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Rclone and Swestore

A powerful complement to the ARC clients is the rclone tool — a command-line tool supporting file transfers to and from a multitude of storage resources and protocols. It is something of a "Swiss Army knife of cloud storage".

Rclone can help with the following tasks:

  • Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage
  • Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage
  • Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally

Configure Rclone

To use rclone with Swestore it must first be configured. Run rclone config and follow the numbered steps:

rclone config
  1. n for New remote
  2. swestore for name
  3. webdav for Storage (or the corresponding number in the list)
  4. https://webdav.swestore.se for url
  5. other for vendor (or the corresponding number in the list)
  6. Press Enter for user (leave blank)
  7. n for "No, leave this optional password blank"
  8. Press Enter for bearer_token
  9. n for "Edit advanced config?"
  10. y if the resulting config looks correct, otherwise e to edit again
  11. q to Quit config

The recommended way of using rclone with Swestore is with certificates and a proxy certificate. Specify the certificate locations on the command line:

rclone --client-cert=/tmp/x509up_uXXX --client-key=/tmp/x509up_uXXX

To avoid typing this every time, create a command alias:

echo 'alias rclone-cert="rclone --client-cert=/tmp/x509up_u${UID} --client-key=/tmp/x509up_u${UID}"' >> ~/.bashrc

The following examples use rclone-cert as the shorter alias.

Listing directories and files

rclone-cert lsd swestore:/snic/storage-training
          -1 2022-02-14 16:44:22        -1 Course
          -1 2022-03-14 22:08:12        -1 newdir

rclone-cert ls swestore:/snic/storage-training
   116876 Course/apply_storage1.png
   131456 Course/apply_storage2.png
   139240 Course/apply_storage3.png

Copying files

Copy a single file:

rclone-cert copyto IMG_E0868.JPG swestore:/snic/storage-training/IMG_E0868.JPG

Copy a directory recursively:

rclone-cert copy /home/bmjl/Courses/storage-training/examples swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples

Copy recursively with progress display:

rclone-cert copy -P /home/bmjl/Courses/storage-training/examples swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples
Transferred:      338.249 MiB / 1.894 GiB, 17%, 52.625 MiB/s, ETA 30s
Transferred:           75 / 407, 18%
Elapsed time:         6.5s

File operations

Create a directory:

rclone-cert mkdir swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples/new_dir

Remove a file:

rclone-cert deletefile swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples/test.txt

Remove a directory:

rclone-cert rmdir swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples/new_dir/

Remove all files in a directory:

rclone-cert delete swestore:/snic/storage-training/examples/

Author: (LUNARC)

Last Updated: 2022-10-05