I could hardly think of any use case for storing unencrypted data on a public cloud, only if you want to share links publicly and are aware, that the data is indeed PUBLIC the second you upload it.

It would be cool to see the tutorial updated and strongly advise users what they are doing when using a public cloud with unencrypted data.

janowitz

Agreed, never put private info like keys into a public cloud! 
For the crypt feature it depends on the specific usecase, but I intentionally wrote the tutorial to make it easy to customize it to whatever you need... (Also it was cool to learn to set up the systemd file watchers and timers...)

nout

tutorials

Tutorial: Sync Google Drive files on Linux with Rclone bisync and systemd

Sorry, but using a public cloud with rclone without their crypt feature should be a no-go!

See https://rclone.org/crypt/ and use full folder & file name encryption to prevent leaking metadata.

Even with crypt better don't sync confidential things like private keys, passwords or userdata to any public cloud.