Hello,
Is it possible to sync a full Google Drive account to an external hard drive, and at the same time selectively sync a subset of folders to my internal storage?
In more detail: I have a large Media
folder at the root of a GDrive account, which I would like to sync in full to an external SSD for backup, e.g, run/media/user/externalSSD/Media
. At the same time, I would like to be able to selectively sync only a few folders to have locally, e.g., ~/insync/Media/Movies/folderA
, ~/insync/Media/Movies/folderB
, etc.
I have been able to achieve this, but in a way that feels too hacky: setting the base folder of the account that has the Media
folder to the external disk with full 2-way sync; via GDrive online options, sharing that folder with full editing privileges to a second Google account; adding that second account to Insync with a local base folder location, which then allows me to selectively sync whatever folders I want from “Shared with me”.
Is there a better way of achieving this full-external-backup-plus-selective-local-sync result, without using two accounts?
Thanks