OneDrive Cloud Storage

Included with you SISSA email account you get a storage on Microsoft OneDrive (depending on your account privileges and licences), integrated in SISSA authentication services (that means you can easily share a file with a colleague).

To use it go to

https://onedrive.live.com

From there you can browse the files with you browser. For more intensive file transfer usage it is recommended to install the client for your platform, from:

https://www.onedrive.com/download

The client is available for most desktop (MacOS, it's usually already installed in Microsoft Windows) and mobile platforms (Android, iOS)

Alas, there is no official Linux Onedrive client. But there is a good open source alternative. The recommended one is:

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

To install it on your laptop please see:

https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md

For example, on Ubuntu you can just run

sudo -i
wget -qO - https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-ubuntu-onedrive/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/obs-onedrive.gpg > /dev/null
echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/obs-onedrive.gpg] https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-ubuntu-onedrive/xUbuntu_24.04/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onedrive.list
apt-get update
apt install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests onedrive
exit

To configure onedrive, just run the command

onedrive --sync

From your local user terminal. It should open automatically your web browser and allow you to authenticate with you SISSA credentials.

By default, the system will sync everything in the folder

~/OneDrive

If you want, you can change it looking for the line

sync_dir = "~/OneDrive"

Inside the file

~/.config/onedrive/config

You can also specify a list of folder to sync inside the sync_dir:

~/.config/onedrive/sync_list

Then you need to run the client with resync option to let it aknowledge the changes:

onedrive --sync --resync

If you need to sync multiple folders outside your home, you create symbolic links: ls -s /scratch/custom_folder ~/OneDrive/custom_folder

In order to have a continuous sync (and not have to manually run the onderive command each command), you need to create a system service.

sudo cp /usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive.service "/usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive-$USER.service"

Then you need to edit the file “/usr/lib/systemd/user/onedrive-$USER.service” and

ExecStart=/usr/bin/onedrive --monitor --confdir="/home/$USER/.config/onedrive"

Please, make sure you set write the full path of your OneDrive config file. Then, you can just enable the service

systemctl --user enable onedrive-$USER

And start it and check the status of the sync:

systemctl --user start onedrive-$USER
systemctl --user status onedrive-$USER 

This way, each time you log into your local user session the onedrive client will run a keep syncing files. For more details, see: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/blob/master/docs/USAGE.md

It is only CLI, but it has proven fairly stable.