Rclone systemd user service

Rclone systemd service.md

rclone systemd service

Preparation

This service will use the same remote name you specified when using rclone config create. If you haven't done that yet, do so now.

Next, create the mountpoint for your remote. The service uses the location ~/mnt/<remote> by default.

mkdir ~/mnt/dropbox

The --allow-other option is required in order to work in many desktop environments. This flag must be enabled by adding user_allow_other to /etc/fuse.conf. If you aren't using a desktop environment, such as on a server, this option can be omitted.

Adding the service

Save the rclone@.service file in ~/.config/systemd/user/ Make sure you include the @. This is required to work.

As your normal user, run:

systemctl --user daemon-reload

Using the service

You can now start/enable each remote by using rclone@<remote>

systemctl --user enable --now rclone@dropbox

rclone@.service

# User service for Rclone mounting
#
# Place in ~/.config/systemd/user/
# File must include the '@' (ex rclone@.service)
# As your normal user, run 
#   systemctl --user daemon-reload
# You can now start/enable each remote by using rclone@<remote>
#   systemctl --user enable --now rclone@dropbox

[Unit]
Description=rclone: Remote FUSE filesystem for cloud storage config %i
Documentation=man:rclone(1)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir -p %h/mnt/%i
ExecStart= \
  /usr/bin/rclone mount \
    --config=%h/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
    --vfs-cache-mode writes \
    --vfs-cache-max-size 100M \
    --log-level INFO \
    --log-file /tmp/rclone-%i.log \
    --umask 022 \
    --allow-other \
    %i: %h/mnt/%i
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u %h/mnt/%i

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Hi, my service stopped working all of a sudden. It would fail to start after reboot and reloading daemon. I reinstalled fuse3 and Plasma 6 , and removed the --allow_users flag. After this the service started fine. I realized that something might have broken with updating this week(Arch on LTS kernel). When I checked the /etc/fuse.conf file user_allow_other was commented. This was un-commented before. I also tried it with the --allow_users flag again and user_allow_other un-commented and it worked as before. Just an FYI.

Good point, thanks. /etc/fuse.conf gets overwritten on upgrading whenever it's content in the package changes, and multiple config file loading like /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* isn't yet supported AFAIK.

If you don't need to access the mount with users other than your own, it's actually safer and easier to just remove --allow-other from rclone mount options, which doesn't require setting user_allow_other.

Tested on Debian 12.5, rclone 1.66