# How can we use Google Drive as a snapshot repository?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 8, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184 "2015-07-08T21:09:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![jerrac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerrac/32/52980_2.png) [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184/1 "2015-07-08T21:09:10Z")

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I work at a community college and we have "unlimited" storage with Google Apps for Education. I was wondering if I could take advantage of that and use Google Drive as a snapshot repository for our logs.

So, has anyone figured out a way to do so?

The closest I found to this on Google was [http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore.org/](http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore.org/) I'd use that tool to mount Google Drive, then set up a repo in the mount. But it's definitely targeted at users, not headless systems... So I wonder about reliability...

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184/2 "2015-07-08T22:27:30Z")

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It's not a repository type we currently support, though I encourage you to raise a feature request on GH to get it added 😄

> **[elastic/elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues)**
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> elasticsearch - Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184/3 "2015-07-08T22:51:55Z")

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FYI there is a similar PR pending here [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-gce/pull/39](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-gce/pull/39)

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**Author:** ![jerrac](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jerrac/32/52980_2.png) [@jerrac](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jerrac)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2015, 10:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184/4 "2015-07-08T22:56:55Z")

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After some investigation, it's 10TB per user. And, I think, we get unlimited users.

Though, as I think about it, something feels off about tying a repo to a Google Apps user... I'm not really sure what though.

@dadoonet That pull request is for [https://cloud.google.com/storage](https://cloud.google.com/storage) which, afaik, is not part of Google Apps for Education.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-can-we-use-google-drive-as-a-snapshot-repository/25184/5 "2017-07-06T00:02:43Z")

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