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{{< img width="50%" src="/img/logo_on_light__horizontal_color.svg" alt="rclone logo" style="float:right; padding: 5px;" >}}
- [About rclone](#about)
- [What can rclone do for you](#what)
- [What features does rclone have](#features)
- [What providers does rclone support](#providers)
- [What can rclone do for you?](#what)
- [What features does rclone have?](#features)
- [What providers does rclone support?](#providers)
- [Download](/downloads/)
- [Install](/install/)
{{< rem MAINPAGELINK >}}
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Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the unix commands rsync, cp,
mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and cat. Rclone's familiar syntax
includes shell pipeline support, and `--dry-run` protection. It can be
includes shell pipeline support, and `--dry-run` protection. It is
used at the command line, in scripts or via its [API](/rc).
Users have called rclone *"The Swiss army knife of cloud storage"* and
Users call rclone *"The Swiss army knife of cloud storage"*, and
*"Technology indistinguishable from magic"*.
Rclone really looks after your data. It preserves timestamps and
verifies your data at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth;
verifies checksums at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth;
intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from
the last good file transferred. You can
[check](/commands/rclone_check/) the integrity of your files. Where
possible, rclone employs server side transfers to minimise local
bandwidth use and transfers from one provider to another without
using your local disk.
using local disk.
Virtual backends wrap local and cloud file systems to apply
[encryption](/crypt/),
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[chunking](/chunker/) and
[joining](/union/).
Rclone can [mount](/commands/rclone_mount/) any local, cloud or
Rclone [mounts](/commands/rclone_mount/) any local, cloud or
virtual filesystem as a disk on Windows,
macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serve these over
macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over
[SFTP](/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/),
[HTTP](/commands/rclone_serve_http/),
[WebDAV](/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/),
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version [downloading from rclone.org](/downloads/) is recommended.
Rclone is widely used on Linux, Windows and Mac. Third party
developers have built innovative backup, restore, GUI and business
developers create innovative backup, restore, GUI and business
process solutions using the rclone command line or API.
Let rclone do the heavy lifting of communicating with cloud storage.
Rclone does the heavy lifting of communicating with cloud storage.
## What can rclone do for you {#what}
## What can rclone do for you? {#what}
Rclone can help you:
Rclone helps you:
- Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage
- Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage
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## Supported providers {#providers}
(There are many other providers, built on standard protocols such as
(There are many others, built on standard protocols such as
WebDAV or S3, that work out of the box.)
{{< provider_list >}}