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Rclone

Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from:

Amazon Drive (See note)
Amazon S3
Backblaze B2
Box
Ceph
DigitalOcean Spaces
Dreamhost
Dropbox
FTP
Google Cloud Storage
Google Drive
HTTP
Hubic
Jottacloud
IBM COS S3
Memset Memstore
Mega
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft OneDrive
Minio
Nextcloud
OVH
OpenDrive
Openstack Swift
Oracle Cloud Storage
ownCloud
pCloud
put.io
QingStor
Rackspace Cloud Files
SFTP
Wasabi
WebDAV
Yandex Disk
The local filesystem

Features

MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity
Timestamps preserved on files
Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis
Copy mode to just copy new/changed files
Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical
Check mode to check for file hash equality
Can sync to and from network, eg two different cloud accounts
(Encryption) backend
(Cache) backend
(Union) backend
Optional FUSE mount (rclone mount)

Links

Install

Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.

Quickstart

Download the relevant binary.
Extract the rclone or rclone.exe binary from the archive
Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

See below for some expanded Linux / macOS instructions.

See the Usage section of the docs for how to use rclone, or run rclone -h.

Script installation

To install rclone on Linux/macOS/BSD systems, run:

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

For beta installation, run:

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash -s beta

Note that this script checks the version of rclone installed first and won't re-download if not needed.

Linux installation from precompiled binary

Fetch and unpack

curl -O https://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 for more details.

rclone config

macOS installation from precompiled binary

Download the latest version of rclone.

cd && curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip

Unzip the download and cd to the extracted folder.

unzip -a rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip && cd rclone-*-osx-amd64

Move rclone to your $PATH. You will be prompted for your password.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo mv rclone /usr/local/bin/

(the mkdir command is safe to run, even if the directory already exists).

Remove the leftover files.

cd .. && rm -rf rclone-*-osx-amd64 rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip

Run rclone config to setup. See rclone config docs for more details.

rclone config

Install from source

Make sure you have at least Go 1.7 installed. Download go if necessary. The latest release is recommended. Then

git clone https://github.com/ncw/rclone.git
cd rclone
go build
./rclone version

You can also build and install rclone in the GOPATH (which defaults to ~/go) with:

go get -u -v github.com/ncw/rclone

and this will build the binary in $GOPATH/bin (~/go/bin/rclone by default) after downloading the source to $GOPATH/src/github.com/ncw/rclone (~/go/src/github.com/ncw/rclone by default).

Installation with Ansible

This can be done with Stefan Weichinger's ansible role.

Instructions

git clone https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone.git into your local roles-directory
add the role to the hosts you want rclone installed to:

    - hosts: rclone-hosts
      roles:
          - rclone

Configure

First, you'll need to configure rclone. As the object storage systems have quite complicated authentication these are kept in a config file. (See the --config entry for how to find the config file and choose its location.)

The easiest way to make the config is to run rclone with the config option:

rclone config

See the following for detailed instructions for

Alias
Amazon Drive
Amazon S3
Backblaze B2
Box
Cache
Crypt - to encrypt other remotes
DigitalOcean Spaces
Dropbox
FTP
Google Cloud Storage
Google Drive
HTTP
Hubic
Jottacloud
Mega
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Microsoft OneDrive
Openstack Swift / Rackspace Cloudfiles / Memset Memstore
OpenDrive
Pcloud
QingStor
SFTP
Union
WebDAV
Yandex Disk
The local filesystem

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 where you can setup new remotes and manage existing ones. You may also set or remove a password to protect your configuration.

rclone config [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for 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.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics

rclone copy source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for copy

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.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics

rclone sync source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for sync

rclone move

Move files from source to dest.

Synopsis

Moves the contents of the source directory to the destination directory. Rclone will error if the source and destination overlap and the remote does not support a server side directory move operation.

If no filters are in use and if possible this will server side move source:path into dest:path. After this source:path will no longer longer exist.

Otherwise for each file in source:path selected by the filters (if any) this will move it into dest:path. If possible a server side move will be used, otherwise it will copy it (server side if possible) into dest:path then delete the original (if no errors on copy) in source:path.

If you want to delete empty source directories after move, use the --delete-empty-src-dirs flag.

Important: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

rclone move source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

      --delete-empty-src-dirs   Delete empty source dirs after move
  -h, --help                    help for move

rclone delete

Remove the contents of path.

Synopsis

Remove the files in path. Unlike purge it obeys include/exclude filters so can be used to selectively delete files.

rclone delete only deletes objects but leaves the directory structure alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use rclone purge

Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes

Check what would be deleted first (use either)

rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path

Then delete

rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path

That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MB", hence delete all files bigger than 100MBytes.

rclone delete remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for delete

rclone purge

Remove the path and all of its contents.

Synopsis

Remove the path and all of its contents. Note that this does not obey include/exclude filters - everything will be removed. Use delete if you want to selectively delete files.

rclone purge remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for purge

rclone mkdir

Make the path if it doesn't already exist.

Synopsis

Make the path if it doesn't already exist.

rclone mkdir remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for mkdir

rclone rmdir

Remove the path if empty.

Synopsis

Remove the path. Note that you can't remove a path with objects in it, use purge for that.

rclone rmdir remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for rmdir

rclone check

Checks the files in the source and destination match.

Synopsis

Checks the files in the source and destination match. It compares sizes and hashes (MD5 or SHA1) and logs a report of files which don't match. It doesn't alter the source or destination.

If you supply the --size-only flag, it will only compare the sizes not the hashes as well. Use this for a quick check.

If you supply the --download flag, it will download the data from both remotes and check them against each other on the fly. This can be useful for remotes that don't support hashes or if you really want to check all the data.

If you supply the --one-way flag, it will only check that files in source match the files in destination, not the other way around. Meaning extra files in destination that are not in the source will not trigger an error.

rclone check source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

      --download   Check by downloading rather than with hash.
  -h, --help       help for check
      --one-way    Check one way only, source files must exist on remote

rclone ls

List the objects in the path with size and path.

Synopsis

Lists the objects in the source path to standard output in a human readable format with size and path. Recurses by default.

$ rclone ls swift:bucket
    60295 bevajer5jef
    90613 canole
    94467 diwogej7
    37600 fubuwic

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this commmand.

There are several related list commands

ls to list size and path of objects only
lsl to list modification time, size and path of objects only
lsd to list directories only
lsf to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
lsjson to list objects and directories in JSON format

ls,lsl,lsd are designed to be human readable. lsf is designed to be human and machine readable. lsjson is designed to be machine readable.

Note that ls and lsl recurse by default - use "--max-depth 1" to stop the recursion.

The other list commands lsd,lsf,lsjson do not recurse by default - use "-R" to make them recurse.

Listing a non existent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (eg s3, swift, gcs, etc - the bucket based remotes).

rclone ls remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for ls

rclone lsd

List all directories/containers/buckets in the path.

Synopsis

Lists the directories in the source path to standard output. Does not recurse by default. Use the -R flag to recurse.

This command lists the total size of the directory (if known, -1 if not), the modification time (if known, the current time if not), the number of objects in the directory (if known, -1 if not) and the name of the directory, Eg

$ rclone lsd swift:
      494000 2018-04-26 08:43:20     10000 10000files
          65 2018-04-26 08:43:20         1 1File

$ rclone lsd drive:test
          -1 2016-10-17 17:41:53        -1 1000files
          -1 2017-01-03 14:40:54        -1 2500files
          -1 2017-07-08 14:39:28        -1 4000files

If you just want the directory names use "rclone lsf --dirs-only".

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this commmand.

There are several related list commands

ls to list size and path of objects only
lsl to list modification time, size and path of objects only
lsd to list directories only
lsf to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
lsjson to list objects and directories in JSON format

ls,lsl,lsd are designed to be human readable. lsf is designed to be human and machine readable. lsjson is designed to be machine readable.

Note that ls and lsl recurse by default - use "--max-depth 1" to stop the recursion.

The other list commands lsd,lsf,lsjson do not recurse by default - use "-R" to make them recurse.

Listing a non existent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (eg s3, swift, gcs, etc - the bucket based remotes).

rclone lsd remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help        help for lsd
  -R, --recursive   Recurse into the listing.

rclone lsl

List the objects in path with modification time, size and path.

Synopsis

Lists the objects in the source path to standard output in a human readable format with modification time, size and path. Recurses by default.

$ rclone lsl swift:bucket
    60295 2016-06-25 18:55:41.062626927 bevajer5jef
    90613 2016-06-25 18:55:43.302607074 canole
    94467 2016-06-25 18:55:43.046609333 diwogej7
    37600 2016-06-25 18:55:40.814629136 fubuwic

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this commmand.

There are several related list commands

ls to list size and path of objects only
lsl to list modification time, size and path of objects only
lsd to list directories only
lsf to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
lsjson to list objects and directories in JSON format

ls,lsl,lsd are designed to be human readable. lsf is designed to be human and machine readable. lsjson is designed to be machine readable.

Note that ls and lsl recurse by default - use "--max-depth 1" to stop the recursion.

The other list commands lsd,lsf,lsjson do not recurse by default - use "-R" to make them recurse.

Listing a non existent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (eg s3, swift, gcs, etc - the bucket based remotes).

rclone lsl remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for lsl

rclone md5sum

Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path.

Synopsis

Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path. This is in the same format as the standard md5sum tool produces.

rclone md5sum remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for md5sum

rclone sha1sum

Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path.

Synopsis

Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path. This is in the same format as the standard sha1sum tool produces.

rclone sha1sum remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for sha1sum

rclone size

Prints the total size and number of objects in remote:path.

Synopsis

Prints the total size and number of objects in remote:path.

rclone size remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for size
      --json   format output as JSON

rclone version

Show the version number.

Synopsis

Show the version number, the go version and the architecture.

$ rclone version
rclone v1.41
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.10

If you supply the --check flag, then it will do an online check to compare your version with the latest release and the latest beta.

$ rclone version --check
yours:  1.42.0.6
latest: 1.42          (released 2018-06-16)
beta:   1.42.0.5      (released 2018-06-17)

$ rclone version --check
yours:  1.41
latest: 1.42          (released 2018-06-16)
  upgrade: https://downloads.rclone.org/v1.42
beta:   1.42.0.5      (released 2018-06-17)
  upgrade: https://beta.rclone.org/v1.42-005-g56e1e820

rclone version [flags]

Options

      --check   Check for new version.
  -h, --help    help for version

rclone cleanup

Clean up the remote if possible

Synopsis

Clean up the remote if possible. Empty the trash or delete old file versions. Not supported by all remotes.

rclone cleanup remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for cleanup

rclone dedupe

Interactively find duplicate files and delete/rename them.

Synopsis

By default dedupe interactively finds duplicate files and offers to delete all but one or rename them to be different. Only useful with Google Drive which can have duplicate file names.

In the first pass it will merge directories with the same name. It will do this iteratively until all the identical directories have been merged.

The dedupe command will delete all but one of any identical (same md5sum) files it finds without confirmation. This means that for most duplicated files the dedupe command will not be interactive. You can use --dry-run to see what would happen without doing anything.

Here is an example run.

Before - with duplicates

$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:11.775000000 one.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:18:26.092000000 one.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two.txt
  1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two.txt

Now the dedupe session

$ rclone dedupe drive:dupes
2016/03/05 16:24:37 Google drive root 'dupes': Looking for duplicates using interactive mode.
one.txt: Found 4 duplicates - deleting identical copies
one.txt: Deleting 2/3 identical duplicates (md5sum "1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36")
one.txt: 2 duplicates remain
  1:      6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000, md5sum 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
  2:       564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000, md5sum 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> k
Enter the number of the file to keep> 1
one.txt: Deleted 1 extra copies
two.txt: Found 3 duplicates - deleting identical copies
two.txt: 3 duplicates remain
  1:       564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000, md5sum 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
  2:      6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000, md5sum 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
  3:      1744073 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000, md5sum 851957f7fb6f0bc4ce76be966d336802
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> r
two-1.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-2.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-3.txt: renamed from: two.txt

The result being

$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
   564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two-1.txt
  6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two-2.txt
  1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two-3.txt

Dedupe can be run non interactively using the --dedupe-mode flag or by using an extra parameter with the same value

--dedupe-mode interactive - interactive as above.
--dedupe-mode skip - removes identical files then skips anything left.
--dedupe-mode first - removes identical files then keeps the first one.
--dedupe-mode newest - removes identical files then keeps the newest one.
--dedupe-mode oldest - removes identical files then keeps the oldest one.
--dedupe-mode largest - removes identical files then keeps the largest one.
--dedupe-mode rename - removes identical files then renames the rest to be different.

For example to rename all the identically named photos in your Google Photos directory, do

rclone dedupe --dedupe-mode rename "drive:Google Photos"

rclone dedupe rename "drive:Google Photos"

rclone dedupe [mode] remote:path [flags]

Options

      --dedupe-mode string   Dedupe mode interactive|skip|first|newest|oldest|rename. (default "interactive")
  -h, --help                 help for dedupe

rclone about

Get quota information from the remote.

Synopsis

Get quota information from the remote, like bytes used/free/quota and bytes used in the trash. Not supported by all remotes.

This will print to stdout something like this:

Total:   17G
Used:    7.444G
Free:    1.315G
Trashed: 100.000M
Other:   8.241G

Where the fields are:

Total: total size available.
Used: total size used
Free: total amount this user could upload.
Trashed: total amount in the trash
Other: total amount in other storage (eg Gmail, Google Photos)
Objects: total number of objects in the storage

Note that not all the backends provide all the fields - they will be missing if they are not known for that backend. Where it is known that the value is unlimited the value will also be omitted.

Use the --full flag to see the numbers written out in full, eg

Total:   18253611008
Used:    7993453766
Free:    1411001220
Trashed: 104857602
Other:   8849156022

Use the --json flag for a computer readable output, eg

{
    "total": 18253611008,
    "used": 7993453766,
    "trashed": 104857602,
    "other": 8849156022,
    "free": 1411001220
}

rclone about remote: [flags]

Options

      --full   Full numbers instead of SI units
  -h, --help   help for about
      --json   Format output as JSON

rclone authorize

Remote authorization.

Synopsis

Remote authorization. Used to authorize a remote or headless rclone from a machine with a browser - use as instructed by rclone config.

rclone authorize [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for authorize

rclone cachestats

Print cache stats for a remote

Synopsis

Print cache stats for a remote in JSON format

rclone cachestats source: [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for cachestats

rclone cat

Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.

Synopsis

rclone cat sends any files to standard output.

You can use it like this to output a single file

rclone cat remote:path/to/file

Or like this to output any file in dir or subdirectories.

rclone cat remote:path/to/dir

Or like this to output any .txt files in dir or subdirectories.

rclone --include "*.txt" cat remote:path/to/dir

Use the --head flag to print characters only at the start, --tail for the end and --offset and --count to print a section in the middle. Note that if offset is negative it will count from the end, so --offset -1 --count 1 is equivalent to --tail 1.

rclone cat remote:path [flags]

Options

      --count int    Only print N characters. (default -1)
      --discard      Discard the output instead of printing.
      --head int     Only print the first N characters.
  -h, --help         help for cat
      --offset int   Start printing at offset N (or from end if -ve).
      --tail int     Only print the last N characters.

rclone config create

Create a new remote with name, type and options.

Synopsis

Create a new remote of with and options. The options should be passed in in pairs of .

For example to make a swift remote of name myremote using auto config you would do:

rclone config create myremote swift env_auth true

rclone config create <name> <type> [<key> <value>]* [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for create

rclone config delete

Delete an existing remote .

Synopsis

Delete an existing remote .

rclone config delete <name> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for delete

rclone config dump

Dump the config file as JSON.

Synopsis

Dump the config file as JSON.

rclone config dump [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for dump

rclone config edit

Enter an interactive configuration session.

Synopsis

Enter an interactive configuration session where you can setup new remotes and manage existing ones. You may also set or remove a password to protect your configuration.

rclone config edit [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for edit

rclone config file

Show path of configuration file in use.

Synopsis

Show path of configuration file in use.

rclone config file [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for file

rclone config password

Update password in an existing remote.

Synopsis

Update an existing remote's password. The password should be passed in in pairs of .

For example to set password of a remote of name myremote you would do:

rclone config password myremote fieldname mypassword

rclone config password <name> [<key> <value>]+ [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for password

rclone config providers

List in JSON format all the providers and options.

Synopsis

List in JSON format all the providers and options.

rclone config providers [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for providers

rclone config show

Print (decrypted) config file, or the config for a single remote.

Synopsis

Print (decrypted) config file, or the config for a single remote.

rclone config show [<remote>] [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for show

rclone config update

Update options in an existing remote.

Synopsis

Update an existing remote's options. The options should be passed in in pairs of .

For example to update the env_auth field of a remote of name myremote you would do:

rclone config update myremote swift env_auth true

rclone config update <name> [<key> <value>]+ [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for update

rclone copyto

Copy files from source to dest, skipping already copied

Synopsis

If source:path is a file or directory then it copies it to a file or directory named dest:path.

This can be used to upload single files to other than their current name. If the source is a directory then it acts exactly like the copy command.

rclone copyto src dst

where src and dst are rclone paths, either remote:path or /path/to/local or C:\windows\path\if\on\windows.

This will:

if src is file
    copy it to dst, overwriting an existing file if it exists
if src is directory
    copy it to dst, overwriting existing files if they exist
    see copy command for full details

This doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. It doesn't delete files from the destination.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics

rclone copyto source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for copyto

rclone copyurl

Copy url content to dest.

Synopsis

Download urls content and copy it to destination without saving it in tmp storage.

rclone copyurl https://example.com dest:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for copyurl

rclone cryptcheck

Cryptcheck checks the integrity of a crypted remote.

Synopsis

rclone cryptcheck checks a remote against a crypted remote. This is the equivalent of running rclone check, but able to check the checksums of the crypted remote.

For it to work the underlying remote of the cryptedremote must support some kind of checksum.

It works by reading the nonce from each file on the cryptedremote: and using that to encrypt each file on the remote:. It then checks the checksum of the underlying file on the cryptedremote: against the checksum of the file it has just encrypted.

Use it like this

rclone cryptcheck /path/to/files encryptedremote:path

You can use it like this also, but that will involve downloading all the files in remote:path.

rclone cryptcheck remote:path encryptedremote:path

After it has run it will log the status of the encryptedremote:.

rclone cryptcheck remote:path cryptedremote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help      help for cryptcheck
      --one-way   Check one way only, source files must exist on destination

rclone cryptdecode

Cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names.

Synopsis

rclone cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names when provided with a list of encrypted file names. List limit is 10 items.

If you supply the --reverse flag, it will return encrypted file names.

use it like this

rclone cryptdecode encryptedremote: encryptedfilename1 encryptedfilename2

rclone cryptdecode --reverse encryptedremote: filename1 filename2

rclone cryptdecode encryptedremote: encryptedfilename [flags]

Options

  -h, --help      help for cryptdecode
      --reverse   Reverse cryptdecode, encrypts filenames

rclone dbhashsum

Produces a Dropbox hash file for all the objects in the path.

Synopsis

Produces a Dropbox hash file for all the objects in the path. The hashes are calculated according to Dropbox content hash rules. The output is in the same format as md5sum and sha1sum.

rclone dbhashsum remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for dbhashsum

rclone deletefile

Remove a single file from remote.

Synopsis

Remove a single file from remote. Unlike delete it cannot be used to remove a directory and it doesn't obey include/exclude filters - if the specified file exists, it will always be removed.

rclone deletefile remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for deletefile

rclone genautocomplete

Output completion script for a given shell.

Synopsis

Generates a shell completion script for rclone. Run with --help to list the supported shells.

Options

  -h, --help   help for genautocomplete

rclone genautocomplete bash

Output bash completion script for rclone.

Synopsis

Generates a bash shell autocompletion script for rclone.

This writes to /etc/bash_completion.d/rclone by default so will probably need to be run with sudo or as root, eg

sudo rclone genautocomplete bash

Logout and login again to use the autocompletion scripts, or source them directly

. /etc/bash_completion

If you supply a command line argument the script will be written there.

rclone genautocomplete bash [output_file] [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for bash

rclone genautocomplete zsh

Output zsh completion script for rclone.

Synopsis

Generates a zsh autocompletion script for rclone.

This writes to /usr/share/zsh/vendor-completions/_rclone by default so will probably need to be run with sudo or as root, eg

sudo rclone genautocomplete zsh

Logout and login again to use the autocompletion scripts, or source them directly

autoload -U compinit && compinit

If you supply a command line argument the script will be written there.

rclone genautocomplete zsh [output_file] [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for zsh

rclone gendocs

Output markdown docs for rclone to the directory supplied.

Synopsis

This produces markdown docs for the rclone commands to the directory supplied. These are in a format suitable for hugo to render into the rclone.org website.

rclone gendocs output_directory [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for gendocs

rclone hashsum

Produces an hashsum file for all the objects in the path.

Synopsis

Produces a hash file for all the objects in the path using the hash named. The output is in the same format as the standard md5sum/sha1sum tool.

Run without a hash to see the list of supported hashes, eg

$ rclone hashsum
Supported hashes are:
  * MD5
  * SHA-1
  * DropboxHash
  * QuickXorHash

Then

$ rclone hashsum MD5 remote:path

rclone hashsum <hash> remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for hashsum

rclone link

Generate public link to file/folder.

Synopsis

rclone link will create or retrieve a public link to the given file or folder.

rclone link remote:path/to/file
rclone link remote:path/to/folder/

If successful, the last line of the output will contain the link. Exact capabilities depend on the remote, but the link will always be created with the least constraints – e.g. no expiry, no password protection, accessible without account.

rclone link remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for link

rclone listremotes

List all the remotes in the config file.

Synopsis

rclone listremotes lists all the available remotes from the config file.

When uses with the -l flag it lists the types too.

rclone listremotes [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for listremotes
  -l, --long   Show the type as well as names.

rclone lsf

List directories and objects in remote:path formatted for parsing

Synopsis

List the contents of the source path (directories and objects) to standard output in a form which is easy to parse by scripts. By default this will just be the names of the objects and directories, one per line. The directories will have a / suffix.

$ rclone lsf swift:bucket
bevajer5jef
canole
diwogej7
ferejej3gux/
fubuwic

Use the --format option to control what gets listed. By default this is just the path, but you can use these parameters to control the output:

p - path
s - size
t - modification time
h - hash
i - ID of object if known
m - MimeType of object if known

So if you wanted the path, size and modification time, you would use --format "pst", or maybe --format "tsp" to put the path last.

$ rclone lsf  --format "tsp" swift:bucket
2016-06-25 18:55:41;60295;bevajer5jef
2016-06-25 18:55:43;90613;canole
2016-06-25 18:55:43;94467;diwogej7
2018-04-26 08:50:45;0;ferejej3gux/
2016-06-25 18:55:40;37600;fubuwic

If you specify "h" in the format you will get the MD5 hash by default, use the "--hash" flag to change which hash you want. Note that this can be returned as an empty string if it isn't available on the object (and for directories), "ERROR" if there was an error reading it from the object and "UNSUPPORTED" if that object does not support that hash type.

For example to emulate the md5sum command you can use

rclone lsf -R --hash MD5 --format hp --separator "  " --files-only .

$ rclone lsf -R --hash MD5 --format hp --separator "  " --files-only swift:bucket 
7908e352297f0f530b84a756f188baa3  bevajer5jef
cd65ac234e6fea5925974a51cdd865cc  canole
03b5341b4f234b9d984d03ad076bae91  diwogej7
8fd37c3810dd660778137ac3a66cc06d  fubuwic
99713e14a4c4ff553acaf1930fad985b  gixacuh7ku

(Though "rclone md5sum ." is an easier way of typing this.)

By default the separator is ";" this can be changed with the --separator flag. Note that separators aren't escaped in the path so putting it last is a good strategy.

$ rclone lsf  --separator "," --format "tshp" swift:bucket
2016-06-25 18:55:41,60295,7908e352297f0f530b84a756f188baa3,bevajer5jef
2016-06-25 18:55:43,90613,cd65ac234e6fea5925974a51cdd865cc,canole
2016-06-25 18:55:43,94467,03b5341b4f234b9d984d03ad076bae91,diwogej7
2018-04-26 08:52:53,0,,ferejej3gux/
2016-06-25 18:55:40,37600,8fd37c3810dd660778137ac3a66cc06d,fubuwic

You can output in CSV standard format. This will escape things in " if they contain ,

$ rclone lsf --csv --files-only --format ps remote:path
test.log,22355
test.sh,449
"this file contains a comma, in the file name.txt",6

Note that the --absolute parameter is useful for making lists of files to pass to an rclone copy with the --files-from flag.

For example to find all the files modified within one day and copy those only (without traversing the whole directory structure):

rclone lsf --absolute --files-only --max-age 1d /path/to/local > new_files
rclone copy --files-from new_files /path/to/local remote:path

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this commmand.

There are several related list commands

ls to list size and path of objects only
lsl to list modification time, size and path of objects only
lsd to list directories only
lsf to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
lsjson to list objects and directories in JSON format

ls,lsl,lsd are designed to be human readable. lsf is designed to be human and machine readable. lsjson is designed to be machine readable.

Note that ls and lsl recurse by default - use "--max-depth 1" to stop the recursion.

The other list commands lsd,lsf,lsjson do not recurse by default - use "-R" to make them recurse.

Listing a non existent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (eg s3, swift, gcs, etc - the bucket based remotes).

rclone lsf remote:path [flags]

Options

      --absolute           Put a leading / in front of path names.
      --csv                Output in CSV format.
  -d, --dir-slash          Append a slash to directory names. (default true)
      --dirs-only          Only list directories.
      --files-only         Only list files.
  -F, --format string      Output format - see  help for details (default "p")
      --hash h             Use this hash when h is used in the format MD5|SHA-1|DropboxHash (default "MD5")
  -h, --help               help for lsf
  -R, --recursive          Recurse into the listing.
  -s, --separator string   Separator for the items in the format. (default ";")

rclone lsjson

List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.

Synopsis

List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.

The output is an array of Items, where each Item looks like this

{ "Hashes" : { "SHA-1" : "f572d396fae9206628714fb2ce00f72e94f2258f", "MD5" : "b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184", "DropboxHash" : "ecb65bb98f9d905b70458986c39fcbad7715e5f2fcc3b1f07767d7c83e2438cc" }, "ID": "y2djkhiujf83u33", "OrigID": "UYOJVTUW00Q1RzTDA", "IsDir" : false, "MimeType" : "application/octet-stream", "ModTime" : "2017-05-31T16:15:57.034468261+01:00", "Name" : "file.txt", "Encrypted" : "v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338", "Path" : "full/path/goes/here/file.txt", "Size" : 6 }

If --hash is not specified the Hashes property won't be emitted.

If --no-modtime is specified then ModTime will be blank.

If --encrypted is not specified the Encrypted won't be emitted.

The Path field will only show folders below the remote path being listed. If "remote:path" contains the file "subfolder/file.txt", the Path for "file.txt" will be "subfolder/file.txt", not "remote:path/subfolder/file.txt". When used without --recursive the Path will always be the same as Name.

The time is in RFC3339 format with nanosecond precision.

The whole output can be processed as a JSON blob, or alternatively it can be processed line by line as each item is written one to a line.

Any of the filtering options can be applied to this commmand.

There are several related list commands

ls to list size and path of objects only
lsl to list modification time, size and path of objects only
lsd to list directories only
lsf to list objects and directories in easy to parse format
lsjson to list objects and directories in JSON format

ls,lsl,lsd are designed to be human readable. lsf is designed to be human and machine readable. lsjson is designed to be machine readable.

Note that ls and lsl recurse by default - use "--max-depth 1" to stop the recursion.

The other list commands lsd,lsf,lsjson do not recurse by default - use "-R" to make them recurse.

Listing a non existent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (eg s3, swift, gcs, etc - the bucket based remotes).

rclone lsjson remote:path [flags]

Options

  -M, --encrypted    Show the encrypted names.
      --hash         Include hashes in the output (may take longer).
  -h, --help         help for lsjson
      --no-modtime   Don't read the modification time (can speed things up).
      --original     Show the ID of the underlying Object.
  -R, --recursive    Recurse into the listing.

rclone mount

Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.

Synopsis

rclone mount allows Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows to mount any of Rclone's cloud storage systems as a file system with FUSE.

First set up your remote using rclone config. Check it works with rclone ls etc.

Start the mount like this

rclone mount remote:path/to/files /path/to/local/mount

Or on Windows like this where X: is an unused drive letter

rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:

When the program ends, either via Ctrl+C or receiving a SIGINT or SIGTERM signal, the mount is automatically stopped.

The umount operation can fail, for example when the mountpoint is busy. When that happens, it is the user's responsibility to stop the mount manually with

# Linux
fusermount -u /path/to/local/mount
# OS X
umount /path/to/local/mount

Installing on Windows

To run rclone mount on Windows, you will need to download and install WinFsp.

WinFsp is an open source Windows File System Proxy which makes it easy to write user space file systems for Windows. It provides a FUSE emulation layer which rclone uses combination with cgofuse. Both of these packages are by Bill Zissimopoulos who was very helpful during the implementation of rclone mount for Windows.

Windows caveats

Note that drives created as Administrator are not visible by other accounts (including the account that was elevated as Administrator). So if you start a Windows drive from an Administrative Command Prompt and then try to access the same drive from Explorer (which does not run as Administrator), you will not be able to see the new drive.

The easiest way around this is to start the drive from a normal command prompt. It is also possible to start a drive from the SYSTEM account (using the WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure) which creates drives accessible for everyone on the system or alternatively using the nssm service manager.

Limitations

Without the use of "--vfs-cache-mode" this can only write files sequentially, it can only seek when reading. This means that many applications won't work with their files on an rclone mount without "--vfs-cache-mode writes" or "--vfs-cache-mode full". See the File Caching section for more info.

The bucket based remotes (eg Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2, Hubic) won't work from the root - you will need to specify a bucket, or a path within the bucket. So swift: won't work whereas swift:bucket will as will swift:bucket/path. None of these support the concept of directories, so empty directories will have a tendency to disappear once they fall out of the directory cache.

Only supported on Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows at the moment.

rclone mount vs rclone sync/copy

File systems expect things to be 100% reliable, whereas cloud storage systems are a long way from 100% reliable. The rclone sync/copy commands cope with this with lots of retries. However rclone mount can't use retries in the same way without making local copies of the uploads. Look at the file caching for solutions to make mount more reliable.

Attribute caching

You can use the flag --attr-timeout to set the time the kernel caches the attributes (size, modification time etc) for directory entries.

