rclone is a command-line tool for managing files in the cloud. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. rclone also has a built-in HTTP server that you can use to control it remotely using its API and GUI.
rclone helps with the following:
Back up and encrypt files to cloud storage.
Restore and decrypt files from cloud storage.
Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally.
Transfer data to the cloud or between cloud storage providers.
Mount multiple encrypted, cached, or diverse cloud storage in the form of a disk.
Analyze and consider data stored in cloud storage using lsf
, ljson
, size
, and ncdu
.
Download the latest version of rclone from rclone.org. The official Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Brew, and Chocolatey repositories include rclone. For more information, see Configuration Example.
Configurations configured with the rclone config
command are called remotes. If you already have or plan to use buckets in different IONOS Object Storage regions, you need to set up a separate remote for each region you use. For the list of commands, see Subcommands.
List remotes:
List buckets of "ionos1" remote:
Create bucket my-bucket
at the remote ionos1
:
Upload filename.txt
from the current directory to the bucket my-bucket
:
Copy the contents of the local directory my-dir
to the bucket my-bucket
:
Copy all objects with the prefix my-dir
from the bucket my-source-bucket
to my-dest-bucket
:
The buckets could be located in different regions and even at different providers. Unless buckets are located within the same region, the data is not copied directly from the source to the destination. For cross-regional copying, the data is downloaded to you from the source bucket and then uploaded to the destination.
Download all the objects from the my-bucket
bucket to the local directory my-dir
:
Sync the bucket my-bucket
with the local directory my-dir
contents. The destination is updated to match the source, including deleting files if necessary:
Get the total size and number of objects in remote:path:
Check if the files in the local directory and destination match:
Produce an md5sum
file for all the objects in the path: