Set Up the Google Drive API in cPanel&WHM

Set up the Google Drive API for your Google account

To configure the Google Drive API for your Google account, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Google API Manager website. 
   
   
2. In the left navigation menu, click Library.
   
   
3. Under the G Suite heading, click GoogleDrive API.
   
   
4. Click Create Project, and then click Create. A new menu will appear.
   
   
5. Enter your new project name and click Create.
   
   
6. Click Enable.

Increase your Google Drive API quota

According to Google's documentation, Google imposes limits and quotas on their APIs. This causes errors when you back up your server to Google Drive.

To avoid errors due to these limitations, we recommend that you perform the following steps to increase your default quota settings:

1. In the side navigation bar, click Google Drive API.
   
   
2. Click Quotas.
   
   
3. Increase the value of the Queries per 100 seconds per user setting.
   
   
4. Click Done.

Create your account credentials

To set up your account credentials for backups, perform the following steps:

1. In the side navigation bar, click Credentials.

2. Click Create credentials.

3. From the Which API are you using? menu, select Google Drive API.
   
   
4. From the Where will you be calling the API from? menu, select Web Server.
   
   
5. From the What data will you be accessing? menu, select User Data.
   
   
6. Click What credentials do I need?
   
   
7. In the Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID text box, enter your desired name.
   
   
8. In the Authorized redirect URIs text box, enter the https://hostname:2087/googledriveauth/callback link, where hostname represents your server's hostname.
   
   
9. Click Create. The interface will display your new client ID and client secret. 
   
   
10. Click Done.
    
    

Create a Google Drive transport