The Drive under Linux - Alternative Setup

I found some inspiration in a blog post for an alternative way to synchronize the files on my Mailbox Drive with a local directory on Linux.

It uses rclone bisync, which is currently a beta testing feature on the latest rclone version, which is not yet included in "stable" releases of common Linux distros. I installed the "testing" version of rclone on my Debian system, and I have had it running for a couple of weeks, so far without problems. I have not done any heavy usage or testing, however.

It is a bash script that installs itself as a user systemd service, and it uses inotifywait to trigger synchronization when local files are changed, and otherwise it synchronizes every 10 min. in case something changed in the other end.

You can find the script and a more detailed description here: https://codeberg.org/jfrickmann/rcloud