The default is "1s" which caches files just long enough to avoid too many callbacks to rclone from the kernel.

In theory 0s should be the correct value for filesystems which can change outside the control of the kernel. However this causes quite a few problems such as rclone using too much memory, rclone not serving files to samba and excessive time listing directories.

The kernel can cache the info about a file for the time given by "--attr-timeout". You may see corruption if the remote file changes length during this window. It will show up as either a truncated file or a file with garbage on the end. With "--attr-timeout 1s" this is very unlikely but not impossible. The higher you set "--attr-timeout" the more likely it is. The default setting of "1s" is the lowest setting which mitigates the problems above.

If you set it higher ('10s' or '1m' say) then the kernel will call back to rclone less often making it more efficient, however there is more chance of the corruption issue above.

If files don't change on the remote outside of the control of rclone then there is no chance of corruption.

This is the same as setting the attr_timeout option in mount.fuse.

Filters

Note that all the rclone filters can be used to select a subset of the files to be visible in the mount.

systemd

When running rclone mount as a systemd service, it is possible to use Type=notify. In this case the service will enter the started state after the mountpoint has been successfully set up. Units having the rclone mount service specified as a requirement will see all files and folders immediately in this mode.

chunked reading

--vfs-read-chunk-size will enable reading the source objects in parts. This can reduce the used download quota for some remotes by requesting only chunks from the remote that are actually read at the cost of an increased number of requests.

When --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit is also specified and greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, the chunk size for each open file will get doubled for each chunk read, until the specified value is reached. A value of -1 will disable the limit and the chunk size will grow indefinitely.

With --vfs-read-chunk-size 100M and --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 0 the following parts will be downloaded: 0-100M, 100M-200M, 200M-300M, 300M-400M and so on. When --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 500M is specified, the result would be 0-100M, 100M-300M, 300M-700M, 700M-1200M, 1200M-1700M and so on.

Chunked reading will only work with --vfs-cache-mode < full, as the file will always be copied to the vfs cache before opening with --vfs-cache-mode full.

Directory Cache

Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can set how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made locally in the mount may appear immediately or invalidate the cache. However, changes done on the remote will only be picked up once the cache expires.

Alternatively, you can send a SIGHUP signal to rclone for it to flush all directory caches, regardless of how old they are. Assuming only one rclone instance is running, you can reset the cache like this:

kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)

If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

rclone rc vfs/forget

Or individual files or directories:

rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir

File Buffering

The --buffer-size flag determines the amount of memory, that will be used to buffer data in advance.

Each open file descriptor will try to keep the specified amount of data in memory at all times. The buffered data is bound to one file descriptor and won't be shared between multiple open file descriptors of the same file.

This flag is a upper limit for the used memory per file descriptor. The buffer will only use memory for data that is downloaded but not not yet read. If the buffer is empty, only a small amount of memory will be used. The maximum memory used by rclone for buffering can be up to --buffer-size * open files.

File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. The VFS layer is used by rclone mount to make a cloud storage system work more like a normal file system.

You'll need to enable VFS caching if you want, for example, to read and write simultaneously to a file. See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache works in addition to the cache backend and you may find that you need one or the other or both.

--cache-dir string                   Directory rclone will use for caching.
--vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)

If run with -vv rclone will print the location of the file cache. The files are stored in the user cache file area which is OS dependent but can be controlled with --cache-dir or setting the appropriate environment variable.

The cache has 4 different modes selected by --vfs-cache-mode. The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the cost of using disk space.

Note that files are written back to the remote only when they are closed so if rclone is quit or dies with open files then these won't get written back to the remote. However they will still be in the on disk cache.

--vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode the cache will read directly from the remote and write directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

Files can't be opened for both read AND write
Files opened for write can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode minimal

This is very similar to "off" except that files opened for read AND write will be buffered to disks. This means that files opened for write will be a lot more compatible, but uses the minimal disk space.

These operations are not possible

Files opened for write only can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

--vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When a file is opened for read it will be downloaded in its entirety first.

This may be appropriate for your needs, or you may prefer to look at the cache backend which does a much more sophisticated job of caching, including caching directory hierarchies and chunks of files.

In this mode, unlike the others, when a file is written to the disk, it will be kept on the disk after it is written to the remote. It will be purged on a schedule according to --vfs-cache-max-age.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload or download fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

rclone mount remote:path /path/to/mountpoint [flags]

Options

      --allow-non-empty                    Allow mounting over a non-empty directory.
      --allow-other                        Allow access to other users.
      --allow-root                         Allow access to root user.
      --attr-timeout duration              Time for which file/directory attributes are cached. (default 1s)
      --daemon                             Run mount as a daemon (background mode).
      --daemon-timeout duration            Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported by all OSes).
      --debug-fuse                         Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v.
      --default-permissions                Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode.
      --dir-cache-time duration            Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)
      --fuse-flag stringArray              Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp. Repeat if required.
      --gid uint32                         Override the gid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
  -h, --help                               help for mount
      --max-read-ahead int                 The number of bytes that can be prefetched for sequential reads. (default 128k)
      --no-checksum                        Don't compare checksums on up/download.
      --no-modtime                         Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
      --no-seek                            Don't allow seeking in files.
  -o, --option stringArray                 Option for libfuse/WinFsp. Repeat if required.
      --poll-interval duration             Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable. (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                          Mount read-only.
      --uid uint32                         Override the uid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
      --umask int                          Override the permission bits set by the filesystem.
      --vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size int            Read the source objects in chunks. (default 128M)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit int      If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached. 'off' is unlimited. (default off)
      --volname string                     Set the volume name (not supported by all OSes).
      --write-back-cache                   Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone. Without this, writethrough caching is used.

rclone moveto

Move file or directory from source to dest.

Synopsis

If source:path is a file or directory then it moves it to a file or directory named dest:path.

This can be used to rename files or upload single files to other than their existing name. If the source is a directory then it acts exacty like the move command.

rclone moveto src dst

where src and dst are rclone paths, either remote:path or /path/to/local or C:\windows\path\if\on\windows.

This will:

if src is file
    move it to dst, overwriting an existing file if it exists
if src is directory
    move it to dst, overwriting existing files if they exist
    see move command for full details

This doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. src will be deleted on successful transfer.

Important: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag.

Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics.

rclone moveto source:path dest:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for moveto

rclone ncdu

Explore a remote with a text based user interface.

Synopsis

This displays a text based user interface allowing the navigation of a remote. It is most useful for answering the question - "What is using all my disk space?".

To make the user interface it first scans the entire remote given and builds an in memory representation. rclone ncdu can be used during this scanning phase and you will see it building up the directory structure as it goes along.

Here are the keys - press '?' to toggle the help on and off

 ↑,↓ or k,j to Move
 →,l to enter
 ←,h to return
 c toggle counts
 g toggle graph
 n,s,C sort by name,size,count
 d delete file/directory
 ^L refresh screen
 ? to toggle help on and off
 q/ESC/c-C to quit

This an homage to the ncdu tool but for rclone remotes. It is missing lots of features at the moment but is useful as it stands.

Note that it might take some time to delete big files/folders. The UI won't respond in the meantime since the deletion is done synchronously.

rclone ncdu remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for ncdu

rclone obscure

Obscure password for use in the rclone.conf

Synopsis

Obscure password for use in the rclone.conf

rclone obscure password [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for obscure

rclone rc

Run a command against a running rclone.

Synopsis

This runs a command against a running rclone. Use the --url flag to specify an non default URL to connect on. This can be either a ":port" which is taken to mean "http://localhost:port" or a "host:port" which is taken to mean "http://host:port"

A username and password can be passed in with --user and --pass.

Note that --rc-addr, --rc-user, --rc-pass will be read also for --url, --user, --pass.

Arguments should be passed in as parameter=value.

The result will be returned as a JSON object by default.

The --json parameter can be used to pass in a JSON blob as an input instead of key=value arguments. This is the only way of passing in more complicated values.

Use "rclone rc" to see a list of all possible commands.

rclone rc commands parameter [flags]

Options

  -h, --help          help for rc
      --json string   Input JSON - use instead of key=value args.
      --no-output     If set don't output the JSON result.
      --pass string   Password to use to connect to rclone remote control.
      --url string    URL to connect to rclone remote control. (default "http://localhost:5572/")
      --user string   Username to use to rclone remote control.

rclone rcat

Copies standard input to file on remote.

Synopsis

rclone rcat reads from standard input (stdin) and copies it to a single remote file.

echo "hello world" | rclone rcat remote:path/to/file
ffmpeg - | rclone rcat remote:path/to/file

If the remote file already exists, it will be overwritten.

rcat will try to upload small files in a single request, which is usually more efficient than the streaming/chunked upload endpoints, which use multiple requests. Exact behaviour depends on the remote. What is considered a small file may be set through --streaming-upload-cutoff. Uploading only starts after the cutoff is reached or if the file ends before that. The data must fit into RAM. The cutoff needs to be small enough to adhere the limits of your remote, please see there. Generally speaking, setting this cutoff too high will decrease your performance.

Note that the upload can also not be retried because the data is not kept around until the upload succeeds. If you need to transfer a lot of data, you're better off caching locally and then rclone move it to the destination.

rclone rcat remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for rcat

rclone rcd

Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.

Synopsis

This runs rclone so that it only listents to remote control commands.

This is useful if you are controlling rclone via the rc API.

If you pass in a path to a directory, rclone will serve that directory for GET requests on the URL passed in. It will also open the URL in the browser when rclone is run.

See the rc documentation for more info on the rc flags.

rclone rcd <path to files to serve>* [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for rcd

rclone rmdirs

Remove empty directories under the path.

Synopsis

This removes any empty directories (or directories that only contain empty directories) under the path that it finds, including the path if it has nothing in.

If you supply the --leave-root flag, it will not remove the root directory.

This is useful for tidying up remotes that rclone has left a lot of empty directories in.

rclone rmdirs remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help         help for rmdirs
      --leave-root   Do not remove root directory if empty

rclone serve

Serve a remote over a protocol.

Synopsis

rclone serve is used to serve a remote over a given protocol. This command requires the use of a subcommand to specify the protocol, eg

rclone serve http remote:

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

rclone serve <protocol> [opts] <remote> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for serve

rclone serve ftp

Serve remote:path over FTP.

Synopsis

rclone serve ftp implements a basic ftp server to serve the remote over FTP protocol. This can be viewed with a ftp client or you can make a remote of type ftp to read and write it.

Server options

Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should listen on, eg --addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --addr :8080 to listen to all IPs. By default it only listens on localhost. You can use port :0 to let the OS choose an available port.

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

Directory Cache

kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)

If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

rclone rc vfs/forget

Or individual files or directories:

rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir

File Buffering

The --buffer-size flag determines the amount of memory, that will be used to buffer data in advance.

File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. The VFS layer is used by rclone mount to make a cloud storage system work more like a normal file system.

You'll need to enable VFS caching if you want, for example, to read and write simultaneously to a file. See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache works in addition to the cache backend and you may find that you need one or the other or both.

--cache-dir string                   Directory rclone will use for caching.
--vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)

The cache has 4 different modes selected by --vfs-cache-mode. The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the cost of using disk space.

--vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode the cache will read directly from the remote and write directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

Files can't be opened for both read AND write
Files opened for write can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode minimal

These operations are not possible

Files opened for write only can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

--vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When a file is opened for read it will be downloaded in its entirety first.

In this mode, unlike the others, when a file is written to the disk, it will be kept on the disk after it is written to the remote. It will be purged on a schedule according to --vfs-cache-max-age.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload or download fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

rclone serve ftp remote:path [flags]

Options

      --addr string                        IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:2121")
      --dir-cache-time duration            Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)
      --gid uint32                         Override the gid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
  -h, --help                               help for ftp
      --no-checksum                        Don't compare checksums on up/download.
      --no-modtime                         Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
      --no-seek                            Don't allow seeking in files.
      --pass string                        Password for authentication. (empty value allow every password)
      --passive-port string                Passive port range to use. (default "30000-32000")
      --poll-interval duration             Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable. (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                          Mount read-only.
      --uid uint32                         Override the uid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
      --umask int                          Override the permission bits set by the filesystem. (default 2)
      --user string                        User name for authentication. (default "anonymous")
      --vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size int            Read the source objects in chunks. (default 128M)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit int      If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached. 'off' is unlimited. (default off)

rclone serve http

Serve the remote over HTTP.

Synopsis

rclone serve http implements a basic web server to serve the remote over HTTP. This can be viewed in a web browser or you can make a remote of type http read from it.

You can use the filter flags (eg --include, --exclude) to control what is served.

The server will log errors. Use -v to see access logs.

--bwlimit will be respected for file transfers. Use --stats to control the stats printing.

Server options

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

--server-read-timeout and --server-write-timeout can be used to control the timeouts on the server. Note that this is the total time for a transfer.

--max-header-bytes controls the maximum number of bytes the server will accept in the HTTP header.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

Use --htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd to provide an htpasswd file. This is in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic authentication. Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

SSL/TLS

By default this will serve over http. If you want you can serve over https. You will need to supply the --cert and --key flags. If you wish to do client side certificate validation then you will need to supply --client-ca also.

--cert should be a either a PEM encoded certificate or a concatenation of that with the CA certificate. --key should be the PEM encoded private key and --client-ca should be the PEM encoded client certificate authority certificate.

Directory Cache

kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)

If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

rclone rc vfs/forget

Or individual files or directories:

rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir

File Buffering

The --buffer-size flag determines the amount of memory, that will be used to buffer data in advance.

File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. The VFS layer is used by rclone mount to make a cloud storage system work more like a normal file system.

You'll need to enable VFS caching if you want, for example, to read and write simultaneously to a file. See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache works in addition to the cache backend and you may find that you need one or the other or both.

--cache-dir string                   Directory rclone will use for caching.
--vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)

The cache has 4 different modes selected by --vfs-cache-mode. The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the cost of using disk space.

--vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode the cache will read directly from the remote and write directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

Files can't be opened for both read AND write
Files opened for write can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode minimal

These operations are not possible

Files opened for write only can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

--vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When a file is opened for read it will be downloaded in its entirety first.

In this mode, unlike the others, when a file is written to the disk, it will be kept on the disk after it is written to the remote. It will be purged on a schedule according to --vfs-cache-max-age.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload or download fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

rclone serve http remote:path [flags]

Options

      --addr string                        IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:8080")
      --cert string                        SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                   Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --dir-cache-time duration            Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)
      --gid uint32                         Override the gid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
  -h, --help                               help for http
      --htpasswd string                    htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                         SSL PEM Private key
      --max-header-bytes int               Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --no-checksum                        Don't compare checksums on up/download.
      --no-modtime                         Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
      --no-seek                            Don't allow seeking in files.
      --pass string                        Password for authentication.
      --poll-interval duration             Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable. (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                          Mount read-only.
      --realm string                       realm for authentication (default "rclone")
      --server-read-timeout duration       Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout duration      Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --uid uint32                         Override the uid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
      --umask int                          Override the permission bits set by the filesystem. (default 2)
      --user string                        User name for authentication.
      --vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size int            Read the source objects in chunks. (default 128M)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit int      If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached. 'off' is unlimited. (default off)

rclone serve restic

Serve the remote for restic's REST API.

Synopsis

rclone serve restic implements restic's REST backend API over HTTP. This allows restic to use rclone as a data storage mechanism for cloud providers that restic does not support directly.

Restic is a command line program for doing backups.

The server will log errors. Use -v to see access logs.

--bwlimit will be respected for file transfers. Use --stats to control the stats printing.

Setting up rclone for use by restic

First set up a remote for your chosen cloud provider.

Once you have set up the remote, check it is working with, for example "rclone lsd remote:". You may have called the remote something other than "remote:" - just substitute whatever you called it in the following instructions.

Now start the rclone restic server

rclone serve restic -v remote:backup

Where you can replace "backup" in the above by whatever path in the remote you wish to use.

By default this will serve on "localhost:8080" you can change this with use of the "--addr" flag.

You might wish to start this server on boot.

Setting up restic to use rclone

Now you can follow the restic instructions on setting up restic.

Note that you will need restic 0.8.2 or later to interoperate with rclone.

For the example above you will want to use "http://localhost:8080/" as the URL for the REST server.

For example:

$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/
$ export RESTIC_PASSWORD=yourpassword
$ restic init
created restic backend 8b1a4b56ae at rest:http://localhost:8080/

Please note that knowledge of your password is required to access
the repository. Losing your password means that your data is
irrecoverably lost.
$ restic backup /path/to/files/to/backup
scan [/path/to/files/to/backup]
scanned 189 directories, 312 files in 0:00
[0:00] 100.00%  38.128 MiB / 38.128 MiB  501 / 501 items  0 errors  ETA 0:00 
duration: 0:00
snapshot 45c8fdd8 saved

Multiple repositories

Note that you can use the endpoint to host multiple repositories. Do this by adding a directory name or path after the URL. Note that these must end with /. Eg

$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user1repo/
# backup user1 stuff
$ export RESTIC_REPOSITORY=rest:http://localhost:8080/user2repo/
# backup user2 stuff

Server options

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

--server-read-timeout and --server-write-timeout can be used to control the timeouts on the server. Note that this is the total time for a transfer.

--max-header-bytes controls the maximum number of bytes the server will accept in the HTTP header.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

Use --htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd to provide an htpasswd file. This is in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic authentication. Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

SSL/TLS

rclone serve restic remote:path [flags]

Options

      --addr string                     IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:8080")
      --append-only                     disallow deletion of repository data
      --cert string                     SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                Client certificate authority to verify clients with
  -h, --help                            help for restic
      --htpasswd string                 htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                      SSL PEM Private key
      --max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --pass string                     Password for authentication.
      --realm string                    realm for authentication (default "rclone")
      --server-read-timeout duration    Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout duration   Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --stdio                           run an HTTP2 server on stdin/stdout
      --user string                     User name for authentication.

rclone serve webdav

Serve remote:path over webdav.

Synopsis

rclone serve webdav implements a basic webdav server to serve the remote over HTTP via the webdav protocol. This can be viewed with a webdav client or you can make a remote of type webdav to read and write it.

Webdav options

--etag-hash

This controls the ETag header. Without this flag the ETag will be based on the ModTime and Size of the object.

If this flag is set to "auto" then rclone will choose the first supported hash on the backend or you can use a named hash such as "MD5" or "SHA-1".

Use "rclone hashsum" to see the full list.

Server options

If you set --addr to listen on a public or LAN accessible IP address then using Authentication is advised - see the next section for info.

--server-read-timeout and --server-write-timeout can be used to control the timeouts on the server. Note that this is the total time for a transfer.

--max-header-bytes controls the maximum number of bytes the server will accept in the HTTP header.

Authentication

By default this will serve files without needing a login.

You can either use an htpasswd file which can take lots of users, or set a single username and password with the --user and --pass flags.

Use --htpasswd /path/to/htpasswd to provide an htpasswd file. This is in standard apache format and supports MD5, SHA1 and BCrypt for basic authentication. Bcrypt is recommended.

To create an htpasswd file:

touch htpasswd
htpasswd -B htpasswd user
htpasswd -B htpasswd anotherUser

The password file can be updated while rclone is running.

Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

SSL/TLS

Directory Cache

kill -SIGHUP $(pidof rclone)

If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use rclone rc to flush the whole directory cache:

rclone rc vfs/forget

Or individual files or directories:

rclone rc vfs/forget file=path/to/file dir=path/to/dir

File Buffering

The --buffer-size flag determines the amount of memory, that will be used to buffer data in advance.

File Caching

These flags control the VFS file caching options. The VFS layer is used by rclone mount to make a cloud storage system work more like a normal file system.

You'll need to enable VFS caching if you want, for example, to read and write simultaneously to a file. See below for more details.

Note that the VFS cache works in addition to the cache backend and you may find that you need one or the other or both.

--cache-dir string                   Directory rclone will use for caching.
--vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
--vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
--vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)

The cache has 4 different modes selected by --vfs-cache-mode. The higher the cache mode the more compatible rclone becomes at the cost of using disk space.

--vfs-cache-mode off

In this mode the cache will read directly from the remote and write directly to the remote without caching anything on disk.

This will mean some operations are not possible

Files can't be opened for both read AND write
Files opened for write can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files open for read with O_TRUNC will be opened write only
Files open for write only will behave as if O_TRUNC was supplied
Open modes O_APPEND, O_TRUNC are ignored
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode minimal

These operations are not possible

Files opened for write only can't be seeked
Existing files opened for write must have O_TRUNC set
Files opened for write only will ignore O_APPEND, O_TRUNC
If an upload fails it can't be retried

--vfs-cache-mode writes

In this mode files opened for read only are still read directly from the remote, write only and read/write files are buffered to disk first.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

--vfs-cache-mode full

In this mode all reads and writes are buffered to and from disk. When a file is opened for read it will be downloaded in its entirety first.

In this mode, unlike the others, when a file is written to the disk, it will be kept on the disk after it is written to the remote. It will be purged on a schedule according to --vfs-cache-max-age.

This mode should support all normal file system operations.

If an upload or download fails it will be retried up to --low-level-retries times.

rclone serve webdav remote:path [flags]

Options

      --addr string                        IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:8080")
      --cert string                        SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      --client-ca string                   Client certificate authority to verify clients with
      --dir-cache-time duration            Time to cache directory entries for. (default 5m0s)
      --etag-hash string                   Which hash to use for the ETag, or auto or blank for off
      --gid uint32                         Override the gid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
  -h, --help                               help for webdav
      --htpasswd string                    htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      --key string                         SSL PEM Private key
      --max-header-bytes int               Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      --no-checksum                        Don't compare checksums on up/download.
      --no-modtime                         Don't read/write the modification time (can speed things up).
      --no-seek                            Don't allow seeking in files.
      --pass string                        Password for authentication.
      --poll-interval duration             Time to wait between polling for changes. Must be smaller than dir-cache-time. Only on supported remotes. Set to 0 to disable. (default 1m0s)
      --read-only                          Mount read-only.
      --realm string                       realm for authentication (default "rclone")
      --server-read-timeout duration       Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      --server-write-timeout duration      Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      --uid uint32                         Override the uid field set by the filesystem. (default 502)
      --umask int                          Override the permission bits set by the filesystem. (default 2)
      --user string                        User name for authentication.
      --vfs-cache-max-age duration         Max age of objects in the cache. (default 1h0m0s)
      --vfs-cache-mode string              Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default "off")
      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration   Interval to poll the cache for stale objects. (default 1m0s)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size int            Read the source objects in chunks. (default 128M)
      --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit int      If greater than --vfs-read-chunk-size, double the chunk size after each chunk read, until the limit is reached. 'off' is unlimited. (default off)

rclone settier

Changes storage class/tier of objects in remote.

Synopsis

rclone settier changes storage tier or class at remote if supported. Few cloud storage services provides different storage classes on objects, for example AWS S3 and Glacier, Azure Blob storage - Hot, Cool and Archive, Google Cloud Storage, Regional Storage, Nearline, Coldline etc.

Note that, certain tier chages make objects not available to access immediately. For example tiering to archive in azure blob storage makes objects in frozen state, user can restore by setting tier to Hot/Cool, similarly S3 to Glacier makes object inaccessible.true

You can use it to tier single object

rclone settier Cool remote:path/file

Or use rclone filters to set tier on only specific files

rclone --include "*.txt" settier Hot remote:path/dir

Or just provide remote directory and all files in directory will be tiered

rclone settier tier remote:path/dir

rclone settier tier remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for settier

rclone touch

Create new file or change file modification time.

Synopsis

Create new file or change file modification time.

rclone touch remote:path [flags]

Options

  -h, --help               help for touch
  -C, --no-create          Do not create the file if it does not exist.
  -t, --timestamp string   Change the modification times to the specified time instead of the current time of day. The argument is of the form 'YYMMDD' (ex. 17.10.30) or 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS' (ex. 2006-01-02T15:04:05)

rclone tree

List the contents of the remote in a tree like fashion.

Synopsis

rclone tree lists the contents of a remote in a similar way to the unix tree command.

For example

$ rclone tree remote:path
/
├── file1
├── file2
├── file3
└── subdir
    ├── file4
    └── file5

1 directories, 5 files

You can use any of the filtering options with the tree command (eg --include and --exclude). You can also use --fast-list.

The tree command has many options for controlling the listing which are compatible with the tree command. Note that not all of them have short options as they conflict with rclone's short options.

rclone tree remote:path [flags]

Options

  -a, --all             All files are listed (list . files too).
  -C, --color           Turn colorization on always.
  -d, --dirs-only       List directories only.
      --dirsfirst       List directories before files (-U disables).
      --full-path       Print the full path prefix for each file.
  -h, --help            help for tree
      --human           Print the size in a more human readable way.
      --level int       Descend only level directories deep.
  -D, --modtime         Print the date of last modification.
  -i, --noindent        Don't print indentation lines.
      --noreport        Turn off file/directory count at end of tree listing.
  -o, --output string   Output to file instead of stdout.
  -p, --protections     Print the protections for each file.
  -Q, --quote           Quote filenames with double quotes.
  -s, --size            Print the size in bytes of each file.
      --sort string     Select sort: name,version,size,mtime,ctime.
      --sort-ctime      Sort files by last status change time.
  -t, --sort-modtime    Sort files by last modification time.
  -r, --sort-reverse    Reverse the order of the sort.
  -U, --unsorted        Leave files unsorted.
      --version         Sort files alphanumerically by version.

Copying single files

rclone normally syncs or copies directories. However, if the source remote points to a file, rclone will just copy that file. The destination remote must point to a directory - rclone will give the error Failed to create file system for "remote:file": is a file not a directory if it isn't.

For example, suppose you have a remote with a file in called test.jpg, then you could copy just that file like this

rclone copy remote:test.jpg /tmp/download

The file test.jpg will be placed inside /tmp/download.

This is equivalent to specifying

rclone copy --files-from /tmp/files remote: /tmp/download

Where /tmp/files contains the single line

test.jpg

It is recommended to use copy when copying individual files, not sync. They have pretty much the same effect but copy will use a lot less memory.

Syntax of remote paths

The syntax of the paths passed to the rclone command are as follows.

/path/to/dir

This refers to the local file system.

On Windows only \ may be used instead of / in local paths only, non local paths must use /.

These paths needn't start with a leading / - if they don't then they will be relative to the current directory.

remote:path/to/dir

This refers to a directory path/to/dir on remote: as defined in the config file (configured with rclone config).

remote:/path/to/dir

On most backends this is refers to the same directory as remote:path/to/dir and that format should be preferred. On a very small number of remotes (FTP, SFTP, Dropbox for business) this will refer to a different directory. On these, paths without a leading / will refer to your "home" directory and paths with a leading / will refer to the root.

:backend:path/to/dir

This is an advanced form for creating remotes on the fly. backend should be the name or prefix of a backend (the type in the config file) and all the configuration for the backend should be provided on the command line (or in environment variables).

rclone lsd --http-url https://pub.rclone.org :http:

Which lists all the directories in pub.rclone.org.

Quoting and the shell

When you are typing commands to your computer you are using something called the command line shell. This interprets various characters in an OS specific way.

Here are some gotchas which may help users unfamiliar with the shell rules

Linux / OSX

If your names have spaces or shell metacharacters (eg *, ?, $, ', " etc) then you must quote them. Use single quotes ' by default.

rclone copy 'Important files?' remote:backup

If you want to send a ' you will need to use ", eg

rclone copy "O'Reilly Reviews" remote:backup

The rules for quoting metacharacters are complicated and if you want the full details you'll have to consult the manual page for your shell.

Windows

If your names have spaces in you need to put them in ", eg

rclone copy "E:\folder name\folder name\folder name" remote:backup

If you are using the root directory on its own then don't quote it (see #464 for why), eg

rclone copy E:\ remote:backup

Copying files or directories with `:` in the names

rclone uses : to mark a remote name. This is, however, a valid filename component in non-Windows OSes. The remote name parser will only search for a : up to the first / so if you need to act on a file or directory like this then use the full path starting with a /, or use ./ as a current directory prefix.

So to sync a directory called sync:me to a remote called remote: use

rclone sync ./sync:me remote:path

rclone sync /full/path/to/sync:me remote:path

Server Side Copy

Most remotes (but not all - see the overview) support server side copy.

This means if you want to copy one folder to another then rclone won't download all the files and re-upload them; it will instruct the server to copy them in place.

rclone copy s3:oldbucket s3:newbucket

Will copy the contents of oldbucket to newbucket without downloading and re-uploading.

Remotes which don't support server side copy will download and re-upload in this case.

Server side copies are used with sync and copy and will be identified in the log when using the -v flag. The move command may also use them if remote doesn't support server side move directly. This is done by issuing a server side copy then a delete which is much quicker than a download and re-upload.

Server side copies will only be attempted if the remote names are the same.

This can be used when scripting to make aged backups efficiently, eg

rclone sync remote:current-backup remote:previous-backup
rclone sync /path/to/files remote:current-backup

Options

Rclone has a number of options to control its behaviour.

Options which use TIME use the go time parser. A duration string is a possibly signed sequence of decimal numbers, each with optional fraction and a unit suffix, such as "300ms", "-1.5h" or "2h45m". Valid time units are "ns", "us" (or "µs"), "ms", "s", "m", "h".

Options which use SIZE use kByte by default. However, a suffix of b for bytes, k for kBytes, M for MBytes, G for GBytes, T for TBytes and P for PBytes may be used. These are the binary units, eg 1, 2**10, 2**20, 2**30 respectively.

--backup-dir=DIR

When using sync, copy or move any files which would have been overwritten or deleted are moved in their original hierarchy into this directory.

If --suffix is set, then the moved files will have the suffix added to them. If there is a file with the same path (after the suffix has been added) in DIR, then it will be overwritten.

The remote in use must support server side move or copy and you must use the same remote as the destination of the sync. The backup directory must not overlap the destination directory.

For example

rclone sync /path/to/local remote:current --backup-dir remote:old

will sync /path/to/local to remote:current, but for any files which would have been updated or deleted will be stored in remote:old.

If running rclone from a script you might want to use today's date as the directory name passed to --backup-dir to store the old files, or you might want to pass --suffix with today's date.

--bind string

Local address to bind to for outgoing connections. This can be an IPv4 address (1.2.3.4), an IPv6 address (1234::789A) or host name. If the host name doesn't resolve or resolves to more than one IP address it will give an error.

--bwlimit=BANDWIDTH_SPEC

This option controls the bandwidth limit. Limits can be specified in two ways: As a single limit, or as a timetable.

Single limits last for the duration of the session. To use a single limit, specify the desired bandwidth in kBytes/s, or use a suffix b|k|M|G. The default is 0 which means to not limit bandwidth.

