Rclone / gdrive / Plex setup

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Hi guys,

I'm quite new to both Rclone and Linux so apologies off this sounds silly or is basic.

I have setup Rclone with Gdrive and Plex on a VPS which is working fine. I have now tried to do the same on a dedi that will solely run Plex. I have installed Rclone, Fuse, setup the Google Api etc and all seems to be ok. One thing I'm not sure about is the rclone.service file. I was expecting to find this in /etc/systemd... but it is not there. I'm assuming there is one as Rclone is running and did so after a re-start. Am I missing something or is this not needed?

I have also added a cron job to re-mount my drive on reboot using:
rclone mount gdrive: /home/gdrive --allow-other --buffer-size 256M --dir-cache-time 96h --timeout 1h --umask 002 --daemon
Does this look correct? I did read about utilising cache for Plex, is this recommended?

Many thanks!

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hello and welcome to the forum,

i am not a linux expert but i have used this command to list all systemd services that are active
systemctl --type=service --state=active

this is the go to guide from one of the forum members.
https://github.com/animosity22/homescripts

there are two caches that can be used with rclone mount.
many web pages on reddit and elsewhere that suggest using a cache remote but those are mistaken.
https://rclone.org/cache/#status

the other cache is the vfs cache, most users set this flag.
https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/#vfs-cache-mode-full

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Thank you! I have found online that I needed to manually create the rclone.service file.

Do I need the service file if I am running the @reboot mount command as a cron?

I did / was following the go to guide but I think I ended up confusing myself unfortunately. I added the rclone.service file after editing it for my config and I broke it... the service would not start and after a reboot the mount did not appear. If I take that out and re-start the mount re-appears automatically from the reboot command in cron

100% confused myself now lol

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systemd vs cron, that is your choice.

well, that does not provide much info.
add a debug log to rclone.
for testing, you can run a systemd service from the command line and systemd itself keeps a log.

also, post the service file, blockquote it when posting.

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Sorry about that. ok so:

I have removed the cron to save confusion.
When I attempt to start the rclone.service I receive rclone.service failed because the control process exited with error code. I'm unsure as to find out the error though?

service file

Blockquote
[Unit]
Description=RClone Service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=notify
Environment=RCLONE_CONFIG=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
KillMode=none
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount gdrive: /home/gdrive
--allow-other
--dir-cache-time 96h
--log-level INFO
--log-file /home/log/rclone.log
--poll-interval 15s
--umask 002
--user-agent plrclone
--rc
--rc-addr :5572
--rc-no-auth
--cache-dir=/cache
--vfs-cache-mode full
--vfs-cache-max-size 200G
--vfs-cache-max-age 336h
--bwlimit-file 16M
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /GD
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true --rc-addr 127.0.0.1:5572 _async=true
Restart=on-failure
User=root
Group=root
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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there should be \ at the end of the lines
also, you use both
/home/gdrive
and
/GD

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Thank you. I do have the \ in the file, not sure how I find;t copy them across.

Thanks for pointing out the /GD, I'll have a look

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ok, try to enclose the text in triple back quotes before and after the text.
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