Rclone

Is a synchronization Software that can run on many Operating System. It can be used for Backup, however there's no versioning of files.

Links: - Project home page - GitHub page - Releases - Official documentation - Environment variables

Notes

• Works with layers
• Storage layer
  • https://rclone.org/onedrive/
  • https://rclone.org/swift/
• Encryption layer: crypt
  • Configuration file holds the secrets
  • Password is enough to recreate config
  • If salt is defined, must be considered as password as well
  • Check section on file name encryption
    • Onedrive base32768
• Configuration file can be held in various directories
  • Usually in %APPDATA%/rclone/rclone.conf or ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
  • See doc
• Any config can be held as an environment variable like RCLONE_CONFIG_REMOTENAME_CONFIGNAME

Setup

• OneDrive
• OVH using S3 (cheaper)

Renew token

1. Start from a fresh rclone session
2. Create a new connection with rclone config
3. Copy the token
   1. Put " around it
   2. Make sure to prefix " with ``