Support Google Cloud Storage

[Jorge Castro]

It would be great to have native support for GCS (which is different from Google Drive/Docs):

https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil

[Daniel Schudel (daniel-schudel)]

I second this.

The lax security policies at Amazon have left me looking for an alternative to S3 as a backup/archive target.

[James (james-ellis-gmail)]

I'd like to see this, I've found GCS to be a robust solution and alternative to S3 .. and gsutil provides a good example of how a GCS API client can work.

[Daniel Schudel (daniel-schudel)]

The duplicity/_boto_single.py has a fair amount of S3 specific syntax and lingo in it. I'd hate to fork it into a new file to bring in GCS.

But, the boto/storage_uri.py (from python-boto) looks interesting - it contains a base class for accessing S3 or GCS - it automagically picks the right one based on the URI.

I think update _boto_single.py to use the storage_uri.py classes would be the way to go.

[Lee Verberne (verb)]

FYI, I've started work on this in lp:~verb/duplicity/boto-gcs

This uses GCS's Interoperable mode, which has to be enabled via https://code.google.com/apis/console

I need to add some documentation and support in _boto_multi.py (if possible).