Hello everyone,

my intention is to use a share of Unraid that I called "Dropbox_local" to make a local copy of the whole content of my dropbox account (1.2 TB).

I've installed Rclone plugin and created the "dropbox" connection, then I've authorized it and I can successfully read the content.

Now, I want to schedule a job, using "User Scripts" every 2h and I want to be sure there 100% of probability it won't delete ANY file on my Dropbox account.

would this do the job?

 

rclone sync dropbox: /mnt/user/Dropbox_local

 

Thank you everyone!🙌

P.S. I'm sorry if I can seem to be a bit paranoic, but in Dropbox there's my whole life, so it's extremely important to be sure 100% not to delete any file! 😅

2 minutes ago, endystrike said:

I'm sorry if I can seem to be a bit paranoic, but in Dropbox there's my whole life, so it's extremely important to be sure 100% not to delete any file

No suggestions on rsync, but given the above, I would suggest you make a separate basic account while you setting things up and validating it works the way you want it to. Then when you are happy and confident, set it up for your existing account

Just now, apandey said:

No suggestions on rsync, but given the above, I would suggest you make a separate basic account while you setting things up and validating it works the way you want it to. Then when you are happy and confident, set it up for your existing account

thank you, that's a very nice and super safe idea! 🙌

For rclone, I have a 2 step setup for my Google drive. I mount it to a user share using rclone mount. Then have a rsync job running daily to keep a backup inside another share. I mostly just use the live mounted folder

7 minutes ago, apandey said:

For rclone, I have a 2 step setup for my Google drive. I mount it to a user share using rclone mount. Then have a rsync job running daily to keep a backup inside another share. I mostly just use the live mounted folder

nice, I'll try that solution too!

I tested mine one at the moment in the meanwhile with another account where there's no important data and it seems it works without any issue!

34 minutes ago, apandey said:

For rclone, I have a 2 step setup for my Google drive. I mount it to a user share using rclone mount. Then have a rsync job running daily to keep a backup inside another share. I mostly just use the live mounted folder

just to be sure 100% have you configured as follows?

 

Mount script example (to be scheduled when array starts):

mkdir -p /mnt/disks/google
rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other google: /mnt/disks/google &

 

Unmount script (to be scheduled when the array stops):

fusermount -u /mnt/disks/google

 

and to sync Google to your share (i.e. "Google_local"). This can be scheduled every 24h or whenever you wanna sync google data with your local data.

rsync -a -v -P /mnt/disks/google/* /mnt/user/Google_local/

 

Edited January 18, 20233 yr by endystrike

8 hours ago, endystrike said:

just to be sure 100% have you configured as follows?

Yes, largely same as what you posted

Is it a one way or two way sync?