nixos-rclone

rclone can reach almost any cloud storage, but keeping a local folder in sync with it usually means a cron job and hoping nothing changed on both sides. nixos-rclone turns rclone into declarative NixOS configuration, backed by a small Rust daemon that watches your files and pushes changes the moment they happen. It's for people who want Google Drive, SFTP, or other remotes to behave like a local folder on a NixOS machine.

Features

• Mounts. Declare FUSE mounts as fileSystems with systemd automount, mounted on first access.

• Push on change. Created, edited, renamed, and deleted files reach the remote within seconds of the tree going quiet. Remote changes are pulled on a timer.

• Renames that stick. A local rename becomes a server-side move, so a Google Drive document keeps its file ID, sharing, and history.

• Markdown and docx. Built-in conversion, without pandoc, lets you edit an Obsidian vault as Google Docs.

• Safety first. Large bursts of deletions are held back for the pull's checks, and a sync that locks itself out waits for you instead of resyncing blindly.

• Status and control through the rclone-remotes command, plus recovery after suspend and resume.

Getting started

Add the flake as an input, import nixosModules.default, and declare your remotes. The README has a complete configuration example and an options reference, including upgrade notes from the older script-based module.