For example, to limit bandwidth usage to 10 MBytes/s use --bwlimit 10M

It is also possible to specify a "timetable" of limits, which will cause certain limits to be applied at certain times. To specify a timetable, format your entries as "WEEKDAY-HH:MM,BANDWIDTH WEEKDAY-HH:MM,BANDWIDTH..." where: WEEKDAY is optional element. It could be writen as whole world or only using 3 first characters. HH:MM is an hour from 00:00 to 23:59.

An example of a typical timetable to avoid link saturation during daytime working hours could be:

--bwlimit "08:00,512 12:00,10M 13:00,512 18:00,30M 23:00,off"

In this example, the transfer bandwidth will be every day set to 512kBytes/sec at 8am. At noon, it will raise to 10Mbytes/s, and drop back to 512kBytes/sec at 1pm. At 6pm, the bandwidth limit will be set to 30MBytes/s, and at 11pm it will be completely disabled (full speed). Anything between 11pm and 8am will remain unlimited.

An example of timetable with WEEKDAY could be:

--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512 Fri-23:59,10M Sat-10:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"

It mean that, the transfer bandwidh will be set to 512kBytes/sec on Monday. It will raise to 10Mbytes/s before the end of Friday. At 10:00 on Sunday it will be set to 1Mbyte/s. From 20:00 at Sunday will be unlimited.

Timeslots without weekday are extended to whole week. So this one example:

--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512 12:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"

Is equal to this:

--bwlimit "Mon-00:00,512Mon-12:00,1M Tue-12:00,1M Wed-12:00,1M Thu-12:00,1M Fri-12:00,1M Sat-12:00,1M Sun-12:00,1M Sun-20:00,off"

Bandwidth limits only apply to the data transfer. They don't apply to the bandwidth of the directory listings etc.

Note that the units are Bytes/s, not Bits/s. Typically connections are measured in Bits/s - to convert divide by 8. For example, let's say you have a 10 Mbit/s connection and you wish rclone to use half of it

5 Mbit/s. This is 5/8 = 0.625MByte/s so you would use a --bwlimit 0.625M parameter for rclone.

On Unix systems (Linux, MacOS, …) the bandwidth limiter can be toggled by sending a SIGUSR2 signal to rclone. This allows to remove the limitations of a long running rclone transfer and to restore it back to the value specified with --bwlimit quickly when needed. Assuming there is only one rclone instance running, you can toggle the limiter like this:

kill -SIGUSR2 $(pidof rclone)

If you configure rclone with a remote control then you can use change the bwlimit dynamically:

rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=1M

--buffer-size=SIZE

Use this sized buffer to speed up file transfers. Each --transfer will use this much memory for buffering.

When using mount or cmount each open file descriptor will use this much memory for buffering. See the mount documentation for more details.

Set to 0 to disable the buffering for the minimum memory usage.

--checkers=N

The number of checkers to run in parallel. Checkers do the equality checking of files during a sync. For some storage systems (eg S3, Swift, Dropbox) this can take a significant amount of time so they are run in parallel.

The default is to run 8 checkers in parallel.

-c, --checksum

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to see if they are equal. If you set this flag then rclone will check the file hash and size to determine if files are equal.

This is useful when the remote doesn't support setting modified time and a more accurate sync is desired than just checking the file size.

This is very useful when transferring between remotes which store the same hash type on the object, eg Drive and Swift. For details of which remotes support which hash type see the table in the overview section.

Eg rclone --checksum sync s3:/bucket swift:/bucket would run much quicker than without the --checksum flag.

When using this flag, rclone won't update mtimes of remote files if they are incorrect as it would normally.

--config=CONFIG_FILE

Specify the location of the rclone config file.

Normally the config file is in your home directory as a file called .config/rclone/rclone.conf (or .rclone.conf if created with an older version). If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set it will be at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/rclone/rclone.conf

If you run rclone -h and look at the help for the --config option you will see where the default location is for you.

Use this flag to override the config location, eg rclone --config=".myconfig" .config.

--contimeout=TIME

Set the connection timeout. This should be in go time format which looks like 5s for 5 seconds, 10m for 10 minutes, or 3h30m.

The connection timeout is the amount of time rclone will wait for a connection to go through to a remote object storage system. It is 1m by default.

--dedupe-mode MODE

Mode to run dedupe command in. One of interactive, skip, first, newest, oldest, rename. The default is interactive. See the dedupe command for more information as to what these options mean.

--disable FEATURE,FEATURE,...

This disables a comma separated list of optional features. For example to disable server side move and server side copy use:

--disable move,copy

The features can be put in in any case.

To see a list of which features can be disabled use:

--disable help

See the overview features and optional features to get an idea of which feature does what.

This flag can be useful for debugging and in exceptional circumstances (eg Google Drive limiting the total volume of Server Side Copies to 100GB/day).

-n, --dry-run

Do a trial run with no permanent changes. Use this to see what rclone would do without actually doing it. Useful when setting up the sync command which deletes files in the destination.

--ignore-checksum

Normally rclone will check that the checksums of transferred files match, and give an error "corrupted on transfer" if they don't.

You can use this option to skip that check. You should only use it if you have had the "corrupted on transfer" error message and you are sure you might want to transfer potentially corrupted data.

--ignore-existing

Using this option will make rclone unconditionally skip all files that exist on the destination, no matter the content of these files.

While this isn't a generally recommended option, it can be useful in cases where your files change due to encryption. However, it cannot correct partial transfers in case a transfer was interrupted.

--ignore-size

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to see if they are equal. If you set this flag then rclone will check only the modification time. If --checksum is set then it only checks the checksum.

It will also cause rclone to skip verifying the sizes are the same after transfer.

This can be useful for transferring files to and from OneDrive which occasionally misreports the size of image files (see #399 for more info).

-I, --ignore-times

Using this option will cause rclone to unconditionally upload all files regardless of the state of files on the destination.

Normally rclone would skip any files that have the same modification time and are the same size (or have the same checksum if using --checksum).

--immutable

Treat source and destination files as immutable and disallow modification.

With this option set, files will be created and deleted as requested, but existing files will never be updated. If an existing file does not match between the source and destination, rclone will give the error Source and destination exist but do not match: immutable file modified.

Note that only commands which transfer files (e.g. sync, copy, move) are affected by this behavior, and only modification is disallowed. Files may still be deleted explicitly (e.g. delete, purge) or implicitly (e.g. sync, move). Use copy --immutable if it is desired to avoid deletion as well as modification.

This can be useful as an additional layer of protection for immutable or append-only data sets (notably backup archives), where modification implies corruption and should not be propagated.

--leave-root

During rmdirs it will not remove root directory, even if it's empty.

--log-file=FILE

Log all of rclone's output to FILE. This is not active by default. This can be useful for tracking down problems with syncs in combination with the -v flag. See the Logging section for more info.

Note that if you are using the logrotate program to manage rclone's logs, then you should use the copytruncate option as rclone doesn't have a signal to rotate logs.

--log-format LIST

Comma separated list of log format options. date, time, microseconds, longfile, shortfile, UTC. The default is "date,time".

--log-level LEVEL

This sets the log level for rclone. The default log level is NOTICE.

DEBUG is equivalent to -vv. It outputs lots of debug info - useful for bug reports and really finding out what rclone is doing.

INFO is equivalent to -v. It outputs information about each transfer and prints stats once a minute by default.

NOTICE is the default log level if no logging flags are supplied. It outputs very little when things are working normally. It outputs warnings and significant events.

ERROR is equivalent to -q. It only outputs error messages.

--low-level-retries NUMBER

This controls the number of low level retries rclone does.

A low level retry is used to retry a failing operation - typically one HTTP request. This might be uploading a chunk of a big file for example. You will see low level retries in the log with the -v flag.

This shouldn't need to be changed from the default in normal operations. However, if you get a lot of low level retries you may wish to reduce the value so rclone moves on to a high level retry (see the --retries flag) quicker.

Disable low level retries with --low-level-retries 1.

--max-backlog=N

This is the maximum allowable backlog of files in a sync/copy/move queued for being checked or transferred.

This can be set arbitrarily large. It will only use memory when the queue is in use. Note that it will use in the order of N kB of memory when the backlog is in use.

Setting this large allows rclone to calculate how many files are pending more accurately and give a more accurate estimated finish time.

Setting this small will make rclone more synchronous to the listings of the remote which may be desirable.

--max-delete=N

This tells rclone not to delete more than N files. If that limit is exceeded then a fatal error will be generated and rclone will stop the operation in progress.

--max-depth=N

This modifies the recursion depth for all the commands except purge.

So if you do rclone --max-depth 1 ls remote:path you will see only the files in the top level directory. Using --max-depth 2 means you will see all the files in first two directory levels and so on.

For historical reasons the lsd command defaults to using a --max-depth of 1 - you can override this with the command line flag.

You can use this command to disable recursion (with --max-depth 1).

Note that if you use this with sync and --delete-excluded the files not recursed through are considered excluded and will be deleted on the destination. Test first with --dry-run if you are not sure what will happen.

--max-transfer=SIZE

Rclone will stop transferring when it has reached the size specified. Defaults to off.

When the limit is reached all transfers will stop immediately.

Rclone will exit with exit code 8 if the transfer limit is reached.

--modify-window=TIME

When checking whether a file has been modified, this is the maximum allowed time difference that a file can have and still be considered equivalent.

The default is 1ns unless this is overridden by a remote. For example OS X only stores modification times to the nearest second so if you are reading and writing to an OS X filing system this will be 1s by default.

This command line flag allows you to override that computed default.

--no-gzip-encoding

Don't set Accept-Encoding: gzip. This means that rclone won't ask the server for compressed files automatically. Useful if you've set the server to return files with Content-Encoding: gzip but you uploaded compressed files.

There is no need to set this in normal operation, and doing so will decrease the network transfer efficiency of rclone.

--no-update-modtime

When using this flag, rclone won't update modification times of remote files if they are incorrect as it would normally.

This can be used if the remote is being synced with another tool also (eg the Google Drive client).

-P, --progress

This flag makes rclone update the stats in a static block in the terminal providing a realtime overview of the transfer.

Any log messages will scroll above the static block. Log messages will push the static block down to the bottom of the terminal where it will stay.

Normally this is updated every 500mS but this period can be overridden with the --stats flag.

This can be used with the --stats-one-line flag for a simpler display.

Note: On Windows untilthis bug is fixed all non-ASCII characters will be replaced with . when --progress is in use.

-q, --quiet

Normally rclone outputs stats and a completion message. If you set this flag it will make as little output as possible.

--retries int

Retry the entire sync if it fails this many times it fails (default 3).

Some remotes can be unreliable and a few retries help pick up the files which didn't get transferred because of errors.

Disable retries with --retries 1.

--retries-sleep=TIME

This sets the interval between each retry specified by --retries

The default is 0. Use 0 to disable.

--size-only

Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to see if they are equal. If you set this flag then rclone will check only the size.

This can be useful transferring files from Dropbox which have been modified by the desktop sync client which doesn't set checksums of modification times in the same way as rclone.

--stats=TIME

Commands which transfer data (sync, copy, copyto, move, moveto) will print data transfer stats at regular intervals to show their progress.

This sets the interval.

The default is 1m. Use 0 to disable.

If you set the stats interval then all commands can show stats. This can be useful when running other commands, check or mount for example.

Stats are logged at INFO level by default which means they won't show at default log level NOTICE. Use --stats-log-level NOTICE or -v to make them show. See the Logging section for more info on log levels.

Note that on macOS you can send a SIGINFO (which is normally ctrl-T in the terminal) to make the stats print immediately.

--stats-file-name-length integer

By default, the --stats output will truncate file names and paths longer than 40 characters. This is equivalent to providing --stats-file-name-length 40. Use --stats-file-name-length 0 to disable any truncation of file names printed by stats.

--stats-log-level string

Log level to show --stats output at. This can be DEBUG, INFO, NOTICE, or ERROR. The default is INFO. This means at the default level of logging which is NOTICE the stats won't show - if you want them to then use --stats-log-level NOTICE. See the Logging section for more info on log levels.

--stats-one-line

When this is specified, rclone condenses the stats into a single line showing the most important stats only.

--stats-unit=bits|bytes

By default, data transfer rates will be printed in bytes/second.

This option allows the data rate to be printed in bits/second.

Data transfer volume will still be reported in bytes.

The rate is reported as a binary unit, not SI unit. So 1 Mbit/s equals 1,048,576 bits/s and not 1,000,000 bits/s.

The default is bytes.

--suffix=SUFFIX

This is for use with --backup-dir only. If this isn't set then --backup-dir will move files with their original name. If it is set then the files will have SUFFIX added on to them.

See --backup-dir for more info.

--syslog

On capable OSes (not Windows or Plan9) send all log output to syslog.

This can be useful for running rclone in a script or rclone mount.

--syslog-facility string

If using --syslog this sets the syslog facility (eg KERN, USER). See man syslog for a list of possible facilities. The default facility is DAEMON.

--tpslimit float

Limit HTTP transactions per second to this. Default is 0 which is used to mean unlimited transactions per second.

For example to limit rclone to 10 HTTP transactions per second use --tpslimit 10, or to 1 transaction every 2 seconds use --tpslimit 0.5.

Use this when the number of transactions per second from rclone is causing a problem with the cloud storage provider (eg getting you banned or rate limited).

This can be very useful for rclone mount to control the behaviour of applications using it.

--tpslimit-burst int

Max burst of transactions for --tpslimit. (default 1)

Normally --tpslimit will do exactly the number of transaction per second specified. However if you supply --tps-burst then rclone can save up some transactions from when it was idle giving a burst of up to the parameter supplied.

For example if you provide --tpslimit-burst 10 then if rclone has been idle for more than 10*--tpslimit then it can do 10 transactions very quickly before they are limited again.

This may be used to increase performance of --tpslimit without changing the long term average number of transactions per second.

--track-renames

By default, rclone doesn't keep track of renamed files, so if you rename a file locally then sync it to a remote, rclone will delete the old file on the remote and upload a new copy.

If you use this flag, and the remote supports server side copy or server side move, and the source and destination have a compatible hash, then this will track renames during sync operations and perform renaming server-side.

Files will be matched by size and hash - if both match then a rename will be considered.

If the destination does not support server-side copy or move, rclone will fall back to the default behaviour and log an error level message to the console. Note: Encrypted destinations are not supported by --track-renames.

Note that --track-renames uses extra memory to keep track of all the rename candidates.

Note also that --track-renames is incompatible with --delete-before and will select --delete-after instead of --delete-during.

--delete-(before,during,after)

This option allows you to specify when files on your destination are deleted when you sync folders.

Specifying the value --delete-before will delete all files present on the destination, but not on the source before starting the transfer of any new or updated files. This uses two passes through the file systems, one for the deletions and one for the copies.

Specifying --delete-during will delete files while checking and uploading files. This is the fastest option and uses the least memory.

Specifying --delete-after (the default value) will delay deletion of files until all new/updated files have been successfully transferred. The files to be deleted are collected in the copy pass then deleted after the copy pass has completed successfully. The files to be deleted are held in memory so this mode may use more memory. This is the safest mode as it will only delete files if there have been no errors subsequent to that. If there have been errors before the deletions start then you will get the message not deleting files as there were IO errors.

--fast-list

When doing anything which involves a directory listing (eg sync, copy, ls - in fact nearly every command), rclone normally lists a directory and processes it before using more directory lists to process any subdirectories. This can be parallelised and works very quickly using the least amount of memory.

However, some remotes have a way of listing all files beneath a directory in one (or a small number) of transactions. These tend to be the bucket based remotes (eg S3, B2, GCS, Swift, Hubic).

If you use the --fast-list flag then rclone will use this method for listing directories. This will have the following consequences for the listing:

It will use fewer transactions (important if you pay for them)
It will use more memory. Rclone has to load the whole listing into memory.
It may be faster because it uses fewer transactions
It may be slower because it can't be parallelized

rclone should always give identical results with and without --fast-list.

If you pay for transactions and can fit your entire sync listing into memory then --fast-list is recommended. If you have a very big sync to do then don't use --fast-list otherwise you will run out of memory.

If you use --fast-list on a remote which doesn't support it, then rclone will just ignore it.

--timeout=TIME

This sets the IO idle timeout. If a transfer has started but then becomes idle for this long it is considered broken and disconnected.

The default is 5m. Set to 0 to disable.

--transfers=N

The number of file transfers to run in parallel. It can sometimes be useful to set this to a smaller number if the remote is giving a lot of timeouts or bigger if you have lots of bandwidth and a fast remote.

The default is to run 4 file transfers in parallel.

-u, --update

This forces rclone to skip any files which exist on the destination and have a modified time that is newer than the source file.

If an existing destination file has a modification time equal (within the computed modify window precision) to the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.

On remotes which don't support mod time directly the time checked will be the uploaded time. This means that if uploading to one of these remotes, rclone will skip any files which exist on the destination and have an uploaded time that is newer than the modification time of the source file.

This can be useful when transferring to a remote which doesn't support mod times directly as it is more accurate than a --size-only check and faster than using --checksum.

--use-server-modtime

Some object-store backends (e.g, Swift, S3) do not preserve file modification times (modtime). On these backends, rclone stores the original modtime as additional metadata on the object. By default it will make an API call to retrieve the metadata when the modtime is needed by an operation.

Use this flag to disable the extra API call and rely instead on the server's modified time. In cases such as a local to remote sync, knowing the local file is newer than the time it was last uploaded to the remote is sufficient. In those cases, this flag can speed up the process and reduce the number of API calls necessary.

-v, -vv, --verbose

With -v rclone will tell you about each file that is transferred and a small number of significant events.

With -vv rclone will become very verbose telling you about every file it considers and transfers. Please send bug reports with a log with this setting.

-V, --version

Prints the version number

Configuration Encryption

Your configuration file contains information for logging in to your cloud services. This means that you should keep your .rclone.conf file in a secure location.

If you are in an environment where that isn't possible, you can add a password to your configuration. This means that you will have to enter the password every time you start rclone.

To add a password to your rclone configuration, execute rclone config.

>rclone config
Current remotes:

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/s/q>

Go into s, Set configuration password:

e/n/d/s/q> s
Your configuration is not encrypted.
If you add a password, you will protect your login information to cloud services.
a) Add Password
q) Quit to main menu
a/q> a
Enter NEW configuration password:
password:
Confirm NEW password:
password:
Password set
Your configuration is encrypted.
c) Change Password
u) Unencrypt configuration
q) Quit to main menu
c/u/q>

Your configuration is now encrypted, and every time you start rclone you will now be asked for the password. In the same menu, you can change the password or completely remove encryption from your configuration.

There is no way to recover the configuration if you lose your password.

rclone uses nacl secretbox which in turn uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and authenticate your configuration with secret-key cryptography. The password is SHA-256 hashed, which produces the key for secretbox. The hashed password is not stored.

While this provides very good security, we do not recommend storing your encrypted rclone configuration in public if it contains sensitive information, maybe except if you use a very strong password.

If it is safe in your environment, you can set the RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS environment variable to contain your password, in which case it will be used for decrypting the configuration.

You can set this for a session from a script. For unix like systems save this to a file called set-rclone-password:

#!/bin/echo Source this file don't run it

read -s RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS
export RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS

Then source the file when you want to use it. From the shell you would do source set-rclone-password. It will then ask you for the password and set it in the environment variable.

If you are running rclone inside a script, you might want to disable password prompts. To do that, pass the parameter --ask-password=false to rclone. This will make rclone fail instead of asking for a password if RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS doesn't contain a valid password.

Developer options

These options are useful when developing or debugging rclone. There are also some more remote specific options which aren't documented here which are used for testing. These start with remote name eg --drive-test-option - see the docs for the remote in question.

--cpuprofile=FILE

Write CPU profile to file. This can be analysed with go tool pprof.

--dump flag,flag,flag

The --dump flag takes a comma separated list of flags to dump info about. These are:

--dump headers

Dump HTTP headers with Authorization: lines removed. May still contain sensitive info. Can be very verbose. Useful for debugging only.

Use --dump auth if you do want the Authorization: headers.

--dump bodies

Dump HTTP headers and bodies - may contain sensitive info. Can be very verbose. Useful for debugging only.

Note that the bodies are buffered in memory so don't use this for enormous files.

--dump requests

Like --dump bodies but dumps the request bodies and the response headers. Useful for debugging download problems.

--dump responses

Like --dump bodies but dumps the response bodies and the request headers. Useful for debugging upload problems.

--dump auth

Dump HTTP headers - will contain sensitive info such as Authorization: headers - use --dump headers to dump without Authorization: headers. Can be very verbose. Useful for debugging only.

--dump filters

Dump the filters to the output. Useful to see exactly what include and exclude options are filtering on.

--dump goroutines

This dumps a list of the running go-routines at the end of the command to standard output.

--dump openfiles

This dumps a list of the open files at the end of the command. It uses the lsof command to do that so you'll need that installed to use it.

--memprofile=FILE

Write memory profile to file. This can be analysed with go tool pprof.

--no-check-certificate=true/false

--no-check-certificate controls whether a client verifies the server's certificate chain and host name. If --no-check-certificate is true, TLS accepts any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate. In this mode, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.

This option defaults to false.

This should be used only for testing.

Filtering

For the filtering options

--delete-excluded
--filter
--filter-from
--exclude
--exclude-from
--include
--include-from
--files-from
--min-size
--max-size
--min-age
--max-age
--dump filters

See the filtering section.

Remote control

For the remote control options and for instructions on how to remote control rclone

--rc
and anything starting with --rc-

See the remote control section.

Logging

rclone has 4 levels of logging, ERROR, NOTICE, INFO and DEBUG.

By default, rclone logs to standard error. This means you can redirect standard error and still see the normal output of rclone commands (eg rclone ls).

By default, rclone will produce Error and Notice level messages.

If you use the -q flag, rclone will only produce Error messages.

If you use the -v flag, rclone will produce Error, Notice and Info messages.

If you use the -vv flag, rclone will produce Error, Notice, Info and Debug messages.

You can also control the log levels with the --log-level flag.

If you use the --log-file=FILE option, rclone will redirect Error, Info and Debug messages along with standard error to FILE.

If you use the --syslog flag then rclone will log to syslog and the --syslog-facility control which facility it uses.

Rclone prefixes all log messages with their level in capitals, eg INFO which makes it easy to grep the log file for different kinds of information.

Exit Code

If any errors occur during the command execution, rclone will exit with a non-zero exit code. This allows scripts to detect when rclone operations have failed.

During the startup phase, rclone will exit immediately if an error is detected in the configuration. There will always be a log message immediately before exiting.

When rclone is running it will accumulate errors as it goes along, and only exit with a non-zero exit code if (after retries) there were still failed transfers. For every error counted there will be a high priority log message (visible with -q) showing the message and which file caused the problem. A high priority message is also shown when starting a retry so the user can see that any previous error messages may not be valid after the retry. If rclone has done a retry it will log a high priority message if the retry was successful.

List of exit codes

0 - success
1 - Syntax or usage error
2 - Error not otherwise categorised
3 - Directory not found
4 - File not found
5 - Temporary error (one that more retries might fix) (Retry errors)
6 - Less serious errors (like 461 errors from dropbox) (NoRetry errors)
7 - Fatal error (one that more retries won't fix, like account suspended) (Fatal errors)
8 - Transfer exceeded - limit set by --max-transfer reached

Environment Variables

Rclone can be configured entirely using environment variables. These can be used to set defaults for options or config file entries.

Options

Every option in rclone can have its default set by environment variable.

To find the name of the environment variable, first, take the long option name, strip the leading --, change - to _, make upper case and prepend RCLONE_.

For example, to always set --stats 5s, set the environment variable RCLONE_STATS=5s. If you set stats on the command line this will override the environment variable setting.

Or to always use the trash in drive --drive-use-trash, set RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_TRASH=true.

The same parser is used for the options and the environment variables so they take exactly the same form.

Config file

You can set defaults for values in the config file on an individual remote basis. If you want to use this feature, you will need to discover the name of the config items that you want. The easiest way is to run through rclone config by hand, then look in the config file to see what the values are (the config file can be found by looking at the help for --config in rclone help).

To find the name of the environment variable, you need to set, take RCLONE_CONFIG_ + name of remote + _ + name of config file option and make it all uppercase.

For example, to configure an S3 remote named mys3: without a config file (using unix ways of setting environment variables):

$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_TYPE=s3
$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_ACCESS_KEY_ID=XXX
$ export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYS3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=XXX
$ rclone lsd MYS3:
          -1 2016-09-21 12:54:21        -1 my-bucket
$ rclone listremotes | grep mys3
mys3:

Note that if you want to create a remote using environment variables you must create the ..._TYPE variable as above.

Other environment variables

RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` set to contain your config file password (see Configuration Encryption section)
HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY and NO_PROXY (or the lowercase versions thereof).
- HTTPS_PROXY takes precedence over HTTP_PROXY for https requests.
- The environment values may be either a complete URL or a "host[:port]" for, in which case the "http" scheme is assumed.

Configuring rclone on a remote / headless machine

Some of the configurations (those involving oauth2) require an Internet connected web browser.

If you are trying to set rclone up on a remote or headless box with no browser available on it (eg a NAS or a server in a datacenter) then you will need to use an alternative means of configuration. There are two ways of doing it, described below.

Configuring using rclone authorize

On the headless box

...
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
For this to work, you will need rclone available on a machine that has a web browser available.
Execute the following on your machine:
	rclone authorize "amazon cloud drive"
Then paste the result below:
result>

Then on your main desktop machine

rclone authorize "amazon cloud drive"
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Paste the following into your remote machine --->
SECRET_TOKEN
<---End paste

Then back to the headless box, paste in the code

result> SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
[acd12]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>

Configuring by copying the config file

Rclone stores all of its config in a single configuration file. This can easily be copied to configure a remote rclone.

So first configure rclone on your desktop machine

rclone config

to set up the config file.

Find the config file by running rclone -h and looking for the help for the --config option

$ rclone -h
[snip]
      --config="/home/user/.rclone.conf": Config file.
[snip]

Now transfer it to the remote box (scp, cut paste, ftp, sftp etc) and place it in the correct place (use rclone -h on the remote box to find out where).

Filtering, includes and excludes

Rclone has a sophisticated set of include and exclude rules. Some of these are based on patterns and some on other things like file size.

The filters are applied for the copy, sync, move, ls, lsl, md5sum, sha1sum, size, delete and check operations. Note that purge does not obey the filters.

Each path as it passes through rclone is matched against the include and exclude rules like --include, --exclude, --include-from, --exclude-from, --filter, or --filter-from. The simplest way to try them out is using the ls command, or --dry-run together with -v.

Patterns

The patterns used to match files for inclusion or exclusion are based on "file globs" as used by the unix shell.

If the pattern starts with a / then it only matches at the top level of the directory tree, relative to the root of the remote (not necessarily the root of the local drive). If it doesn't start with / then it is matched starting at the end of the path, but it will only match a complete path element:

file.jpg  - matches "file.jpg"
          - matches "directory/file.jpg"
          - doesn't match "afile.jpg"
          - doesn't match "directory/afile.jpg"
/file.jpg - matches "file.jpg" in the root directory of the remote
          - doesn't match "afile.jpg"
          - doesn't match "directory/file.jpg"

Important Note that you must use / in patterns and not \ even if running on Windows.

A * matches anything but not a /.

*.jpg  - matches "file.jpg"
       - matches "directory/file.jpg"
       - doesn't match "file.jpg/something"

Use ** to match anything, including slashes (/).

dir/** - matches "dir/file.jpg"
       - matches "dir/dir1/dir2/file.jpg"
       - doesn't match "directory/file.jpg"
       - doesn't match "adir/file.jpg"

A ? matches any character except a slash /.

l?ss  - matches "less"
      - matches "lass"
      - doesn't match "floss"

A [ and ] together make a a character class, such as [a-z] or [aeiou] or [[:alpha:]]. See the go regexp docs for more info on these.

h[ae]llo - matches "hello"
         - matches "hallo"
         - doesn't match "hullo"

A { and } define a choice between elements. It should contain a comma separated list of patterns, any of which might match. These patterns can contain wildcards.

{one,two}_potato - matches "one_potato"
                 - matches "two_potato"
                 - doesn't match "three_potato"
                 - doesn't match "_potato"

Special characters can be escaped with a \ before them.

\*.jpg       - matches "*.jpg"
\\.jpg       - matches "\.jpg"
\[one\].jpg  - matches "[one].jpg"

Patterns are case sensitive unless the --ignore-case flag is used.

Without --ignore-case (default)

potato - matches "potato"
       - doesn't match "POTATO"

With --ignore-case

potato - matches "potato"
       - matches "POTATO"

Note also that rclone filter globs can only be used in one of the filter command line flags, not in the specification of the remote, so rclone copy "remote:dir*.jpg" /path/to/dir won't work - what is required is rclone --include "*.jpg" copy remote:dir /path/to/dir

Directories

Rclone keeps track of directories that could match any file patterns.

Eg if you add the include rule

/a/*.jpg

Rclone will synthesize the directory include rule

/a/

If you put any rules which end in / then it will only match directories.

Directory matches are only used to optimise directory access patterns - you must still match the files that you want to match. Directory matches won't optimise anything on bucket based remotes (eg s3, swift, google compute storage, b2) which don't have a concept of directory.

Differences between rsync and rclone patterns

Rclone implements bash style {a,b,c} glob matching which rsync doesn't.

Rclone always does a wildcard match so \ must always escape a \.

How the rules are used

Rclone maintains a combined list of include rules and exclude rules.

Each file is matched in order, starting from the top, against the rule in the list until it finds a match. The file is then included or excluded according to the rule type.

If the matcher fails to find a match after testing against all the entries in the list then the path is included.

For example given the following rules, + being include, - being exclude,

- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
- *

This would include

file1.jpg
file3.png
file2.avi

This would exclude

secret17.jpg
non *.jpg and *.png

A similar process is done on directory entries before recursing into them. This only works on remotes which have a concept of directory (Eg local, google drive, onedrive, amazon drive) and not on bucket based remotes (eg s3, swift, google compute storage, b2).

Adding filtering rules

Filtering rules are added with the following command line flags.

Repeating options

You can repeat the following options to add more than one rule of that type.

--include
--include-from
--exclude
--exclude-from
--filter
--filter-from

Important You should not use --include* together with --exclude*. It may produce different results than you expected. In that case try to use: --filter*.

Note that all the options of the same type are processed together in the order above, regardless of what order they were placed on the command line.

So all --include options are processed first in the order they appeared on the command line, then all --include-from options etc.

To mix up the order includes and excludes, the --filter flag can be used.

