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Run the OneDrive Client for Linux under Podman
This client can be run as a Podman container, with 3 available options for you to choose from:
- Container based on Fedora 35 - Docker Tag: latest
- Container based on Debian 11 - Docker Tag: debian
- Container based on Alpine Linux - Docker Tag: alpine
These containers offer a simple monitoring-mode service for the OneDrive Client for Linux.
The instructions below have been validated on:
- Fedora 35
The instructions below will utilise the 'latest' tag, however this can be substituted for 'stretch' 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.
Basic Setup
0. Install podman using your distribution platform's instructions if not already installed
- Ensure that SELinux has been disabled on your system. A reboot may be required to ensure that this is correctly disabled.
- Install Podman as per requried for your platform
- 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:
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:
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
).
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}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
-v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z \
-v "onedrive-test-data:/onedrive/data:U,Z" \
driveone/onedrive:latest
Important: The 'target' folder of ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR
must exist before running the podman container
If you plan to use podmans built in auto-updating of container images described in step 5, you must pass an additional argument to set a label during the first run.
The run command would look instead look like as follows:
podman run -it --name onedrive --user "${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
podman ps -f name=onedrive
Show monitor run logs
podman logs onedrive
Stop running monitor
podman stop onedrive
Resume monitor
podman start onedrive
Remove onedrive container
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.
cd /tmp
podman generate systemd --new --restart-policy on-failure --name -f onedrive
/tmp/container-onedrive.service
# copy the generated systemd unit file to the systemd path and reload the daemon
cp -Z ~/container-onedrive.service /usr/lib/systemd/system
systemctl daemon-reload
#optionally enable it to startup on boot
systemctl enable container-onedrive.service
#check status
systemctl status container-onedrive
#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
Then put it into your onedrive_conf volume path, which can be found with:
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
7. Sync multiple accounts
There are many ways to do this, the easiest is probably to
- Create a second podman config volume (replace
Work
with your desired name):podman volume create onedrive_conf_Work
- And start a second podman monitor container (again replace
Work
with your desired name):
export ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK="/home/abraunegg/OneDriveWork"
mkdir -p ${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK}
podman run -it --restart unless-stopped --name onedrive_work \
-v onedrive_conf_Work:/onedrive/conf \
-v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR_WORK}:/onedrive/data" \
--user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" \
driveone/onedrive:latest
Environment Variables
Variable | Purpose | Sample Value |
---|---|---|
ONEDRIVE_UID | UserID (UID) to run as | 1000 |
ONEDRIVE_GID | GroupID (GID) to run as | 1000 |
ONEDRIVE_VERBOSE | Controls "--verbose" switch on onedrive sync. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_DEBUG | Controls "--verbose --verbose" switch on onedrive sync. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_DEBUG_HTTPS | Controls "--debug-https" switch on onedrive sync. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_RESYNC | Controls "--resync" switch on onedrive sync. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_DOWNLOADONLY | Controls "--download-only" switch on onedrive sync. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_LOGOUT | Controls "--logout" switch. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_REAUTH | Controls "--reauth" switch. Default is 0 | 1 |
ONEDRIVE_AUTHFILES | Controls "--auth-files" option. Default is "" | "authUrl:responseUrl" |
ONEDRIVE_AUTHRESPONSE | Controls "--auth-response" option. Default is "" | See here |
Usage Examples
Verbose Output:
podman run -e ONEDRIVE_VERBOSE=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:latest
Debug Output:
podman run -e ONEDRIVE_DEBUG=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:latest
Perform a --resync:
podman run -e ONEDRIVE_RESYNC=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:latest
Perform a --resync and --verbose:
podman run -e ONEDRIVE_RESYNC=1 -e ONEDRIVE_VERBOSE=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:latest
Perform a --logout and re-authenticate:
podman run -it -e ONEDRIVE_LOGOUT=1 -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" driveone/onedrive:latest
Build instructions
You can also build your own image instead of pulling the one from hub.docker.com:
git clone https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive
cd onedrive
podman build . -t local-onedrive -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile
There are alternate, smaller images available by building Dockerfile-stretch or Dockerfile-alpine. These multi-stage builder pattern
How to build and run a custom Docker image based on Debian Stretch
podman build . -t local-ondrive-stretch -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-stretch
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" local-ondrive-stretch:latest
How to build and run a custom Docker image based on Alpine Linux
podman build . -t local-ondrive-alpine -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-alpine
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" local-ondrive-alpine:latest
How to build and run a custom Docker image for ARMHF (Raspberry Pi)
Compatible with:
- Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi 2
- Raspberry Pi Zero
- Raspberry Pi 3
- Raspberry Pi 4
podman build . -t local-onedrive-rpi -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-rpi
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" local-ondrive-rpi:latest
How to build and run a custom Docker image for AARCH64 Platforms
podman build . -t local-onedrive-aarch64 -f contrib/docker/Dockerfile-aarch64
podman run -v onedrive_conf:/onedrive/conf:U,Z -v "${ONEDRIVE_DATA_DIR}:/onedrive/data:U,Z" --user "${ONEDRIVE_UID}:${ONEDRIVE_GID}" local-onedrive-aarch64:latest