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title: 🛠️ Rclone & Google Drive Setup
description: Description for setup of Rclone and Google Drive on the server
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date: 2026-01-23T17:53:17.857Z
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# 🛠️ Rclone Cloud Integration

This server uses **Rclone** to mount a specific subdirectory of Google Drive.

## 🔑 Connection Credentials
* **Google Cloud Project:** `georgew`
* **API Enabled:** Google Drive API
* **Auth Type:** OAuth2 (Client ID & Secret)
* **Remote Name:** `gdrive`

## 📁 Mount Specifics
To maximize security, the mount is restricted to a single folder. If I want to change in future I should re-initialise the mount. This would also need to update the systemd service (below) and also to update the audiobookshelf admin library setting (point to the new folder for audiobooks):
* **Source (Google Drive):** `gdrive:audiobooks`
* **Destination (Server):** `~/google-drive`
* **Access Level:** "Least Privilege" (The server cannot see any other Google Drive data).

## ⚙️ System Management
The mount is managed by a **systemd service** to ensure it restarts automatically.

* **Service File:** `/etc/systemd/system/rclone-gdrive.service`
* **Common Commands:**
    * Check Status: `sudo systemctl status rclone-gdrive`
    * Restart Mount: `sudo systemctl restart rclone-gdrive`
    * Force Unmount: `fusermount -uz ~/google-drive`

## 🚀 Moving Books
To move a book from the local SSD to the Cloud Archive:
`mv ~/audiobookshelf/audiobooks/AuthorName ~/google-drive/`