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How to use or configure rclone?



A quick tutorial on how to use Rclone.

Rclone is a good tool that is cross platform can be used on Windows or Linux.

Rclone can be used to sync and copy to AWS, Google drive and other cloud services.

To start using rclone it must be configured.

Typing: rclone config

Rclone config command will bring out the menu to config rclone. (see image below)

 


For example, if you need to configure rclone to connect to AWS S3.

Select “n” which means new remote.

Then type the name of the remote connection, which later can be used when syncing or copying files. 
See image example below:




There will be some few questions after typing the name, just follow the on-screen questions and configured it for S3 settings.

Once the settings have been placed, rclone is now ready to sync or copy.

Rclone sync as stated on the manual, that the source and destination will be the same even if it means deleting files on the destination. Basically, the destination will be mirrored to the source, whatever is not on the source and is found on the destination, that specific file or folder on the destination will be deleted during sync.

Do a thorough test to make sure sync is the right option for you.

Rclone copy doesn’t delete and it is recursive by default no flags needed.

Basic syntax of rclone is like this:

rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
rclone sync source:sourcepath dest:destpath

To sync a backup_folder on local drive to S3, syntax will be like this:

Rclone sync d:\backup_folder\  S3_drive:backup_bucket

S3_drive is name of the config that was given during rclone config and it is also the remote destination.

So, when doing rclone config make sure the name is easy to remember or a name that can easily identified the folder or remote destination.

To copy make use of the command below, it will copy recursively like rsync command in Linux.

Rclone copy d:\backup_folder\  S3_drive:backup_bucket

There is still more about rclone, this is just a quick overview of how rclone can do.

Cheers! Till next time.


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