From this tutorial, customers currently located on a Cloud Virtual Private Server (VPS) or Dedicated Server (DS) will be able to learn how to create a custom destination for their backups and point it to their Google Drive accounts.
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Configuring a channel for your backups to be pushed on to your Google Drive will require a properly set project and API credentials. All of this can be done very quickly via the Google's Developers Console which you can open via your google account. To create a new project, click on the My Project/Select a Project button at the top of the page.
If this is the first time you are opening the console, you will not have an active project, so let's create one. Click on the New Project button.
Name your project so you can recognize it later and click on the Create button.
Now, you will have to enable the Google Drive API, so click either on its icon if it is present or hit the Enable APIs and Services button.
Select the Enable option to continue.
Since later we will need 2 different strings of symbols that will act as our public/private keys, we have to add credentials for the API so click on the Create Credentials button.
Here you will see a plethora of options for each field. The ones that you will need are the following:
- Which API are you using?
Google Drive API - Where will you be calling the API from?
Web server (e.g., node.js, Tomcat) - What data will you be accessing?
User data
When you are done, click on the "What credentials do I need?" option to continue.
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As part 2 of this setup, you will be prompted to create an OAuth 2.0 client ID.
Add a name which will be easy to remember and be descriptive of the use of credentials and in the Authorized redirect URLs add hxxps://hostname:2087/googledriveauth/callback where hostname will be substituted with the actual hostname of your server. Note that using your server's IP here will not be possible.
Click on Create OAuth client ID, and after that, you can pretty much leave part 3 of the setup as it is. On part 4 you will get the Client ID and rest of credentials for the API. Make sure to download the .JSON file as you will need it for the "private key" which in this case is called client_secret. Click Doneto finalize the setup.
Open the downloaded file with a text editor and copy the client _secret string. You will need this for the configuration of your custom google drive destination in the second half of this tutorial.
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cPanel Branding and CustomizationGoogle Drive as an Additional Destination in WHM's backup configuration
To actually make the backup be pushed each time to your Google Drive or as referred in the past - to make a Google Drive transport, you will have to navigate to WHM ? Backup ? Backup Configuration and switch the to the Additional Destinations tab. Then select Google Drive as a Destination Type.
Now if you wish to specify in what orders should the backups be kept, you can do so in the Folder field. The Client ID field should be populated with the Client ID which you got from the first part of this tutorial. The same goes for the Client Secret which you got from the .JSON file.
Once you have copied both API credentials in the correct fields, click on the Generate Credentials button. This is a bit like a reverse of what we just did in the Google Developers console, and now you will be prompted to Authorize Access.
We recommend you keep the default Timeout value and complete the setup by clicking on Save and Validate Destination. If you click on only Save Destination, a validation can be performed afterward at any time, but that validation is required in order for the backups to actually arrive at your Google Drive. You wouldn't want to do all of this only not to have your backups properly pushed, so validation is a must.With this, you now have completed this tutorial and added another layer of redundancy for your precious files.
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As part of our support, we have provided you with tons of knowledgebase tutorials developed from the most frequently asked questions from our customers. We are sure you will find them most useful.
We do not oversell our web hosting services
We do not oversell our space and cause our servers to be unnecessarily slow.. Our offers are moderate and our packages are all moderately priced to get you started with ease. If you face any challenge in the cause of your work, do contact our customer support for help.
We are passionate about what we do
Web hosting is not just our business, it is our passion and we love it and are very serious about it. That is why we have invested so much in building a strong and reliable infrastructure that supports your web hosting needs. With years of experience and a strong support team, we have built a network that satisfies our high quality standards and our expectations remains that you will also love our web hosting quality.
We listen to your feedback
You are the reason we are here at Todhost and your feedback is the most reliable source of information for our continuous improvement program. We listen to your feedback and act on it in the best way we can. We encourage you to continue to provide this feedback especially as it regards your quality expectations and we assure you that we shall continue to implement new improvements to keep our customers happy.
We provide a high level of support
Todhost currently gives very high rating to customer support. We currently provide support through telephone calls, ticketing system, knowledgebase articles and email contact. Our ticket response time is under one hour and we attend to telephone complaints immediately. Should you have any need for support, just email our support department or use the contact us form to open a ticket and we will get back to you immediately. Our customer support team work from Monday to Sunday, 24/7. Our knowledgebase is a pool of articles dealing with various topics and provide a step-by-step guide to most of the questions we have received and also have answers to most the problems our clients have faced. We hope the tutorials will answer most of the fundamental questions clients may want to ask. Should our knowledgebase articles not provide the needed answer, you can still submit a ticket to support.
We focus on the quality of our services
We have always never compromised on quality. And that is why we give a guarantee of 99.99% up-time and provide a reliable customer support. Our quality guidelines cover not just your web hosting but also customer support. We guarantee a robust disk space, bandwidth, web building scripts, and network security. You may want to view the details of our web hosting packages.
We have lots of tutorials on how to get your website up and running
As part of our support, we have provided you with tons of knowledgebase tutorials developed from the most frequently asked questions from our customers. We are sure you will find them most useful.
We do not oversell our web hosting services
We do not oversell our space and cause our servers to be unnecessarily slow.. Our offers are moderate and our packages are all moderately priced to get you started with ease. If you face any challenge in the cause of your work, do contact our customer support for help.
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