Is a Symbolic Link to a Google Drive Folder possible?

[DrMaxwell]

I'm not sure if there is a better way to do this or not, but I'd like to have the media and gamelists sync to my google drive via internet and not via the internal network, so that I can update the media for my Pi away from home and have it sync.

[sselph]

There are a few linux drive clients. I like https://github.com/odeke-em/drive/releases and he has binaries for arm precompiled. It is very simple and has commands to push and pull files. This would probably work great for metadata. Saved games would require some pre/post launch script to keep drive in sync with the latest version. There are others that attempt to keep them in sync automatically but in my experience they do more harm than good.

[DrMaxwell]

Yeah, I looked into this client, but without a bash in boot to sync to the drive it is all manual. I was thinking of using a symbolic link to the folder, which can be done easily via networked computers, but rather, I wanted to do it over the internet. So essentially I could maintain the database without having to SSH into the pi at all. I guess setting up the pi to make a pull request at boot might do the trick.

[sselph]

Yeah it would require some automation to make it more useful. Another issue I just thought of is it has issues with large datasets and takes a long time. So thousands of images might cause it to slow to a crawl.