[SOLVED] Rclone Backup crashes on startup

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I want to copy HA backups to a remote cloud account. There’s a well regarded addon that copies only to google drive - but I want to copy to another cloud account, so Rclone Backup seemed to suit.

I’ve tried installing rclone, but whilst it appears to install, it crashes on startup. Here’s a log:

[10:46:32] INFO: rclone v1.61.1
- os/version: alpine 3.16.0 (64 bit)
- os/kernel: 6.1.21-v8 (aarch64)
- os/type: linux
- os/arch: arm64
- go/version: go1.19.4
- go/linking: static
- go/tags: none
[10:46:32] INFO: Starting Scheduler...
[2023-07-29] [10:46:32] [WARN]: rclone config not found at "/config/rclone.conf"
[2023-07-29] [10:46:32] [INFO]: checking job configs...
[2023-07-29] [10:46:32] [FATAL]: remote 'google:' does not exist; configured remotes are [[]]
[09:46:32] WARNING: Halt add-on with exit code 1
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: stopping
s6-svwait: fatal: supervisor died
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully stopped
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: stopping
[09:46:33] WARNING: Rclone Web GUI crashed, halting add-on (code: 143)

When I ssh into the Raspberry Pi I find that neither the rclone binary nor rclone.conf are installed.

I’d welcome ideas as to what the problem might be.

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That addon?

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Different Addon - it’s this one I’m trying to use:
https://github.com/jcwillox/hassio-rclone-backup

Thanks for the reply, ‘Chris’.

BTW: Where is the Rclone addon you’ve shown above, please?

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It seems that on startup Rclone Backup looks for an existing rclone.conf file containing at least one remote configuration. If the data isn’t there the addon will not start but crash. There is a facility to set up a remote from within its web gui - but if the web gui hasn’t started (because the addon crashed) then it can’t be set up.

I worked round this by using a rclone.conf from another machine, where I had been using it. Rclone Backup then started and ran. However, I can’t get the real-time data in the dashboard to update and show.

It’s a pretty slick and useful addon, with the benefit that you’re not tied to Google Drive, but can set it up for many other cloud storage providers.