Linux - CentOS 7 - OneDrive Client

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OneDrive Client for Linux

A free Microsoft OneDrive Client which supports OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365 and Sharepoint.

This powerful and highly configurable client can run on all major Linux distributions, as a Docker container and on FreeBSD. It supports one-way and two-way sync capabilities and securely connects to Microsoft OneDrive services.

Setup

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yum install libcurl-devel
yum install sqlite-devel
curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | bash -s dmd
source ~/dlang/dmd-2.092.1/activate
git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive.git
cd onedrive
.\configure
make
sudo make install

Configure OneDrive

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onedrive
mkdir -p ~/.config/onedrive
cd onedrive
cp ./config ~/.config/onedrive/config
nano ~/.config/onedrive/config

Available options:

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sync_dir: directory where the files will be synced
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skip_file: any files or directories that match this pattern will be skipped during sync.

For example, if you want to sync everything except Confidential and Personal Folders

Directory where the files will be synced

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skip_dir = "example|example"

Selective sync via ‘sync_list’ file

Selective sync allows you to sync only specific files and directories.
To enable selective sync create a file named sync_list in ~/.config/onedrive.
Each line of the file represents a relative path from your sync_dir. All files and directories not matching any line of the file will be skipped during all operations.
Here is an example of sync_list:

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# sync_list supports comments
# Exclude my Backup folder
Backup
# Exclude this single document
Documents/latest_report.docx
# Exclude all Work/Project directories
Work/Project*
notes.txt
# Exclude /Blender in the ~OneDrive root but not if elsewhere
/Blender
Cinema Soc
Codes
Textbooks
Year 2

Note: after changing the sync_list, you must perform a full re-synchronization by adding --resync to your existing command line - for example: onedrive --synchronize --resync

How to ‘skip’ directories from syncing?

There are several mechanisms available to ‘skip’ a directory from the sync process:

  • Utilise ‘skip_dir’
  • Utilise ‘sync_list’

Enable service as per the following:

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systemctl --user enable onedrive
systemctl --user start onedrive
systemctl status onedrive -l