The instructions below will utilise the 'latest' tag, however this can be substituted for 'debian' or 'alpine' if desired. The below instructions for podman have only been tested as the root user while running the containers themselves as non-root users.
**Note:** If you are using Debian or Ubuntu platforms, it is recommended you use the 'debian' Docker tag rather than 'latest' to ensure maximum compatability with your Debian or Ubuntu ecosystem.
### 0. Install podman using your distribution platform's instructions if not already installed
1. Ensure that SELinux has been disabled on your system. A reboot may be required to ensure that this is correctly disabled.
2. Install Podman as per requried for your platform
3. Obtain your normal, non-root user UID and GID by using the `id` command or select another non-root id to run the container as
**NOTE:** SELinux context needs to be configured or disabled for Podman to be able to write to OneDrive host directory.
### 1.1 Prepare data volume
The container requries 2 Podman volumes:
* Config Volume
* Data Volume
The first volume is for your data folder and is created in the next step. This volume needs to be a path to a directory on your local filesystem, and this is where your data will be stored from OneDrive. Keep in mind that:
* The owner of this specified folder must not be root
* Podman will attempt to change the permissions of the volume to the user the container is configured to run as
**NOTE:** Issues occur when this target folder is a mounted folder of an external system (NAS, SMB mount, USB Drive etc) as the 'mount' itself is owed by 'root'. If this is your use case, you *must* ensure your normal user can mount your desired target without having the target mounted by 'root'. If you do not fix this, your Podman container will fail to start with the following error message:
```bash
ROOT level privileges prohibited!
```
### 1.2 Prepare config volume
Although not required, you can prepare the config volume before starting the container. Otherwise it will be created automatically during initial startup of the container.
Create the config volume with the following command:
```bash
podman volume create onedrive_conf
```
This will create a podman volume labeled `onedrive_conf`, where all configuration of your onedrive account will be stored. You can add a custom config file and other things later.
### 2. First run
The 'onedrive' client within the container needs to be authorized with your Microsoft account. This is achieved by initially running podman in interactive mode.
Run the podman image with the commands below and make sure to change `ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR` to the actual onedrive data directory on your filesystem that you wish to use (e.g. `"/home/abraunegg/OneDrive"`).
It is a requirement that the container be run using a non-root uid and gid, you must insert a non-root UID and GID (e.g.` export ONEDRIVE_UID=1000` and export `ONEDRIVE_GID=1000`).
```bash
export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR="${HOME}/OneDrive"
export ONEDRIVE_UID=1000
export ONEDRIVE_GID=1000
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
-v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
-v "onedrive-test-data:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
driveone/onedrive:latest
```
**Important:** The 'target' folder of `ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR` must exist before running the podman container
**If you plan to use podmans built in auto-updating of container images described in step 5, you must pass an additional argument to set a label during the first run.**
**Important:** In some scenarios, 'podman' sets the configuration and data directories to a different UID & GID as specified. To resolve this situation, you must run 'podman' with the `--userns=keep-id` flag to ensure 'podman' uses the UID and GID as specified.
The run command would look instead look like as follows:
```
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
-v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
-v "onedrive-test-data:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
-e PODMAN=1 \
--label "io.containers.autoupdate=image"
driveone/onedrive:latest
```
When the Podman container successfully starts:
* You will be asked to open a specific link using your web browser
* Login to your Microsoft Account and give the application the permission
* After giving the permission, you will be redirected to a blank page
* Copy the URI of the blank page into the application prompt to authorise the application
Once the 'onedrive' application is authorised, the client will automatically start monitoring your `ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR` for data changes to be uploaded to OneDrive. Files stored on OneDrive will be downloaded to this location.
If the client is working as expected, you can detach from the container with Ctrl+p, Ctrl+q.
### 4. Podman Container Status, stop, and restart
Check if the monitor service is running
```bash
podman ps -f name=onedrive
```
Show monitor run logs
```bash
podman logs onedrive
```
Stop running monitor
```bash
podman stop onedrive
```
Resume monitor
```bash
podman start onedrive
```
Remove onedrive container
```bash
podman rm -f onedrive
```
## Advanced Setup
### 5. Systemd Service & Auto Updating
Podman supports running containers as a systemd service and also auto updating of the container images. Using the existing running container you can generate a systemd unit file to be installed by the **root** user. To have your container image auto-update with podman, it must first be created with the label `"io.containers.autoupdate=image"` mentioned in step 2.
#start/stop/restart container as a systemd service
systemctl stop container-onedrive
systemctl start container-onedrive
```
To update the image using podman (Ad-hoc)
```
podman auto-update
```
To update the image using systemd (Automatic/Scheduled)
```
# Enable the podman-auto-update.timer service at system start:
systemctl enable podman-auto-update.timer
# Start the service
systemctl start podman-auto-update.timer
# Containers with the autoupdate label will be updated on the next scheduled timer
systemctl list-timers --all
```
### 6. Edit the config
The 'onedrive' client should run in default configuration, however you can change this default configuration by placing a custom config file in the `onedrive_conf` podman volume. First download the default config from [here](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abraunegg/onedrive/master/config)
Then put it into your onedrive_conf volume path, which can be found with:
```bash
podman volume inspect onedrive_conf
```
Or you can map your own config folder to the config volume. Make sure to copy all files from the volume into your mapped folder first.
The detailed document for the config can be found here: [Configuration](https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/master/docs/USAGE.md#configuration)
### 7. Sync multiple accounts
There are many ways to do this, the easiest is probably to
1. Create a second podman config volume (replace `Work` with your desired name): `podman volume create onedrive_conf_Work`
2. And start a second podman monitor container (again replace `Work` with your desired name):