Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by sgbeal on Saturday January 27, 2024 @12:54AM (#39152993)

> Do you mind explaining why it's so trivial versus setting up traditional ftp?

    nohup /usr/bin/rclone serve ftp --addr MYIP:2121 $PWD &>/dev/null &

No configuration needed (beyond rclone's per-cloud-storage-account config (noting that serving local dirs this way does not require any cloud storage config)) and some variation of that can be added to crontab like:

    @reboot /usr/bin/sleep 30 && ...the above command...

Noting that $PWD can be a cloud drive identifier (part of the rclone config) so it can proxy a remote cloud service this same way. So, for example:

    rclone serve ftp --addr MYIP:2121 mydropbox:

assuming "mydropbox" is the locally-configured name for your rclone dropbox connection, that will serve your whole dropbox.

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by steve_rambo on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:08AM (#39153933)

Just write a systemd unit. These commands are not any easier to support and are far worse from the purely technical point of view. You'll get:

- startup only when the network is up

- proper logging

- automatic restarts on failure

- optional protection for your ssh keys and other data if there's a breach (refer to `systemd-analyze security`)

Run:

  $ systemctl --user edit --full --force rclone-ftp.service

this opens a text editor; paste these lines:

  [Unit]
  After=network-online.target
  Wants=network-online.target

  [Install]
  WantedBy=default.target

  [Service]
  ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone --your-flags /directory

and then enable and start the service:

  $ systemctl --user enable --now rclone-ftp

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by rezonant on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:48AM (#39154121)

Seriously yes. Crontab isn't meant to keep your services up. We have a proper service manager now, out with the hacks.

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by carlhjerpe on Saturday January 27, 2024 @09:13AM (#39155682)

People go out of their way to build their own crappy version of systemd.

systemd is far from perfect, and Poettering is radically anti-user. But it's the best we got and it serves us well

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by jiripospisil on Saturday January 27, 2024 @12:40PM (#39157771)

> Poettering is radically anti-user

What does that mean?

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by temp_praneshp on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:48PM (#39159689)

One of the authors of systemd

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Re:Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage by jiripospisil on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:58AM (#39164837)

I know who he is but don't understand how he's supposed to be "anti-user".

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