HOW TO: VirtualBox Alpine Linux + rclone + samba share

ajkis commented 7 years ago

Download & Install Virtualbox host: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Download Alpine Linux Standard: https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/

Open Virtualbox and create new virtual machine:

Type: Linux Version: Other Linux (64 bit) Base Memory ( 1024MB + i would recomment at least 2048 ) Storage: 1GB dynamically allocated ( after rclone+samba etc it would still be bellow 500MB) Storage Optical: Connect alpine ISO image. Network: Bridged Adapter ( so you can assign your own static IP ) Disable Audio, Serial ports

Boot created virtual machine and once in terminal mode setup your hostname, ip, dns by typing:: setup-hostname setup-interfaces setup-dns After restart network: /etc/init.d/networking restart

Setup the Alpine Linux on your HDD setup-alpine

Update Alpine: apk update apk upgrade

Install fuse apk add fuse

Optional apk add unionfs-fuse

Install Samba apk add samba samba-common-tools

Before setting up rclone install certificates

mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs/ curl -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org

Setup rclone and mount folders

Share rclone mount in samba by adding special samba user and creating smb.conf

Create new user: adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login mysambauser smbpasswd -a mysambauser

Create config vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   dos charset = cp850
   unix charset = ISO-8859-1

[cloud]
  comment = TV backup
  path = /path to rclone mount /
  browsable = yes
  writable = yes
  read only = no
  guest ok = no
  write list = mysambauser
  read list = mysambauser
  valid users = mysambauser

Add samba to run at startup rc-update add samba Start samba; rc-service samba start

You may consider adding your rclone mount script to boot in local.d so add it to boot by: rc-update add local default

Now you can make new rclone mount script in vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.start

!/bin/bash

rclone mount \ --read-only \ --allow-non-empty \ --allow-other \ --max-read-ahead 14G \ --acd-templink-threshold 0 \ --checkers 16 \ --quiet \ --stats 0 \ rcloneremote:/ /path to mount/ & exit

vi /etc/local.d/rclonemount.stop

!/bin/bash

fusermount -uz /path to mount/ exit

You can read more about local.d : cat /etc/local.d/README

Optionally you can enable SSH and run virtualbox in headless mode

To enable SSH vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Set : PermitRootLogin yes restart SSH /etc/init.d/sshd restart

To start your virtalmachine in headless mode, create new batch file with content bellow:

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "alpine" --type "headless" exit

To stop or better yet stop and save last state you can make batch:

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" controlvm "alpine" savestate exit

Once your virtalbox machine is running you can access it by typing in windows explorer: \THE IP\NameOfShare ( in our case cloud ) use username and password you set for samba.