rclone-utils

Scripts to automate rclone commands

About

rclone is a useful tool to sync files on your local machine to and from the cloud. These scripts are created for the purposes of making rclone easier to use.

Prerequisites

1. A basic understanding & usage of rclone.
2. Create an .env file with the following environment variables:

• RCLONE_SOURCE_PATH - The path on your local machine that contains all directories to be synced with your cloud service provider.

• RCLONE_DEST_PATH - The path on your cloud service provider that contains all directories to be synced with your local machine.

• IGNORE_DIRS (optional) - A comma separated string of directory paths from RCLONE_SOURCE_PATH to skip. These won't be synced. e.g.

  IGNORE_DIRS="ignore1,ignore2,ignore3"

Scripts

sync.sh

Will sync files from your local machine to your selected cloud provider.

Automating Backups

This utility really shines as a way to automate backups. This can be done by setting up a cron job with a file output for logging. For example, this is a cron job that will run this script every day at 3am:

0 3 * * * /path/to/your/sync.sh >> /path/to/your/logfile.log 2>&1

Make sure to copy over the .env to your $HOME directory before starting the cron job or else it won't work.