Using Rclone To Add Free Cloud Storage For Your VPS & Execute Read/Write Performance Test

root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# rclone config
2022/10/01 23:50:26 NOTICE: Config file “/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf” not found – using defaults
No remotes found – make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> gd
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1Fichier
   \ “fichier”
 2 / Alias for an existing remote
   \ “alias”
 3 / Amazon Drive
   \ “amazon cloud drive”
 4 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider (AWS, Alibaba, Ceph, Digital Ocean, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio, etc)
   \ “s3”
 5 / Backblaze B2
   \ “b2”
 6 / Box
   \ “box”
 7 / Cache a remote
   \ “cache”
 8 / Citrix Sharefile
   \ “sharefile”
 9 / Dropbox
   \ “dropbox”
10 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ “crypt”
11 / FTP Connection
   \ “ftp”
12 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ “google cloud storage”
13 / Google Drive
   \ “drive”
14 / Google Photos
   \ “google photos”
15 / Hubic
   \ “hubic”
16 / JottaCloud
   \ “jottacloud”
17 / Koofr
   \ “koofr”
18 / Local Disk
   \ “local”
19 / Mail.ru Cloud
   \ “mailru”
20 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ “azureblob”
21 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ “onedrive”
22 / OpenDrive
   \ “opendrive”
23 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ “swift”
24 / Pcloud
   \ “pcloud”
25 / Put.io
   \ “putio”
26 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ “sftp”
27 / Transparently chunk/split large files
   \ “chunker”
28 / Union merges the contents of several remotes
   \ “union”
29 / Webdav
   \ “webdav”
30 / Yandex Disk
   \ “yandex”
31 / http Connection
   \ “http”
32 / premiumize.me
   \ “premiumizeme”
Storage> 13
** See help for drive backend at: https://rclone.org/drive/ **
Google Application Client Id
Setting your own is recommended.
See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own.
If you leave this blank, it will use an internal key which is low performance.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
client_id>
Google Application Client Secret
Setting your own is recommended.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
client_secret>
Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
   \ “drive”
 2 / Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
   \ “drive.readonly”
   / Access to files created by rclone only.
 3 | These are visible in the drive website.
   | File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
   \ “drive.file”
   / Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
 4 | This is not visible in the drive website.
   \ “drive.appfolder”
   / Allows read-only access to file metadata but
 5 | does not allow any access to read or download file content.
   \ “drive.metadata.readonly”
scope> 1
ID of the root folder
Leave blank normally.
Fill in to access “Computers” folders (see docs), or for rclone to use
a non root folder as its starting point.
Note that if this is blank, the first time rclone runs it will fill it
in with the ID of the root folder.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
root_folder_id>
Service Account Credentials JSON file path
Leave blank normally.
Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (“”).
service_account_file>
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
If your browser doesn’t open automatically go to the following link: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?access_type=offline&client_id=202264815644.apps.googleusercontent.com&redirect_uri=urn%3Aietf%3Awg%3Aoauth%3A2.0%3Aoob&response_type=code&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive&state=NuNX1w_yc8CSxTkS1RQ
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Enter verification code> 4/1ARtbsJrzLdsfasfsfasdfasdfasdfsadfswerqwerJ-bwmWyDdMo
Configure this as a team drive?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
——————–
[gd]
scope = drive
token = {“access_token”:”ya29.a0Aa4xrXMF-PorKtxgrBByOVDzDaMcnQCiJ2PK3TLitkBccl3Ct3LJJV-Wl96ubVjPAhIhI9jwerqwerzQc_xj9t_b0PeSw6B3K8W5-iVcwnL5vhAjUyucfpadsfasdfbaicvaCgYKATASARMSFQEjDvL9y6KpqM9oegjJfiGv1wkqJw0163″,”token_type”:”Bearer”,”refresh_token”:”1//04nUNdP-4fdJSCgYIARAAGAQSNwF-L9Ircm74TeQh_6g0clYrlAf8MVgQChIpyFr0Rpbhjv-lAe7aVxc2f9gEnadsfwerwrLRglw”,”expiry”:”2022-10-02T00:53:06.384873373Z”}
——————–
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:
Name                 Type
====                 ====
gd                   drive
e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q
root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# rclone lsd gd:

fusermount -qzu /home/gdrive

rclone mount gd:backup /home/gdrive --allow-other --allow-non-empty --vfs-cache-mode writes

[root@centos7-test1 rclone]# cat rclone.conf
[google-drive]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = {"access_token":"ya29.a0Ae4lwerwerqertR-TaIh2_I3et3TqsXxbr73XnS0Gj19zalB4xke2FXosB8kThTG8akkjqc94ZjOoY8sLOokoxZf26YrUf04F14abUGRaGZTWznSGB","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"1//0fqzXgAuJUWU2CgYIARAGA8SNwF-L9IrsitYDMEfAeJgOutDZV7OyqaWLjeoaj9mDw-e-4beZlwucBY8Br32tQM5cXFl7BnyLo","expiry":"2020-05-08T20:00:53.118819799Z"}
root_folder_id = 1lMF61yEsdfwerqwBwCH

Verify using command “df -k” to check local drivers, or using following command to check cloud drives:

root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# rclone lsd gd:
          -1 2022-09-30 10:47:33        -1 Colab Notebooks
          -1 2022-05-02 20:34:48        -1 Temp

root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# df -k
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev              455492       0    455492   0% /dev
tmpfs              98732    1052     97680   2% /run
/dev/sda1       47143192 2217276  44909532   5% /
tmpfs             493656       0    493656   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs               5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs             493656       0    493656   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0         56960   56960         0 100% /snap/core18/2538
/dev/loop1         63488   63488         0 100% /snap/core20/1593
/dev/loop2         69504   69504         0 100% /snap/lxd/22753
/dev/loop4         60928   60928         0 100% /snap/oracle-cloud-agent/42
/dev/loop3         48128   48128         0 100% /snap/snapd/16292
/dev/sda15        106858    5321    101537   5% /boot/efi
tmpfs              98728       0     98728   0% /run/user/1001
gd:             15728640 2863200   6689528  30% /home/gdrive

root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# df -k
Filesystem         1K-blocks    Used     Available Use% Mounted on
udev                  455492       0        455492   0% /dev
tmpfs                  98732    1044         97688   2% /run
/dev/sda1           47143192 2217740      44909068   5% /
tmpfs                 493656       0        493656   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   5120       0          5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                 493656       0        493656   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0             56960   56960             0 100% /snap/core18/2538
/dev/loop1             63488   63488             0 100% /snap/core20/1593
/dev/loop2             69504   69504             0 100% /snap/lxd/22753
/dev/loop3             60928   60928             0 100% /snap/oracle-cloud-agent/42
/dev/loop4             48128   48128             0 100% /snap/snapd/16292
/dev/sda15            106858    5321        101537   5% /boot/efi
gd:            1099511627776       0 1099511627776   0% /home/gdrive
tmpfs                  98728       0         98728   0% /run/user/1001
root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~#

root@ubuntu-20-04-rclone:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/gdrive/output bs=8k count=10k; rm -f /home/gdrive/output
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
83886080 bytes (84 MB, 80 MiB) copied, 10.9557 s, 7.7 MB/s