Rclone: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:27, 9 April 2020

rclone
rsync for cloud storage
https://rclone.org/

You can download a deb or rpm from their website.
Or you can run the following script

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

If you do not have sudo, you can download the binary and put it in your ~/bin folder.

For Windows, rclone is also available on Chocolatey

choco install rclone

rclone config

mkdir /path/to/local/mount
rclone mount remote:path/to/files /path/to/local/mount

Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.
Note: This is like copy but it will delete files in the destination.

rclone sync source:path dest:path [flags]

      --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after sync
  -h, --help                    help for sync

Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied

rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]

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 rclone config
 </pre>
+===Common Flags===
+[https://rclone.org/flags/ flags]
+* <code>-P, --progress</code> show progress (transferred, ETA, elapsed)
+* <code>-n, --dry-run</code>
 ===Mount===
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 ===Sync===
 [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/ rclone sync documentation]
+Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.<br>
+Note: This is like copy but it will delete files in the destination.<br>
 <pre>
 rclone sync source:path dest:path [flags]
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        --create-empty-src-dirs   Create empty source dirs on destination after sync
    -h, --help                    help for sync
+</pre>
+===Copy===
+[https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/ rclone copy]
+Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied
+<pre>
+rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]
 </pre>