📁 🗂️ 🗃 RCloneAbuser

It is a simple Python script, intended to execute rclone on a list of folders. I use it to back up data from my PC to home NAS: it's a bit more convenient than make a bunch of rclone shortcuts, similar to each other.

🤨 Well, how to use it?

First of all, you need to install rclone in case if it is not installed yet. For instance, this is how to do it for Windows:

winget install Rclone.Rclone

As for the script, it has two options: --config and --rclone. First one is a path to the rclone binary file on your computer. Second one is a path to a YAML config file like this one. For instance:

py abuser.py --config="D:\Apps\RClone\abuser.yaml" --rclone="D:\Apps\RClone\rclone.exe"

You can omit the rclone option if the app has an alias in your system. I mean the case when you can call it like this, without specifying the full path:

rclone

🙂 How to write the config file?

There is a pair of paths per line, separated by colon. First one is a folder whose content must be synced. The second is the folder the first one needs to be synced with.

For instance:

- D:\42: M:\Backup\D\42

Here the D:\42 directory is going to by synced with the M:\Backup\D\42 directory.

🧐 How does it work with rclone?

The script will execute the following command for an every pair of folders:

rclone sync "source" "target" --copy-links --progress --stats-one-line

You can easily change this behaviour: look for a command variable.