The purpose of the move.sh script is to automatically move files from your server to your google drive account. This is done by default every night at 3:12 am controlled by a cron job.
Editing the Cron Job
- SSH into your server
- Enter in the following commands
sudo su - crontab -e
- You will then see a line stating the following
12 3 * * * /home/${username}/rclone/move.sh
- You can now change the timings for the cron job.
- For help with setting new cron rules use: https://crontab-generator.org/
- In short: * Minutes – * Hours – * Days – * Months – * Weekdays
- Once you are finished you can then just press control and X and then Y to save and edit.
Editing the Script
The move.sh script will be located in /home/USERNAME/rclone/move.sh
- SSH into your server
- Run the following command (Replacing USERNAME with your actual username)
sudo su - cd /home/USERNAME/rclone/ chattr -i move.sh nano move.sh
- You will now be editing the file. The move.sh script flags will look like something below. (This is an un-encrypted example)
/usr/bin/rclone move /home/${username}/rclone/cache crypt: --drive-chunk-size 64M --delete-empty-src-dirs --user-agent user --fast-list --bwlimit 8M -P --log-file=/home/${username}/rclone/move.log -v
Here is a breakdown of the various command and flags that are used.
/usr/bin/rclone move > instruction rclone to move files.
Options for rclone to Google Drive: MOVE, SYNC & COPY
move– Will move from source and delete from source to Google Drivesync– Will sync from source to Google Drive. Meaning if content is not present in source it will get deleted from Google Drivecopy– Will copy from source to Google Drive 1:1/home/{username}/rclone/cache> path of sourcegdrive:> name of remote (Google Drive)--drive-chunk-size 64M> Upload chunk size. Must a power of 2 >= 256k. (default 8M)--delete-empty-src-dirs> Delete empty source dirs after move--user-agent user> Set the user-agent to a specified string. The default is rclone/ version (default “rclone/v1.51.0”) (was an issue with Google Drive once not being specified)--fast-list> Use recursive list if available. Uses more memory but fewer transactions. (good for speed)--bwlimit 8M> Bandwidth limit in kBytes/s, or use suffix b|k|M|G or a full timetable. (8M will allow for a continuous 24/7 upload without getting hit by the max 750GB/daily upload limit)-P> Show progress during transfer. (Prints status in terminal while running)--log-file=/home/${username}/rclone/move.log> Log everything to this file-v> Print lots more stuff
More flags can be found at https://rclone.org/flags/
- When you have edited everything that you need, you can save and exit this editor with
ctrl+xpressY
- Finally, to lock the script again, please enter the following command.
chattr +i move.sh
