Rclone
rsync for cloud storage. Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from the cloud.
What is Rclone?
Rclone ("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
Rclone Screenshots
Rclone Features
- File Sync
- Nextcloud integration
- Google Drive integration
- Mega.nz integration
- Openstack swift integration
- Backup to Cloud Storage
- Synchronization
- Support for SFTP
- Azure integration
- Support for Multiple threads
- Target connection profiles
- Onedrive integration
- WebDAV Support
- Dropbox integration
- Box.com integration
- Support for FTP
- Owncloud integration
- Google photos integration
Rclone information
- Developed byNick Craig-Wood
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.3
- Alternatives73 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 36,738 Stars
- 3,340 Forks
- 870 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Backup Client
- data-migration
- backblaze-b2
- Backup and Restore
- cloud-storage-manager
- yandex-disk
- drive-backup
- backup-image
- google-cloud-storage
- amazon-s3
- openstack
- drive-image
- cloud-storage-backup
Many of the comments here are out of date. RClone CAN absolutely mount cloud storage of all kinds including WebDAV. You can even choose where to mount it, and what type (if any) disk you want it to appear as.
This program has an awesome set of options including the ability to customize how the file cache works! Big plus in my book.
The command line is NOT hard at all, it even holds your hand in doing the initial setup. The problem is RClone isn’t super well known yet, so there’s not a ton of tutorials on it. But the forums are super helpful and friendly.
Command line tool, not suitable for common users.
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
Supports a lot of providers, great.
Support many (free) cloud storage providers.
The command line interface may seems difficult and need some time to get used to.
It can sort of replace Cryptomator. You can encrypt the uploaded files via rclone crypt and password before they get uploaded. When it is configured for the first time you do not need to enter password anymore. But Cryptomator's GUI is better.
You can use it even on Android devices via Termux.
[Edited by jasonlane, November 29]
[Edited by jasonlane, November 29]
Any GUI available?
Could the existing users of this little applet suggest any good GUI wrapper to make it accessible to those not proficient at the CLI?
rclone browser https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser
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Thanks for your suggestion, jasonlane, but appimage only for Linux breaks it for me.
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this tool is just HUGE ! A MUST-HAVE !!
Command line … but very powerful ! ( Note: A minimalist GUI Web interface can be trigger too )
Mount option is incredible, it can replace MountainDuck, Expandrive and so on...
Can't bring up this "minimalist GUI Web interface" that you refer to, on the Linux Mint OS. Any suggestions?
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