Rcclone/protondrive install

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Hi
I finally managed to install rcclone for proton drive, but now comes my question, how do I upload into proton drive folders ? I pretty new to this so I rather ask here. I did follow the whole guide from rcclone proton drive site ? but now whats next because I have given up installing the proton drive AUR I simply do not know how to ? so I installed the rcclone. but is this enough ? abit confused here ?

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I donā€™t understand what you mean by ā€œinstall rclone for proton driveā€. I have a working setup, but Iā€™m using restic as an intermediary.

What does rclone listremotes show?

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Hi I follow their instructions and when finished install it seems to be ready for use, but how ? I am used to have a desktop app on macOS but from what I can understand there isnt any supported for Endeavour OS so my question how do I use proton drive ? how do you use Proton Drive ?

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If youā€™re talking about a desktop app for Proton Drive, it does not yet exist for Linux. Iā€™ve using the Windows version, and it works well.

Now, since you mentioned rclone, I need to know if youā€™ve setup a protondrive remote yet (hence the request for the output from rclone listremotes). Can you also supply the link you used to setup rclone?

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Hi I will add it here

But I also found this link that seems to be a bit more useful because I only did the first part like in the link above

But when I follow the second link for some reason it do not work, even though I follow step by step phewww not easy to be a newbie, but I am learning lol

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(2) things:

  • Your second link is basically worthless. Thereā€™s no reason to mount your protondrive as a share when rclone can sync your data without it. Plus this requires you to move any data you want backed up to the share; rclone will sync any files/directories you want (think of rsync for cloud services). It also mentions settings up Hyprland services: are you using that?
  • I canā€™t help you without all of the information that I asked for. Either supply that or Iā€™m moving on.
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Hi
yes I use Enedeavour OS KDE hyprland and then I checked in Terminal proton drive exists. next question is rsync something I should install after I already create rclone ? I do not for now have any data in my Proton Drive so there is for now less work there. But I did inside Proton drive created folders like explained in second link. So now its more how do I proceed from here ? I have a proton unlimited plan so the Proton drive has 500 GB storage. My plan is to sync pictures folder and music documents and also the system backup think its called snapshots.

P:S Sorry if I did not provided enough information I will of course do that

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OK - so if you have the ProtonDrive share mounted, then using something like rsync will work fine. My earlier comments were suggesting to not create this share and just use rclone directly (thatā€™s really what itā€™s for). Your next step should be to understand how rclone works once a remote is created. rclone sync --help will give you a ton of information.

Hereā€™s an example of how I use rclone:

rclone sync $HOME/Downloads proton:/Downloads --skip-links

This command sync my local Downloads directory with proton, ignoring any symlinks. This is a one-way sync, so your remote files will match your local ones (local files are not modified).

No idea what you mean by system backup. Rclone does not create snapshots.

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Hi ok I think I understand but basically its like using Proton Drive and upload directly into the different folders I made there ? or if I use Rclone and each time I make a backup in StandardNotes it will upload there ?

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Yes.

Canā€™t answer that. All I know is that rclone does not backup anything on the fly, like the ProtonDrive app does. I would recommend asking for help on rclone here: https://forum.rclone.org/latest

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Gotta say, this discussion taught me stuff. I had no idea rclone was out there. Thank you, I will be restructuring and avoiding use of the vendor provided appimage for PCloud,etc.
Always great to learn something new (and useful)!

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Iā€™ve used rclone with OneDrive, Mega, and Proton; all with great success. Even if Proton ever finishes their promised app for Linux, Iā€™ll most likely stick with rclone.

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Yeah, something to be said for ā€˜one tool to bind them allā€™ :slight_smile:

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Hi I have come to the conclusion I will not use more time on it. So I canceled Filen and Proton drive too. And instead buying a external drive cheaper faster and safer lol. I been dealing with this since 7 this morning and its 16.36 now this is just driving me nuts to think about privacy and security based companies cannot provide a descent desktop client for Linux. Strange world we live in anyway its no big deal to me I save money in the end.