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Is there a way to use Google Drive as an FTP Server? I mean I have host, username and password and using Filezilla I can access GDrive folders, upload and download data and automate backups with many softwares. It isn't important if the protocol is FTP or SFTP.
Does GDrive allow this feature? In positive answer, how can I obtain my credentials?
Does also DropBox allow this features?
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One can use Google Drive like FTP to store and share files online only when he or she uses an appropriate tool. To answer the question in the beginning, it is absolutely yes as long as you find the right way. With the appropriate tool, you can even connect Google Drive to FTP and transfer files between them each other.
For example, you can transfer from Google Drive to FTP with "Cloud Transfer". Click on "Cloud Transfer" button, select Google Drive as the source, select FTP as the destination, click on "Transfer Now" and the whole transfer process will start.
To integrate Google Drive and SFTP you can follow the steps given below: Step 1: The Google Drive FTP Adapter makes it easy to establish Google Drive SFTP Integration. Once you launch the google-drive-ftp-adapter, add your username and password, host, and port, and authorize the app to access your Google account.
That's why it is sensible to use Google Drive as an FTP Server or a Network Drive. When used as an FTP server, you have controlled backup and sync solution. Neither do you need to sync the drive folders to your PC nor you need to worry about storage.
What about running the google-drive-ftp-adapter application in your local pc and then connect your filezilla client to that application? The google-drive-ftp-adapter application is not an online service, but its an alternative solution to connect to google drive through ftp.
The google-drive-ftp-adapter is an open source application hosted in github and it is a kind of standalone ftp-server java application that connects to your google drive in behalf of you, acting as a bridge (or adapter) between your ftp client and the google drive service. Once you have running the google-drive-ftp adapter, you can connect your preferred FTP client to the google-drive-ftp-adapter ftp server in your localhost (or wherever the app is running, like in a remote machine) to manage your files.
I use it in conjunction with beyond compare to synchronize my local files against the ones I have in the google drive and it serves well for the purpose.
This is the current github link hosting the google-drive-ftp-adapter repository: https://github.com/andresoviedo/google-drive-ftp-adapter
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