Rclone RC does not detect mounts

[ltty (Florian Lettner)]

Hi all,

I've set up rclone RC using the following command in a service:
rclone rcd --rc-user <user> --rc-pass <pass> --rc-web-gui --rc-web-gui-no-open-browser --rc-enable-metrics --rc-no-auth --rc-addr :5572

The RC loads, is connected to rclone, shows my mount points and I can browse my remotes.

I am using a separate daemon to mount specific mount points using rclone mount, however, they don't show up in the RC. Can rclone RC somehow import existing mounts?

Thanks,
Florian

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

No, you need to mount them on that rclone.

You can use the RC to launch several mounts at once though.

[ltty (Florian Lettner)]

Ok understood, so the Web GUI is not a GUI that attaches to a single process, it instead launches its own process. As a matter of fact, if I use a cron job to periodically move files from a harddrive to a s3 remote with rclone, the Web UI also won't show any metrics, becuase the move process is from a different process. Is this correct?

The main reason I wanted to spin up the remote console is the /metrics end point. I want to monitor rclone performance, ant the prometheus metrics seemed a good idea for that.

But that doesn't help if it's not catching metrics from different processes.

Is there any other way that rclone mount, move, etc would expose metrics?

[ltty (Florian Lettner)]

Ok, I found a solution I thought works, i.e. using rclone rc mount/mount... However, turns out I have an issue there as well.

I converted this mount command:

rclone mount \
  --config=/home/florian/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
  --log-level=DEBUG \
  --log-file=/opt/rclone/logs/rclone-mount.log \
  --user-agent=idrive \
  --umask=002 \
  --gid=1002 \
  --uid=1000 \
  --allow-other \
  --timeout=1h \
  --poll-interval=15s \
  --dir-cache-time=12h \
  --cache-dir=/opt/rclone/cache/imedia \
  --vfs-cache-mode=full \
  --vfs-cache-max-size=4G \
  --vfs-cache-max-age=12h \
  idrivee2-crypt: /mnt/idrivee2-cloud

to this:

rclone rc mount/mount fs=idrivee2-crypt: mountPoint=/mnt/idrivee2-cloud vfsOpt='{"UID": 1000, "GID": 1002, "Umask": 2, "CacheMaxAge": 43200000000000, "CacheMaxSize": "4G", "CacheMode": 3 }' mountOpt='{"AllowOther": true }' --rc-user <user> --rc-pass <pass>

Now I get the following error:

{
        "error": "failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1",
        "input": {
                "fs": "idrivee2-crypt:",
                "mountOpt": "{\"AllowOther\": true }",
                "mountPoint": "/mnt/idrivee2-cloud",
                "vfsOpt": "{\"UID\": 1000, \"GID\": 1000, \"Umask\": 2, \"CacheMaxAge\": 43200000000000, \"CacheMaxSize\": \"4G\", \"CacheMode\": 3 }"
        },
        "path": "mount/mount",
        "status": 500
}
2024/07/31 16:52:46 Failed to rc: operation "mount/mount" failed: failed to mount FUSE fs: fusermount: exit status 1

FUSE is installed.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

[kapitainsky]

The answer is most likely in the debug log you capture in your command.