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Rclone

Rclone ("rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Oracle Solaris
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
4.3
Very Good11 reviews
173likes
15comments

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Integrations

  1. Google Drive icon  Google Drive
  2. MEGA icon  MEGA
  3. Nextcloud icon  Nextcloud
  4. Box icon  Box.com
  5. Dropbox icon  Dropbox
  6. Microsoft OneDrive icon  Onedrive
  7.  Openstack swift
  8. Google Photos icon  Google photos
  9. ownCloud icon  Owncloud
  10. Uptobox icon  Uptobox
  11. Microsoft Azure icon  Azure

Features

  1.  File Sync
  2.  Command line interface
  3.  Cloud Sync
  4.  Backup to Cloud Storage
  5.  Synchronization
  6.  End-to-End Encryption
  7.  Multiple Account support
  8.  Support for FTP
  9.  Encrypted Backup
  10.  WebDAV Support
  11.  Portable
  12.  No registration required
  13.  Support for SFTP
  14.  Incremental Backup
  15.  Object storage
  16. Amazon Simple Storage Service icon  Support for Amazon S3
  17.  Target connection profiles
  18.  Support for Multiple threads

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: Rclone is praised for its reliability, broad cross-platform support, and ability to mount cloud storage in a manner similar to desktop solutions like MountainDuck. While its command-line interface is powerful and aids in complex tasks like encryption, this can be intimidating for new users. A minimalist GUI exists, but does not compete with alternatives like GoodSync and Cryptomator. Moreover, Rclone seamlessly integrates with various cloud providers, offering speed and flexibility.
Top Positive Comment
WeiHua Liu
9

This is a powerful command line tool designed for technical users, as the official Web GUI is no longer up to date. However, there’s an excellent third-party web GUI application that is user-friendly and perfect for beginners. [https://github.com/yuudi/rclone-webui-angular/tree/master]

hashzero
1

The silver bullet for cloud storage. Unfortunatelly, there's no GUI.

playmobilmeister
2

It supports so many features and services !

costanza6221
3

Cloud storage powerhouse app. Connect/Sync/Backup all cloud services and mount like regular disk. Transaction beside device/among other services kind possiblites

François d'Arundel
1

rclone is the easiest way to mount online storage with winfsp software on Windows Explorer.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Adrians
0

The GUI Rclone is quite good but not better than the alternatives and I can consider Syncback , Resilio and Gs Richcopy 360 . Also Goodsync is great

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H2O_san
1

Supports a lot of providers, great.

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What is Rclone?

Rclone ("rsync icon rsync for cloud storage") is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

Features

MD5/SHA-1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity Timestamps preserved on files Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis Copy mode to just copy new/changed files Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical Check mode to check for file hash equality Can sync to and from network, e.g. two different cloud accounts Optional large file chunking (Chunker) Optional transparent compression (Compress) Optional encryption (Crypt) Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount) Multi-threaded downloads to local disk Can serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna

Storage providers

1Fichier Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS) Amazon Drive Amazon S3 Backblaze B2 Box Ceph Citrix ShareFile DigitalOcean Spaces Dreamhost Dropbox Enterprise File Fabric FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive Google Photos HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem) HTTP Hubic Jottacloud IBM COS S3 Koofr Mail.ru Cloud Memset Memstore Mega Memory Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Microsoft OneDrive Minio Nextcloud OVH OpenDrive OpenStack Swift Oracle Cloud Storage ownCloud pCloud premiumize.me put.io QingStor Rackspace Cloud Files RackCorp Object Storage Scaleway Seafile SeaweedFS SFTP StackPath SugarSync Tardigrade Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS) Wasabi WebDAV Yandex Disk Zoho WorkDrive The local filesystem

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Rclone information

  • Developed by

    GB flagNick Craig-Wood
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3 (11 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    93 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

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  •  4,809 Forks
  •  1090 Open Issues
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