So.. who knows?!

Unable to chown:ENOENT: no such file or directory, chown '/mnt/backups/cloudron/snapshot/app_21c3ed5d-24b5-46a7-afd9-874c5e23e2c8.tar.gz'

Now it's mounted and had a good crack at backing up, but ultimately came back with "copy exited with code 1 signal null"

I tried mounting and it seems to work (gets a green light) but then a backup errors.

  "taskId": "2441",
  "errorMessage": "Unable to chown:ENOENT: no such file or directory, chown '/mnt/backups/snapshot/app_21c3ed5d-24b5-46a7-afd9-874c5e23e2c8.tar.gz'",
  "timedOut": false,
  "backupId": null

All tips / ideas appreciated.

The Configure Backup Storage looks like this:

Although this same procedure is also compatible with Volumes and can be used in applications such as Navidrome, etc.

root@xxxxxxxxx:~# rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
GDRIVE-MUSIC         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>

!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/rclone mount GDRIVE-MUSIC:/ /mnt/media/music --allow-other

It will also have to be included in the guide...

PS: GDRIVE-MUSIC is a shared drive @robi

(Just my guess) @martinkbs has manually mounted the Google Drive via SSH and then configured it as the backup destination in Backups -> Configure .

1. Create the link with rClone with the Drive you want to synchronize the files
2. Mount that drive in a folder on your system so that Cloudron can view it. This is the step that you will surely miss. To do this you just have to run the following command:

rclone mount NAME-UNIT:/ /mnt/backups --allow-other --delete-before

After this step, if you do a ls on the folder //mnt/backups you should already see the files that are in the Drive unit, and therefore you can already link this folder from Cloudron to make the backups. The files in the //mnt/backups folder and the Drive are synced bi-directionally.

If I have a gap this week, I will prepare a small guide with all the steps, because now that I remember, it is necessary to create a small bash and put it in the crontab so that everything continues to work when the server restarts ...

I've mounted using rclone by following this guide: https://rclone.org/drive/

But I'm not clear on then how to have cloudron see that as a volume. Specifically I'm not sure what to put in the New Volume form; or possibly I'm unclear how to properly mount a gdrive using rclone.

I've mounted using rclone by following this guide: https://rclone.org/drive/

But I'm not clear on then how to have cloudron see that as a volume. Specifically I'm not sure what to put in the New Volume form; or possibly I'm unclear how to properly mount a gdrive using rclone.

The backup is done perfectly and I can see it on my google drive, but it doesn't appear in the Cloudron backup list, so I can't use it.

Usually, this means the backup didn't actually succeed. Can you please put the logs at https://paste.cloudron.io and put the link here?

@girish I have mounted my google drive with rclone in Cloudron server, but when I backup there, cloudron doesn't see it in their backup list.

Oh, this would be good to investigate. Have any logs to share?

The backup is done perfectly and I can see it on my google drive, but it doesn't appear in the Cloudron backup list, so I can't use it.

Bind Google Drive or a folder as a drive

If you mount Google Drive via FUSE, then you can just set that path as the backup folder under Backups view. You don't need the 6.0 feature, that one is for mounting host paths into apps.