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Install
Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.
Quickstart
· Download (http://rclone.org/downloads/) the relevant binary.
· Unpack and the rclone binary.
· Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs (http://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.
See below for some expanded Linux / macOS instructions.
See the Usage section (http://rclone.org/docs/) of the docs for how to use rclone, or run rclone -h.
Linux installation from precompiled binary
Fetch and unpack
curl -O http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64
Copy binary file
sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone
Install manpage
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb
Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs (http://rclone.org/docs/) for more details.
rclone config
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 uses a system of subcommands. For example
rclone ls remote:path # lists a re
rclone copy /local/path remote:path # copies /local/path to the remote
rclone sync /local/path remote:path # syncs /local/path to the remote
rclone config
Enter an interactive configuration session.
Synopsis
Enter an interactive configuration session.
rclone config
rclone copy
Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied
Synopsis
Copy the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination.
Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the directory so when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of source:path that are
copied, not the directory name and contents.
If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.
For example
rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
Let's say there are two files in sourcepath
sourcepath/one.txt
sourcepath/two.txt
This copies them to
destpath/one.txt
destpath/two.txt
Not to
destpath/sourcepath/one.txt
destpath/sourcepath/two.txt
If you are familiar with rsync, rclone always works as if you had written a trailing / - meaning "copy the contents of this directory". This applies to all commands and
whether you are talking about the source or destination.
See the --no-traverse option for controlling whether rclone lists the destination directory or not.
rclone copy source:path dest:path
rclone sync
Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.
Synopsis
Sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Destination is
updated to match source, including deleting files if necessary.
Important: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag to see exactly what would be copied and deleted.
Note that files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any errors at any point.
It is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the directory so when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of source:path that are copied, not
the directory name and contents. See extended explanation in the copy command above if unsure.
If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.
rclone sync source:path dest:path
1 Examples
rclone copy --bwlimit 24k --progress volume_u18pwbglhome.tar.gz g:/tienda.universo/u18pwbgl/volume_u18pwbglhome.tar.gz