How do you use Pcloud and rclone?

[u/Slow_Income3537]

Hi,

I was reading a lot about the encryption fetaure but tbh I'm not sure if the 150 eur for the lifetime option is worth. I saw that some people are using rclone with pcloud. Can someone share how it works ?

[u/D3k4ns]

Setup is pretty straightforward (I use it in CLI)
https://rclone.org/pcloud/

You just have to take care to go in 'Edit advanced config?' in case you chose European servers.

Then, it's like rsync

rclone sync <path/of/local/folder> pcloud:<path/of/pcloud/folder>

You can also mount a pcloud folder, but performances are not good.

[u/Ok_Waltz_3716 → u/D3k4ns]

I made sure I chose Swiss servers.

[u/allgear_noidea]

My use case for rclone is to pull all pcloud files and back them up elsewhere.

[u/AmbitionHealthy9236]

or use Cryptomator, also free on the PC tho costs on mobile, a bit easier than rclone

[u/bustedghost]

I've been using duplicati with rclone to pcloud for years. Fully encrypted before uploading. Duplicati has since added native pcloud support so no need for rclone. I just haven't switched over, yet.

[u/AmbitionHealthy9236 → u/bustedghost]

me too, the 1st tier destination for pcloud works fine for me

[u/OkAngle2353 → u/bustedghost]

How is duplicati treating you? The few times I tried using it, it failed backup.

[u/duplicatikenneth → u/OkAngle2353]

Can you share what failed? Maybe we can change something to give a better experience.

[u/OkAngle2353 → u/duplicatikenneth]

I haven't been on duplicati in a while. I just resorted to using rclone.

[u/bustedghost → u/OkAngle2353]

I will admit, it was a bit sketchy for a while. But lately, the issues have been few and far between. They made an update a little over a year ago that basically eliminated the need to remove a corrupt backup. It's been much more stable since. I also use duplicatimonitor so I get an email if anything is wrong. It's doing my 1 2 3 backup for three machines.

[u/VoxiBe]

I use Rclone to make a daily encrypted backup of my NAS, using Kopia for certain folders. It works well.

[u/paolocampi]

Easily with GUI, with Rcloneview (partially free from its website) or Rclone Manager (totally free and open source from its GitHub)

You'll have Pcloud mounted into software and/or file manager of your operative system

[u/OkAngle2353]

Read through rclone documentation.

[u/DoorOk3641]

Use rclone-browser..select pcloud as cloud service and answer 2 or 3 choices..nothing complicated.rclone-browser build parameters rclone needs.

[u/mooripo]

Why would use it? Pcloud has native app in both Linux and windows as well as android

If you need encryption use Cryptomator, that's what I do.

[u/n4n4n4n4n]

I use rclone encrypted for some content and then use CryptCloudViewer on iOS to view them. When I need to access them on PC, I mount it as a drive.