DriveSink

What's Amazon Cloud Drive?

Do you have Amazon Prime? Do you have hundreds of gigs of raw photos or photoshop files? Back them up to Amazon Cloud Drive for free!

What's the catch?

Sound great? Here's the catch- it's a pain to upload files to Amazon Cloud Drive. On iOS and Android you can sink your photos automatically, and there's a PC app, but for Mac you're dragging and dropping files on to your browser. No fun if you're talking about ten thousand files.

Okay, how can I upload them then?

That's where drivesink comes in- it's a command line tool that will synchronize a directory from your computer to Cloud Drive. Run it whenever you want and it will upload any new or changed files.

What else is this site?

Cloud Drive has a pretty rich API available. However, if you want to use it at all, even for your own use, you have to jump through several hoops and submit an app for approval. Or you can just get your access token right here.

Get started

• First download the script:

  curl -O https://github.com/caseymrm/drivesink/blob/master/drivesink.py

• Then get your access configuration by logging in with Amazon
• Finally, synchronize your files whenever you feel like it:

  ./drivesink.py sync ~/Pictures Pictures/backup