Rclone is a command-line tool for copying, moving and synchronising data between local filesystems, cloud storage services and network-accessible storage. It uses a common command set across a large collection of storage backends, avoiding the need to learn a separate utility for each provider.
The program can transfer between local and remote storage or directly between two remote systems. It handles both straightforward file copying and more involved synchronisation jobs, including one-way and bidirectional workflows.
Rclone is equally useful interactively and in scripts. Its extensive filtering, retry, bandwidth and comparison controls make it suitable for backups, scheduled transfers and large data-management jobs.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Copy new or changed files between supported storage systems.
- One-way sync makes the destination match the source.
- Bisync provides bidirectional directory synchronisation.
- Move operations delete source files after successful transfer and verification.
- Transfers directly between different remote storage services.
- Checks file hashes where the storage backend provides suitable checksums.
- Preserves timestamps where supported.
- Can restart interrupted operations.
- Filtering controls select or exclude files and directories.
- Bandwidth limits and transfer concurrency controls.
- Mounts supported storage as a filesystem.
- Can serve local or remote storage over HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP and DLNA.
- Supports conventional network protocols including FTP, SFTP and WebDAV alongside cloud APIs.
- FTP remotes use passive mode.
- The FTP backend compares file sizes because FTP does not provide Rclone with checksum support.
- Supports encrypted storage through the crypt backend.
- Provides commands for checking differences, listing files and inspecting storage use where supported.
- Configuration can contain multiple named remotes using different backends.
Website: rclone.org
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Developer: Nick Craig-Wood and contributors
License: MIT License
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