Setting up rclone mount in Windows with GSuite Drive

David Jiang — Sat, 01 May 2021 19:25:57 +0000

1. Download and Install Prerequisites

Download rclone and NSSM in to C:\rclone
Download and install WinFsp

2. Set Up your Personal Google Drive Client ID

Log into the Google API Console
Select a project or create a new project.
Under "ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES" search for "Drive", and enable the "Google Drive API".
Click "Credentials" in the left-side panel
Click on the "+ CREATE CREDENTIALS" button at the top of the screen, then select "OAuth client ID".
Choose an application type of "Desktop app"
Keep client ID and client secret for the next step

3. Configure rclone

Navigate to C:\rclone and run .\rclone.exe config

n/r/c/s/q> n
name> gdrive
Storage> drive
client_id> Enter Client ID from #2.7
client_secret> Enter Client Secret from #2.7
scope> 1
root_folder_id>
service_account_file>
y/n>
y/n>
y/n>
y/e/d>
e/n/d/r/c/s/q>q

mv ~\.config\rclone\rclone.conf .

4. Configure NSSM to run rclone mount on start up

Open PowerShell as Administrator
Navigate to C:\rclone
.\nssm.exe install rclone
Select rclone.exe for Application > Path
Enter the following for Appplication > Arguments mount --vfs-cache-mode writes --log-level INFO --config "C:\rclone\rclone.conf" --log-file "C:\rclone\rclone.log" gdrive: G:
Start the service .\nssm.exe start rclone

5. Backing up local files to GDrive