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Rich:
I recently suggest to a forum member they might want to consider mounting
a Google drive for extra storage. Although I have no interest in storing any
data in "the cloud", I decided to see just how involved the process was.

It turned out to be relatively straight forward. A search turned up several
programs available for the task. I decided to try rclone for this experiment.

While they do have a github page, I went with one of the precompiled
packages.

Precompiled statically linked (no deps) rclone can be found here:
http://downloads.rclone.org/

I used the 32 bit version V1.60.0:
https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.60.0/rclone-v1.60.0-linux-386.zip
For 64 bit use:
https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.60.0/rclone-v1.60.0-linux-amd64.zip

There are also ARM versions available:
https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.60.0/rclone-v1.60.0-linux-arm.zip
https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.60.0/rclone-v1.60.0-linux-arm-v7.zip
https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.60.0/rclone-v1.60.0-linux-arm64.zip

The attached file shows the steps I took and the responses from rclone.
It shows how I fixed the SSL certificate error.
It includes the above links as well as a link to the guide I used when
creating the attachment.

If you have a Gmail account, you should already have a 15 Gigabyte
Google drive included. Saved emails count against the free space
on that drive.

TT:
Also very convenient, albeit heavier − requiring libcurl-gnutls precompiled binaries are on PPA − for those interested: https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

vinceASPECT:
Thanks.

Also recently discovered a long lost fact.

My ISP service provides me with a "free" cloud drive of 10 gigs and the web interface into it.

Meaning to say, the following are thrown in free with my regular DSL bill

1) 10 gig cloud drive with web interface.
2) "free wi fi"   European wide.
( millions of locations)



A "cloud drive" together with a "PEN DRIVE"  gives me a second and a third location to store backups.....

Those locations are in addition to the "First location" which is inside the host computers HDD itself.
(3 locations in total)

Thx,
C.

gadget42:
huge kudos and thanks to @Rich for sharing his experience, knowledge, and time!

TT:
I think it is important to consult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rclone#Rclone_or_rsync
Rclone (RC) "does not currently preserve permissions and attributes". For me even xattr's are important since I'm a fan of FarManager's Files.bbs (far2l in Linux!). It looks like RC does sync (edit: or does it also mount? I'm a bit overloaded), while google-drive-ocamlfuse actually mounts Google Drive. I didn't have time to explore if permissions and attributes are being honored. Some time ago Andrew File System (AFS) was poised for most convenient "an Internet file system", didn't know what is their status quo now.

P.S. This one looks candy: https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser

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