How do I restore an encrypted rclone mount to another machine?

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I have a local machine and a vps. The local machine contains various rclone mounts (google drive, google team drive, dropbox etc).

I purchased a VPS to start moving some files from google drive (unencrypted) to dropbox (encrypted).

I installed rclone on the vps, and then proceeded to setup a new remote on dropbox (to test before the actual move). Everything went well and I was able to transfer a bunch of files from Google Drive to the new remote (Dropbox2-crypt).

The issue is that I want to mount the remote on my local machine. I copied the content of rclone.conf pertaining to "dropbox2" & "dropbox2-crypt" from the vps and added the entry to my rclone.conf on my local machine, however when I issue the command 'rclone lsd dropbox2:' I get the error "Failed to create file system for "dropbox2:": failed to configure dropbox: unexpected end of JSON input".

I then tried setting up the "dropbox2" mount manually on rclone and I was able to see the folder within. I then copied the content of rclone.conf pertaining to "dropbox2-crypt" from the vps and added the entry to my rclone.conf on my local machine however when I issue the command 'rclone lsd dropbox2-crypt:encrypt/' I am shown the folder with the encrypted name.

Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.

Rclone version on VPS:

rclone v1.64.2
- os/version: ubuntu 23.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.2.0-34-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.21.3
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Rclone version on Local:

rclone v1.64.2
- os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.2.0-34-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.21.3
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive & Dropbox

Please run 'rclone config redacted' and share the full output. If you get command not found, please make sure to update rclone.

VPS

[dropbox2]
type = dropbox
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
token = XXX

[dropbox2-crypt]
type = crypt
remote = dropboxG2:encrypt
password = XXX
password2 = XXX
filename_encoding = base32768

[googleteam]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
root_folder_id =

Local

[dropbox1]
type = dropbox
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
token = XXX

[dropbox1-crypt]
type = crypt
remote = dropboxG1:/encrypt
password = XXX
password2 = XXX
filename_encoding = base32768

[dropbox2]
type = dropbox
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
token = XXX

[dropbox2-crypt]
type = crypt
remote = dropboxG2:encrypt
password = XXX
password2 = XXX
filename_encoding = base32768

[google]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
root_folder_id = XXX

[google2]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
root_folder_id =

[google2-crypt]
type = crypt
remote = google2:/encrypt
password = XXX
password2 = XXX
filename_encoding = base32768

[teamdrive]
type = drive
client_id = XXX
client_secret = XXX
scope = drive
token = XXX
team_drive = XXX
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There is no dropboxG1 configured in your local rclone.conf. Neither dropboxG2:

I guess you mess up some copy/paste - but it makes impossible to guess what is going on.

Correct this and then run your lsf with -vv flag and paste output here.

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Thank you for your reply.

It seems that copying the line via terminal (putty) somehow did not include the entire line of the token. I downloaded the .conf file to windows and copied the entire line once again and this time it copied everything and it works now.

4

Yes this is common mistake. Whatever text editor you are using learn how to wrap long lines.

Or instead run:

cat rclone.conf

and copy from there. It will show you all long lines wrapped into terminal width.

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