What is the problem you are having with rclone?
I am trying to create a mount with one local folder and one ftp remote together as a union. It works, except I can't see new files created on the remote. It's not "refreshing" the remote until I restart the mount. Other than that, everything works as expected.
How I would like it to work: ServerA has ServerB as an FTP remote. ServerA also has a union containing the local folder /opt/unionmount (readonly) and ServerB (FTP). When I mount the union remote, new files created on ServerA's mount path should be stored on ServerB. But it should read files from both ServerB and the local folder /opt/unionmount. If files/folders are created on ServerB, ServerA should update the remote periodically (or however it works) so it becomes aware of the new files/folders.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Run the command 'rclone version' and share the full output of the command.
rclone v1.62.2
- os/version: ubuntu 22.04 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 5.19.0-50-generic (x86_64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: amd64
- go/version: go1.20.2
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)
FTP (vsftpd)
The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)
[Unit]
Description=RClone Service FTP
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount \
--config=/opt/rclone/rclone.conf \
--log-level=INFO \
--log-file=/opt/rclone/logs/rclone-mount-ftp.log \
--umask=002 \
--gid=1000 \
--uid=1000 \
--allow-non-empty \
--allow-other \
--timeout=1h \
--poll-interval=15s \
--dir-cache-time=1000h \
--cache-dir=/media/ssd/rclone_cache_ftp \
--vfs-cache-mode=full \
--vfs-cache-max-size=1G \
--vfs-cache-max-age=12h \
unionmount: /data1/unionmount
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /data1/unionmount
Restart=on-abort
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
The rclone config contents with secrets removed.
[ftp]
type = ftp
host = 10.23.2.52
user =
pass =
[unionmount]
type = union
upstreams = /opt/unionmount:ro ftp:
A log from the command with the -vv flag
2023/08/14 18:30:23 INFO : union root '': poll-interval is not supported by this remote
Maybe this has something to do with it?