Rclone config command

Overview

Questions

• Once installed, how is Rclone setup or configured?
• How to check for and edit existing configurations
• what is a remote/headless machine

Objectives

• Use config to create remote connections
• Knowledge of useful command flags (or ‘options’)
• Configure a remote connection for a machine with no browser available (ie. headless)

Rclone config command:

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The *rclone config” command enteres an interactive configuration session where you can setup new remotes, edit and manage existing ones.

Syntax:

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Rclone config [flags]

BASH

rclone config

OUTPUT

2025/04/03 07:25:18 NOTICE: Config file "/Users/timdennis/.config/rclone/rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
No remotes found, make a new one?
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q>

Rclone command flags

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There are numerous command flags but these three are especially worth remembering:

• -n, –dry-run Do a trial run with no permanent changes
• -i, –interactive Enable interactive mode
• -v, –verbose count Print lots more stuff (repeat for more) - useful when debugging

[live-code a setting up a simple remote]

Walk through configuring a local machine

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Walk through configuring a remote that requires authorization

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We are going to walk through this but here is an example from the Rclone documentation https://rclone.org/remote_setup/#configuring-using-rclone-authorize.

Documentation Specific to Remote

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Rclone includes extensive documentation that is specific to particular remotes.

Examples:

• Box: https://rclone.org/box/
  
• Google Drive: https://rclone.org/drive/
  
• S3 bucket: https://rclone.org/s3/

Reference

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https://rclone.org/remote_setup/

https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config/

https://rclone.org/flags/#important

Key Points

• Understand how configuration is used.
  
• Familiar with useful command flags: dry-run, interactive and verbose.
• Use config to create remote connections
• Know where to get help.