farmcoolcow/rclone

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What is Rclone ?

rsync for cloud storage

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from cloud storage. More informations on the official Rclone website.

How to use this image

This image is based on farmcoolcow/entrypoints.

The default ENTRYPOINT is rclone and the default CMD is --help.

The available environment variables are:

PUID (default = 1000)
The user id of the user created inside the docker container.
PGID (default = 1000)
The group id of the user created inside the docker container.

Use the environment variables PUID and PGID to execute rclone with the uid and gid of your user. This prevents permission problems while accessing your data.

Take a look at the rclone command list to see all the available commands.

Create new config / Edit existing config:

Docker command:

docker run -it --rm \
  -e PUID=$(id -u $(whoami)) \
  -e PGID=$(id -g $(whoami)) \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF>:/home/.rclone.conf \
  farmcoolcow/rclone \
    config

Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF> with the file-path of your rclone configuration file.

Sync data to your cloud storage:

Docker command:

docker run -it --rm \
  -e PUID=$(id -u $(whoami)) \
  -e PGID=$(id -g $(whoami)) \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF>:/home/.rclone.conf \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_DATA>:/data \
  farmcoolcow/rclone \
    sync /data cloudstorage:

Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF> with the file-path of your rclone configuration file.
Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_DATA> with the directory-path of your data directory.

Run rclone sync as a cron daemon:

Take a look at farmcoolcow/rclone-cron. It's an image based on this image, which does nothing more than change the default ENTRYPOINT to /entrypoint_crond.sh and the default CMD to -f, and sets the environment variable CROND_CRONTAB to /crontab.

crontab file:

Syncs your data directory with your cloud storage every two hours. Uses a lock file to prevent the execution if the previous execution is not yet finished. Creates a new unique log file in your logs directory.

0 */2 * * * flock -n ~/rclone.lock rclone sync --log-file /logs/rclone.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log /data cloudstorage: &

Docker command:

docker run -d \
  -e PUID=$(id -u $(whoami)) \
  -e PGID=$(id -g $(whoami)) \
  -e CROND_CRONTAB=/crontab \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF>:/home/.rclone.conf \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_DATA>:/data \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_CRONTAB>:/crontab \
  -v <PATH_TO_YOUR_LOGS>:/logs \
  --entrypoint=/entrypoint_crond.sh \
  farmcoolcow/rclone \
    -f

Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_CONF> with the file-path of your rclone configuration file.
Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_DATA> with the directory-path of your data directory.
Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_CRONTAB> with the file-path of your crontab file.
Replace <PATH_TO_YOUR_LOGS> with the directory-path of your log directory.

coolcow / docker_rclone