Rclone is 10 years old today

https://forum.rclone.org/t/rclone-is-10-years-old-today/34185

by vanburen • 4 years ago

147 26 4 years ago

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Rclone is another great example of open source being better than a commercial product. I'd rather use it than gsutil or s3cmd, it's simple, the commands make sense, and it doesn't bring in a lot of other cruft.

eggfriedrice• 4 years ago

Yup, it's great. I used it to shuffle stuff from s3 into Dropbox and it was just the right tool for the job.

rdegges• 4 years ago

So funny! I just spent a few hours last night setting up rclone for the first time on my Macbook!

I've got one of those legacy Google Drive unlimited storage plans, and for years I've been using it to store all my code, video projects I work on, etc.

The way I normally use it is inefficient: if I was importing videos for a project, I'd use the Google Drive web UI to upload them into Drive, where I'd later organize them, etc.

Over the years I tried a variety of Goole Drive syncing tools, but all eventually stopped working, or were so unbearably slow that I couldn't justify it.

Last night I spent some time and set up rclone for Drive, along with a persistent mount so that Google Drive is always accessible via ~/Drive. So far it seems like everything is working well -- really amazing software! <3

edsimpson• 4 years ago

Isn’t google getting rid of all the old legacy unlimited plans?

fire• 4 years ago

I certainly haven't heard anything about it as a gsuite subscriber

pfortuny2• 4 years ago

If rclone’s author is around… You should update the lage with an easy and VISIBLE link for dontations. I could not find it while browsing (ios) although it appears somewhere in the FAQ.

Thanks for the product. Unbelievable.

Datagenerator• 4 years ago

One of the Contributors here, if you use Azure Blob you'll use some of my code. Have fun moving Petabytes, it works quite well.

pfortuny2• 4 years ago

Only S3. In any case, GREAT work!

floppydisc• 4 years ago

Rclone is such an epic tool. Props to the creators. Thank you for making cloud storage easily accessible for linux users

rsync• 4 years ago

Here is a step by step, keystroke by keystroke, howto for rclone with S3 buckets as an example target:

https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

... this HOWTO uses an rsync.net account as an endpoint/throughpoint but you can ignore that - this HOWTO is applicable to any general configuration.

opan• 4 years ago

I'm a heavy user of rsync and sftp between personal devices, but have never used rclone. Is it only used with cloud storage from the big companies? I have never used any of those so far.

Valord2• 4 years ago

No, while it supports a number of big-box cloud provider storage systems it also includes smaller providers and various protocols. Protocols like HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMB, local filesystem, and things like "S3 compatible".

Valord2• 4 years ago

Rclone is great! I used it in a CI/CD pipeline to sync a files from a git repo to S3 for CDN distribution.

garganzol3• 4 years ago

We use Rclone as a "disk in the cloud" solution for the otherwise stateless docker images. Works perfectly well. And the best thing is - it supports transparent end-to-end encryption.

Among all the cloud storages we've tried to use with Rclone, Azure Blobs turned out to be the fastest so far.

The bitter part of the story is that I did not know about Rclone existence until a recent year or two. I still feel ashamed about that.

bambambazooka• 4 years ago

Can you elaborate a bit? Do you mount something like a S3 bucket inside of a container?

garganzol3• 4 years ago

Yes, exactly. The mount point is then used as a general disk for container data.

Orlan• 4 years ago

I love rclone, have been using it to reliably move large files between different could providers (thanks Nick!). GUI applications were constantly crashing, rclone has always been reliable.

Make sure to support your favorite open source projects! https://rclone.org/donate/

eterps• 4 years ago

I love it that it has a mount option.

SeriousM• 4 years ago

I use it for jottacloud directory sync as jottacloud only supports dull sync. And I use it for zotero attachment sync from/into jottacloud.

rclone is just awesome and well documented!

nathants• 4 years ago

rclone with git-remote-gcrypt is the best git provider.

Rclone is 10 years old today

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