Kobo rclone sync / update script

rclone-filter.txt

- .cache
- *.sdr/
- .*

sync-books.sh

#!/bin/sh

# echo 'script disabled! comment the "return" line at the beginning'
# return 123

# lack of trailing "/" both here and in parameters below is intentional,
# as e.g. Dropbox disallows absolute paths for sandboxed apps.
remote_root='book-sync:'
local_root='/mnt/onboard'
script_logfile='/mnt/onboard/.book-sync.log'

sync_status () {
    fbink -mpr -x 0 -y 0 -S 5 " "
    fbink -C GRAY8 -t italic=/mnt/onboard/fonts/Baskerville/Baskerville32-Italic.ttf,size=8,top=2 -m  "$1"
}


sync_status "Sync starting in 7 seconds."

# first sync the time to avoid filetime-triggered updates
date >> "${script_logfile}"
echo "Starting book sync, delaying by 7s" >> "${script_logfile}"
sleep 7

sync_status "Syncing (ntp query)…"
ntpd -q -n -d -p pool.ntp.org >> "${script_logfile}" 2>&1 || return 1
hwclock -u -w >> "${script_logfile}" 2>&1

rclone_params='
    --config /.config/rclone/rclone.conf
    --log-file /mnt/onboard/.rclone.log
    --filter-from /rclone-filter.txt
    --update
    --use-server-modtime
    -v'

sync_status "Syncing (Books)…"

rclone copy $rclone_params "${remote_root}"Books "$local_root"/Books
rclone copy $rclone_params "$local_root"/Books "${remote_root}"Books

sync_status "Syncing (styletweaks)…"
rclone copy $rclone_params "$local_root"/.adds/koreader/styletweaks "${remote_root}"styletweaks
rclone copy $rclone_params "${remote_root}"styletweaks "$local_root"/.adds/koreader/styletweaks

sync_status "Syncing (fonts)…"
rclone copy $rclone_params "$local_root"/fonts "${remote_root}"fonts
rclone copy $rclone_params "${remote_root}"fonts "$local_root"/fonts

sync_status "Syncing (screensaver)…"
rclone copy $rclone_params "$local_root"/screensaver "${remote_root}"screensaver
rclone copy $rclone_params "${remote_root}"screensaver "$local_root"/screensaver

sync_status "Synced."
sync
sleep 5
sync_status " "