☁️ External Cloud Storage (rclone)

Connect external cloud accounts — including ProtonDrive, WebDAV (Nextcloud, ownCloud, Hetzner Storage Box), and other rclone-compatible remotes — directly to your On My Disk Linux node so they appear alongside your local shares over P2P.

External Cloud Storage

Step 1: Install rclone on Your Node

Install the official rclone binary on your Linux host:

sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

Everything else — remote configuration, password obfuscation, and process supervision — is managed automatically by your On My Disk node.

Step 2: Add an External Disk in Device Settings

  1. Open the On My Disk Web App, select your Linux node in the sidebar or workspace, and open Device Settings → External Storage / Backup.
  2. Click + Add external disk and fill in the fields:
Field Description
Disk name Display name of the share (e.g. ProtonDrive, OfficeNAS)
Type ProtonDrive or WebDAV
URL (WebDAV only) WebDAV endpoint URL (e.g. https://cloud.example.com/remote.php/dav/files/user/)
Username Account username
Password Account password or app token
Port Local loopback port for the WebDAV bridge (auto-assigned starting from 19088)
  1. Click Save / Apply.

Step 3: Automatic Lifecycle Management

When applied, the node automatically:

  • Writes or updates ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf (obfuscating credentials via rclone obscure);
  • Supervises rclone serve webdav <name>: --addr 127.0.0.1:<port> --vfs-cache-mode writes;
  • Publishes the mounted cloud drive in your device’s sidebar tree over P2P (and stops the rclone process cleanly whenever a disk entry is removed).

For advanced custom providers (S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox), configure the remote in ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf using the official rclone documentation.