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#1

I’ve looked all around but didn’t see anything that answered my question. I’m having trouble setting up service account access to gcd.

I’ve got Duplicacy web on my server and I thought I’d just use CLI on my desktop but backup to the same location to take advantage of de-duplication.

I didn’t use a service account for Duplicacy web, just used the gdc-token.json which set up fine and I have one successful backup with that.

On my desktop I’m trying to init the same path (gcd://backup) but I get this error when I call out the service account credential file:

Failed to load the Google Drive storage at gcd://backup: open “C:\Users\Doni\Documents\storage-279602-7e867bcaa8d5.json”: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

So I figured maybe it was an issue with using the same location as an existing backup so I tried a completely separate directory (gcd://test) but I got the same result.

I did share these directories in Google Drive with the service account email.

Ideas on where I’m going wrong?

Edit: Oh, should include exactly what I’m running:

duplicacy init -e -storage-name gcd gaming_d gcd://backup

#2

How did you pass the json file path to the CLI? The path looks good to me other than the double quotes, but I don’t know if go added the double quotes.

#3

Oh my god… It was the quotes!

I like to Shift + Right-Click and then use “Copy as path” in Windows Explorer and it puts double quotes in by default. I do sometimes have spaces in paths so it’s usually warranted.

I do quite a lot of PowerShell scripting and double quotes usually aren’t a problem and are in fact required if paths have a space but also acceptable if it doesn’t. Thought that applied here but I guess not.

init working now.