Make sure it’s checked and click “Close.” You should have an item similar to the OneDrive Sync item in the image below. Provided by: rclone1.36-3amd64 NAME Rclone - command line program to sync files and directories to and from cloud storage DESCRIPTION Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from Google Drive Amazon S3 Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore Dropbox Google Cloud Storage Amazon Drive Microsoft One Drive Hubic.
And for secure file transfer, we want a public-private key.
It keeps watching on source directory and if it detects any changes on source it will copy them to. FreeFileSync is a useful multi-platform application that helps us to synchronize our files and folder across various devices. This is done by typing grive -a on the terminal. It requires source and destination folders to sync.
The next thing that you'll need to do is to authenticate your Google account and allow the software to interact with the online service. You may also create a new folder for that purpose if you want. Let's call it SyncFiles: mkdir /opt/syncfiles. First, navigate to the folder that you want to sync with the GDrive service. After that, let's create a specific folder that we want to sync. The selective syncing mode also allows you to easily select a number of files and folders you’d want to sync (or unsync) in your local machine. You can easily set your syncing destination anywhere on your machine including external drive and network drives. It should be noted, that a network sync can be performed locally so long as the folder is shared (say by Samba) and then mounted to the machine with folder1. Below you will find examples of commands that can be used to backup in either case.
To do this, add OneDrive-D to the startup applications. First things first: we need to get all the dependencies installed on the 3 servers with this one-line command: apt update & apt -y install openssh-server rsync inotify-tools. The selective syncing mode also allows you to easily select a number of files and folders youd want to sync (or unsync) in your local machine. Customize the way you sync your files and folders. Local backup only requires rsync and read/write access to the folders being synchronized. If you make changes to your OneDrive content on multiple computers or other devices, such as a phone or tablet, you may want to automatically sync your content when you boot your Ubuntu machine. If you really want to end the watch process, click “Close Terminal.” Otherwise, click “Cancel” to continue running the watch. If you close the Terminal window, the following message displays. When the syncing is done, OneDrive-D sets up “watches.” This allows OneDrive-D to sync in real time as you make changes to files in the synced directory or add files to or remove files from the directory.įor the watch to continue to work, you must leave the Terminal window open.