03-Install and Setup rclone

By Dan Aukes

  1. Install rclone

    sudo apt install -y curl
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

  2. If you have a previous config for rclone, it should be encrypted before backing up. Now you can reload it back to your computer

    mkdir ~/.config
mkdir ~/.config/rclone
gpg --output ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf --decrypt /my/remote/filesystem/backup_settings/rclone.conf.pgp

  3. Create file structure for rclone. Let’s say you have set up a remote filesystem called dropbox_personal.

    mkdir /media/dropbox_personal
sudo chown username:groupname /media/dropbox_personal
#... 
# repeat for any other cloud folders you have set up in config

  4. Mount

    rclone mount dropbox_personal: /media/dropbox_personal --vfs-cache-mode full &
#... 
#repeat for any other cloud folders you have set up in config