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I ran into the same problem when first setting up a similar program stack. The problem I found was that some programs need to have the rclone mount setup before they first attempt to access the local folders. Just allowing the programs to start randomly would typically result in I/O errors.
My solution was to use the healthcheck feature of docker-compose to ensure that the mount was accessible before anything downstream booted. I placed a small "test" file in the mount and wait until it's available. I use bash, which means the rclone container needs to have it installed. Below is the dockerfile I use for rclone and my docker-compose file that controls the boot-up sequence.
One thing to note: only docker-compose uses the depends-on argument, so when your server boots-up the default is that docker starts the containers at random. You can get around this by turning off the auto-start using docker and then setting a cron-job that runs the docker-compose up commands at start-up.
Rclone Dockerfile FROM rclone/rclone:latest RUN apk update &&
apk add bash
docker-compose.yml version: '3.5'
One more thing. I'd highly recommend using vfs-cache for rclone since it takes care of moving the files to your remote source. You can see in my setup rclone will keep a local copy for 24 hrs and then automatically transfer it to the remote.
I was originally using an external script to copy/move files but vfs-cache is so much easier. Just let rclone handle everything in the background.