Published Oct 29, 2020
Hello, today’s blog post is all about backing up stuff to the cloud and also having copies at home locally. Doing this is very important since it is crucial to keep your data alive even when something bad happens. To do all of this, we will be using rclone, which is an awesome open-source tool for doing stuff with cloud storage.
You can use rclone with all of these services, the process will be very similar to the one I will be using (Google Drive & Google Photos):
First, install rclone, this is fairly easy:
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
choco install rclone
) or download it from their Downloads pagebrew install rclone
with Homebrew or also head to their Downloads page for the installerKeep in mind, I will be setting up Google Drive in this example, but other apps are set up similarly.
rclone config
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for a new remoten
to not configure as a team driveAn example use case (which I use) is backing up my stuff from my computer to Google Drive, that command would like like this:
rclone copy --update --verbose --transfers 25 --checkers 8 --contimeout 60s --timeout 300s --retries 3 --low-level-retries 10 --progress "/mnt/c/directory" remote:
To download from the remote (for example to keep a copy of all your Google Photos or Onedrive documents locally), just switch out the remote and the source path
Thanks for reading!