`--exclude` - Exclude files matching pattern

Add a single exclude rule with --exclude.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Eg --exclude *.bak to exclude all bak files from the sync.

`--exclude-from` - Read exclude patterns from file

Add exclude rules from a file.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Prepare a file like this exclude-file.txt

# a sample exclude rule file
*.bak
file2.jpg

Then use as --exclude-from exclude-file.txt. This will sync all files except those ending in bak and file2.jpg.

This is useful if you have a lot of rules.

`--include` - Include files matching pattern

Add a single include rule with --include.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Eg --include *.{png,jpg} to include all png and jpg files in the backup and no others.

This adds an implicit --exclude * at the very end of the filter list. This means you can mix --include and --include-from with the other filters (eg --exclude) but you must include all the files you want in the include statement. If this doesn't provide enough flexibility then you must use --filter-from.

`--include-from` - Read include patterns from file

Add include rules from a file.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Prepare a file like this include-file.txt

# a sample include rule file
*.jpg
*.png
file2.avi

Then use as --include-from include-file.txt. This will sync all jpg, png files and file2.avi.

This is useful if you have a lot of rules.

`--filter` - Add a file-filtering rule

This can be used to add a single include or exclude rule. Include rules start with + and exclude rules start with - . A special rule called ! can be used to clear the existing rules.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Eg --filter "- *.bak" to exclude all bak files from the sync.

`--filter-from` - Read filtering patterns from a file

Add include/exclude rules from a file.

This flag can be repeated. See above for the order the flags are processed in.

Prepare a file like this filter-file.txt

# a sample filter rule file
- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
- /dir/Trash/**
+ /dir/**
# exclude everything else
- *

Then use as --filter-from filter-file.txt. The rules are processed in the order that they are defined.

This example will include all jpg and png files, exclude any files matching secret*.jpg and include file2.avi. It will also include everything in the directory dir at the root of the sync, except dir/Trash which it will exclude. Everything else will be excluded from the sync.

`--files-from` - Read list of source-file names

This reads a list of file names from the file passed in and only these files are transferred. The filtering rules are ignored completely if you use this option.

Rclone will not scan any directories if you use --files-from it will just look at the files specified. Rclone will not error if any of the files are missing from the source.

This option can be repeated to read from more than one file. These are read in the order that they are placed on the command line.

Paths within the --files-from file will be interpreted as starting with the root specified in the command. Leading / characters are ignored.

For example, suppose you had files-from.txt with this content:

# comment
file1.jpg
subdir/file2.jpg

You could then use it like this:

rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt /home/me/pics remote:pics

This will transfer these files only (if they exist)

/home/me/pics/file1.jpg        → remote:pics/file1.jpg
/home/me/pics/subdir/file2.jpg → remote:pics/subdirfile1.jpg

To take a more complicated example, let's say you had a few files you want to back up regularly with these absolute paths:

/home/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff

To copy these you'd find a common subdirectory - in this case /home and put the remaining files in files-from.txt with or without leading /, eg

user1/important
user1/dir/file
user2/stuff

You could then copy these to a remote like this

rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt /home remote:backup

The 3 files will arrive in remote:backup with the paths as in the files-from.txt like this:

/home/user1/important → remote:backup/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file  → remote:backup/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff     → remote:backup/stuff

You could of course choose / as the root too in which case your files-from.txt might look like this.

/home/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff

And you would transfer it like this

rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt / remote:backup

In this case there will be an extra home directory on the remote:

/home/user1/important → remote:home/backup/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file  → remote:home/backup/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff     → remote:home/backup/stuff

`--min-size` - Don't transfer any file smaller than this

This option controls the minimum size file which will be transferred. This defaults to kBytes but a suffix of k, M, or G can be used.

For example --min-size 50k means no files smaller than 50kByte will be transferred.

`--max-size` - Don't transfer any file larger than this

This option controls the maximum size file which will be transferred. This defaults to kBytes but a suffix of k, M, or G can be used.

For example --max-size 1G means no files larger than 1GByte will be transferred.

`--max-age` - Don't transfer any file older than this

This option controls the maximum age of files to transfer. Give in seconds or with a suffix of:

ms - Milliseconds
s - Seconds
m - Minutes
h - Hours
d - Days
w - Weeks
M - Months
y - Years

For example --max-age 2d means no files older than 2 days will be transferred.

`--min-age` - Don't transfer any file younger than this

This option controls the minimum age of files to transfer. Give in seconds or with a suffix (see --max-age for list of suffixes)

For example --min-age 2d means no files younger than 2 days will be transferred.

`--delete-excluded` - Delete files on dest excluded from sync

Important this flag is dangerous - use with --dry-run and -v first.

When doing rclone sync this will delete any files which are excluded from the sync on the destination.

If for example you did a sync from A to B without the --min-size 50k flag

rclone sync A: B:

Then you repeated it like this with the --delete-excluded

rclone --min-size 50k --delete-excluded sync A: B:

This would delete all files on B which are less than 50 kBytes as these are now excluded from the sync.

Always test first with --dry-run and -v before using this flag.

`--dump filters` - dump the filters to the output

This dumps the defined filters to the output as regular expressions.

Useful for debugging.

`--ignore-case` - make searches case insensitive

Normally filter patterns are case sensitive. If this flag is supplied then filter patterns become case insensitive.

Normally a --include "file.txt" will not match a file called FILE.txt. However if you use the --ignore-case flag then --include "file.txt" this will match a file called FILE.txt.

Quoting shell metacharacters

The examples above may not work verbatim in your shell as they have shell metacharacters in them (eg *), and may require quoting.

Eg linux, OSX

--include \*.jpg
--include '*.jpg'
--include='*.jpg'

In Windows the expansion is done by the command not the shell so this should work fine

--include *.jpg

Exclude directory based on a file

It is possible to exclude a directory based on a file, which is present in this directory. Filename should be specified using the --exclude-if-present flag. This flag has a priority over the other filtering flags.

Imagine, you have the following directory structure:

dir1/file1
dir1/dir2/file2
dir1/dir2/dir3/file3
dir1/dir2/dir3/.ignore

You can exclude dir3 from sync by running the following command:

rclone sync --exclude-if-present .ignore dir1 remote:backup

Currently only one filename is supported, i.e. --exclude-if-present should not be used multiple times.

Remote controlling rclone

If rclone is run with the --rc flag then it starts an http server which can be used to remote control rclone.

If you just want to run a remote control then see the rcd command.

NB this is experimental and everything here is subject to change!

Supported parameters

--rc

Flag to start the http server listen on remote requests

--rc-addr=IP

IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to. (default "localhost:5572")

--rc-cert=KEY

SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)

--rc-client-ca=PATH

Client certificate authority to verify clients with

--rc-htpasswd=PATH

htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done

--rc-key=PATH

SSL PEM Private key

--rc-max-header-bytes=VALUE

Maximum size of request header (default 4096)

--rc-user=VALUE

User name for authentication.

--rc-pass=VALUE

Password for authentication.

--rc-realm=VALUE

Realm for authentication (default "rclone")

--rc-server-read-timeout=DURATION

Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)

--rc-server-write-timeout=DURATION

Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)

--rc-serve

Enable the serving of remote objects via the HTTP interface. This means objects will be accessible at http://127.0.0.1:5572/ by default, so you can browse to http://127.0.0.1:5572/ or http://127.0.0.1:5572/* to see a listing of the remotes. Objects may be requested from remotes using this syntax http://127.0.0.1:5572/[remote:path]/path/to/object

Default Off.

--rc-files /path/to/directory

Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server.

If this is set then rclone will serve the files in that directory. It will also open the root in the web browser if specified. This is for implementing browser based GUIs for rclone functions.

If --rc-user or --rc-pass is set then the URL that is opened will have the authorization in the URL in the http://user:pass@localhost/ style.

Default Off.

--rc-no-auth

By default rclone will require authorisation to have been set up on the rc interface in order to use any methods which access any rclone remotes. Eg operations/list is denied as it involved creating a remote as is sync/copy.

If this is set then no authorisation will be required on the server to use these methods. The alternative is to use --rc-user and --rc-pass and use these credentials in the request.

Default Off.

Accessing the remote control via the rclone rc command

Rclone itself implements the remote control protocol in its rclone rc command.

You can use it like this

$ rclone rc rc/noop param1=one param2=two
{
	"param1": "one",
	"param2": "two"
}

Run rclone rc on its own to see the help for the installed remote control commands.

rclone rc also supports a --json flag which can be used to send more complicated input parameters.

$ rclone rc --json '{ "p1": [1,"2",null,4], "p2": { "a":1, "b":2 } }' rc/noop
{
	"p1": [
		1,
		"2",
		null,
		4
	],
	"p2": {
		"a": 1,
		"b": 2
	}
}

Special parameters

The rc interface supports some special parameters which apply to all commands. These start with _ to show they are different.

Running asynchronous jobs with _async = true

If _async has a true value when supplied to an rc call then it will return immediately with a job id and the task will be run in the background. The job/status call can be used to get information of the background job. The job can be queried for up to 1 minute after it has finished.

It is recommended that potentially long running jobs, eg sync/sync, sync/copy, sync/move, operations/purge are run with the _async flag to avoid any potential problems with the HTTP request and response timing out.

Starting a job with the _async flag:

$ rclone rc --json '{ "p1": [1,"2",null,4], "p2": { "a":1, "b":2 }, "_async": true }' rc/noop
{
	"jobid": 2
}

Query the status to see if the job has finished. For more information on the meaning of these return parameters see the job/status call.

$ rclone rc --json '{ "jobid":2 }' job/status
{
	"duration": 0.000124163,
	"endTime": "2018-10-27T11:38:07.911245881+01:00",
	"error": "",
	"finished": true,
	"id": 2,
	"output": {
		"_async": true,
		"p1": [
			1,
			"2",
			null,
			4
		],
		"p2": {
			"a": 1,
			"b": 2
		}
	},
	"startTime": "2018-10-27T11:38:07.911121728+01:00",
	"success": true
}

job/list can be used to show the running or recently completed jobs

$ rclone rc job/list
{
	"jobids": [
		2
	]
}

Supported commands

cache/expire: Purge a remote from cache

Purge a remote from the cache backend. Supports either a directory or a file. Params:

remote = path to remote (required)
withData = true/false to delete cached data (chunks) as well (optional)

rclone rc cache/expire remote=path/to/sub/folder/
rclone rc cache/expire remote=/ withData=true

cache/fetch: Fetch file chunks

Ensure the specified file chunks are cached on disk.

The chunks= parameter specifies the file chunks to check. It takes a comma separated list of array slice indices. The slice indices are similar to Python slices: start[:end]

start is the 0 based chunk number from the beginning of the file to fetch inclusive. end is 0 based chunk number from the beginning of the file to fetch exclisive. Both values can be negative, in which case they count from the back of the file. The value "-5:" represents the last 5 chunks of a file.

Some valid examples are: ":5,-5:" -> the first and last five chunks "0,-2" -> the first and the second last chunk "0:10" -> the first ten chunks

Any parameter with a key that starts with "file" can be used to specify files to fetch, eg

rclone rc cache/fetch chunks=0 file=hello file2=home/goodbye

File names will automatically be encrypted when the a crypt remote is used on top of the cache.

cache/stats: Get cache stats

Show statistics for the cache remote.

config/create: create the config for a remote.

This takes the following parameters

name - name of remote
type - type of new remote
type - type of the new remote

See the config create command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/delete: Delete a remote in the config file.

Parameters:

name - name of remote to delete

See the config delete command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/dump: Dumps the config file.

Returns a JSON object:

key: value

Where keys are remote names and values are the config parameters.

See the config dump command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/get: Get a remote in the config file.

Parameters:

name - name of remote to get

See the config dump command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/listremotes: Lists the remotes in the config file.

Returns

remotes - array of remote names

See the listremotes command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/password: password the config for a remote.

This takes the following parameters

name - name of remote
type - type of new remote

See the config password command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/providers: Shows how providers are configured in the config file.

Returns a JSON object:

providers - array of objects

See the config providers command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

config/update: update the config for a remote.

This takes the following parameters

name - name of remote
type - type of new remote

See the config update command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

core/bwlimit: Set the bandwidth limit.

This sets the bandwidth limit to that passed in.

rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=1M
rclone rc core/bwlimit rate=off

The format of the parameter is exactly the same as passed to --bwlimit except only one bandwidth may be specified.

core/gc: Runs a garbage collection.

This tells the go runtime to do a garbage collection run. It isn't necessary to call this normally, but it can be useful for debugging memory problems.

core/memstats: Returns the memory statistics

This returns the memory statistics of the running program. What the values mean are explained in the go docs: https://golang.org/pkg/runtime/#MemStats

The most interesting values for most people are:

HeapAlloc: This is the amount of memory rclone is actually using
HeapSys: This is the amount of memory rclone has obtained from the OS
Sys: this is the total amount of memory requested from the OS
- It is virtual memory so may include unused memory

core/obscure: Obscures a string passed in.

Pass a clear string and rclone will obscure it for the config file:

clear - string

Returns

obscured - string

core/pid: Return PID of current process

This returns PID of current process. Useful for stopping rclone process.

core/stats: Returns stats about current transfers.

This returns all available stats

rclone rc core/stats

Returns the following values:

{
	"speed": average speed in bytes/sec since start of the process,
	"bytes": total transferred bytes since the start of the process,
	"errors": number of errors,
	"fatalError": whether there has been at least one FatalError,
	"retryError": whether there has been at least one non-NoRetryError,
	"checks": number of checked files,
	"transfers": number of transferred files,
	"deletes" : number of deleted files,
	"elapsedTime": time in seconds since the start of the process,
	"lastError": last occurred error,
	"transferring": an array of currently active file transfers:
		[
			{
				"bytes": total transferred bytes for this file,
				"eta": estimated time in seconds until file transfer completion
				"name": name of the file,
				"percentage": progress of the file transfer in percent,
				"speed": speed in bytes/sec,
				"speedAvg": speed in bytes/sec as an exponentially weighted moving average,
				"size": size of the file in bytes
			}
		],
	"checking": an array of names of currently active file checks
		[]
}

Values for "transferring", "checking" and "lastError" are only assigned if data is available. The value for "eta" is null if an eta cannot be determined.

core/version: Shows the current version of rclone and the go runtime.

This shows the current version of go and the go runtime

version - rclone version, eg "v1.44"
decomposed - version number as [major, minor, patch, subpatch]
- note patch and subpatch will be 999 for a git compiled version
isGit - boolean - true if this was compiled from the git version
os - OS in use as according to Go
arch - cpu architecture in use according to Go
goVersion - version of Go runtime in use

job/list: Lists the IDs of the running jobs

Parameters - None

Results

jobids - array of integer job ids

job/status: Reads the status of the job ID

Parameters

jobid - id of the job (integer)

Results

finished - boolean
duration - time in seconds that the job ran for
endTime - time the job finished (eg "2018-10-26T18:50:20.528746884+01:00")
error - error from the job or empty string for no error
finished - boolean whether the job has finished or not
id - as passed in above
startTime - time the job started (eg "2018-10-26T18:50:20.528336039+01:00")
success - boolean - true for success false otherwise
output - output of the job as would have been returned if called synchronously

operations/about: Return the space used on the remote

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"

The result is as returned from rclone about --json

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/cleanup: Remove trashed files in the remote or path

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"

See the cleanup command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/copyfile: Copy a file from source remote to destination remote

This takes the following parameters

srcFs - a remote name string eg "drive:" for the source
srcRemote - a path within that remote eg "file.txt" for the source
dstFs - a remote name string eg "drive2:" for the destination
dstRemote - a path within that remote eg "file2.txt" for the destination

This returns

jobid - ID of async job to query with job/status

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/copyurl: Copy the URL to the object

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"
url - string, URL to read from

See the copyurl command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/delete: Remove files in the path

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"

See the delete command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/deletefile: Remove the single file pointed to

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"

See the deletefile command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/list: List the given remote and path in JSON format

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"
opt - a dictionary of options to control the listing (optional)
- recurse - If set recurse directories
- noModTime - If set return modification time
- showEncrypted - If set show decrypted names
- showOrigIDs - If set show the IDs for each item if known
- showHash - If set return a dictionary of hashes

The result is

list
- This is an array of objects as described in the lsjson command

See the lsjson command for more information on the above and examples.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/mkdir: Make a destination directory or container

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"

See the mkdir command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/movefile: Move a file from source remote to destination remote

This takes the following parameters

srcFs - a remote name string eg "drive:" for the source
srcRemote - a path within that remote eg "file.txt" for the source
dstFs - a remote name string eg "drive2:" for the destination
dstRemote - a path within that remote eg "file2.txt" for the destination

This returns

jobid - ID of async job to query with job/status

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/purge: Remove a directory or container and all of its contents

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"

See the purge command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/rmdir: Remove an empty directory or container

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"

See the rmdir command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/rmdirs: Remove all the empty directories in the path

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:"
remote - a path within that remote eg "dir"
leaveRoot - boolean, set to true not to delete the root

See the rmdirs command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

operations/size: Count the number of bytes and files in remote

This takes the following parameters

fs - a remote name string eg "drive:path/to/dir"

Returns

count - number of files
bytes - number of bytes in those files

See the size command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

options/blocks: List all the option blocks

Returns

options - a list of the options block names

options/get: Get all the options

Returns an object where keys are option block names and values are an object with the current option values in.

This shows the internal names of the option within rclone which should map to the external options very easily with a few exceptions.

options/set: Set an option

Parameters

option block name containing an object with
- key: value

Repeated as often as required.

Only supply the options you wish to change. If an option is unknown it will be silently ignored. Not all options will have an effect when changed like this.

rc/error: This returns an error

This returns an error with the input as part of its error string. Useful for testing error handling.

rc/list: List all the registered remote control commands

This lists all the registered remote control commands as a JSON map in the commands response.

rc/noop: Echo the input to the output parameters

This echoes the input parameters to the output parameters for testing purposes. It can be used to check that rclone is still alive and to check that parameter passing is working properly.

rc/noopauth: Echo the input to the output parameters requiring auth

This echoes the input parameters to the output parameters for testing purposes. It can be used to check that rclone is still alive and to check that parameter passing is working properly.

Authentication is required for this call.

sync/copy: copy a directory from source remote to destination remote

This takes the following parameters

srcFs - a remote name string eg "drive:src" for the source
dstFs - a remote name string eg "drive:dst" for the destination

This returns

jobid - ID of async job to query with job/status

See the copy command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

sync/move: move a directory from source remote to destination remote

This takes the following parameters

srcFs - a remote name string eg "drive:src" for the source
dstFs - a remote name string eg "drive:dst" for the destination
deleteEmptySrcDirs - delete empty src directories if set

This returns

jobid - ID of async job to query with job/status

See the move command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

sync/sync: sync a directory from source remote to destination remote

This takes the following parameters

srcFs - a remote name string eg "drive:src" for the source
dstFs - a remote name string eg "drive:dst" for the destination

This returns

jobid - ID of async job to query with job/status

See the sync command command for more information on the above.

Authentication is required for this call.

vfs/forget: Forget files or directories in the directory cache.

This forgets the paths in the directory cache causing them to be re-read from the remote when needed.

If no paths are passed in then it will forget all the paths in the directory cache.

rclone rc vfs/forget

Otherwise pass files or dirs in as file=path or dir=path. Any parameter key starting with file will forget that file and any starting with dir will forget that dir, eg

rclone rc vfs/forget file=hello file2=goodbye dir=home/junk

vfs/poll-interval: Get the status or update the value of the poll-interval option.

Without any parameter given this returns the current status of the poll-interval setting.

When the interval=duration parameter is set, the poll-interval value is updated and the polling function is notified. Setting interval=0 disables poll-interval.

rclone rc vfs/poll-interval interval=5m

The timeout=duration parameter can be used to specify a time to wait for the current poll function to apply the new value. If timeout is less or equal 0, which is the default, wait indefinitely.

The new poll-interval value will only be active when the timeout is not reached.

If poll-interval is updated or disabled temporarily, some changes might not get picked up by the polling function, depending on the used remote.

vfs/refresh: Refresh the directory cache.

This reads the directories for the specified paths and freshens the directory cache.

If no paths are passed in then it will refresh the root directory.

rclone rc vfs/refresh

Otherwise pass directories in as dir=path. Any parameter key starting with dir will refresh that directory, eg

rclone rc vfs/refresh dir=home/junk dir2=data/misc

If the parameter recursive=true is given the whole directory tree will get refreshed. This refresh will use --fast-list if enabled.

Accessing the remote control via HTTP

Rclone implements a simple HTTP based protocol.

Each endpoint takes an JSON object and returns a JSON object or an error. The JSON objects are essentially a map of string names to values.

All calls must made using POST.

The input objects can be supplied using URL parameters, POST parameters or by supplying "Content-Type: application/json" and a JSON blob in the body. There are examples of these below using curl.

The response will be a JSON blob in the body of the response. This is formatted to be reasonably human readable.

Error returns

If an error occurs then there will be an HTTP error status (eg 500) and the body of the response will contain a JSON encoded error object, eg

{
    "error": "Expecting string value for key \"remote\" (was float64)",
    "input": {
        "fs": "/tmp",
        "remote": 3
    },
    "status": 400
    "path": "operations/rmdir",
}

The keys in the error response are

error - error string
input - the input parameters to the call
status - the HTTP status code
path - the path of the call

CORS

The sever implements basic CORS support and allows all origins for that. The response to a preflight OPTIONS request will echo the requested "Access-Control-Request-Headers" back.

Using POST with URL parameters only

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?potato=1&sausage=2'

Response

{
	"potato": "1",
	"sausage": "2"
}

Here is what an error response looks like:

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/error?potato=1&sausage=2'

{
	"error": "arbitrary error on input map[potato:1 sausage:2]",
	"input": {
		"potato": "1",
		"sausage": "2"
	}
}

Note that curl doesn't return errors to the shell unless you use the -f option

$ curl -f -X POST 'http://localhost:5572/rc/error?potato=1&sausage=2'
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 400 Bad Request
$ echo $?
22

Using POST with a form

curl --data "potato=1" --data "sausage=2" http://localhost:5572/rc/noop

Response

{
	"potato": "1",
	"sausage": "2"
}

Note that you can combine these with URL parameters too with the POST parameters taking precedence.

curl --data "potato=1" --data "sausage=2" "http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?rutabaga=3&sausage=4"

Response

{
	"potato": "1",
	"rutabaga": "3",
	"sausage": "4"
}

Using POST with a JSON blob

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"potato":2,"sausage":1}' http://localhost:5572/rc/noop

response

{
	"password": "xyz",
	"username": "xyz"
}

This can be combined with URL parameters too if required. The JSON blob takes precedence.

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"potato":2,"sausage":1}' 'http://localhost:5572/rc/noop?rutabaga=3&potato=4'

{
	"potato": 2,
	"rutabaga": "3",
	"sausage": 1
}

Debugging rclone with pprof

If you use the --rc flag this will also enable the use of the go profiling tools on the same port.

To use these, first install go.

Debugging memory use

To profile rclone's memory use you can run:

go tool pprof -web http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap

This should open a page in your browser showing what is using what memory.

You can also use the -text flag to produce a textual summary

$ go tool pprof -text http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap
Showing nodes accounting for 1537.03kB, 100% of 1537.03kB total
      flat  flat%   sum%        cum   cum%
 1024.03kB 66.62% 66.62%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.addDecoderNode
     513kB 33.38%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.newBufioWriterSize
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/cmd/all.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/cmd/serve.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/cmd/serve/restic.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.init
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  github.com/ncw/rclone/vendor/golang.org/x/net/http2/hpack.init.0
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  main.init
         0     0%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.(*conn).readRequest
         0     0%   100%      513kB 33.38%  net/http.(*conn).serve
         0     0%   100%  1024.03kB 66.62%  runtime.main

Debugging go routine leaks

Memory leaks are most often caused by go routine leaks keeping memory alive which should have been garbage collected.

See all active go routines using

curl http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1

Or go to http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1 in your browser.

Other profiles to look at

You can see a summary of profiles available at http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/

Here is how to use some of them:

Memory: go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/heap
Go routines: curl http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/goroutine?debug=1
30-second CPU profile: go tool pprof http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/profile
5-second execution trace: wget http://localhost:5572/debug/pprof/trace?seconds=5

See the net/http/pprof docs for more info on how to use the profiling and for a general overview see the Go team's blog post on profiling go programs.

The profiling hook is zero overhead unless it is used.

Overview of cloud storage systems

Each cloud storage system is slightly different. Rclone attempts to provide a unified interface to them, but some underlying differences show through.

Features

Here is an overview of the major features of each cloud storage system.

Name	Hash	ModTime	Case Insensitive	Duplicate Files	MIME Type
Amazon Drive	MD5	No	Yes	No	R
Amazon S3	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
Backblaze B2	SHA1	Yes	No	No	R/W
Box	SHA1	Yes	Yes	No	-
Dropbox	DBHASH †	Yes	Yes	No	-
FTP	-	No	No	No	-
Google Cloud Storage	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
Google Drive	MD5	Yes	No	Yes	R/W
HTTP	-	No	No	No	R
Hubic	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
Jottacloud	MD5	Yes	Yes	No	R/W
Mega	-	No	No	Yes	-
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
Microsoft OneDrive	SHA1 ‡‡	Yes	Yes	No	R
OpenDrive	MD5	Yes	Yes	No	-
Openstack Swift	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
pCloud	MD5, SHA1	Yes	No	No	W
QingStor	MD5	No	No	No	R/W
SFTP	MD5, SHA1 ‡	Yes	Depends	No	-
WebDAV	-	Yes ††	Depends	No	-
Yandex Disk	MD5	Yes	No	No	R/W
The local filesystem	All	Yes	Depends	No	-

Hash

The cloud storage system supports various hash types of the objects. The hashes are used when transferring data as an integrity check and can be specifically used with the --checksum flag in syncs and in the check command.

To use the verify checksums when transferring between cloud storage systems they must support a common hash type.

† Note that Dropbox supports its own custom hash. This is an SHA256 sum of all the 4MB block SHA256s.

‡ SFTP supports checksums if the same login has shell access and md5sum or sha1sum as well as echo are in the remote's PATH.

†† WebDAV supports modtimes when used with Owncloud and Nextcloud only.

‡‡ Microsoft OneDrive Personal supports SHA1 hashes, whereas OneDrive for business and SharePoint server support Microsoft's own QuickXorHash.

ModTime

The cloud storage system supports setting modification times on objects. If it does then this enables a using the modification times as part of the sync. If not then only the size will be checked by default, though the MD5SUM can be checked with the --checksum flag.

All cloud storage systems support some kind of date on the object and these will be set when transferring from the cloud storage system.

Case Insensitive

If a cloud storage systems is case sensitive then it is possible to have two files which differ only in case, eg file.txt and FILE.txt. If a cloud storage system is case insensitive then that isn't possible.

This can cause problems when syncing between a case insensitive system and a case sensitive system. The symptom of this is that no matter how many times you run the sync it never completes fully.

The local filesystem and SFTP may or may not be case sensitive depending on OS.

Windows - usually case insensitive, though case is preserved
OSX - usually case insensitive, though it is possible to format case sensitive
Linux - usually case sensitive, but there are case insensitive file systems (eg FAT formatted USB keys)

Most of the time this doesn't cause any problems as people tend to avoid files whose name differs only by case even on case sensitive systems.

Duplicate files

If a cloud storage system allows duplicate files then it can have two objects with the same name.

This confuses rclone greatly when syncing - use the rclone dedupe command to rename or remove duplicates.

MIME Type

MIME types (also known as media types) classify types of documents using a simple text classification, eg text/html or application/pdf.

Some cloud storage systems support reading (R) the MIME type of objects and some support writing (W) the MIME type of objects.

The MIME type can be important if you are serving files directly to HTTP from the storage system.

If you are copying from a remote which supports reading (R) to a remote which supports writing (W) then rclone will preserve the MIME types. Otherwise they will be guessed from the extension, or the remote itself may assign the MIME type.

Optional Features

All the remotes support a basic set of features, but there are some optional features supported by some remotes used to make some operations more efficient.

Name	Purge	Copy	Move	DirMove	CleanUp	ListR	StreamUpload	LinkSharing	About
Amazon Drive	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No #575	No	No	No #2178	No
Amazon S3	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No #2178	No
Backblaze B2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No #2178	No
Box	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No #575	No	Yes	Yes	No
Dropbox	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No #575	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
FTP	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No #2178	No
Google Cloud Storage	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No #2178	No
Google Drive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HTTP	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No #2178	No
Hubic	Yes †	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No #2178	Yes
Jottacloud	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Mega	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No #2178	Yes
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No #2178	No
Microsoft OneDrive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No #575	No	No	Yes	Yes
OpenDrive	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Openstack Swift	Yes †	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No #2178	Yes
pCloud	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No #2178	Yes
QingStor	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No #2178	No
SFTP	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No #2178	No
WebDAV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes ‡	No #2178	No
Yandex Disk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
The local filesystem	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes

Purge

This deletes a directory quicker than just deleting all the files in the directory.

† Note Swift and Hubic implement this in order to delete directory markers but they don't actually have a quicker way of deleting files other than deleting them individually.

‡ StreamUpload is not supported with Nextcloud

Copy

Used when copying an object to and from the same remote. This known as a server side copy so you can copy a file without downloading it and uploading it again. It is used if you use rclone copy or rclone move if the remote doesn't support Move directly.

If the server doesn't support Copy directly then for copy operations the file is downloaded then re-uploaded.

Move

Used when moving/renaming an object on the same remote. This is known as a server side move of a file. This is used in rclone move if the server doesn't support DirMove.

If the server isn't capable of Move then rclone simulates it with Copy then delete. If the server doesn't support Copy then rclone will download the file and re-upload it.

DirMove

This is used to implement rclone move to move a directory if possible. If it isn't then it will use Move on each file (which falls back to Copy then download and upload - see Move section).

CleanUp

This is used for emptying the trash for a remote by rclone cleanup.

If the server can't do CleanUp then rclone cleanup will return an error.

ListR

The remote supports a recursive list to list all the contents beneath a directory quickly. This enables the --fast-list flag to work. See the rclone docs for more details.

StreamUpload

Some remotes allow files to be uploaded without knowing the file size in advance. This allows certain operations to work without spooling the file to local disk first, e.g. rclone rcat.

LinkSharing

Sets the necessary permissions on a file or folder and prints a link that allows others to access them, even if they don't have an account on the particular cloud provider.

About

This is used to fetch quota information from the remote, like bytes used/free/quota and bytes used in the trash.

If the server can't do About then rclone about will return an error.

Alias

The alias remote provides a new name for another remote.

