Rclone
Connecting cloud storage with Rclone: FUSE mounts, the VFS cache, running inside Docker containers, unattended authentication and the pitfalls of individual backends.
Proton Drive on Linux: Status as of July 2026
The official Linux client has been announced but is not yet available. On servers, Proton Drive can currently be mounted with Rclone; the new SDK indicates the technical direction. What is still missing is machine access limited to individual folders or tasks.
Running Rclone mounts reliably in Docker
For a FUSE mount from a container to work on the host and in other containers, mount propagation, AppArmor, and recovery after failures must work together.
Testing Cold Storage with Rclone: A Practical Test Plan
Before a service reads its files from the cloud through an Rclone mount, you should verify more than directory access. This test plan covers cold reads, warm reads, write operations, cache behavior, file integrity, and failures.
