jmichiels / rclone-autosync

Automatic file sync using Rclone.

rclone-autosync

Small utility using Rclone to automatically sync a local directory with a remote. I personally use it to sync Google Drive on Fedora, because Google has not released an official client for Drive yet.

How does it work?

• It periodically runs rclone sync remote_name:remote_path local_path to fetch remote changes,
• It polls the local filesystem to detect any change and runs rclone sync local_path remote_name:remote_path when needed.

Not the most efficient implementation, but it is quite robust and fits my needs.

Usage

Install Rclone

Follow the official instructions.

Install rclone-autosync

go install github.com/jmichiels/rclone-autosync/cmd/rclone-autosync@latest

Configure a systemd service

Create a new systemd user service file in ~/.config/systemd/user/rclone-autosync.service. Fix the paths as required.

[Unit]
Description=rclone-autosync service
Wants=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/user/go/bin/rclone-autosync --rclone /path/to/rclone remote-name:/remote/path/ /local/path/
KillSignal=SIGINT

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Enable and start the service:

systemctl --user enable rclone-autosync
systemctl --user start rclone-autosync

Check its status:

systemctl --user status rclone-autosync