[Rclone] Mount vStorage as Local Drive on Linux

To Mount vStorage to Local Drive on Linux using Rclone, follow these instructions:

1. Download and Install Rclone

• With CentOS 7:

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh
sudo bash
sudo yum install fuse -y

For other OS: you can refer to the download link at: https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.55.1/

Note: If your rclone is using an old version < 1.50 (To check the version, use the command rclone version ), you should download the new rclone version in the following way:

• If you install by script:

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh
sudo bash
sudo rm /usr/bin/rclone
sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/rclone.

• If you install from OS repo, you can:

yum remove rclone

Then, you download and install the new version as instructed above.

2. Create a certificate file rclone.conf

• Create the rclone.conf file according to the template below, you can get the access_key_id and secret_access_key information at vStorage Portal:

[vstorage]
type = s3
provider = Other
access_key_id = <<Lấy thông tin từ vStorage Portal>>
secret_access_key = <<Lấy thông tin từ vStorage Portal>>
endpoint = https://hcm04.vstorage.vngcloud.vn

• Before mounting, you check the connection to vStorage using rclone's lsd command with the syntax:

rclone --config=rclone.conf lsd vstorage:

If you have used vStorage before, you will see buckets containing the files you have uploaded.

3. Perform mount

To mount, use the command with the following syntax:

rclone mount --config=rclone.conf vstorage:<bucket_name> <mount_point> --vfs-cache-mode full --allow-non-empty --allow-other --drive-chunk-size 128M --max-read-ahead 200M --dir-cache-time 30m --daemon

In there:

• bucket_name : the name of the bucket you will backup files to on vStorage. (If it doesn't exist, rclone will automatically generate it). Note, you should set a different name from the existing buckets.

• mount_point : the area to mount on your local.

For example: you want to mount a bucket named backup at the path /backup on your local machine:

rclone mount --config=/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf vstorage:backup /backup --vfs-cache-mode full --allow-non-empty --allow-other --drive-chunk-size 128M --max-read-ahead 200M --dir-cache-time 30m --daemon

The mounting process will take a while to complete. (About 3 minutes).

To test whether the mount process is complete or not, you can create a file in the mount area above:

Example: touch /backup/abc

Wait a moment for the data sync process to take place (depending on the size of your file, this process will be fast or slow).

• To check if the sync process was successful, use rclone's ls command to check:

 rclone --config=rclone.conf ls vstorage:<bucket_name>

For example:

rclone --config=rclone.conf ls vstorage:backup

• To unmount, use the following command:

fusermount -uz <mount_point>