Google Drive Backup

[jeuler]

@rcrules: Thank you a lot for posting the detailled tutorial. I followed it step for step and was able to succesfully set up an automated backup for all my OPNsenses.

[rheemix]

Thank you for putting this together. This guide helped me set up Google Drive backup.

[nerd154]

Hey, thank you very much for the information! I had the same problem and didnt know what to do! You did an amazing job!

[Greelan]

One clarification I believe for Page 9. The password that should be entered in the OPNsense backups configuration page should be a strong password for encryption of the backups, not the default "notasecret" password that applies to the p12 key. Given that the p12 key password is a standard password used by Google for all keys generated, I believe OPNsense itself supplies that password when using the key.

[axel2078]

rcrules, would you be able to update the official docs (see link provided above) so that others maybe be able to do this easier in the future?

[Greelan]

I have prepared an updated how-to on GitHub and submitted a PR for it. Hopefully that will assist people (assuming it is accepted)

[Greelan]

The updated how-to is now available: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cloud_backup.html?#setup-google-api-usage

[baqwas]

Hello @Greelan,

Cannot thank you enough for your efforts that helped me (a basic newbie) get an extra level backup reassurance.

Kind regards.

[Greelan]

[vijvis]

Worked perfectly. Thanks very much for the detailed steps with screen shots.

[cookiemonster]

This is a great help. It was desperately needed, than you.
I did follow it and am up and running, just one point. Maybe things changed since the guide was written but I was stuck in :
"3. Set up the account in OPNsense"
Email Address - enter the email address of the service account you created

It took me some time to realize it would only work if I used the user ID instead of the email address in this field in OPN. If I used the email I would get failure when finishing and pushing the "Setup/Test Google Drive" button.

[Greelan]

Can you explain your comment further?

[cookiemonster]

Of course.
According to this helpful post that is now committed to docs, when setting up the directory in OPN, we enter the email address. I got an error every time I did and pressed Test.
I changed from email i.e. user@opnsense-backups-888-iam-gserviceaccount.com as a value in the email field to it's Unique ID value in the developer console. Only then it would be accepted.



It is perfectly possible there's something else that I needed to do to accept the email as per the instructions but I have gone over the steps multiple times.

[Greelan]

Thanks for clarifying. That’s interesting. My backup is still happily working with the service account email address. That’s the first I have heard of the email address causing an issue

[cookiemonster]

Yes I did find it odd. It probably works as-written and is something on my side. I thought it would be good to share in case something changed google-side for new setups or a setting somewhere causes this and is not quite obvious.