Scripts

This repository contains some scripts I wrote to automate daily tasks. I hope they are useful to you as well :)

rclone.py

This Python script creates backups of your data to Microsoft OneDrive using rclone. It checks for updates on every start, interactively asks if you want to execute rclone's sync or cryptcheck commands (with some reasonable CLI flags set) and logs everything.

Why use this over Microsoft's native OneDrive client?

• Both Python and rclone are platform-independent
• rclone's union remote allows multiple accounts to be pooled together to bypass OneDrive's per-user quotas
• rclone's crypt remote allows your backups to be end-to-end encrypted
• rclone's cryptcheck command allows you to verify the integrity of your data
• rclone's logs are actually useful

What to look out for?

• Relative paths ./rclone.conf and ./filters.md are used for portability, so these files are expected to exist in the same directory as this script
  • rclone.conf is expected to contain a source remote called data: (an alias for a local path) and a target remote called OneDrive:
  • Encrypting rclone.conf is possible, but the password has to be entered again for every command as rclone currently doesn't support reading it from stdin during runtime
• For automatic deletion of rclone.old.exe after an update to work on Windows, rclone.exe needs to be in the same directory as this script (but can be anywhere otherwise)