Paths may be as deep as required or a local path, eg remote:directory/subdirectory or /directory/subdirectory.

During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the target remote. The target remote can either be a local path or another remote.

Subfolders can be used in target remote. Asume a alias remote named backup with the target mydrive:private/backup. Invoking rclone mkdir backup:desktop is exactly the same as invoking rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/desktop.

There will be no special handling of paths containing .. segments. Invoking rclone mkdir backup:../desktop is exactly the same as invoking rclone mkdir mydrive:private/backup/../desktop. The empty path is not allowed as a remote. To alias the current directory use . instead.

Here is an example of how to make a alias called remote for local folder. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Alias for a existing remote
   \ "alias"
 2 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 3 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 4 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 5 / Box
   \ "box"
 6 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
 7 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 8 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 9 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
10 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
11 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
12 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
13 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
14 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
15 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
16 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
17 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
18 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
19 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
20 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
21 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
22 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> 1
Remote or path to alias.
Can be "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket", "myremote:" or "/local/path".
remote> /mnt/storage/backup
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
remote = /mnt/storage/backup
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               alias

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level in /mnt/storage/backup

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in /mnt/storage/backup

rclone ls remote:

Copy another local directory to the alias directory called source

rclone copy /home/source remote:source

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to alias (Alias for a existing remote).

--alias-remote

Remote or path to alias. Can be "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket", "myremote:" or "/local/path".

Config: remote
Env Var: RCLONE_ALIAS_REMOTE
Type: string
Default: ""

Amazon Drive

Amazon Drive, formerly known as Amazon Cloud Drive, is a cloud storage service run by Amazon for consumers.

Status

Important: rclone supports Amazon Drive only if you have your own set of API keys. Unfortunately the Amazon Drive developer program is now closed to new entries so if you don't already have your own set of keys you will not be able to use rclone with Amazon Drive.

For the history on why rclone no longer has a set of Amazon Drive API keys see the forum.

If you happen to know anyone who works at Amazon then please ask them to re-instate rclone into the Amazon Drive developer program - thanks!

Setup

The initial setup for Amazon Drive involves getting a token from Amazon which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

The configuration process for Amazon Drive may involve using an oauth proxy. This is used to keep the Amazon credentials out of the source code. The proxy runs in Google's very secure App Engine environment and doesn't store any credentials which pass through it.

Since rclone doesn't currently have its own Amazon Drive credentials so you will either need to have your own client_id and client_secret with Amazon Drive, or use a a third party ouath proxy in which case you will need to enter client_id, client_secret, auth_url and token_url.

Note also if you are not using Amazon's auth_url and token_url, (ie you filled in something for those) then if setting up on a remote machine you can only use the copying the config method of configuration

rclone authorize will not work.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 8 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 9 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
10 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
14 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 1
Amazon Application Client Id - required.
client_id> your client ID goes here
Amazon Application Client Secret - required.
client_secret> your client secret goes here
Auth server URL - leave blank to use Amazon's.
auth_url> Optional auth URL
Token server url - leave blank to use Amazon's.
token_url> Optional token URL
Remote config
Make sure your Redirect URL is set to "http://127.0.0.1:53682/" in your custom config.
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id = your client ID goes here
client_secret = your client secret goes here
auth_url = Optional auth URL
token_url = Optional token URL
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2015-09-06T16:07:39.658438471+01:00"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Amazon. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your Amazon Drive

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Amazon Drive

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Amazon Drive directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Modified time and MD5SUMs

Amazon Drive doesn't allow modification times to be changed via the API so these won't be accurate or used for syncing.

It does store MD5SUMs so for a more accurate sync, you can use the --checksum flag.

Deleting files

Any files you delete with rclone will end up in the trash. Amazon don't provide an API to permanently delete files, nor to empty the trash, so you will have to do that with one of Amazon's apps or via the Amazon Drive website. As of November 17, 2016, files are automatically deleted by Amazon from the trash after 30 days.

Using with non `.com` Amazon accounts

Let's say you usually use amazon.co.uk. When you authenticate with rclone it will take you to an amazon.com page to log in. Your amazon.co.uk email and password should work here just fine.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to amazon cloud drive (Amazon Drive).

--acd-client-id

Amazon Application Client ID.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--acd-client-secret

Amazon Application Client Secret.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to amazon cloud drive (Amazon Drive).

--acd-auth-url

Auth server URL. Leave blank to use Amazon's.

Config: auth_url
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_AUTH_URL
Type: string
Default: ""

--acd-token-url

Token server url. leave blank to use Amazon's.

Config: token_url
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_TOKEN_URL
Type: string
Default: ""

--acd-checkpoint

Checkpoint for internal polling (debug).

Config: checkpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_CHECKPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--acd-upload-wait-per-gb

Additional time per GB to wait after a failed complete upload to see if it appears.

Sometimes Amazon Drive gives an error when a file has been fully uploaded but the file appears anyway after a little while. This happens sometimes for files over 1GB in size and nearly every time for files bigger than 10GB. This parameter controls the time rclone waits for the file to appear.

The default value for this parameter is 3 minutes per GB, so by default it will wait 3 minutes for every GB uploaded to see if the file appears.

You can disable this feature by setting it to 0. This may cause conflict errors as rclone retries the failed upload but the file will most likely appear correctly eventually.

These values were determined empirically by observing lots of uploads of big files for a range of file sizes.

Upload with the "-v" flag to see more info about what rclone is doing in this situation.

Config: upload_wait_per_gb
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_UPLOAD_WAIT_PER_GB
Type: Duration
Default: 3m0s

--acd-templink-threshold

Files >= this size will be downloaded via their tempLink.

Files this size or more will be downloaded via their "tempLink". This is to work around a problem with Amazon Drive which blocks downloads of files bigger than about 10GB. The default for this is 9GB which shouldn't need to be changed.

To download files above this threshold, rclone requests a "tempLink" which downloads the file through a temporary URL directly from the underlying S3 storage.

Config: templink_threshold
Env Var: RCLONE_ACD_TEMPLINK_THRESHOLD
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 9G

Limitations

Note that Amazon Drive is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

Amazon Drive has rate limiting so you may notice errors in the sync (429 errors). rclone will automatically retry the sync up to 3 times by default (see --retries flag) which should hopefully work around this problem.

Amazon Drive has an internal limit of file sizes that can be uploaded to the service. This limit is not officially published, but all files larger than this will fail.

At the time of writing (Jan 2016) is in the area of 50GB per file. This means that larger files are likely to fail.

Unfortunately there is no way for rclone to see that this failure is because of file size, so it will retry the operation, as any other failure. To avoid this problem, use --max-size 50000M option to limit the maximum size of uploaded files. Note that --max-size does not split files into segments, it only ignores files over this size.

Amazon S3 Storage Providers

The S3 backend can be used with a number of different providers:

AWS S3
Ceph
DigitalOcean Spaces
Dreamhost
IBM COS S3
Minio
Wasabi

Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

Once you have made a remote (see the provider specific section above) you can use it like this:

See all buckets

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new bucket

rclone mkdir remote:bucket

List the contents of a bucket

rclone ls remote:bucket

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote bucket, deleting any excess files in the bucket.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket

AWS S3

Here is an example of making an s3 configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Alias for a existing remote
   \ "alias"
 2 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 3 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers (AWS, Ceph, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 4 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
[snip]
23 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> s3
Choose your S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
   \ "AWS"
 2 / Ceph Object Storage
   \ "Ceph"
 3 / Digital Ocean Spaces
   \ "DigitalOcean"
 4 / Dreamhost DreamObjects
   \ "Dreamhost"
 5 / IBM COS S3
   \ "IBMCOS"
 6 / Minio Object Storage
   \ "Minio"
 7 / Wasabi Object Storage
   \ "Wasabi"
 8 / Any other S3 compatible provider
   \ "Other"
provider> 1
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> XXX
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YYY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
   / US East (Ohio) Region
 2 | Needs location constraint us-east-2.
   \ "us-east-2"
   / US West (Oregon) Region
 3 | Needs location constraint us-west-2.
   \ "us-west-2"
   / US West (Northern California) Region
 4 | Needs location constraint us-west-1.
   \ "us-west-1"
   / Canada (Central) Region
 5 | Needs location constraint ca-central-1.
   \ "ca-central-1"
   / EU (Ireland) Region
 6 | Needs location constraint EU or eu-west-1.
   \ "eu-west-1"
   / EU (London) Region
 7 | Needs location constraint eu-west-2.
   \ "eu-west-2"
   / EU (Frankfurt) Region
 8 | Needs location constraint eu-central-1.
   \ "eu-central-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
 9 | Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
   \ "ap-southeast-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
10 | Needs location constraint ap-southeast-2.
   \ "ap-southeast-2"
   / Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
11 | Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
   \ "ap-northeast-1"
   / Asia Pacific (Seoul)
12 | Needs location constraint ap-northeast-2.
   \ "ap-northeast-2"
   / Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
13 | Needs location constraint ap-south-1.
   \ "ap-south-1"
   / South America (Sao Paulo) Region
14 | Needs location constraint sa-east-1.
   \ "sa-east-1"
region> 1
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using AWS to use the default endpoint for the region.
endpoint> 
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
   \ ""
 2 / US East (Ohio) Region.
   \ "us-east-2"
 3 / US West (Oregon) Region.
   \ "us-west-2"
 4 / US West (Northern California) Region.
   \ "us-west-1"
 5 / Canada (Central) Region.
   \ "ca-central-1"
 6 / EU (Ireland) Region.
   \ "eu-west-1"
 7 / EU (London) Region.
   \ "eu-west-2"
 8 / EU Region.
   \ "EU"
 9 / Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
   \ "ap-southeast-1"
10 / Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
   \ "ap-southeast-2"
11 / Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
   \ "ap-northeast-1"
12 / Asia Pacific (Seoul)
   \ "ap-northeast-2"
13 / Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
   \ "ap-south-1"
14 / South America (Sao Paulo) Region.
   \ "sa-east-1"
location_constraint> 1
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
 2 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access.
   \ "public-read"
   / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
 3 | Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
   \ "public-read-write"
 4 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
   \ "authenticated-read"
   / Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL. Bucket owner gets READ access.
 5 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ "bucket-owner-read"
   / Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
 6 | If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
   \ "bucket-owner-full-control"
acl> 1
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption> 1
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
 3 / Reduced redundancy storage class
   \ "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
 4 / Standard Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "STANDARD_IA"
 5 / One Zone Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "ONEZONE_IA"
storage_class> 1
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = false
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = YYY
region = us-east-1
endpoint = 
location_constraint = 
acl = private
server_side_encryption = 
storage_class = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d>

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

--update and --use-server-modtime

As noted below, the modified time is stored on metadata on the object. It is used by default for all operations that require checking the time a file was last updated. It allows rclone to treat the remote more like a true filesystem, but it is inefficient because it requires an extra API call to retrieve the metadata.

For many operations, the time the object was last uploaded to the remote is sufficient to determine if it is "dirty". By using --update along with --use-server-modtime, you can avoid the extra API call and simply upload files whose local modtime is newer than the time it was last uploaded.

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as X-Amz-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

Multipart uploads

rclone supports multipart uploads with S3 which means that it can upload files bigger than 5GB. Note that files uploaded both with multipart upload and through crypt remotes do not have MD5 sums.

Buckets and Regions

With Amazon S3 you can list buckets (rclone lsd) using any region, but you can only access the content of a bucket from the region it was created in. If you attempt to access a bucket from the wrong region, you will get an error, incorrect region, the bucket is not in 'XXX' region.

Authentication

There are a number of ways to supply rclone with a set of AWS credentials, with and without using the environment.

The different authentication methods are tried in this order:

Directly in the rclone configuration file (env_auth = false in the config file):
- access_key_id and secret_access_key are required.
- session_token can be optionally set when using AWS STS.
Runtime configuration (env_auth = true in the config file):
- Export the following environment variables before running rclone:
  - Access Key ID: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_ACCESS_KEY
  - Secret Access Key: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or AWS_SECRET_KEY
  - Session Token: AWS_SESSION_TOKEN (optional)
- Or, use a named profile:
  - Profile files are standard files used by AWS CLI tools
  - By default it will use the profile in your home directory (eg ~/.aws/credentials on unix based systems) file and the "default" profile, to change set these environment variables:
    - AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE to control which file.
    - AWS_PROFILE to control which profile to use.
- Or, run rclone in an ECS task with an IAM role (AWS only).
- Or, run rclone on an EC2 instance with an IAM role (AWS only).

If none of these option actually end up providing rclone with AWS credentials then S3 interaction will be non-authenticated (see below).

S3 Permissions

When using the sync subcommand of rclone the following minimum permissions are required to be available on the bucket being written to:

ListBucket
DeleteObject
GetObject
PutObject
PutObjectACL

Example policy:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Principal": {
                "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::USER_SID:user/USER_NAME"
            },
            "Action": [
                "s3:ListBucket",
                "s3:DeleteObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:PutObjectAcl"
            ],
            "Resource": [
              "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*",
              "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Notes on above:

This is a policy that can be used when creating bucket. It assumes that USER_NAME has been created.
The Resource entry must include both resource ARNs, as one implies the bucket and the other implies the bucket's objects.

For reference, here's an Ansible script that will generate one or more buckets that will work with rclone sync.

Key Management System (KMS)

If you are using server side encryption with KMS then you will find you can't transfer small objects. As a work-around you can use the --ignore-checksum flag.

A proper fix is being worked on in issue #1824.

Glacier

You can transition objects to glacier storage using a lifecycle policy. The bucket can still be synced or copied into normally, but if rclone tries to access the data you will see an error like below.

2017/09/11 19:07:43 Failed to sync: failed to open source object: Object in GLACIER, restore first: path/to/file

In this case you need to restore the object(s) in question before using rclone.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to s3 (Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers (AWS, Ceph, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio)).

--s3-provider

Choose your S3 provider.

Config: provider
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_PROVIDER
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "AWS"
  - Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3
- "Ceph"
  - Ceph Object Storage
- "DigitalOcean"
  - Digital Ocean Spaces
- "Dreamhost"
  - Dreamhost DreamObjects
- "IBMCOS"
  - IBM COS S3
- "Minio"
  - Minio Object Storage
- "Wasabi"
  - Wasabi Object Storage
- "Other"
  - Any other S3 compatible provider

--s3-env-auth

Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.

Config: env_auth
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ENV_AUTH
Type: bool
Default: false
Examples:
- "false"
  - Enter AWS credentials in the next step
- "true"
  - Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)

--s3-access-key-id

AWS Access Key ID. Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Config: access_key_id
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--s3-secret-access-key

AWS Secret Access Key (password) Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Config: secret_access_key
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Type: string
Default: ""

--s3-region

Region to connect to.

Config: region
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_REGION
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "us-east-1"
  - The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
  - US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
  - Leave location constraint empty.
- "us-east-2"
  - US East (Ohio) Region
  - Needs location constraint us-east-2.
- "us-west-2"
  - US West (Oregon) Region
  - Needs location constraint us-west-2.
- "us-west-1"
  - US West (Northern California) Region
  - Needs location constraint us-west-1.
- "ca-central-1"
  - Canada (Central) Region
  - Needs location constraint ca-central-1.
- "eu-west-1"
  - EU (Ireland) Region
  - Needs location constraint EU or eu-west-1.
- "eu-west-2"
  - EU (London) Region
  - Needs location constraint eu-west-2.
- "eu-central-1"
  - EU (Frankfurt) Region
  - Needs location constraint eu-central-1.
- "ap-southeast-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
  - Needs location constraint ap-southeast-1.
- "ap-southeast-2"
  - Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
  - Needs location constraint ap-southeast-2.
- "ap-northeast-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
  - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-1.
- "ap-northeast-2"
  - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
  - Needs location constraint ap-northeast-2.
- "ap-south-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
  - Needs location constraint ap-south-1.
- "sa-east-1"
  - South America (Sao Paulo) Region
  - Needs location constraint sa-east-1.

--s3-region

Region to connect to. Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.

Config: region
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_REGION
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Use this if unsure. Will use v4 signatures and an empty region.
- "other-v2-signature"
  - Use this only if v4 signatures don't work, eg pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.

--s3-endpoint

Endpoint for S3 API. Leave blank if using AWS to use the default endpoint for the region.

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--s3-endpoint

Endpoint for IBM COS S3 API. Specify if using an IBM COS On Premise.

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Cross Region Endpoint
- "s3-api.dal.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Cross Region Dallas Endpoint
- "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Cross Region Washington DC Endpoint
- "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Cross Region San Jose Endpoint
- "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Cross Region Private Endpoint
- "s3-api.dal-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Cross Region Dallas Private Endpoint
- "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Cross Region Washington DC Private Endpoint
- "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Cross Region San Jose Private Endpoint
- "s3.us-east.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Region East Endpoint
- "s3.us-east.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Region East Private Endpoint
- "s3.us-south.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - US Region South Endpoint
- "s3.us-south.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - US Region South Private Endpoint
- "s3.eu-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - EU Cross Region Endpoint
- "s3.fra-eu-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - EU Cross Region Frankfurt Endpoint
- "s3.mil-eu-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - EU Cross Region Milan Endpoint
- "s3.ams-eu-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - EU Cross Region Amsterdam Endpoint
- "s3.eu-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - EU Cross Region Private Endpoint
- "s3.fra-eu-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - EU Cross Region Frankfurt Private Endpoint
- "s3.mil-eu-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - EU Cross Region Milan Private Endpoint
- "s3.ams-eu-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - EU Cross Region Amsterdam Private Endpoint
- "s3.eu-gb.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - Great Britan Endpoint
- "s3.eu-gb.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - Great Britan Private Endpoint
- "s3.ap-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - APAC Cross Regional Endpoint
- "s3.tok-ap-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - APAC Cross Regional Tokyo Endpoint
- "s3.hkg-ap-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - APAC Cross Regional HongKong Endpoint
- "s3.seo-ap-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - APAC Cross Regional Seoul Endpoint
- "s3.ap-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - APAC Cross Regional Private Endpoint
- "s3.tok-ap-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - APAC Cross Regional Tokyo Private Endpoint
- "s3.hkg-ap-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - APAC Cross Regional HongKong Private Endpoint
- "s3.seo-ap-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - APAC Cross Regional Seoul Private Endpoint
- "s3.mel01.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - Melbourne Single Site Endpoint
- "s3.mel01.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - Melbourne Single Site Private Endpoint
- "s3.tor01.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
  - Toronto Single Site Endpoint
- "s3.tor01.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
  - Toronto Single Site Private Endpoint

--s3-endpoint

Endpoint for S3 API. Required when using an S3 clone.

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "objects-us-west-1.dream.io"
  - Dream Objects endpoint
- "nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
  - Digital Ocean Spaces New York 3
- "ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
  - Digital Ocean Spaces Amsterdam 3
- "sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com"
  - Digital Ocean Spaces Singapore 1
- "s3.wasabisys.com"
  - Wasabi US East endpoint
- "s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com"
  - Wasabi US West endpoint

--s3-location-constraint

Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.

Config: location_constraint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_LOCATION_CONSTRAINT
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
- "us-east-2"
  - US East (Ohio) Region.
- "us-west-2"
  - US West (Oregon) Region.
- "us-west-1"
  - US West (Northern California) Region.
- "ca-central-1"
  - Canada (Central) Region.
- "eu-west-1"
  - EU (Ireland) Region.
- "eu-west-2"
  - EU (London) Region.
- "EU"
  - EU Region.
- "ap-southeast-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region.
- "ap-southeast-2"
  - Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
- "ap-northeast-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region.
- "ap-northeast-2"
  - Asia Pacific (Seoul)
- "ap-south-1"
  - Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
- "sa-east-1"
  - South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

--s3-location-constraint

Location constraint - must match endpoint when using IBM Cloud Public. For on-prem COS, do not make a selection from this list, hit enter

Config: location_constraint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_LOCATION_CONSTRAINT
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "us-standard"
  - US Cross Region Standard
- "us-vault"
  - US Cross Region Vault
- "us-cold"
  - US Cross Region Cold
- "us-flex"
  - US Cross Region Flex
- "us-east-standard"
  - US East Region Standard
- "us-east-vault"
  - US East Region Vault
- "us-east-cold"
  - US East Region Cold
- "us-east-flex"
  - US East Region Flex
- "us-south-standard"
  - US Sout hRegion Standard
- "us-south-vault"
  - US South Region Vault
- "us-south-cold"
  - US South Region Cold
- "us-south-flex"
  - US South Region Flex
- "eu-standard"
  - EU Cross Region Standard
- "eu-vault"
  - EU Cross Region Vault
- "eu-cold"
  - EU Cross Region Cold
- "eu-flex"
  - EU Cross Region Flex
- "eu-gb-standard"
  - Great Britan Standard
- "eu-gb-vault"
  - Great Britan Vault
- "eu-gb-cold"
  - Great Britan Cold
- "eu-gb-flex"
  - Great Britan Flex
- "ap-standard"
  - APAC Standard
- "ap-vault"
  - APAC Vault
- "ap-cold"
  - APAC Cold
- "ap-flex"
  - APAC Flex
- "mel01-standard"
  - Melbourne Standard
- "mel01-vault"
  - Melbourne Vault
- "mel01-cold"
  - Melbourne Cold
- "mel01-flex"
  - Melbourne Flex
- "tor01-standard"
  - Toronto Standard
- "tor01-vault"
  - Toronto Vault
- "tor01-cold"
  - Toronto Cold
- "tor01-flex"
  - Toronto Flex

--s3-location-constraint

Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.

Config: location_constraint
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_LOCATION_CONSTRAINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--s3-acl

Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects.

For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl

Note that this ACL is applied when server side copying objects as S3 doesn't copy the ACL from the source but rather writes a fresh one.

Config: acl
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_ACL
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "private"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
- "public-read"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access.
- "public-read-write"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access.
  - Granting this on a bucket is generally not recommended.
- "authenticated-read"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access.
- "bucket-owner-read"
  - Object owner gets FULL_CONTROL. Bucket owner gets READ access.
  - If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
- "bucket-owner-full-control"
  - Both the object owner and the bucket owner get FULL_CONTROL over the object.
  - If you specify this canned ACL when creating a bucket, Amazon S3 ignores it.
- "private"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default). This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise COS
- "public-read"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise IBM COS
- "public-read-write"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), On-Premise IBM COS
- "authenticated-read"
  - Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access. Not supported on Buckets. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra) and On-Premise IBM COS

--s3-server-side-encryption

The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.

Config: server_side_encryption
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_SERVER_SIDE_ENCRYPTION
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - None
- "AES256"
  - AES256
- "aws:kms"
  - aws:kms

--s3-sse-kms-key-id

If using KMS ID you must provide the ARN of Key.

Config: sse_kms_key_id
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_SSE_KMS_KEY_ID
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - None
- "arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:*"
  - arn:aws:kms:*

--s3-storage-class

The storage class to use when storing new objects in S3.

Config: storage_class
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_STORAGE_CLASS
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Default
- "STANDARD"
  - Standard storage class
- "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
  - Reduced redundancy storage class
- "STANDARD_IA"
  - Standard Infrequent Access storage class
- "ONEZONE_IA"
  - One Zone Infrequent Access storage class

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to s3 (Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers (AWS, Ceph, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio)).

--s3-chunk-size

Chunk size to use for uploading.

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of this size. The default is 5MB. The minimum is 5MB.

Note that "--s3-upload-concurrency" chunks of this size are buffered in memory per transfer.

If you are transferring large files over high speed links and you have enough memory, then increasing this will speed up the transfers.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 5M

--s3-disable-checksum

Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata

Config: disable_checksum
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
Type: bool
Default: false

--s3-session-token

An AWS session token

Config: session_token
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_SESSION_TOKEN
Type: string
Default: ""

--s3-upload-concurrency

Concurrency for multipart uploads.

This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently.

If you are uploading small numbers of large file over high speed link and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

Config: upload_concurrency
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
Type: int
Default: 2

--s3-force-path-style

If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style.

If this is true (the default) then rclone will use path style access, if false then rclone will use virtual path style. See the AWS S3 docs for more info.

Some providers (eg Aliyun OSS or Netease COS) require this set to false.

Config: force_path_style
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_FORCE_PATH_STYLE
Type: bool
Default: true

--s3-v2-auth

If true use v2 authentication.

If this is false (the default) then rclone will use v4 authentication. If it is set then rclone will use v2 authentication.

Use this only if v4 signatures don't work, eg pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.

Config: v2_auth
Env Var: RCLONE_S3_V2_AUTH
Type: bool
Default: false

Anonymous access to public buckets

If you want to use rclone to access a public bucket, configure with a blank access_key_id and secret_access_key. Your config should end up looking like this:

[anons3]
type = s3
provider = AWS
env_auth = false
access_key_id = 
secret_access_key = 
region = us-east-1
endpoint = 
location_constraint = 
acl = private
server_side_encryption = 
storage_class =

Then use it as normal with the name of the public bucket, eg

rclone lsd anons3:1000genomes

You will be able to list and copy data but not upload it.

Ceph

Ceph is an open source unified, distributed storage system designed for excellent performance, reliability and scalability. It has an S3 compatible object storage interface.

To use rclone with Ceph, configure as above but leave the region blank and set the endpoint. You should end up with something like this in your config:

[ceph]
type = s3
provider = Ceph
env_auth = false
access_key_id = XXX
secret_access_key = YYY
region =
endpoint = https://ceph.endpoint.example.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =

Note also that Ceph sometimes puts / in the passwords it gives users. If you read the secret access key using the command line tools you will get a JSON blob with the / escaped as \/. Make sure you only write / in the secret access key.

Eg the dump from Ceph looks something like this (irrelevant keys removed).

{
    "user_id": "xxx",
    "display_name": "xxxx",
    "keys": [
        {
            "user": "xxx",
            "access_key": "xxxxxx",
            "secret_key": "xxxxxx\/xxxx"
        }
    ],
}

Because this is a json dump, it is encoding the / as \/, so if you use the secret key as xxxxxx/xxxx it will work fine.

Dreamhost

Dreamhost DreamObjects is an object storage system based on CEPH.

To use rclone with Dreamhost, configure as above but leave the region blank and set the endpoint. You should end up with something like this in your config:

[dreamobjects]
type = s3
provider = DreamHost
env_auth = false
access_key_id = your_access_key
secret_access_key = your_secret_key
region =
endpoint = objects-us-west-1.dream.io
location_constraint =
acl = private
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =

DigitalOcean Spaces

Spaces is an S3-interoperable object storage service from cloud provider DigitalOcean.

To connect to DigitalOcean Spaces you will need an access key and secret key. These can be retrieved on the "Applications & API" page of the DigitalOcean control panel. They will be needed when promted by rclone config for your access_key_id and secret_access_key.

When prompted for a region or location_constraint, press enter to use the default value. The region must be included in the endpoint setting (e.g. nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com). The defualt values can be used for other settings.

Going through the whole process of creating a new remote by running rclone config, each prompt should be answered as shown below:

Storage> s3
env_auth> 1
access_key_id> YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key> YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region>
endpoint> nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
location_constraint>
acl>
storage_class>

The resulting configuration file should look like:

[spaces]
type = s3
provider = DigitalOcean
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
region =
endpoint = nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =

Once configured, you can create a new Space and begin copying files. For example:

rclone mkdir spaces:my-new-space
rclone copy /path/to/files spaces:my-new-space

IBM COS (S3)

Information stored with IBM Cloud Object Storage is encrypted and dispersed across multiple geographic locations, and accessed through an implementation of the S3 API. This service makes use of the distributed storage technologies provided by IBM’s Cloud Object Storage System (formerly Cleversafe). For more information visit: (http://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage)

To configure access to IBM COS S3, follow the steps below:

Run rclone config and select n for a new remote.

	2018/02/14 14:13:11 NOTICE: Config file "C:\\Users\\a\\.config\\rclone\\rclone.conf" not found - using defaults
	No remotes found - make a new one
	n) New remote
	s) Set configuration password
	q) Quit config
	n/s/q> n

Enter the name for the configuration

	name> <YOUR NAME>

Select "s3" storage.

Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 	1 / Alias for a existing remote
   	\ "alias"
 	2 / Amazon Drive
   	\ "amazon cloud drive"
 	3 / Amazon S3 Complaint Storage Providers (Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio, IBM COS)
   	\ "s3"
 	4 / Backblaze B2
   	\ "b2"
[snip]
	23 / http Connection
    \ "http"
Storage> 3

Select IBM COS as the S3 Storage Provider.

Choose the S3 provider.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
	 1 / Choose this option to configure Storage to AWS S3
	   \ "AWS"
 	 2 / Choose this option to configure Storage to Ceph Systems
  	 \ "Ceph"
	 3 /  Choose this option to configure Storage to Dreamhost
     \ "Dreamhost"
   4 / Choose this option to the configure Storage to IBM COS S3
   	 \ "IBMCOS"
 	 5 / Choose this option to the configure Storage to Minio
     \ "Minio"
	 Provider>4

Enter the Access Key and Secret.

	AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
	access_key_id> <>
	AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
	secret_access_key> <>

Specify the endpoint for IBM COS. For Public IBM COS, choose from the option below. For On Premise IBM COS, enter an enpoint address.

	Endpoint for IBM COS S3 API.
	Specify if using an IBM COS On Premise.
	Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
	 1 / US Cross Region Endpoint
   	   \ "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
	 2 / US Cross Region Dallas Endpoint
   	   \ "s3-api.dal.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
 	 3 / US Cross Region Washington DC Endpoint
   	   \ "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
	 4 / US Cross Region San Jose Endpoint
	   \ "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
	 5 / US Cross Region Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	 6 / US Cross Region Dallas Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3-api.dal-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	 7 / US Cross Region Washington DC Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3-api.wdc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	 8 / US Cross Region San Jose Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3-api.sjc-us-geo.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	 9 / US Region East Endpoint
	   \ "s3.us-east.objectstorage.softlayer.net"
	10 / US Region East Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3.us-east.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	11 / US Region South Endpoint
[snip]
	34 / Toronto Single Site Private Endpoint
	   \ "s3.tor01.objectstorage.service.networklayer.com"
	endpoint>1

Specify a IBM COS Location Constraint. The location constraint must match endpoint when using IBM Cloud Public. For on-prem COS, do not make a selection from this list, hit enter

	 1 / US Cross Region Standard
	   \ "us-standard"
	 2 / US Cross Region Vault
	   \ "us-vault"
	 3 / US Cross Region Cold
	   \ "us-cold"
	 4 / US Cross Region Flex
	   \ "us-flex"
	 5 / US East Region Standard
	   \ "us-east-standard"
	 6 / US East Region Vault
	   \ "us-east-vault"
	 7 / US East Region Cold
	   \ "us-east-cold"
	 8 / US East Region Flex
	   \ "us-east-flex"
	 9 / US South Region Standard
	   \ "us-south-standard"
	10 / US South Region Vault
	   \ "us-south-vault"
[snip]
	32 / Toronto Flex
	   \ "tor01-flex"
location_constraint>1

Specify a canned ACL. IBM Cloud (Strorage) supports "public-read" and "private". IBM Cloud(Infra) supports all the canned ACLs. On-Premise COS supports all the canned ACLs.

Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
      1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default). This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise COS
      \ "private"
      2  / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), IBM Cloud (Storage), On-Premise IBM COS
      \ "public-read"
      3 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AllUsers group gets READ and WRITE access. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra), On-Premise IBM COS
      \ "public-read-write"
      4  / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. The AuthenticatedUsers group gets READ access. Not supported on Buckets. This acl is available on IBM Cloud (Infra) and On-Premise IBM COS
      \ "authenticated-read"
acl> 1

Review the displayed configuration and accept to save the "remote" then quit. The config file should look like this

	[xxx]
	type = s3
	Provider = IBMCOS
	access_key_id = xxx
	secret_access_key = yyy
	endpoint = s3-api.us-geo.objectstorage.softlayer.net
	location_constraint = us-standard
	acl = private

Execute rclone commands

	1)	Create a bucket.
		rclone mkdir IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
	2)	List available buckets.
		rclone lsd IBM-COS-XREGION:
		-1 2017-11-08 21:16:22        -1 test
		-1 2018-02-14 20:16:39        -1 newbucket
	3)	List contents of a bucket.
		rclone ls IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
		18685952 test.exe
	4)	Copy a file from local to remote.
		rclone copy /Users/file.txt IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket
	5)	Copy a file from remote to local.
		rclone copy IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket/file.txt .
	6)	Delete a file on remote.
		rclone delete IBM-COS-XREGION:newbucket/file.txt

Minio

Minio is an object storage server built for cloud application developers and devops.

It is very easy to install and provides an S3 compatible server which can be used by rclone.

To use it, install Minio following the instructions here.

When it configures itself Minio will print something like this

Endpoint:  http://192.168.1.106:9000  http://172.23.0.1:9000
AccessKey: USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
SecretKey: MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
Region:    us-east-1
SQS ARNs:  arn:minio:sqs:us-east-1:1:redis arn:minio:sqs:us-east-1:2:redis

Browser Access:
   http://192.168.1.106:9000  http://172.23.0.1:9000

Command-line Access: https://docs.minio.io/docs/minio-client-quickstart-guide
   $ mc config host add myminio http://192.168.1.106:9000 USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03

Object API (Amazon S3 compatible):
   Go:         https://docs.minio.io/docs/golang-client-quickstart-guide
   Java:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/java-client-quickstart-guide
   Python:     https://docs.minio.io/docs/python-client-quickstart-guide
   JavaScript: https://docs.minio.io/docs/javascript-client-quickstart-guide
   .NET:       https://docs.minio.io/docs/dotnet-client-quickstart-guide

Drive Capacity: 26 GiB Free, 165 GiB Total

These details need to go into rclone config like this. Note that it is important to put the region in as stated above.

env_auth> 1
access_key_id> USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
secret_access_key> MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
region> us-east-1
endpoint> http://192.168.1.106:9000
location_constraint>
server_side_encryption>

Which makes the config file look like this

[minio]
type = s3
provider = Minio
env_auth = false
access_key_id = USWUXHGYZQYFYFFIT3RE
secret_access_key = MOJRH0mkL1IPauahWITSVvyDrQbEEIwljvmxdq03
region = us-east-1
endpoint = http://192.168.1.106:9000
location_constraint =
server_side_encryption =

So once set up, for example to copy files into a bucket

rclone copy /path/to/files minio:bucket

Wasabi

Wasabi is a cloud-based object storage service for a broad range of applications and use cases. Wasabi is designed for individuals and organizations that require a high-performance, reliable, and secure data storage infrastructure at minimal cost.

Wasabi provides an S3 interface which can be configured for use with rclone like this.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> wasabi
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
[snip]
Storage> s3
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars). Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> YOURACCESSKEY
AWS Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
Region to connect to.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The default endpoint - a good choice if you are unsure.
 1 | US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
   | Leave location constraint empty.
   \ "us-east-1"
[snip]
region> us-east-1
Endpoint for S3 API.
Leave blank if using AWS to use the default endpoint for the region.
Specify if using an S3 clone such as Ceph.
endpoint> s3.wasabisys.com
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region. Used when creating buckets only.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for US Region, Northern Virginia or Pacific Northwest.
   \ ""
[snip]
location_constraint>
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
[snip]
acl>
The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / None
   \ ""
 2 / AES256
   \ "AES256"
server_side_encryption>
The storage class to use when storing objects in S3.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Standard storage class
   \ "STANDARD"
 3 / Reduced redundancy storage class
   \ "REDUCED_REDUNDANCY"
 4 / Standard Infrequent Access storage class
   \ "STANDARD_IA"
storage_class>
Remote config
--------------------
[wasabi]
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region = us-east-1
endpoint = s3.wasabisys.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This will leave the config file looking like this.

[wasabi]
type = s3
provider = Wasabi
env_auth = false
access_key_id = YOURACCESSKEY
secret_access_key = YOURSECRETACCESSKEY
region =
endpoint = s3.wasabisys.com
location_constraint =
acl =
server_side_encryption =
storage_class =

Aliyun OSS / Netease NOS

This describes how to set up Aliyun OSS - Netease NOS is the same except for different endpoints.

Note this is a pretty standard S3 setup, except for the setting of force_path_style = false in the advanced config.

# rclone config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> oss
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 3 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers (AWS, Ceph, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio)
   \ "s3"
Storage> s3
Choose your S3 provider.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 8 / Any other S3 compatible provider
   \ "Other"
provider> other
Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars).
Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
AWS Access Key ID.
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
access_key_id> xxxxxxxxxxxx
AWS Secret Access Key (password)
Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
secret_access_key> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Region to connect to.
Leave blank if you are using an S3 clone and you don't have a region.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Use this if unsure. Will use v4 signatures and an empty region.
   \ ""
 2 / Use this only if v4 signatures don't work, eg pre Jewel/v10 CEPH.
   \ "other-v2-signature"
region> 1
Endpoint for S3 API.
Required when using an S3 clone.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
endpoint> oss-cn-shenzhen.aliyuncs.com
Location constraint - must be set to match the Region.
Leave blank if not sure. Used when creating buckets only.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
location_constraint>
Canned ACL used when creating buckets and/or storing objects in S3.
For more info visit https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html#canned-acl
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Owner gets FULL_CONTROL. No one else has access rights (default).
   \ "private"
acl> 1
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Chunk size to use for uploading
Enter a size with suffix k,M,G,T. Press Enter for the default ("5M").
chunk_size>
Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
disable_checksum>
An AWS session token
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
session_token>
Concurrency for multipart uploads.
Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default ("2").
upload_concurrency>
If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style.
Some providers (eg Aliyun OSS or Netease COS) require this.
Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
force_path_style> false
Remote config
--------------------
[oss]
type = s3
provider = Other
env_auth = false
access_key_id = xxxxxxxxx
secret_access_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxx
endpoint = oss-cn-shenzhen.aliyuncs.com
acl = private
force_path_style = false
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Backblaze B2

B2 is Backblaze's cloud storage system.

Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

Here is an example of making a b2 configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process. You will need your account number (a short hex number) and key (a long hex number) which you can get from the b2 control panel.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
q) Quit config
n/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 3
Account ID or Application Key ID
account> 123456789abc
Application Key
key> 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally.
endpoint>
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
account = 123456789abc
key = 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
endpoint =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all buckets

rclone lsd remote:

Create a new bucket

rclone mkdir remote:bucket

List the contents of a bucket

rclone ls remote:bucket

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote bucket, deleting any excess files in the bucket.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket

Application Keys

B2 supports multiple Application Keys for different access permission to B2 Buckets.

You can use these with rclone too.

Follow Backblaze's docs to create an Application Key with the required permission and add the Application Key ID as the account and the Application Key itself as the key.

Note that you must put the Application Key ID as the account - you can't use the master Account ID. If you try then B2 will return 401 errors.

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as X-Bz-Info-src_last_modified_millis as milliseconds since 1970-01-01 in the Backblaze standard. Other tools should be able to use this as a modified time.

Modified times are used in syncing and are fully supported except in the case of updating a modification time on an existing object. In this case the object will be uploaded again as B2 doesn't have an API method to set the modification time independent of doing an upload.

SHA1 checksums

The SHA1 checksums of the files are checked on upload and download and will be used in the syncing process.

Large files (bigger than the limit in --b2-upload-cutoff) which are uploaded in chunks will store their SHA1 on the object as X-Bz-Info-large_file_sha1 as recommended by Backblaze.

For a large file to be uploaded with an SHA1 checksum, the source needs to support SHA1 checksums. The local disk supports SHA1 checksums so large file transfers from local disk will have an SHA1. See the overview for exactly which remotes support SHA1.

Sources which don't support SHA1, in particular crypt will upload large files without SHA1 checksums. This may be fixed in the future (see #1767).

Files sizes below --b2-upload-cutoff will always have an SHA1 regardless of the source.

Transfers

Backblaze recommends that you do lots of transfers simultaneously for maximum speed. In tests from my SSD equipped laptop the optimum setting is about --transfers 32 though higher numbers may be used for a slight speed improvement. The optimum number for you may vary depending on your hardware, how big the files are, how much you want to load your computer, etc. The default of --transfers 4 is definitely too low for Backblaze B2 though.

Note that uploading big files (bigger than 200 MB by default) will use a 96 MB RAM buffer by default. There can be at most --transfers of these in use at any moment, so this sets the upper limit on the memory used.

Versions

When rclone uploads a new version of a file it creates a new version of it. Likewise when you delete a file, the old version will be marked hidden and still be available. Conversely, you may opt in to a "hard delete" of files with the --b2-hard-delete flag which would permanently remove the file instead of hiding it.

Old versions of files, where available, are visible using the --b2-versions flag.

If you wish to remove all the old versions then you can use the rclone cleanup remote:bucket command which will delete all the old versions of files, leaving the current ones intact. You can also supply a path and only old versions under that path will be deleted, eg rclone cleanup remote:bucket/path/to/stuff.

Note that cleanup does not remove partially uploaded files from the bucket.

When you purge a bucket, the current and the old versions will be deleted then the bucket will be deleted.

However delete will cause the current versions of the files to become hidden old versions.

Here is a session showing the listing and retrieval of an old version followed by a cleanup of the old versions.

Show current version and all the versions with --b2-versions flag.

$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
        8 one-v2016-07-04-141032-000.txt
       16 one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
       15 one-v2016-07-02-155621-000.txt

Retrieve an old version

$ rclone -q --b2-versions copy b2:cleanup-test/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt /tmp

$ ls -l /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ncw ncw 16 Jul  2 17:46 /tmp/one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt

Clean up all the old versions and show that they've gone.

$ rclone -q cleanup b2:cleanup-test

$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

Data usage

It is useful to know how many requests are sent to the server in different scenarios.

All copy commands send the following 4 requests:

/b2api/v1/b2_authorize_account
/b2api/v1/b2_create_bucket
/b2api/v1/b2_list_buckets
/b2api/v1/b2_list_file_names

The b2_list_file_names request will be sent once for every 1k files in the remote path, providing the checksum and modification time of the listed files. As of version 1.33 issue #818 causes extra requests to be sent when using B2 with Crypt. When a copy operation does not require any files to be uploaded, no more requests will be sent.

Uploading files that do not require chunking, will send 2 requests per file upload:

/b2api/v1/b2_get_upload_url
/b2api/v1/b2_upload_file/

Uploading files requiring chunking, will send 2 requests (one each to start and finish the upload) and another 2 requests for each chunk:

/b2api/v1/b2_start_large_file
/b2api/v1/b2_get_upload_part_url
/b2api/v1/b2_upload_part/
/b2api/v1/b2_finish_large_file

Versions

Versions can be viewd with the --b2-versions flag. When it is set rclone will show and act on older versions of files. For example

Listing without --b2-versions

$ rclone -q ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt

And with

$ rclone -q --b2-versions ls b2:cleanup-test
        9 one.txt
        8 one-v2016-07-04-141032-000.txt
       16 one-v2016-07-04-141003-000.txt
       15 one-v2016-07-02-155621-000.txt

Showing that the current version is unchanged but older versions can be seen. These have the UTC date that they were uploaded to the server to the nearest millisecond appended to them.

Note that when using --b2-versions no file write operations are permitted, so you can't upload files or delete them.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

--b2-account

Account ID or Application Key ID

Config: account
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_ACCOUNT
Type: string
Default: ""

--b2-key

Application Key

Config: key
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_KEY
Type: string
Default: ""

--b2-hard-delete

Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files.

Config: hard_delete
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_HARD_DELETE
Type: bool
Default: false

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

--b2-endpoint

Endpoint for the service. Leave blank normally.

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--b2-test-mode

A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header for debugging.

This is for debugging purposes only. Setting it to one of the strings below will cause b2 to return specific errors:

"fail_some_uploads"
"expire_some_account_authorization_tokens"
"force_cap_exceeded"

These will be set in the "X-Bz-Test-Mode" header which is documented in the b2 integrations checklist.

Config: test_mode
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_TEST_MODE
Type: string
Default: ""

--b2-versions

Include old versions in directory listings. Note that when using this no file write operations are permitted, so you can't upload files or delete them.

Config: versions
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_VERSIONS
Type: bool
Default: false

--b2-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

Files above this size will be uploaded in chunks of "--b2-chunk-size".

This value should be set no larger than 4.657GiB (== 5GB).

Config: upload_cutoff
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 200M

--b2-chunk-size

Upload chunk size. Must fit in memory.

When uploading large files, chunk the file into this size. Note that these chunks are buffered in memory and there might a maximum of "--transfers" chunks in progress at once. 5,000,000 Bytes is the minimim size.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_B2_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 96M

Box

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

The initial setup for Box involves getting a token from Box which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Box
   \ "box"
 5 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 6 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 7 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 8 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 9 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
10 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
11 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
12 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
13 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
14 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
15 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
16 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> box
Box App Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id> 
Box App Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret> 
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"XXX"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Box. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your Box

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Box

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Box directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Invalid refresh token

According to the box docs:

Each refresh_token is valid for one use in 60 days.

This means that if you

Don't use the box remote for 60 days
Copy the config file with a box refresh token in and use it in two places
Get an error on a token refresh

then rclone will return an error which includes the text Invalid refresh token.

To fix this you will need to use oauth2 again to update the refresh token. You can use the methods in the remote setup docs, bearing in mind that if you use the copy the config file method, you should not use that remote on the computer you did the authentication on.

Here is how to do it.

$ rclone config
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               box

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> e
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 > remote
remote> remote
--------------------
[remote]
type = box
token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2017-07-08T23:40:08.059167677+01:00"}
--------------------
Edit remote
Value "client_id" = ""
Edit? (y/n)>
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Value "client_secret" = ""
Edit? (y/n)>
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Already have a token - refresh?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
type = box
token = {"access_token":"YYY","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"YYY","expiry":"2017-07-23T12:22:29.259137901+01:00"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Modified time and hashes

Box allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

Box supports SHA1 type hashes, so you can use the --checksum flag.

Transfers

For files above 50MB rclone will use a chunked transfer. Rclone will upload up to --transfers chunks at the same time (shared among all the multipart uploads). Chunks are buffered in memory and are normally 8MB so increasing --transfers will increase memory use.

Deleting files

Depending on the enterprise settings for your user, the item will either be actually deleted from Box or moved to the trash.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to box (Box).

--box-client-id

Box App Client Id. Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--box-client-secret

Box App Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to box (Box).

--box-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50MB).

Config: upload_cutoff
Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 50M

--box-commit-retries

Max number of times to try committing a multipart file.

Config: commit_retries
Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_COMMIT_RETRIES
Type: int
Default: 100

Limitations

Note that Box is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

Box file names can't have the \ character in. rclone maps this to and from an identical looking unicode equivalent ＼.

Box only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

Cache (BETA)

The cache remote wraps another existing remote and stores file structure and its data for long running tasks like rclone mount.

To get started you just need to have an existing remote which can be configured with cache.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called test-cache. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> test-cache
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
...
 5 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
...
Storage> 5
Remote to cache.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
remote> local:/test
Optional: The URL of the Plex server
plex_url> http://127.0.0.1:32400
Optional: The username of the Plex user
plex_username> dummyusername
Optional: The password of the Plex user
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
The size of a chunk. Lower value good for slow connections but can affect seamless reading.
Default: 5M
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1MB
   \ "1m"
 2 / 5 MB
   \ "5M"
 3 / 10 MB
   \ "10M"
chunk_size> 2
How much time should object info (file size, file hashes etc) be stored in cache. Use a very high value if you don't plan on changing the source FS from outside the cache.
Accepted units are: "s", "m", "h".
Default: 5m
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 1 hour
   \ "1h"
 2 / 24 hours
   \ "24h"
 3 / 24 hours
   \ "48h"
info_age> 2
The maximum size of stored chunks. When the storage grows beyond this size, the oldest chunks will be deleted.
Default: 10G
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / 500 MB
   \ "500M"
 2 / 1 GB
   \ "1G"
 3 / 10 GB
   \ "10G"
chunk_total_size> 3
Remote config
--------------------
[test-cache]
remote = local:/test
plex_url = http://127.0.0.1:32400
plex_username = dummyusername
plex_password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
chunk_size = 5M
info_age = 48h
chunk_total_size = 10G

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your drive

rclone lsd test-cache:

List all the files in your drive

rclone ls test-cache:

To start a cached mount

rclone mount --allow-other test-cache: /var/tmp/test-cache

Write Features

Offline uploading

In an effort to make writing through cache more reliable, the backend now supports this feature which can be activated by specifying a cache-tmp-upload-path.

A files goes through these states when using this feature:

An upload is started (usually by copying a file on the cache remote)
When the copy to the temporary location is complete the file is part of the cached remote and looks and behaves like any other file (reading included)
After cache-tmp-wait-time passes and the file is next in line, rclone move is used to move the file to the cloud provider
Reading the file still works during the upload but most modifications on it will be prohibited
Once the move is complete the file is unlocked for modifications as it becomes as any other regular file
If the file is being read through cache when it's actually deleted from the temporary path then cache will simply swap the source to the cloud provider without interrupting the reading (small blip can happen though)

Files are uploaded in sequence and only one file is uploaded at a time. Uploads will be stored in a queue and be processed based on the order they were added. The queue and the temporary storage is persistent across restarts but can be cleared on startup with the --cache-db-purge flag.

Write Support

Writes are supported through cache. One caveat is that a mounted cache remote does not add any retry or fallback mechanism to the upload operation. This will depend on the implementation of the wrapped remote. Consider using Offline uploading for reliable writes.

One special case is covered with cache-writes which will cache the file data at the same time as the upload when it is enabled making it available from the cache store immediately once the upload is finished.

Read Features

Multiple connections

To counter the high latency between a local PC where rclone is running and cloud providers, the cache remote can split multiple requests to the cloud provider for smaller file chunks and combines them together locally where they can be available almost immediately before the reader usually needs them.

This is similar to buffering when media files are played online. Rclone will stay around the current marker but always try its best to stay ahead and prepare the data before.

Plex Integration

There is a direct integration with Plex which allows cache to detect during reading if the file is in playback or not. This helps cache to adapt how it queries the cloud provider depending on what is needed for.

Scans will have a minimum amount of workers (1) while in a confirmed playback cache will deploy the configured number of workers.

This integration opens the doorway to additional performance improvements which will be explored in the near future.

Note: If Plex options are not configured, cache will function with its configured options without adapting any of its settings.

How to enable? Run rclone config and add all the Plex options (endpoint, username and password) in your remote and it will be automatically enabled.

Affected settings:

cache-workers: Configured value during confirmed playback or 1 all the other times

Certificate Validation

When the Plex server is configured to only accept secure connections, it is possible to use .plex.direct URL's to ensure certificate validation succeeds. These URL's are used by Plex internally to connect to the Plex server securely.

The format for this URL's is the following:

https://ip-with-dots-replaced.server-hash.plex.direct:32400/

The ip-with-dots-replaced part can be any IPv4 address, where the dots have been replaced with dashes, e.g. 127.0.0.1 becomes 127-0-0-1.

To get the server-hash part, the easiest way is to visit

https://plex.tv/api/resources?includeHttps=1&X-Plex-Token=your-plex-token

This page will list all the available Plex servers for your account with at least one .plex.direct link for each. Copy one URL and replace the IP address with the desired address. This can be used as the plex_url value.

Known issues

Mount and --dir-cache-time

--dir-cache-time controls the first layer of directory caching which works at the mount layer. Being an independent caching mechanism from the cache backend, it will manage its own entries based on the configured time.

To avoid getting in a scenario where dir cache has obsolete data and cache would have the correct one, try to set --dir-cache-time to a lower time than --cache-info-age. Default values are already configured in this way.

Windows support - Experimental

There are a couple of issues with Windows mount functionality that still require some investigations. It should be considered as experimental thus far as fixes come in for this OS.

Most of the issues seem to be related to the difference between filesystems on Linux flavors and Windows as cache is heavily dependant on them.

Any reports or feedback on how cache behaves on this OS is greatly appreciated.

Risk of throttling

Future iterations of the cache backend will make use of the pooling functionality of the cloud provider to synchronize and at the same time make writing through it more tolerant to failures.

There are a couple of enhancements in track to add these but in the meantime there is a valid concern that the expiring cache listings can lead to cloud provider throttles or bans due to repeated queries on it for very large mounts.

Some recommendations:

don't use a very small interval for entry informations (--cache-info-age)
while writes aren't yet optimised, you can still write through cache which gives you the advantage of adding the file in the cache at the same time if configured to do so.

Future enhancements:

cache and crypt

One common scenario is to keep your data encrypted in the cloud provider using the crypt remote. crypt uses a similar technique to wrap around an existing remote and handles this translation in a seamless way.

There is an issue with wrapping the remotes in this order: cloud remote -> crypt -> cache

During testing, I experienced a lot of bans with the remotes in this order. I suspect it might be related to how crypt opens files on the cloud provider which makes it think we're downloading the full file instead of small chunks. Organizing the remotes in this order yelds better results: cloud remote -> cache -> crypt

absolute remote paths

cache can not differentiate between relative and absolute paths for the wrapped remote. Any path given in the remote config setting and on the command line will be passed to the wrapped remote as is, but for storing the chunks on disk the path will be made relative by removing any leading / character.

This behavior is irrelevant for most backend types, but there are backends where a leading / changes the effective directory, e.g. in the sftp backend paths starting with a / are relative to the root of the SSH server and paths without are relative to the user home directory. As a result sftp:bin and sftp:/bin will share the same cache folder, even if they represent a different directory on the SSH server.

Cache and Remote Control (--rc)

Cache supports the new --rc mode in rclone and can be remote controlled through the following end points: By default, the listener is disabled if you do not add the flag.

rc cache/expire

Purge a remote from the cache backend. Supports either a directory or a file. It supports both encrypted and unencrypted file names if cache is wrapped by crypt.

Params:

remote = path to remote (required)
withData = true/false to delete cached data (chunks) as well (optional, false by default)

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

--cache-remote

Remote to cache. Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

Config: remote
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_REMOTE
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-plex-url

The URL of the Plex server

Config: plex_url
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_URL
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-plex-username

The username of the Plex user

Config: plex_username
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_USERNAME
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-plex-password

The password of the Plex user

Config: plex_password
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_PASSWORD
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-chunk-size

The size of a chunk (partial file data).

Use lower numbers for slower connections. If the chunk size is changed, any downloaded chunks will be invalid and cache-chunk-path will need to be cleared or unexpected EOF errors will occur.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 5M
Examples:
- "1m"
  - 1MB
- "5M"
  - 5 MB
- "10M"
  - 10 MB

--cache-info-age

How long to cache file structure information (directory listings, file size, times etc). If all write operations are done through the cache then you can safely make this value very large as the cache store will also be updated in real time.

Config: info_age
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_INFO_AGE
Type: Duration
Default: 6h0m0s
Examples:
- "1h"
  - 1 hour
- "24h"
  - 24 hours
- "48h"
  - 48 hours

--cache-chunk-total-size

The total size that the chunks can take up on the local disk.

If the cache exceeds this value then it will start to delete the oldest chunks until it goes under this value.

Config: chunk_total_size
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_TOTAL_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 10G
Examples:
- "500M"
  - 500 MB
- "1G"
  - 1 GB
- "10G"
  - 10 GB

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

--cache-plex-token

The plex token for authentication - auto set normally

Config: plex_token
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_TOKEN
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-plex-insecure

Skip all certificate verifications when connecting to the Plex server

Config: plex_insecure
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_PLEX_INSECURE
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-db-path

Directory to store file structure metadata DB. The remote name is used as the DB file name.

Config: db_path
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_DB_PATH
Type: string
Default: "/home/ncw/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"

--cache-chunk-path

Directory to cache chunk files.

Path to where partial file data (chunks) are stored locally. The remote name is appended to the final path.

This config follows the "--cache-db-path". If you specify a custom location for "--cache-db-path" and don't specify one for "--cache-chunk-path" then "--cache-chunk-path" will use the same path as "--cache-db-path".

Config: chunk_path
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_PATH
Type: string
Default: "/home/ncw/.cache/rclone/cache-backend"

--cache-db-purge

Clear all the cached data for this remote on start.

Config: db_purge
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_DB_PURGE
Type: bool
Default: false

--cache-chunk-clean-interval

How often should the cache perform cleanups of the chunk storage. The default value should be ok for most people. If you find that the cache goes over "cache-chunk-total-size" too often then try to lower this value to force it to perform cleanups more often.

Config: chunk_clean_interval
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_CLEAN_INTERVAL
Type: Duration
Default: 1m0s

--cache-read-retries

How many times to retry a read from a cache storage.

Since reading from a cache stream is independent from downloading file data, readers can get to a point where there's no more data in the cache. Most of the times this can indicate a connectivity issue if cache isn't able to provide file data anymore.

For really slow connections, increase this to a point where the stream is able to provide data but your experience will be very stuttering.

Config: read_retries
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_READ_RETRIES
Type: int
Default: 10

--cache-workers

How many workers should run in parallel to download chunks.

Higher values will mean more parallel processing (better CPU needed) and more concurrent requests on the cloud provider. This impacts several aspects like the cloud provider API limits, more stress on the hardware that rclone runs on but it also means that streams will be more fluid and data will be available much more faster to readers.

Note: If the optional Plex integration is enabled then this setting will adapt to the type of reading performed and the value specified here will be used as a maximum number of workers to use.

Config: workers
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_WORKERS
Type: int
Default: 4

--cache-chunk-no-memory

Disable the in-memory cache for storing chunks during streaming.

By default, cache will keep file data during streaming in RAM as well to provide it to readers as fast as possible.

This transient data is evicted as soon as it is read and the number of chunks stored doesn't exceed the number of workers. However, depending on other settings like "cache-chunk-size" and "cache-workers" this footprint can increase if there are parallel streams too (multiple files being read at the same time).

If the hardware permits it, use this feature to provide an overall better performance during streaming but it can also be disabled if RAM is not available on the local machine.

Config: chunk_no_memory
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_NO_MEMORY
Type: bool
Default: false

--cache-rps

Limits the number of requests per second to the source FS (-1 to disable)

This setting places a hard limit on the number of requests per second that cache will be doing to the cloud provider remote and try to respect that value by setting waits between reads.

If you find that you're getting banned or limited on the cloud provider through cache and know that a smaller number of requests per second will allow you to work with it then you can use this setting for that.

A good balance of all the other settings should make this setting useless but it is available to set for more special cases.

NOTE: This will limit the number of requests during streams but other API calls to the cloud provider like directory listings will still pass.

Config: rps
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_RPS
Type: int
Default: -1

--cache-writes

Cache file data on writes through the FS

If you need to read files immediately after you upload them through cache you can enable this flag to have their data stored in the cache store at the same time during upload.

Config: writes
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_WRITES
Type: bool
Default: false

--cache-tmp-upload-path

Directory to keep temporary files until they are uploaded.

This is the path where cache will use as a temporary storage for new files that need to be uploaded to the cloud provider.

Specifying a value will enable this feature. Without it, it is completely disabled and files will be uploaded directly to the cloud provider

Config: tmp_upload_path
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_TMP_UPLOAD_PATH
Type: string
Default: ""

--cache-tmp-wait-time

How long should files be stored in local cache before being uploaded

This is the duration that a file must wait in the temporary location cache-tmp-upload-path before it is selected for upload.

Note that only one file is uploaded at a time and it can take longer to start the upload if a queue formed for this purpose.

Config: tmp_wait_time
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_TMP_WAIT_TIME
Type: Duration
Default: 15s

--cache-db-wait-time

How long to wait for the DB to be available - 0 is unlimited

Only one process can have the DB open at any one time, so rclone waits for this duration for the DB to become available before it gives an error.

If you set it to 0 then it will wait forever.

Config: db_wait_time
Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_DB_WAIT_TIME
Type: Duration
Default: 1s

Crypt

The crypt remote encrypts and decrypts another remote.

To use it first set up the underlying remote following the config instructions for that remote. You can also use a local pathname instead of a remote which will encrypt and decrypt from that directory which might be useful for encrypting onto a USB stick for example.

First check your chosen remote is working - we'll call it remote:path in these docs. Note that anything inside remote:path will be encrypted and anything outside won't. This means that if you are using a bucket based remote (eg S3, B2, swift) then you should probably put the bucket in the remote s3:bucket. If you just use s3: then rclone will make encrypted bucket names too (if using file name encryption) which may or may not be what you want.

Now configure crypt using rclone config. We will call this one secret to differentiate it from the remote.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n   
name> secret
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 5
Remote to encrypt/decrypt.
Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
remote> remote:path
How to encrypt the filenames.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Don't encrypt the file names.  Adds a ".bin" extension only.
   \ "off"
 2 / Encrypt the filenames see the docs for the details.
   \ "standard"
 3 / Very simple filename obfuscation.
   \ "obfuscate"
filename_encryption> 2
Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Encrypt directory names.
   \ "true"
 2 / Don't encrypt directory names, leave them intact.
   \ "false"
filename_encryption> 1
Password or pass phrase for encryption.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Password or pass phrase for salt. Optional but recommended.
Should be different to the previous password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> g
Password strength in bits.
64 is just about memorable
128 is secure
1024 is the maximum
Bits> 128
Your password is: JAsJvRcgR-_veXNfy_sGmQ
Use this password?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Remote config
--------------------
[secret]
remote = remote:path
filename_encryption = standard
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
password2 = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Important The password is stored in the config file is lightly obscured so it isn't immediately obvious what it is. It is in no way secure unless you use config file encryption.

