rclone-manager

A terminal UI for scheduling and running rclone sync jobs. Define jobs as YAML files and rclone-manager will run them on a schedule, displaying live status in your terminal.

Requirements

• Go 1.21+
• rclone installed and available on $PATH

Usage

rclone-manager --jobs <path-to-jobs-dir> [--poll <interval>]

Flag	Default	Description
--jobs	(required)	Path to directory containing job YAML files
--poll	5m	How often to check for due jobs

Job format

Each .yaml / .yml file in the jobs directory defines one sync job:

name: my-backup
source: /path/to/source
destination: /path/to/destination
operation: sync          # sync, copy, or bisync
schedule: 1h             # Go duration (e.g. 30m, 6h) or cron expression (e.g. "0 2 * * *")
flags:                   # optional rclone flags
  checksum: true

Fields

Field	Required	Description
name	yes	Human-readable job name
source	yes	Source path or rclone remote
destination	yes	Destination path or rclone remote
operation	yes	sync, copy, or bisync
schedule	yes	Interval (Go duration) or 5-field cron expression
flags	no	Extra flags passed to rclone

Building

go build -o rclone-manager .