Rclone is a command line based backup, cloning and syncing app for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It boasts a lof of features and syncs to over 40 cloud base services from Dropbox, Box, Goolge Drive to Amazon S3 object stores. It preserves timestamps and verifies checksum at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth; intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from the last good file transferred.
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Rclone mounts any local, cloud or virtual file system as a disk on Windows, MacOS, Linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over SFTP, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP and DLNA.
To install rclone on Linux/macOS/BSD systems, run:
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
For beta installation, run:
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta
Note that this script checks the version of rclone installed first and won't re-download if not needed.
There is a GUI which is experimental
rclone rcd --rc-web-gui
Select a name for the config and select the provider and click next. Don't enter anything in the below screen and click next.
A Dropbox window with authentication screen will appear as below. Login with your credentials
A window for allowing Rclone to access your Dropbox will appear as below. Allow if you want Rclone to do you backup tasks.
When you go back to the Rclone webpage you can see that a new config with the authentication can be seen as below.
In the Explorer menu you can watch the files in the remote storage. You can see the remote config you created. Select the config and click open.
rclone uses a system of sub commands. For examplerclone ls remote:path # lists a remote
rclone copy /local/path remote:path # copies /local/path to the remote
rclone sync -i /local/path remote:path # syncs /local/path to the remote
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