A long passphrase is recommended, or you can use a random one. Note that if you reconfigure rclone with the same passwords/passphrases elsewhere it will be compatible - all the secrets used are derived from those two passwords/passphrases.

Note that rclone does not encrypt

file length - this can be calcuated within 16 bytes
modification time - used for syncing

Specifying the remote

In normal use, make sure the remote has a : in. If you specify the remote without a : then rclone will use a local directory of that name. So if you use a remote of /path/to/secret/files then rclone will encrypt stuff to that directory. If you use a remote of name then rclone will put files in a directory called name in the current directory.

If you specify the remote as remote:path/to/dir then rclone will store encrypted files in path/to/dir on the remote. If you are using file name encryption, then when you save files to secret:subdir/subfile this will store them in the unencrypted path path/to/dir but the subdir/subpath bit will be encrypted.

Note that unless you want encrypted bucket names (which are difficult to manage because you won't know what directory they represent in web interfaces etc), you should probably specify a bucket, eg remote:secretbucket when using bucket based remotes such as S3, Swift, Hubic, B2, GCS.

Example

To test I made a little directory of files using "standard" file name encryption.

plaintext/
├── file0.txt
├── file1.txt
└── subdir
    ├── file2.txt
    ├── file3.txt
    └── subsubdir
        └── file4.txt

Copy these to the remote and list them back

$ rclone -q copy plaintext secret:
$ rclone -q ls secret:
        7 file1.txt
        6 file0.txt
        8 subdir/file2.txt
       10 subdir/subsubdir/file4.txt
        9 subdir/file3.txt

Now see what that looked like when encrypted

$ rclone -q ls remote:path
       55 hagjclgavj2mbiqm6u6cnjjqcg
       54 v05749mltvv1tf4onltun46gls
       57 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/dlj7fkq4kdq72emafg7a7s41uo
       58 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/7uu829995du6o42n32otfhjqp4/b9pausrfansjth5ob3jkdqd4lc
       56 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/8njh1sk437gttmep3p70g81aps

Note that this retains the directory structure which means you can do this

$ rclone -q ls secret:subdir
        8 file2.txt
        9 file3.txt
       10 subsubdir/file4.txt

If don't use file name encryption then the remote will look like this

note the .bin extensions added to prevent the cloud provider attempting to interpret the data.

$ rclone -q ls remote:path
       54 file0.txt.bin
       57 subdir/file3.txt.bin
       56 subdir/file2.txt.bin
       58 subdir/subsubdir/file4.txt.bin
       55 file1.txt.bin

File name encryption modes

Here are some of the features of the file name encryption modes

Off

doesn't hide file names or directory structure
allows for longer file names (~246 characters)
can use sub paths and copy single files

Standard

file names encrypted
file names can't be as long (~143 characters)
can use sub paths and copy single files
directory structure visible
identical files names will have identical uploaded names
can use shortcuts to shorten the directory recursion

Obfuscation

This is a simple "rotate" of the filename, with each file having a rot distance based on the filename. We store the distance at the beginning of the filename. So a file called "hello" may become "53.jgnnq"

This is not a strong encryption of filenames, but it may stop automated scanning tools from picking up on filename patterns. As such it's an intermediate between "off" and "standard". The advantage is that it allows for longer path segment names.

There is a possibility with some unicode based filenames that the obfuscation is weak and may map lower case characters to upper case equivalents. You can not rely on this for strong protection.

file names very lightly obfuscated
file names can be longer than standard encryption
can use sub paths and copy single files
directory structure visible
identical files names will have identical uploaded names

Cloud storage systems have various limits on file name length and total path length which you are more likely to hit using "Standard" file name encryption. If you keep your file names to below 156 characters in length then you should be OK on all providers.

There may be an even more secure file name encryption mode in the future which will address the long file name problem.

Directory name encryption

Crypt offers the option of encrypting dir names or leaving them intact. There are two options:

True

Encrypts the whole file path including directory names Example: 1/12/123.txt is encrypted to p0e52nreeaj0a5ea7s64m4j72s/l42g6771hnv3an9cgc8cr2n1ng/qgm4avr35m5loi1th53ato71v0

False

Only encrypts file names, skips directory names Example: 1/12/123.txt is encrypted to 1/12/qgm4avr35m5loi1th53ato71v0

Modified time and hashes

Crypt stores modification times using the underlying remote so support depends on that.

Hashes are not stored for crypt. However the data integrity is protected by an extremely strong crypto authenticator.

Note that you should use the rclone cryptcheck command to check the integrity of a crypted remote instead of rclone check which can't check the checksums properly.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

--crypt-remote

Remote to encrypt/decrypt. Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

Config: remote
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_REMOTE
Type: string
Default: ""

--crypt-filename-encryption

How to encrypt the filenames.

Config: filename_encryption
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_FILENAME_ENCRYPTION
Type: string
Default: "standard"
Examples:
- "off"
  - Don't encrypt the file names. Adds a ".bin" extension only.
- "standard"
  - Encrypt the filenames see the docs for the details.
- "obfuscate"
  - Very simple filename obfuscation.

--crypt-directory-name-encryption

Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.

Config: directory_name_encryption
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_DIRECTORY_NAME_ENCRYPTION
Type: bool
Default: true
Examples:
- "true"
  - Encrypt directory names.
- "false"
  - Don't encrypt directory names, leave them intact.

--crypt-password

Password or pass phrase for encryption.

Config: password
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_PASSWORD
Type: string
Default: ""

--crypt-password2

Password or pass phrase for salt. Optional but recommended. Should be different to the previous password.

Config: password2
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_PASSWORD2
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

--crypt-show-mapping

For all files listed show how the names encrypt.

If this flag is set then for each file that the remote is asked to list, it will log (at level INFO) a line stating the decrypted file name and the encrypted file name.

This is so you can work out which encrypted names are which decrypted names just in case you need to do something with the encrypted file names, or for debugging purposes.

Config: show_mapping
Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_SHOW_MAPPING
Type: bool
Default: false

Backing up a crypted remote

If you wish to backup a crypted remote, it it recommended that you use rclone sync on the encrypted files, and make sure the passwords are the same in the new encrypted remote.

This will have the following advantages

rclone sync will check the checksums while copying
you can use rclone check between the encrypted remotes
you don't decrypt and encrypt unnecessarily

For example, let's say you have your original remote at remote: with the encrypted version at eremote: with path remote:crypt. You would then set up the new remote remote2: and then the encrypted version eremote2: with path remote2:crypt using the same passwords as eremote:.

To sync the two remotes you would do

rclone sync remote:crypt remote2:crypt

And to check the integrity you would do

rclone check remote:crypt remote2:crypt

File formats

File encryption

Files are encrypted 1:1 source file to destination object. The file has a header and is divided into chunks.

Header

8 bytes magic string RCLONE\x00\x00
24 bytes Nonce (IV)

The initial nonce is generated from the operating systems crypto strong random number generator. The nonce is incremented for each chunk read making sure each nonce is unique for each block written. The chance of a nonce being re-used is minuscule. If you wrote an exabyte of data (10¹⁸ bytes) you would have a probability of approximately 2×10⁻³² of re-using a nonce.

Chunk

Each chunk will contain 64kB of data, except for the last one which may have less data. The data chunk is in standard NACL secretbox format. Secretbox uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and authenticate messages.

Each chunk contains:

16 Bytes of Poly1305 authenticator
1 - 65536 bytes XSalsa20 encrypted data

64k chunk size was chosen as the best performing chunk size (the authenticator takes too much time below this and the performance drops off due to cache effects above this). Note that these chunks are buffered in memory so they can't be too big.

This uses a 32 byte (256 bit key) key derived from the user password.

Examples

1 byte file will encrypt to

32 bytes header
17 bytes data chunk

49 bytes total

1MB (1048576 bytes) file will encrypt to

32 bytes header
16 chunks of 65568 bytes

1049120 bytes total (a 0.05% overhead). This is the overhead for big files.

Name encryption

File names are encrypted segment by segment - the path is broken up into / separated strings and these are encrypted individually.

File segments are padded using using PKCS#7 to a multiple of 16 bytes before encryption.

They are then encrypted with EME using AES with 256 bit key. EME (ECB-Mix-ECB) is a wide-block encryption mode presented in the 2003 paper "A Parallelizable Enciphering Mode" by Halevi and Rogaway.

This makes for deterministic encryption which is what we want - the same filename must encrypt to the same thing otherwise we can't find it on the cloud storage system.

This means that

filenames with the same name will encrypt the same
filenames which start the same won't have a common prefix

This uses a 32 byte key (256 bits) and a 16 byte (128 bits) IV both of which are derived from the user password.

After encryption they are written out using a modified version of standard base32 encoding as described in RFC4648. The standard encoding is modified in two ways:

it becomes lower case (no-one likes upper case filenames!)
we strip the padding character =

base32 is used rather than the more efficient base64 so rclone can be used on case insensitive remotes (eg Windows, Amazon Drive).

Key derivation

Rclone uses scrypt with parameters N=16384, r=8, p=1 with an optional user supplied salt (password2) to derive the 32+32+16 = 80 bytes of key material required. If the user doesn't supply a salt then rclone uses an internal one.

scrypt makes it impractical to mount a dictionary attack on rclone encrypted data. For full protection against this you should always use a salt.

Dropbox

Paths are specified as remote:path

Dropbox paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

The initial setup for dropbox involves getting a token from Dropbox which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 4
Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally.
app_key>
Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally.
app_secret>
Remote config
Please visit:
https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code
Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX
--------------------
[remote]
app_key =
app_secret =
token = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your dropbox

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your dropbox

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to a dropbox directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Dropbox for business

Rclone supports Dropbox for business and Team Folders.

When using Dropbox for business remote: and remote:path/to/file will refer to your personal folder.

If you wish to see Team Folders you must use a leading / in the path, so rclone lsd remote:/ will refer to the root and show you all Team Folders and your User Folder.

You can then use team folders like this remote:/TeamFolder and remote:/TeamFolder/path/to/file.

A leading / for a Dropbox personal account will do nothing, but it will take an extra HTTP transaction so it should be avoided.

Modified time and Hashes

Dropbox supports modified times, but the only way to set a modification time is to re-upload the file.

This means that if you uploaded your data with an older version of rclone which didn't support the v2 API and modified times, rclone will decide to upload all your old data to fix the modification times. If you don't want this to happen use --size-only or --checksum flag to stop it.

Dropbox supports its own hash type which is checked for all transfers.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

--dropbox-client-id

Dropbox App Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--dropbox-client-secret

Dropbox App Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

--dropbox-chunk-size

Upload chunk size. (< 150M).

Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

Note that chunks are buffered in memory (one at a time) so rclone can deal with retries. Setting this larger will increase the speed slightly (at most 10% for 128MB in tests) at the cost of using more memory. It can be set smaller if you are tight on memory.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 48M

--dropbox-impersonate

Impersonate this user when using a business account.

Config: impersonate
Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_IMPERSONATE
Type: string
Default: ""

Limitations

Note that Dropbox is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are some file names such as thumbs.db which Dropbox can't store. There is a full list of them in the "Ignored Files" section of this document. Rclone will issue an error message File name disallowed - not uploading if it attempts to upload one of those file names, but the sync won't fail.

If you have more than 10,000 files in a directory then rclone purge dropbox:dir will return the error Failed to purge: There are too many files involved in this operation. As a work-around do an rclone delete dropbox:dir followed by an rclone rmdir dropbox:dir.

FTP

FTP is the File Transfer Protocol. FTP support is provided using the github.com/jlaffaye/ftp package.

Here is an example of making an FTP configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process. An FTP remote only needs a host together with and a username and a password. With anonymous FTP server, you will need to use anonymous as username and your email address as the password.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / FTP Connection 
   \ "ftp"
 7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 8 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 9 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
10 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
14 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> ftp
FTP host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to ftp.example.com
   \ "ftp.example.com"
host> ftp.example.com
FTP username, leave blank for current username, ncw
user>
FTP port, leave blank to use default (21)
port>
FTP password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
host = ftp.example.com
user = 
port =
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all directories in the home directory

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new directory

rclone mkdir remote:path/to/directory

List the contents of a directory

rclone ls remote:path/to/directory

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote directory, deleting any excess files in the directory.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:directory

Modified time

FTP does not support modified times. Any times you see on the server will be time of upload.

Checksums

FTP does not support any checksums.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to ftp (FTP Connection).

--ftp-host

FTP host to connect to

Config: host
Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_HOST
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "ftp.example.com"
  - Connect to ftp.example.com

--ftp-user

FTP username, leave blank for current username, ncw

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--ftp-port

FTP port, leave blank to use default (21)

Config: port
Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_PORT
Type: string
Default: ""

--ftp-pass

FTP password

Config: pass
Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_PASS
Type: string
Default: ""

Limitations

Note that since FTP isn't HTTP based the following flags don't work with it: --dump-headers, --dump-bodies, --dump-auth

Note that --timeout isn't supported (but --contimeout is).

Note that --bind isn't supported.

FTP could support server side move but doesn't yet.

Google Cloud Storage

Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

The initial setup for google cloud storage involves getting a token from Google Cloud Storage which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 6
Google Application Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Google Application Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Project number optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.
project_number> 12345678
Service Account Credentials JSON file path - needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.
service_account_file>
Access Control List for new objects.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
   \ "authenticatedRead"
 2 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get OWNER access.
   \ "bucketOwnerFullControl"
 3 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get READER access.
   \ "bucketOwnerRead"
 4 / Object owner gets OWNER access [default if left blank].
   \ "private"
 5 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team members get access according to their roles.
   \ "projectPrivate"
 6 / Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.
   \ "publicRead"
object_acl> 4
Access Control List for new buckets.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
   \ "authenticatedRead"
 2 / Project team owners get OWNER access [default if left blank].
   \ "private"
 3 / Project team members get access according to their roles.
   \ "projectPrivate"
 4 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.
   \ "publicRead"
 5 / Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get WRITER access.
   \ "publicReadWrite"
bucket_acl> 2
Location for the newly created buckets.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Empty for default location (US).
   \ ""
 2 / Multi-regional location for Asia.
   \ "asia"
 3 / Multi-regional location for Europe.
   \ "eu"
 4 / Multi-regional location for United States.
   \ "us"
 5 / Taiwan.
   \ "asia-east1"
 6 / Tokyo.
   \ "asia-northeast1"
 7 / Singapore.
   \ "asia-southeast1"
 8 / Sydney.
   \ "australia-southeast1"
 9 / Belgium.
   \ "europe-west1"
10 / London.
   \ "europe-west2"
11 / Iowa.
   \ "us-central1"
12 / South Carolina.
   \ "us-east1"
13 / Northern Virginia.
   \ "us-east4"
14 / Oregon.
   \ "us-west1"
location> 12
The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Default
   \ ""
 2 / Multi-regional storage class
   \ "MULTI_REGIONAL"
 3 / Regional storage class
   \ "REGIONAL"
 4 / Nearline storage class
   \ "NEARLINE"
 5 / Coldline storage class
   \ "COLDLINE"
 6 / Durable reduced availability storage class
   \ "DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY"
storage_class> 5
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine or Y didn't work
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
type = google cloud storage
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"AccessToken":"xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","RefreshToken":"x/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxx","Expiry":"2014-07-17T20:49:14.929208288+01:00","Extra":null}
project_number = 12345678
object_acl = private
bucket_acl = private
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Google if you use auto config mode. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall, or use manual mode.

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all the buckets in your project

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new bucket

rclone mkdir remote:bucket

List the contents of a bucket

rclone ls remote:bucket

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote bucket, deleting any excess files in the bucket.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket

Service Account support

You can set up rclone with Google Cloud Storage in an unattended mode, i.e. not tied to a specific end-user Google account. This is useful when you want to synchronise files onto machines that don't have actively logged-in users, for example build machines.

To get credentials for Google Cloud Platform IAM Service Accounts, please head to the Service Account section of the Google Developer Console. Service Accounts behave just like normal User permissions in Google Cloud Storage ACLs, so you can limit their access (e.g. make them read only). After creating an account, a JSON file containing the Service Account's credentials will be downloaded onto your machines. These credentials are what rclone will use for authentication.

To use a Service Account instead of OAuth2 token flow, enter the path to your Service Account credentials at the service_account_file prompt and rclone won't use the browser based authentication flow. If you'd rather stuff the contents of the credentials file into the rclone config file, you can set service_account_credentials with the actual contents of the file instead, or set the equivalent environment variable.

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Modified time

Google google cloud storage stores md5sums natively and rclone stores modification times as metadata on the object, under the "mtime" key in RFC3339 format accurate to 1ns.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

--gcs-client-id

Google Application Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--gcs-client-secret

Google Application Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

--gcs-project-number

Project number. Optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.

Config: project_number
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_PROJECT_NUMBER
Type: string
Default: ""

--gcs-service-account-file

Service Account Credentials JSON file path Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Config: service_account_file
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE
Type: string
Default: ""

--gcs-service-account-credentials

Service Account Credentials JSON blob Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Config: service_account_credentials
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS
Type: string
Default: ""

--gcs-object-acl

Access Control List for new objects.

Config: object_acl
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_OBJECT_ACL
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "authenticatedRead"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
- "bucketOwnerFullControl"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get OWNER access.
- "bucketOwnerRead"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team owners get READER access.
- "private"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access [default if left blank].
- "projectPrivate"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access, and project team members get access according to their roles.
- "publicRead"
  - Object owner gets OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.

--gcs-bucket-acl

Access Control List for new buckets.

Config: bucket_acl
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_BUCKET_ACL
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "authenticatedRead"
  - Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Authenticated Users get READER access.
- "private"
  - Project team owners get OWNER access [default if left blank].
- "projectPrivate"
  - Project team members get access according to their roles.
- "publicRead"
  - Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get READER access.
- "publicReadWrite"
  - Project team owners get OWNER access, and all Users get WRITER access.

--gcs-location

Location for the newly created buckets.

Config: location
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_LOCATION
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Empty for default location (US).
- "asia"
  - Multi-regional location for Asia.
- "eu"
  - Multi-regional location for Europe.
- "us"
  - Multi-regional location for United States.
- "asia-east1"
  - Taiwan.
- "asia-northeast1"
  - Tokyo.
- "asia-southeast1"
  - Singapore.
- "australia-southeast1"
  - Sydney.
- "europe-west1"
  - Belgium.
- "europe-west2"
  - London.
- "us-central1"
  - Iowa.
- "us-east1"
  - South Carolina.
- "us-east4"
  - Northern Virginia.
- "us-west1"
  - Oregon.

--gcs-storage-class

The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.

Config: storage_class
Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_STORAGE_CLASS
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Default
- "MULTI_REGIONAL"
  - Multi-regional storage class
- "REGIONAL"
  - Regional storage class
- "NEARLINE"
  - Nearline storage class
- "COLDLINE"
  - Coldline storage class
- "DURABLE_REDUCED_AVAILABILITY"
  - Durable reduced availability storage class

Google Drive

Paths are specified as drive:path

Drive paths may be as deep as required, eg drive:directory/subdirectory.

The initial setup for drive involves getting a token from Google drive which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
10 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
[snip]
Storage> drive
Google Application Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Google Application Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
   \ "drive"
 2 / Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
   \ "drive.readonly"
   / Access to files created by rclone only.
 3 | These are visible in the drive website.
   | File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
   \ "drive.file"
   / Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
 4 | This is not visible in the drive website.
   \ "drive.appfolder"
   / Allows read-only access to file metadata but
 5 | does not allow any access to read or download file content.
   \ "drive.metadata.readonly"
scope> 1
ID of the root folder - leave blank normally.  Fill in to access "Computers" folders. (see docs).
root_folder_id> 
Service Account Credentials JSON file path - needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.
service_account_file>
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine or Y didn't work
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Configure this as a team drive?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
--------------------
[remote]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
scope = drive
root_folder_id = 
service_account_file =
token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2014-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

You can then use it like this,

List directories in top level of your drive

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your drive

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to a drive directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Scopes

Rclone allows you to select which scope you would like for rclone to use. This changes what type of token is granted to rclone. The scopes are defined here..

The scope are

drive

This is the default scope and allows full access to all files, except for the Application Data Folder (see below).

Choose this one if you aren't sure.

drive.readonly

This allows read only access to all files. Files may be listed and downloaded but not uploaded, renamed or deleted.

drive.file

With this scope rclone can read/view/modify only those files and folders it creates.

So if you uploaded files to drive via the web interface (or any other means) they will not be visible to rclone.

This can be useful if you are using rclone to backup data and you want to be sure confidential data on your drive is not visible to rclone.

Files created with this scope are visible in the web interface.

drive.appfolder

This gives rclone its own private area to store files. Rclone will not be able to see any other files on your drive and you won't be able to see rclone's files from the web interface either.

drive.metadata.readonly

This allows read only access to file names only. It does not allow rclone to download or upload data, or rename or delete files or directories.

Root folder ID

You can set the root_folder_id for rclone. This is the directory (identified by its Folder ID) that rclone considers to be a the root of your drive.

Normally you will leave this blank and rclone will determine the correct root to use itself.

However you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder hierarchy or to access data within the "Computers" tab on the drive web interface (where files from Google's Backup and Sync desktop program go).

In order to do this you will have to find the Folder ID of the directory you wish rclone to display. This will be the last segment of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the drive web interface.

So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XyfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxKHCh in the browser, then you use 1XyfxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxKHCh as the root_folder_id in the config.

NB folders under the "Computers" tab seem to be read only (drive gives a 500 error) when using rclone.

There doesn't appear to be an API to discover the folder IDs of the "Computers" tab - please contact us if you know otherwise!

Note also that rclone can't access any data under the "Backups" tab on the google drive web interface yet.

Service Account support

You can set up rclone with Google Drive in an unattended mode, i.e. not tied to a specific end-user Google account. This is useful when you want to synchronise files onto machines that don't have actively logged-in users, for example build machines.

To use a Service Account instead of OAuth2 token flow, enter the path to your Service Account credentials at the service_account_file prompt during rclone config and rclone won't use the browser based authentication flow. If you'd rather stuff the contents of the credentials file into the rclone config file, you can set service_account_credentials with the actual contents of the file instead, or set the equivalent environment variable.

Use case - Google Apps/G-suite account and individual Drive

Let's say that you are the administrator of a Google Apps (old) or G-suite account. The goal is to store data on an individual's Drive account, who IS a member of the domain. We'll call the domain example.com, and the user foo@example.com.

There's a few steps we need to go through to accomplish this:

1. Create a service account for example.com

To create a service account and obtain its credentials, go to the Google Developer Console.
You must have a project - create one if you don't.
Then go to "IAM & admin" -> "Service Accounts".
Use the "Create Credentials" button. Fill in "Service account name" with something that identifies your client. "Role" can be empty.
Tick "Furnish a new private key" - select "Key type JSON".
Tick "Enable G Suite Domain-wide Delegation". This option makes "impersonation" possible, as documented here: Delegating domain-wide authority to the service account
These credentials are what rclone will use for authentication. If you ever need to remove access, press the "Delete service account key" button.

2. Allowing API access to example.com Google Drive

Go to example.com's admin console
Go into "Security" (or use the search bar)
Select "Show more" and then "Advanced settings"
Select "Manage API client access" in the "Authentication" section
In the "Client Name" field enter the service account's "Client ID" - this can be found in the Developer Console under "IAM & Admin" -> "Service Accounts", then "View Client ID" for the newly created service account. It is a ~21 character numerical string.
In the next field, "One or More API Scopes", enter https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive to grant access to Google Drive specifically.

3. Configure rclone, assuming a new install

rclone config

n/s/q> n         # New
name>gdrive      # Gdrive is an example name
Storage>         # Select the number shown for Google Drive
client_id>       # Can be left blank
client_secret>   # Can be left blank
scope>           # Select your scope, 1 for example
root_folder_id>  # Can be left blank
service_account_file> /home/foo/myJSONfile.json # This is where the JSON file goes!
y/n>             # Auto config, y

4. Verify that it's working

rclone -v --drive-impersonate foo@example.com lsf gdrive:backup
The arguments do:
- -v - verbose logging
- --drive-impersonate foo@example.com - this is what does the magic, pretending to be user foo.
- lsf - list files in a parsing friendly way
- gdrive:backup - use the remote called gdrive, work in the folder named backup.

Team drives

If you want to configure the remote to point to a Google Team Drive then answer y to the question Configure this as a team drive?.

This will fetch the list of Team Drives from google and allow you to configure which one you want to use. You can also type in a team drive ID if you prefer.

For example:

Configure this as a team drive?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
Fetching team drive list...
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Rclone Test
   \ "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
 2 / Rclone Test 2
   \ "yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"
 3 / Rclone Test 3
   \ "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"
Enter a Team Drive ID> 1
--------------------
[remote]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"AccessToken":"xxxx.x.xxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","RefreshToken":"1/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","Expiry":"2014-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z","Extra":null}
team_drive = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

It does this by combining multiple list calls into a single API request.

This works by combining many '%s' in parents filters into one expression. To list the contents of directories a, b and c, the the following requests will be send by the regular List function:

trashed=false and 'a' in parents
trashed=false and 'b' in parents
trashed=false and 'c' in parents

These can now be combined into a single request:

trashed=false and ('a' in parents or 'b' in parents or 'c' in parents)

The implementation of ListR will put up to 50 parents filters into one request. It will use the --checkers value to specify the number of requests to run in parallel.

In tests, these batch requests were up to 20x faster than the regular method. Running the following command against different sized folders gives:

rclone lsjson -vv -R --checkers=6 gdrive:folder

small folder (220 directories, 700 files):

without --fast-list: 38s
with --fast-list: 10s

large folder (10600 directories, 39000 files):

without --fast-list: 22:05 min
with --fast-list: 58s

Modified time

Google drive stores modification times accurate to 1 ms.

Revisions

Google drive stores revisions of files. When you upload a change to an existing file to google drive using rclone it will create a new revision of that file.

Revisions follow the standard google policy which at time of writing was

They are deleted after 30 days or 100 revisions (whatever comes first).
They do not count towards a user storage quota.

Deleting files

By default rclone will send all files to the trash when deleting files. If deleting them permanently is required then use the --drive-use-trash=false flag, or set the equivalent environment variable.

Emptying trash

If you wish to empty your trash you can use the rclone cleanup remote: command which will permanently delete all your trashed files. This command does not take any path arguments.

Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the rclone about remote: command which will display your usage limit (quota), the usage in Google Drive, the size of all files in the Trash and the space used by other Google services such as Gmail. This command does not take any path arguments.

Import/Export of google documents

Google documents can be exported from and uploaded to Google Drive.

When rclone downloads a Google doc it chooses a format to download depending upon the --drive-export-formats setting. By default the export formats are docx,xlsx,pptx,svg which are a sensible default for an editable document.

When choosing a format, rclone runs down the list provided in order and chooses the first file format the doc can be exported as from the list. If the file can't be exported to a format on the formats list, then rclone will choose a format from the default list.

If you prefer an archive copy then you might use --drive-export-formats pdf, or if you prefer openoffice/libreoffice formats you might use --drive-export-formats ods,odt,odp.

Note that rclone adds the extension to the google doc, so if it is calles My Spreadsheet on google docs, it will be exported as My Spreadsheet.xlsx or My Spreadsheet.pdf etc.

When importing files into Google Drive, rclone will conververt all files with an extension in --drive-import-formats to their associated document type. rclone will not convert any files by default, since the conversion is lossy process.

The conversion must result in a file with the same extension when the --drive-export-formats rules are applied to the uploded document.

Here are some examples for allowed and prohibited conversions.

export-formats	import-formats	Upload Ext	Document Ext	Allowed
odt	odt	odt	odt	Yes
odt	docx,odt	odt	odt	Yes
	docx	docx	docx	Yes
	odt	odt	docx	No
odt,docx	docx,odt	docx	odt	No
docx,odt	docx,odt	docx	docx	Yes
docx,odt	docx,odt	odt	docx	No

This limitation can be disabled by specifying --drive-allow-import-name-change. When using this flag, rclone can convert multiple files types resulting in the same document type at once, eg with --drive-import-formats docx,odt,txt, all files having these extension would result in a doument represented as a docx file. This brings the additional risk of overwriting a document, if multiple files have the same stem. Many rclone operations will not handle this name change in any way. They assume an equal name when copying files and might copy the file again or delete them when the name changes.

Here are the possible export extensions with their corresponding mime types. Most of these can also be used for importing, but there more that are not listed here. Some of these additional ones might only be available when the operating system provides the correct MIME type entries.

This list can be changed by Google Drive at any time and might not represent the currently available converions.

Extension	Mime Type	Description
csv	text/csv	Standard CSV format for Spreadsheets
docx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document	Microsoft Office Document
epub	application/epub+zip	E-book format
html	text/html	An HTML Document
jpg	image/jpeg	A JPEG Image File
json	application/vnd.google-apps.script+json	JSON Text Format
odp	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation	Openoffice Presentation
ods	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet	Openoffice Spreadsheet
ods	application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet	Openoffice Spreadsheet
odt	application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text	Openoffice Document
pdf	application/pdf	Adobe PDF Format
png	image/png	PNG Image Format
pptx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation	Microsoft Office Powerpoint
rtf	application/rtf	Rich Text Format
svg	image/svg+xml	Scalable Vector Graphics Format
tsv	text/tab-separated-values	Standard TSV format for spreadsheets
txt	text/plain	Plain Text
xlsx	application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet	Microsoft Office Spreadsheet
zip	application/zip	A ZIP file of HTML, Images CSS

Google douments can also be exported as link files. These files will open a browser window for the Google Docs website of that dument when opened. The link file extension has to be specified as a --drive-export-formats parameter. They will match all available Google Documents.

Extension	Description	OS Support
desktop	freedesktop.org specified desktop entry	Linux
link.html	An HTML Document with a redirect	All
url	INI style link file	macOS, Windows
webloc	macOS specific XML format	macOS

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to drive (Google Drive).

--drive-client-id

Google Application Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-client-secret

Google Application Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-scope

Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.

Config: scope
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_SCOPE
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "drive"
  - Full access all files, excluding Application Data Folder.
- "drive.readonly"
  - Read-only access to file metadata and file contents.
- "drive.file"
  - Access to files created by rclone only.
  - These are visible in the drive website.
  - File authorization is revoked when the user deauthorizes the app.
- "drive.appfolder"
  - Allows read and write access to the Application Data folder.
  - This is not visible in the drive website.
- "drive.metadata.readonly"
  - Allows read-only access to file metadata but
  - does not allow any access to read or download file content.

