Rclone: sync your files to cloud storage

[Tfl]

Rclone is a command line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols.

Official Rclone website

Rclone helps you:

• Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage
• Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage
• Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally
• Migrate data to cloud, or between cloud storage vendors
• Mount multiple, encrypted, cached or diverse cloud storage as a disk
• Analyse and account for data held on cloud storage using lsf, ljson, size, ncdu
• Union file systems together to present multiple local and/or cloud file systems as one

Download here
Source on github
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Notes:

• Login credentials (change them): mycloud - mycloud
• it’s a script that installs the latest version of Rclone and the Rclone webgui.
• not tested on ARM platforms like EX2Ultra yet (please provide feedback)
• consider the installer part of this package to be in alpha status, it’s brand new.

Tags: S3, Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, B2, NextCloud, Owncloud, Webdav, OpenStack SWIFT, Yandex, Minio, Rackspace, … and more

[lucouto]

Hi Tfl,

Great, thanks! I’ve managed to find the username / password for logging in: mycloud / mycloud
And I’ve already mapped my remotes!

Now, is there a way to automate the rclone backup? Maybe using cron? Could you give me some help, please?

[Tfl]

Indeed, you could use cron to automate the backups.

Here’s an example to run daily backups at noon:
Save this snippet to /shares/Volume_1/Nas_Prog/rclone_cron.sh.
Update it with the cron jobs you need.

#!/bin/sh

(
  crontab -l;
  echo "0 12 * * * rclone sync my_remote:some_path /shares/Public/my_remote";
) | crontab -

Don’t put it inside the rclone directory as you may lose it on upgrade of the package.

Now add this to /shares/Volume_1/Nas_Prog/rclone/init.sh to update the stock crontab on reboot of the NAS.

sh /shares/Volume_1/Nas_Prog/rclone_cron.sh

You may find this helpful when new to crontab: https://crontab.guru/