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  • All three of those links are very outdated - I do not recommend trying to use any of them.

    Yeah, they did look a bit suspect. Bookmarks deleted!

    Can you be more specific about what you are trying to do exactly?

    Thanks, I was hoping someone would ask, although I have been trying to “RTFM” and figure it out on my own 🙂. I’ve already installed the lastest .deb—basically I would like to use RClone to continuously sync the home folder on my laptop to Proton Drive (after having RClone autostart) in more or less the same way that I use Syncthing to sync a few important folders from my laptop to my phone. The setup with RClone I envision would be a one-way sync from my laptop to Proton Drive. In the absence of a Proton Drive client for Linux, can RClone be set up to do any of these things? And does RClone/PD support versioning?


  • Yeah, I know, “RTFM.” I did, but am still kind of confused. A “remote” presumably means a remote folder/share/whatever in the cloud, in this case on Proton Drive, yes? If I want to set Rclone to automaticlly sync, say, my home folder to Proton Drive, Rclone has to run as a service on startup for this to work. They say

    Start as a service: To always run rclone in background, relevant for mount commands etc, you can use systemd to set up rclone as a system or user service. Running as a system service ensures that it is run at startup even if the user it is running as has no active session. Running rclone as a user service ensures that it only starts after the configured user has logged into the system.

    But I don’t know how to do that . . . I’ve found a few, I guess, “scripts” for this online but each one is a bit different. Unfortunately, just because I’m a Linux person doesn’t mean that I know what I’m doing . . .

    EDIT: After some further research, I found a couple scripts, but since each one is a bit different, I’m not sure which one to choose or how to write one that best suits my needs . . . would be kind of nice if Rclone would include this somewhere in their documentation; so far I haven’t found anything.

    EDIT EDIT: I would say that this is fairly complicated for the average user, but my research continues . . .

    EDIT EDIT EDIT: Can anyone attest to this, this, or this?