Combine

In CloudMount

• Needs Pro. See Wrapping and combining drives.

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.

From rclone’s documentation

The rest of this page is adapted from rclone’s documentation for this backend (rclone v1.75.2, MIT licence). It is written for rclone’s command line: where it mentions a flag such as --combine-example, set the option example in the wizard’s options instead. Commands such as rclone copy aren’t part of CloudMount.

The combine backend joins remotes together into a single directory tree.

For example you might have a remote for images on one provider:

$ rclone tree s3:imagesbucket
/
├── image1.jpg
└── image2.jpg

And a remote for files on another:

$ rclone tree drive:important/files
/
├── file1.txt
└── file2.txt

The combine backend can join these together into a synthetic directory structure like this:

$ rclone tree combined:
/
├── files
│   ├── file1.txt
│   └── file2.txt
└── images
    ├── image1.jpg
    └── image2.jpg

You’d do this by specifying an upstreams parameter in the config like this

upstreams = images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files

During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the upstreams remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can either be a local paths or other remotes.

Setup notes

In CloudMount you add this drive from the Add drive screen, and the wizard asks for the options listed under Options. The notes below come from rclone’s setup guide.

Configuring for Google Drive Shared Drives

Rclone has a convenience feature for making a combine backend for all the shared drives you have access to.

Assuming your main (non shared drive) Google drive remote is called drive: you would run

rclone backend -o config drives drive:

This would produce something like this:

[My Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEF-01234567890,root_folder_id=:

[Test Drive]
type = alias
remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl,root_folder_id=:

[AllDrives]
type = combine
upstreams = "My Drive=My Drive:" "Test Drive=Test Drive:"

If you then add that config to your config file (find it with rclone config file) then you can access all the shared drives in one place with the AllDrives: remote.

See the Google Drive docs for full info.

Options

Standard options

The wizard asks for these when you add the drive.

upstreams

Upstreams for combining

These should be in the form

dir=remote:path dir2=remote2:path

Where before the = is specified the root directory and after is the remote to put there.

Embedded spaces can be added using quotes

"dir=remote:path with space" "dir2=remote2:path with space"

Type: SpaceSepList

Advanced options

The wizard shows these under Advanced options. Most drives work without changing any of them.

description

Description of the remote.

Type: string