MySQL or POSTGRES the steps varies. Documentation is quite clear in here though.
2.
Also last one how can I link domain nam from http://domain.google.com
to my app in http://cloud.google.com . Please help I am dying with
stress I have been trying in here
This is going to be super simple, goto GCP cloud console, Navigate to GAE-->Settings-->Custom Domain and click on add custom domain "Enter the domain name you want to link" When you click continue you will be shown the steps for verifying the domain owneship and to point the DNS to the GAE.
Documented properly by GCP folks at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python/mapping-custom-domains
If you are using GAE Standard or Flex, a possible result of command gcloud app deploy :
An app.yaml (or appengine-web.xml) file is required to deploy this directory as an App Engine App, check next links:
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/configuring-your-app-with-app-yaml
https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/python/writing-application-logs
Mysql and Postgres connection:
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-app-engine
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-app-engine
Sometimes it easy share the app.yaml for replicate the app correctly.
Installed Parse Server on Digital Ocean, and have been trying to use the CLI to manage cloud code. I've hit a wall, since the CLI tool will not move forward without an account key on Parse.com (which no longer offers account keys). For example, if I type in "parse new", I get this:
We've changed the way the CLI works. To save time logging in, you should create an account key. Type "parse configure accountkey" to create a new account key. Read more at: https://parse.com/docs/cloudcode/guide#command-line-account-keys
If you actually do that, it responds:
Input your account key or press ENTER to generate a new one. NOTE: on pressing ENTER we'll try to open the url: "https://www.parse.com/account/keys" in the default browser:
This leads to a login page. Since I don't have an account on Parse.com (nor should it be necessary for Parse Server), I'm stuck. If I click on the "I don't have an account" link, it just takes me to the front page.
I find it hard to believe that there's no way to manage/create cloud code on Parse Server. But, it is sure looking that way. Is this just a failure to update the CLI or am I missing something obvious.
Many thanks.
Parse cli is not meant to be used with parse server. At least not currently. Parse server is simply a node module which means that you will have to handle deployment etc yourself. There are many tools that will handle everything that the parse cli did, and much more, from the nodejs community however.
You said that you used digital ocean. You might want to consider heroku, aws or google cloud. Heroku for example has the heroku cli with many of the same features as the parse cli which might save you some time.
You can't use parse cli on parse-server. Parse-server and parse.com environment are both different , parse-server is just the node module so deployment can be automated using other tools.
I am using forever to restart my parse-server automatically when a file changes. So you can just copy/paste your files using filezilla and that's it.
In my app i want to add a specific route in OSX's routing table which i can easily add through the terminal like this
/sbin/route add -host X.X.X.X -interface en1
. for that i do some search on google and get to know that there is a file /etc/ppp/ip-up which consult by OS every time when a ppp link is up so i set my target to modify this file programmatically
but then OS not allow me without root access so now i have to make possible this command to run programmatically now i found on google "i have to run a helper tool with my app because it can be run as root user" and get SMJobBless API and run it's sample. It was successful
but now i have a question how i can add this route in routing table by this helper tool i mean if i use CreateAuthorization and use this command to run with this! it again prompt for root password which user already give at the time of installation of this app, which is very very annoying
as in this sample app
http://ideveloper.co/designing-writing-and-deploying-a-privileged-helper-on-mac-os-x/
now please tell me what i should do
The best place to look is the source code for Apple's pppd and route tools. Both should include code for adding routes.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/network_cmds/network_cmds-307.0.1