RCLONE RSNAPSHOT to Google Drive

archie456 · Feb 27th 2026

Hi,

I have OMV 8 running with an SSD and a spinning drive, I use RSNAPSHOT to incrementally sync the SSD to the spinning drive as a backup - this all works really nicely.

I'd also like to incrementally backup my SSD to Google too.

I've been using Duplicati for this, but I'm not a fan of it, and would rather use a command line utility or somethin OMV.

RCLONE looks to do what I need by connecting to Google Drive, but it doesn't do incremental backups...

So I'm thinking could I RCLONE the RSNAPSHOT backup folder to Google Drive?

I know RSNAPSHOT uses links in some way, and I'm unsure if Google Drive will like these?

Would this work? Or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks!

macom · Saturday, 11:47 am

I use rclone with restic to backup to cloud storage.

ryecoaaron · Saturday, 4:22 pm

I am almost done with changes to the remotemount plugin that will allow mounting more cloud data storage types using rclone. Google drive is one of them.
https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…aster/debian/changelog#L3

archie456 · Sunday, 6:55 pm

ryecoaaron I don't quite follow, but does that mean that Google drive mountable within OMV?

Thanks!

ryecoaaron · Sunday, 7:41 pm

Quote from archie456

does that mean that Google drive mountable within OMV?

Yes. All the remotemount plugin does is mount remote sources within OMV. By adding rclone, it gives the plugin more remote source types to mount.

archie456 · Monday, 10:14 pm

Excellent, sound like just what I need! I look forward to it being released.

ryecoaaron · Monday, 11:22 pm

Quote from archie456

I look forward to it being released.

I put it in the repo a couple days ago.

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