When an application is registered with Google Drive, a unique Client ID and Client Secret are generated for the app. These credentials are used in the app’s code to authenticate directly to Google services and send requests to Google Drive’s API.
When you use SyncBackPro to backup files to Google Drive, SyncBackPro’s registered client ID is used for authentication and to request access to data using Google Drive’s API. All SyncBackPro customers backing up files to Google Drive will share the same client ID. To ensure that Google Drive’s API is fairly used by all users and to prevent excessive usage of the service, Google sets quotas and limits on API requests. The quotas apply to the number of requests sent to the service from the application and individual users. Basically, this means there is a limit to how much SyncBackPro can communicate with Google Drive and that limit is shared by all users.
If the application exceeds the overall quota that Google has set for SyncBackPro when performing file backups to Google Drive, then you may receive a "403: User rate limit exceeded" error containing the project number 1092308504260. If you receive this error, we suggest creating your own client ID and client secret for SyncBackPro through the Google Cloud Console.
In this article, we will go through the steps for creating a Google Drive client ID and client secret for SyncBackPro.
An article is available that shows, step-by-step, how to create a Client ID and Client Secret for Google Drive.
You simply need to go to the Linked Cloud Accounts and (re)-authorize with Google Drive, supplying the JSON file you downloaded when the Client ID and Secret were created. To download it again, go to Clients in the Google Cloud Console.
In this article, you've learned how to create your own Google Drive API Client ID and Client Secret from the Google API console and use them with SyncBackPro.
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