Backing up to MS OneDrive

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 17:41, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I actually feel for you after watching this thread unfold.

:-) Thank you!

> This may be of some use since, once you mount it as a file system,
> you can use any backup method you like:
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> https://askubuntu.com/questions/804421/mounting-onedrive-on-ubuntu-linux-command-line

That's helpful, thank you!

I have tried 3 different client methods so far and yes, rclone is the
one I have settled on. It's FOSS, unrestricted, and it seems to work.

There's a significant gotcha which the page I found doesn't mention
but yours does:

The rclone command doesn't terminate. It just sits there and as long
as it's open the the drive is mounted. To unmount you hit Ctrl-C.

To get the prompt  back, add ``--daemon`` to the end. Then rclone goes
into the background and you can use the drive like a regular one.

There are quite a lot of restrictions on what a mounted OneDrive can
do -- a similar list of illegal characters in filenames (?, *, : and
so on) to Windows and Sharepoint. (OneDrive is in effect Sharepoint on
the public Internet.)

You also lose all Linux metadata such as permissions.

A big restriction is that max file size is limited and it's only about
250 MB. So I will be investigating the use of ``dar`` to break my
backups into smaller chunks.

Amanda looks quite complex and has a server end as well as a client
end, so I don't think it will help here.

I tried with ``tar`` but once the file hits the max size, my Xfce
session hung and I had to reboot from a vconsole. In fact I had to
power-cycle the machine after that.

The free OneDrive gives you 5 GB which is not insignificant and
honestly I could probably get all my important personal stuff into
that.

However my work account gives me 5 *TB* -- a lot of space and enough
for images of all 3 of my work machines, if I can work out a way to do
it.

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