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| title | description | date |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | Rclone Documentation | 2014-07-17 |
Install
Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.
Download the relevant binary.
Or alternatively if you have Go installed use
go get github.com/ncw/rclone
and this will build the binary in $GOPATH/bin.
Configure
First you'll need to configure rclone. As the object storage systems
have quite complicated authentication these are kept in a config file
.rclone.conf in your home directory by default. (You can use the
--config option to choose a different config file.)
The easiest way to make the config is to run rclone with the config option:
rclone config
See below for detailed instructions for
Usage
Rclone syncs a directory tree from one storage system to another.
Its syntax is like this
Syntax: [options] subcommand <parameters> <parameters...>
Source and destination paths are specified by the name you gave the storage system in the config file then the sub path, eg "drive:myfolder" to look at "myfolder" in Google drive.
You can define as many storage paths as you like in the config file.
Subcommands
rclone copy source:path dest:path
Copy the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing first by modification time then by MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination.
rclone sync source:path dest:path
Sync the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing first by modification time then by MD5SUM. Deletes any files that exist in source that don't exist in destination. Since this can cause data loss, test first with the -dry-run flag.
rclone ls [remote:path]
List all the objects in the the path with sizes.
rclone lsl [remote:path]
List all the objects in the the path with sizes and timestamps.
rclone lsd [remote:path]
List all directories/objects/buckets in the the path.
rclone mkdir remote:path
Make the path if it doesn't already exist
rclone rmdir remote:path
Remove the path. Note that you can't remove a path with objects in it, use purge for that.
rclone purge remote:path
Remove the path and all of its contents.
rclone check source:path dest:path
Checks the files in the source and destination match. It compares sizes and MD5SUMs and prints a report of files which don't match. It doesn't alter the source or destination.
rclone md5sum remote:path
Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path. This is in the same format as the standard md5sum tool produces. General options:
--checkers=8: Number of checkers to run in parallel.
--transfers=4: Number of file transfers to run in parallel.
--config="~/.rclone.conf": Config file.
-n, --dry-run=false: Do a trial run with no permanent changes
--modify-window=1ns: Max time diff to be considered the same
-q, --quiet=false: Print as little stuff as possible
--stats=1m0s: Interval to print stats
-v, --verbose=false: Print lots more stuff
Developer options:
--cpuprofile="": Write cpu profile to file
License
This is free software under the terms of MIT the license (check the COPYING file included in this package).
Bugs
- Doesn't sync individual files yet, only directories.
- Drive: Sometimes get: Failed to copy: Upload failed: googleapi: Error 403: Rate Limit Exceeded
- quota is 100.0 requests/second/user
- Empty directories left behind with Local and Drive
- eg purging a local directory with subdirectories doesn't work
Contact and support
The project website is at:
There you can file bug reports, ask for help or contribute patches.
Authors
- Nick Craig-Wood nick@craig-wood.com
Contributors
- Your name goes here!