Alias
In CloudMount
Section titled “In CloudMount”- Needs Pro. See Wrapping and combining drives.
At a glance
Section titled “At a glance”rclone support tier: Tier 1: Core
This is a wrapping drive: it stores nothing itself and works on top of other drives, so checksums, modification times, server-side operations and free space mostly follow the drives it wraps. The sections below say where it differs.
The alias remote provides a new name for another remote.
e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory or /directory/subdirectory.
During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the target
remote. The target remote can either be a local path or another remote.
Subfolders can be used in target remote. Assume an alias remote named backup
with the target mydrive:private/backup. Invoking rclone mkdir backup:desktop
is exactly the same as invoking rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/desktop.
There will be no special handling of paths containing .. segments.
Invoking rclone mkdir backup:../desktop is exactly the same as invoking
rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/../desktop.
The empty path is not allowed as a remote. To alias the current directory
use . instead.
The target remote can also be a connection string.
This can be used to modify the config of a remote for different uses, e.g.
the alias myDriveTrash with the target remote myDrive,trashed_only:
can be used to only show the trashed files in myDrive.
Options
Section titled “Options”Standard options
Section titled “Standard options”The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.
remote
Section titled “remote”Remote or path to alias.
Can be “myremote:path/to/dir”, “myremote:bucket”, “myremote:” or “/local/path”.
Type: string · Required
Advanced options
Section titled “Advanced options”The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.
description
Section titled “description”Description of the remote.
Type: string