It has long list of 45 storage (at the time of blog writing) to choose from, We chose google drive just for a demo. Pressing n, created a new remote connection and give it a name first then it will ask to to select the type of storage to be configured. Here as you can see, n is for setting new remote and s is for setting configuration password and q is for Quit config. rclone configĪfter running this Command, You will see this prompt. To run the configuration setup run the following command. It will be used for authentication for future usage of rclone. Next what you will need to do is run the rclone config to create your config file. Sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/ Installing manpage sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1 Linux installation from precompiled binaryĬopy binary file sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/ The second way to install rclone is by issuing the following commands. Note that this script checks the version of rclone installed first and won’t re-download if not needed. First is through their Installation Script.

There are multiple ways of Installing Rclone on our systems. Now let’s Setup this Rclone on our Ubuntu Machine It has Copy mode for new or changed files. It can sync to and from network, eg two different cloud accounts. Here MD5, SHA1 hashes are checked at all times for file integrity and Timestamps are preserved on files Mount multiple, encrypted, cached or diverse cloud storage as a disk To Migrate data to cloud, or between cloud storage vendors It can Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally This can Restores (and decrypt) files from cloud storage It helps to Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage Rclone mounts any local, cloud or virtual filesystem as a disk on Windows, macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP and DLNA. Written in Go language, It Supports different cloud storage providers such as: Amazon Drive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Ceph, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dropbox, FTP, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, etc. In this Article we will be looking at Rclone (“rsync for cloud storage”) which is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers.

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