--drive-root-folder-id

ID of the root folder Leave blank normally. Fill in to access "Computers" folders. (see docs).

Config: root_folder_id
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-service-account-file

Service Account Credentials JSON file path Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Config: service_account_file
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_FILE
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to drive (Google Drive).

--drive-service-account-credentials

Service Account Credentials JSON blob Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

Config: service_account_credentials
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_CREDENTIALS
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-team-drive

ID of the Team Drive

Config: team_drive
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_TEAM_DRIVE
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-auth-owner-only

Only consider files owned by the authenticated user.

Config: auth_owner_only
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_AUTH_OWNER_ONLY
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-use-trash

Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently. Defaults to true, namely sending files to the trash. Use --drive-use-trash=false to delete files permanently instead.

Config: use_trash
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_TRASH
Type: bool
Default: true

--drive-skip-gdocs

Skip google documents in all listings. If given, gdocs practically become invisible to rclone.

Config: skip_gdocs
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_SKIP_GDOCS
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-shared-with-me

Only show files that are shared with me.

Instructs rclone to operate on your "Shared with me" folder (where Google Drive lets you access the files and folders others have shared with you).

This works both with the "list" (lsd, lsl, etc) and the "copy" commands (copy, sync, etc), and with all other commands too.

Config: shared_with_me
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_SHARED_WITH_ME
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-trashed-only

Only show files that are in the trash. This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

Config: trashed_only
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_TRASHED_ONLY
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-formats

Deprecated: see export_formats

Config: formats
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_FORMATS
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-export-formats

Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs.

Config: export_formats
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_EXPORT_FORMATS
Type: string
Default: "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg"

--drive-import-formats

Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs.

Config: import_formats
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_IMPORT_FORMATS
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-allow-import-name-change

Allow the filetype to change when uploading Google docs (e.g. file.doc to file.docx). This will confuse sync and reupload every time.

Config: allow_import_name_change
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_ALLOW_IMPORT_NAME_CHANGE
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-use-created-date

Use file created date instead of modified date.,

Useful when downloading data and you want the creation date used in place of the last modified date.

WARNING: This flag may have some unexpected consequences.

When uploading to your drive all files will be overwritten unless they haven't been modified since their creation. And the inverse will occur while downloading. This side effect can be avoided by using the "--checksum" flag.

This feature was implemented to retain photos capture date as recorded by google photos. You will first need to check the "Create a Google Photos folder" option in your google drive settings. You can then copy or move the photos locally and use the date the image was taken (created) set as the modification date.

Config: use_created_date
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_USE_CREATED_DATE
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-list-chunk

Size of listing chunk 100-1000. 0 to disable.

Config: list_chunk
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
Type: int
Default: 1000

--drive-impersonate

Impersonate this user when using a service account.

Config: impersonate
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_IMPERSONATE
Type: string
Default: ""

--drive-alternate-export

Use alternate export URLs for google documents export.,

If this option is set this instructs rclone to use an alternate set of export URLs for drive documents. Users have reported that the official export URLs can't export large documents, whereas these unofficial ones can.

See rclone issue #2243 for background, this google drive issue and this helpful post.

Config: alternate_export
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_ALTERNATE_EXPORT
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload

Config: upload_cutoff
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 8M

--drive-chunk-size

Upload chunk size. Must a power of 2 >= 256k.

Making this larger will improve performance, but note that each chunk is buffered in memory one per transfer.

Reducing this will reduce memory usage but decrease performance.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 8M

--drive-acknowledge-abuse

Set to allow files which return cannotDownloadAbusiveFile to be downloaded.

If downloading a file returns the error "This file has been identified as malware or spam and cannot be downloaded" with the error code "cannotDownloadAbusiveFile" then supply this flag to rclone to indicate you acknowledge the risks of downloading the file and rclone will download it anyway.

Config: acknowledge_abuse
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_ACKNOWLEDGE_ABUSE
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-keep-revision-forever

Keep new head revision of each file forever.

Config: keep_revision_forever
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_KEEP_REVISION_FOREVER
Type: bool
Default: false

--drive-v2-download-min-size

If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download.

Config: v2_download_min_size
Env Var: RCLONE_DRIVE_V2_DOWNLOAD_MIN_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: off

Limitations

Drive has quite a lot of rate limiting. This causes rclone to be limited to transferring about 2 files per second only. Individual files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MBytes/s but lots of small files can take a long time.

Server side copies are also subject to a separate rate limit. If you see User rate limit exceeded errors, wait at least 24 hours and retry. You can disable server side copies with --disable copy to download and upload the files if you prefer.

Limitations of Google Docs

Google docs will appear as size -1 in rclone ls and as size 0 in anything which uses the VFS layer, eg rclone mount, rclone serve.

This is because rclone can't find out the size of the Google docs without downloading them.

Google docs will transfer correctly with rclone sync, rclone copy etc as rclone knows to ignore the size when doing the transfer.

However an unfortunate consequence of this is that you can't download Google docs using rclone mount - you will get a 0 sized file. If you try again the doc may gain its correct size and be downloadable.

Duplicated files

Sometimes, for no reason I've been able to track down, drive will duplicate a file that rclone uploads. Drive unlike all the other remotes can have duplicated files.

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see messages in the log about duplicates.

Use rclone dedupe to fix duplicated files.

Note that this isn't just a problem with rclone, even Google Photos on Android duplicates files on drive sometimes.

Rclone appears to be re-copying files it shouldn't

The most likely cause of this is the duplicated file issue above - run rclone dedupe and check your logs for duplicate object or directory messages.

Making your own client_id

When you use rclone with Google drive in its default configuration you are using rclone's client_id. This is shared between all the rclone users. There is a global rate limit on the number of queries per second that each client_id can do set by Google. rclone already has a high quota and I will continue to make sure it is high enough by contacting Google.

However you might find you get better performance making your own client_id if you are a heavy user. Or you may not depending on exactly how Google have been raising rclone's rate limit.

Here is how to create your own Google Drive client ID for rclone:

Log into the Google API Console with your Google account. It doesn't matter what Google account you use. (It need not be the same account as the Google Drive you want to access)
Select a project or create a new project.
Under "ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES" search for "Drive", and enable the then "Google Drive API".
Click "Credentials" in the left-side panel (not "Create credentials", which opens the wizard), then "Create credentials", then "OAuth client ID". It will prompt you to set the OAuth consent screen product name, if you haven't set one already.
Choose an application type of "other", and click "Create". (the default name is fine)
It will show you a client ID and client secret. Use these values in rclone config to add a new remote or edit an existing remote.

(Thanks to @balazer on github for these instructions.)

HTTP

The HTTP remote is a read only remote for reading files of a webserver. The webserver should provide file listings which rclone will read and turn into a remote. This has been tested with common webservers such as Apache/Nginx/Caddy and will likely work with file listings from most web servers. (If it doesn't then please file an issue, or send a pull request!)

Paths are specified as remote: or remote:path/to/dir.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 8 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 9 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
10 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
14 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
15 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> http
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "https://example.com"
url> https://beta.rclone.org
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
url = https://beta.rclone.org
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               http

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all the top level directories

rclone lsd remote:

List the contents of a directory

rclone ls remote:directory

Sync the remote directory to /home/local/directory, deleting any excess files.

rclone sync remote:directory /home/local/directory

Read only

This remote is read only - you can't upload files to an HTTP server.

Modified time

Most HTTP servers store time accurate to 1 second.

Checksum

No checksums are stored.

Usage without a config file

Since the http remote only has one config parameter it is easy to use without a config file:

rclone lsd --http-url https://beta.rclone.org :http:

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to http (http Connection).

--http-url

URL of http host to connect to

Config: url
Env Var: RCLONE_HTTP_URL
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "https://example.com"
  - Connect to example.com

Hubic

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:container/path/to/dir.

The initial setup for Hubic involves getting a token from Hubic which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 8
Hubic Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Hubic Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"access_token":"XXXXXX"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Hubic. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List containers in the top level of your Hubic

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Hubic

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Hubic directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

If you want the directory to be visible in the official Hubic browser, you need to copy your files to the default directory

rclone copy /home/source remote:default/backup

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as X-Object-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

This is a defacto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.

Note that Hubic wraps the Swift backend, so most of the properties of are the same.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to hubic (Hubic).

--hubic-client-id

Hubic Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_HUBIC_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--hubic-client-secret

Hubic Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_HUBIC_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to hubic (Hubic).

--hubic-chunk-size

Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container.

Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container. The default for this is 5GB which is its maximum value.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_HUBIC_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 5G

Limitations

This uses the normal OpenStack Swift mechanism to refresh the Swift API credentials and ignores the expires field returned by the Hubic API.

The Swift API doesn't return a correct MD5SUM for segmented files (Dynamic or Static Large Objects) so rclone won't check or use the MD5SUM for these.

Jottacloud

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

To configure Jottacloud you will need to enter your username and password and select a mountpoint.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
13 / JottaCloud
   \ "jottacloud"
[snip]
Storage> jottacloud
User Name
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
user> user
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
The mountpoint to use.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Will be synced by the official client.
   \ "Sync"
 2 / Archive
   \ "Archive"
mountpoint> Archive
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
type = jottacloud
user = user
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
mountpoint = Archive
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your Jottacloud

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Jottacloud

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Jottacloud directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Note that the implementation in Jottacloud always uses only a single API request to get the entire list, so for large folders this could lead to long wait time before the first results are shown.

Modified time and hashes

Jottacloud allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

Jottacloud supports MD5 type hashes, so you can use the --checksum flag.

Note that Jottacloud requires the MD5 hash before upload so if the source does not have an MD5 checksum then the file will be cached temporarily on disk (wherever the TMPDIR environment variable points to) before it is uploaded. Small files will be cached in memory - see the --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit flag.

Deleting files

By default rclone will send all files to the trash when deleting files. Due to a lack of API documentation emptying the trash is currently only possible via the Jottacloud website. If deleting permanently is required then use the --jottacloud-hard-delete flag, or set the equivalent environment variable.

Versions

Jottacloud supports file versioning. When rclone uploads a new version of a file it creates a new version of it. Currently rclone only supports retrieving the current version but older versions can be accessed via the Jottacloud Website.

Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the rclone about remote: command which will display your usage limit (unless it is unlimited) and the current usage.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to jottacloud (JottaCloud).

--jottacloud-user

User Name

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--jottacloud-pass

Password.

Config: pass
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_PASS
Type: string
Default: ""

--jottacloud-mountpoint

The mountpoint to use.

Config: mountpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_MOUNTPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "Sync"
  - Will be synced by the official client.
- "Archive"
  - Archive

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to jottacloud (JottaCloud).

--jottacloud-md5-memory-limit

Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate the MD5 if required.

Config: md5_memory_limit
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_MD5_MEMORY_LIMIT
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 10M

--jottacloud-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Config: hard_delete
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_HARD_DELETE
Type: bool
Default: false

--jottacloud-unlink

Remove existing public link to file/folder with link command rather than creating. Default is false, meaning link command will create or retrieve public link.

Config: unlink
Env Var: RCLONE_JOTTACLOUD_UNLINK
Type: bool
Default: false

Limitations

Note that Jottacloud is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in Jottacloud file names. Rclone will map these names to and from an identical looking unicode equivalent. For example if a file has a ? in it will be mapped to ？ instead.

Jottacloud only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

Troubleshooting

Jottacloud exhibits some inconsistent behaviours regarding deleted files and folders which may cause Copy, Move and DirMove operations to previously deleted paths to fail. Emptying the trash should help in such cases.

Mega

Mega is a cloud storage and file hosting service known for its security feature where all files are encrypted locally before they are uploaded. This prevents anyone (including employees of Mega) from accessing the files without knowledge of the key used for encryption.

This is an rclone backend for Mega which supports the file transfer features of Mega using the same client side encryption.

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Alias for a existing remote
   \ "alias"
[snip]
14 / Mega
   \ "mega"
[snip]
23 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> mega
User name
user> you@example.com
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
type = mega
user = you@example.com
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

NOTE: The encryption keys need to have been already generated after a regular login via the browser, otherwise attempting to use the credentials in rclone will fail.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your Mega

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your Mega

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an Mega directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Modified time and hashes

Mega does not support modification times or hashes yet.

Duplicated files

Mega can have two files with exactly the same name and path (unlike a normal file system).

Duplicated files cause problems with the syncing and you will see messages in the log about duplicates.

Use rclone dedupe to fix duplicated files.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to mega (Mega).

--mega-user

User name

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--mega-pass

Password.

Config: pass
Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_PASS
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to mega (Mega).

--mega-debug

Output more debug from Mega.

If this flag is set (along with -vv) it will print further debugging information from the mega backend.

Config: debug
Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_DEBUG
Type: bool
Default: false

--mega-hard-delete

Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

Normally the mega backend will put all deletions into the trash rather than permanently deleting them. If you specify this then rclone will permanently delete objects instead.

Config: hard_delete
Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_HARD_DELETE
Type: bool
Default: false

Limitations

This backend uses the go-mega go library which is an opensource go library implementing the Mega API. There doesn't appear to be any documentation for the mega protocol beyond the mega C++ SDK source code so there are likely quite a few errors still remaining in this library.

Mega allows duplicate files which may confuse rclone.

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:container/path/to/dir.

Here is an example of making a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage configuration. For a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Box
   \ "box"
 5 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 6 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 7 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 8 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 9 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
10 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
11 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
12 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
13 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
14 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
15 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
16 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
17 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> azureblob
Storage Account Name
account> account_name
Storage Account Key
key> base64encodedkey==
Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally.
endpoint> 
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
account = account_name
key = base64encodedkey==
endpoint = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See all containers

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new container

rclone mkdir remote:container

List the contents of a container

rclone ls remote:container

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote container, deleting any excess files in the container.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:container

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object with the mtime key. It is stored using RFC3339 Format time with nanosecond precision. The metadata is supplied during directory listings so there is no overhead to using it.

Hashes

MD5 hashes are stored with blobs. However blobs that were uploaded in chunks only have an MD5 if the source remote was capable of MD5 hashes, eg the local disk.

Authenticating with Azure Blob Storage

Rclone has 3 ways of authenticating with Azure Blob Storage:

Account and Key

This is the most straight forward and least flexible way. Just fill in the account and key lines and leave the rest blank.

SAS URL

This can be an account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL

To use it leave account, key blank and fill in sas_url.

Account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL can be obtained from Azure portal or Azure Storage Explorer. To get a container level SAS URL right click on a container in the Azure Blob explorer in the Azure portal.

If You use container level SAS URL, rclone operations are permitted only on particular container, eg

rclone ls azureblob:container or rclone ls azureblob:

Since container name already exists in SAS URL, you can leave it empty as well.

However these will not work

rclone lsd azureblob:
rclone ls azureblob:othercontainer

This would be useful for temporarily allowing third parties access to a single container or putting credentials into an untrusted environment.

Multipart uploads

Rclone supports multipart uploads with Azure Blob storage. Files bigger than 256MB will be uploaded using chunked upload by default.

The files will be uploaded in parallel in 4MB chunks (by default). Note that these chunks are buffered in memory and there may be up to --transfers of them being uploaded at once.

Files can't be split into more than 50,000 chunks so by default, so the largest file that can be uploaded with 4MB chunk size is 195GB. Above this rclone will double the chunk size until it creates less than 50,000 chunks. By default this will mean a maximum file size of 3.2TB can be uploaded. This can be raised to 5TB using --azureblob-chunk-size 100M.

Note that rclone doesn't commit the block list until the end of the upload which means that there is a limit of 9.5TB of multipart uploads in progress as Azure won't allow more than that amount of uncommitted blocks.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

--azureblob-account

Storage Account Name (leave blank to use connection string or SAS URL)

Config: account
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCOUNT
Type: string
Default: ""

--azureblob-key

Storage Account Key (leave blank to use connection string or SAS URL)

Config: key
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_KEY
Type: string
Default: ""

--azureblob-sas-url

SAS URL for container level access only (leave blank if using account/key or connection string)

Config: sas_url
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_SAS_URL
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

--azureblob-endpoint

Endpoint for the service Leave blank normally.

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--azureblob-upload-cutoff

Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256MB).

Config: upload_cutoff
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 256M

--azureblob-chunk-size

Upload chunk size (<= 100MB).

Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to "--transfers" chunks stored at once in memory.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 4M

--azureblob-list-chunk

Size of blob list.

This sets the number of blobs requested in each listing chunk. Default is the maximum, 5000. "List blobs" requests are permitted 2 minutes per megabyte to complete. If an operation is taking longer than 2 minutes per megabyte on average, it will time out ( source ). This can be used to limit the number of blobs items to return, to avoid the time out.

Config: list_chunk
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_LIST_CHUNK
Type: int
Default: 5000

--azureblob-access-tier

Access tier of blob: hot, cool or archive.

Archived blobs can be restored by setting access tier to hot or cool. Leave blank if you intend to use default access tier, which is set at account level

If there is no "access tier" specified, rclone doesn't apply any tier. rclone performs "Set Tier" operation on blobs while uploading, if objects are not modified, specifying "access tier" to new one will have no effect. If blobs are in "archive tier" at remote, trying to perform data transfer operations from remote will not be allowed. User should first restore by tiering blob to "Hot" or "Cool".

Config: access_tier
Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCESS_TIER
Type: string
Default: ""

Limitations

MD5 sums are only uploaded with chunked files if the source has an MD5 sum. This will always be the case for a local to azure copy.

Microsoft OneDrive

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

The initial setup for OneDrive involves getting a token from Microsoft which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
...
17 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
...
Storage> 17
Microsoft App Client Id
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_id>
Microsoft App Client Secret
Leave blank normally.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
client_secret>
Edit advanced config? (y/n)
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Choose a number from below, or type in an existing value
 1 / OneDrive Personal or Business
   \ "onedrive"
 2 / Sharepoint site
   \ "sharepoint"
 3 / Type in driveID
   \ "driveid"
 4 / Type in SiteID
   \ "siteid"
 5 / Search a Sharepoint site
   \ "search"
Your choice> 1
Found 1 drives, please select the one you want to use:
0: OneDrive (business) id=b!Eqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm-7mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewqk
Chose drive to use:> 0
Found drive 'root' of type 'business', URL: https://org-my.sharepoint.com/personal/you/Documents
Is that okay?
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
--------------------
[remote]
type = onedrive
token = {"access_token":"youraccesstoken","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"yourrefreshtoken","expiry":"2018-08-26T22:39:52.486512262+08:00"}
drive_id = b!Eqwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm-7mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewqk
drive_type = business
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Microsoft. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your OneDrive

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your OneDrive

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an OneDrive directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Getting your own Client ID and Key

rclone uses a pair of Client ID and Key shared by all rclone users when performing requests by default. If you are having problems with them (E.g., seeing a lot of throttling), you can get your own Client ID and Key by following the steps below:

Open https://apps.dev.microsoft.com/#/appList, then click Add an app (Choose Converged applications if applicable)
Enter a name for your app, and click continue. Copy and keep the Application Id under the app name for later use.
Under section Application Secrets, click Generate New Password. Copy and keep that password for later use.
Under section Platforms, click Add platform, then Web. Enter http://localhost:53682/ in Redirect URLs.
Under section Microsoft Graph Permissions, Add these delegated permissions: Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, offline_access, User.Read.
Scroll to the bottom and click Save.

Now the application is complete. Run rclone config to create or edit a OneDrive remote. Supply the app ID and password as Client ID and Secret, respectively. rclone will walk you through the remaining steps.

Modified time and hashes

OneDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

OneDrive personal supports SHA1 type hashes. OneDrive for business and Sharepoint Server support QuickXorHash.

For all types of OneDrive you can use the --checksum flag.

Deleting files

Any files you delete with rclone will end up in the trash. Microsoft doesn't provide an API to permanently delete files, nor to empty the trash, so you will have to do that with one of Microsoft's apps or via the OneDrive website.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

--onedrive-client-id

Microsoft App Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--onedrive-client-secret

Microsoft App Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

--onedrive-chunk-size

Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k.

Above this size files will be chunked - must be multiple of 320k. Note that the chunks will be buffered into memory.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 10M

--onedrive-drive-id

The ID of the drive to use

Config: drive_id
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--onedrive-drive-type

The type of the drive ( personal | business | documentLibrary )

Config: drive_type
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_TYPE
Type: string
Default: ""

--onedrive-expose-onenote-files

Set to make OneNote files show up in directory listings.

By default rclone will hide OneNote files in directory listings because operations like "Open" and "Update" won't work on them. But this behaviour may also prevent you from deleting them. If you want to delete OneNote files or otherwise want them to show up in directory listing, set this option.

Config: expose_onenote_files
Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_EXPOSE_ONENOTE_FILES
Type: bool
Default: false

Limitations

Note that OneDrive is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in OneDrive file names. These can't occur on Windows platforms, but on non-Windows platforms they are common. Rclone will map these names to and from an identical looking unicode equivalent. For example if a file has a ? in it will be mapped to ？ instead.

The largest allowed file size is 10GiB (10,737,418,240 bytes).

OneDrive seems to be OK with at least 50,000 files in a folder, but at 100,000 rclone will get errors listing the directory like couldn’t list files: UnknownError:. See #2707 for more info.

Versioning issue

Every change in OneDrive causes the service to create a new version. This counts against a users quota. For example changing the modification time of a file creates a second version, so the file is using twice the space.

The copy is the only rclone command affected by this as we copy the file and then afterwards set the modification time to match the source file.

User Weropol has found a method to disable versioning on OneDrive

Open the settings menu by clicking on the gear symbol at the top of the OneDrive Business page.
Click Site settings.
Once on the Site settings page, navigate to Site Administration > Site libraries and lists.
Click Customize "Documents".
Click General Settings > Versioning Settings.
Under Document Version History select the option No versioning. Note: This will disable the creation of new file versions, but will not remove any previous versions. Your documents are safe.
Apply the changes by clicking OK.
Use rclone to upload or modify files. (I also use the --no-update-modtime flag)
Restore the versioning settings after using rclone. (Optional)

Troubleshooting

Error: access_denied
Code: AADSTS65005
Description: Using application 'rclone' is currently not supported for your organization [YOUR_ORGANIZATION] because it is in an unmanaged state. An administrator needs to claim ownership of the company by DNS validation of [YOUR_ORGANIZATION] before the application rclone can be provisioned.

This means that rclone can't use the OneDrive for Business API with your account. You can't do much about it, maybe write an email to your admins.

However, there are other ways to interact with your OneDrive account. Have a look at the webdav backend: https://rclone.org/webdav/#sharepoint

OpenDrive

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / OpenDrive
   \ "opendrive"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
14 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 10
Username
username>
Password
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
y/g> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
--------------------
[remote]
username =
password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

List directories in top level of your OpenDrive

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your OpenDrive

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an OpenDrive directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Modified time and MD5SUMs

OpenDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

--opendrive-username

Username

Config: username
Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_USERNAME
Type: string
Default: ""

--opendrive-password

Password.

Config: password
Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_PASSWORD
Type: string
Default: ""

Limitations

Note that OpenDrive is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

There are quite a few characters that can't be in OpenDrive file names. These can't occur on Windows platforms, but on non-Windows platforms they are common. Rclone will map these names to and from an identical looking unicode equivalent. For example if a file has a ? in it will be mapped to ？ instead.

QingStor

Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

Here is an example of making an QingStor configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/r/c/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 8 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 9 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
10 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / QingStor Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
14 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
15 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 13
Get QingStor credentials from runtime. Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter QingStor credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get QingStor credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)
   \ "true"
env_auth> 1
QingStor Access Key ID - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
access_key_id> access_key
QingStor Secret Access Key (password) - leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
secret_access_key> secret_key
Enter a endpoint URL to connection QingStor API.
Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443"
endpoint>
Zone connect to. Default is "pek3a".
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
   / The Beijing (China) Three Zone
 1 | Needs location constraint pek3a.
   \ "pek3a"
   / The Shanghai (China) First Zone
 2 | Needs location constraint sh1a.
   \ "sh1a"
zone> 1
Number of connnection retry.
Leave blank will use the default value "3".
connection_retries>
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
env_auth = false
access_key_id = access_key
secret_access_key = secret_key
endpoint =
zone = pek3a
connection_retries =
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all buckets

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new bucket

rclone mkdir remote:bucket

List the contents of a bucket

rclone ls remote:bucket

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote bucket, deleting any excess files in the bucket.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:bucket

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

Multipart uploads

rclone supports multipart uploads with QingStor which means that it can upload files bigger than 5GB. Note that files uploaded with multipart upload don't have an MD5SUM.

Buckets and Zone

With QingStor you can list buckets (rclone lsd) using any zone, but you can only access the content of a bucket from the zone it was created in. If you attempt to access a bucket from the wrong zone, you will get an error, incorrect zone, the bucket is not in 'XXX' zone.

Authentication

There are two ways to supply rclone with a set of QingStor credentials. In order of precedence:

Directly in the rclone configuration file (as configured by rclone config)
- set access_key_id and secret_access_key
Runtime configuration:
- set env_auth to true in the config file
- Exporting the following environment variables before running rclone
  - Access Key ID: QS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or QS_ACCESS_KEY
  - Secret Access Key: QS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or QS_SECRET_KEY

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to qingstor (QingCloud Object Storage).

--qingstor-env-auth

Get QingStor credentials from runtime. Only applies if access_key_id and secret_access_key is blank.

Config: env_auth
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENV_AUTH
Type: bool
Default: false
Examples:
- "false"
  - Enter QingStor credentials in the next step
- "true"
  - Get QingStor credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM)

--qingstor-access-key-id

QingStor Access Key ID Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Config: access_key_id
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--qingstor-secret-access-key

QingStor Secret Access Key (password) Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

Config: secret_access_key
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
Type: string
Default: ""

--qingstor-endpoint

Enter a endpoint URL to connection QingStor API. Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443"

Config: endpoint
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENDPOINT
Type: string
Default: ""

--qingstor-zone

Zone to connect to. Default is "pek3a".

Config: zone
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ZONE
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "pek3a"
  - The Beijing (China) Three Zone
  - Needs location constraint pek3a.
- "sh1a"
  - The Shanghai (China) First Zone
  - Needs location constraint sh1a.
- "gd2a"
  - The Guangdong (China) Second Zone
  - Needs location constraint gd2a.

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to qingstor (QingCloud Object Storage).

--qingstor-connection-retries

Number of connection retries.

Config: connection_retries
Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CONNECTION_RETRIES
Type: int
Default: 3

Swift

Swift refers to Openstack Object Storage. Commercial implementations of that being:

Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg remote:container/path/to/dir.

Here is an example of making a swift configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Box
   \ "box"
 5 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
 6 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 7 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 8 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 9 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
10 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
11 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
12 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
13 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
14 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
15 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
16 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
17 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
18 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
19 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
20 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
21 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> swift
Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Enter swift credentials in the next step
   \ "false"
 2 / Get swift credentials from environment vars. Leave other fields blank if using this.
   \ "true"
env_auth> true
User name to log in (OS_USERNAME).
user> 
API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).
key> 
Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Rackspace US
   \ "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
 2 / Rackspace UK
   \ "https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
 3 / Rackspace v2
   \ "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0"
 4 / Memset Memstore UK
   \ "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0"
 5 / Memset Memstore UK v2
   \ "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0"
 6 / OVH
   \ "https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v2.0"
auth> 
User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).
user_id> 
User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)
domain> 
Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)
tenant> 
Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)
tenant_id> 
Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)
tenant_domain> 
Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)
region> 
Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)
storage_url> 
Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
auth_token> 
AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)
auth_version> 
Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE)
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Public (default, choose this if not sure)
   \ "public"
 2 / Internal (use internal service net)
   \ "internal"
 3 / Admin
   \ "admin"
endpoint_type> 
Remote config
--------------------
[test]
env_auth = true
user = 
key = 
auth = 
user_id = 
domain = 
tenant = 
tenant_id = 
tenant_domain = 
region = 
storage_url = 
auth_token = 
auth_version = 
endpoint_type = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

See all containers

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new container

rclone mkdir remote:container

List the contents of a container

rclone ls remote:container

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote container, deleting any excess files in the container.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:container

Configuration from an Openstack credentials file

An Opentstack credentials file typically looks something something like this (without the comments)

export OS_AUTH_URL=https://a.provider.net/v2.0
export OS_TENANT_ID=ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
export OS_TENANT_NAME="1234567890123456"
export OS_USERNAME="123abc567xy"
echo "Please enter your OpenStack Password: "
read -sr OS_PASSWORD_INPUT
export OS_PASSWORD=$OS_PASSWORD_INPUT
export OS_REGION_NAME="SBG1"
if [ -z "$OS_REGION_NAME" ]; then unset OS_REGION_NAME; fi

The config file needs to look something like this where $OS_USERNAME represents the value of the OS_USERNAME variable - 123abc567xy in the example above.

[remote]
type = swift
user = $OS_USERNAME
key = $OS_PASSWORD
auth = $OS_AUTH_URL
tenant = $OS_TENANT_NAME

Note that you may (or may not) need to set region too - try without first.

Configuration from the environment

If you prefer you can configure rclone to use swift using a standard set of OpenStack environment variables.

When you run through the config, make sure you choose true for env_auth and leave everything else blank.

rclone will then set any empty config parameters from the environment using standard OpenStack environment variables. There is a list of the variables in the docs for the swift library.

Using an alternate authentication method

If your OpenStack installation uses a non-standard authentication method that might not be yet supported by rclone or the underlying swift library, you can authenticate externally (e.g. calling manually the openstack commands to get a token). Then, you just need to pass the two configuration variables auth_token and storage_url. If they are both provided, the other variables are ignored. rclone will not try to authenticate but instead assume it is already authenticated and use these two variables to access the OpenStack installation.

Using rclone without a config file

You can use rclone with swift without a config file, if desired, like this:

source openstack-credentials-file
export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYREMOTE_TYPE=swift
export RCLONE_CONFIG_MYREMOTE_ENV_AUTH=true
rclone lsd myremote:

--fast-list

This remote supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details.

--update and --use-server-modtime

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to swift (Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

--swift-env-auth

Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form.

Config: env_auth
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_ENV_AUTH
Type: bool
Default: false
Examples:
- "false"
  - Enter swift credentials in the next step
- "true"
  - Get swift credentials from environment vars. Leave other fields blank if using this.

--swift-user

User name to log in (OS_USERNAME).

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-key

API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).

Config: key
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_KEY
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-auth

Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).

Config: auth
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
  - Rackspace US
- "https://lon.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0"
  - Rackspace UK
- "https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0"
  - Rackspace v2
- "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0"
  - Memset Memstore UK
- "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0"
  - Memset Memstore UK v2
- "https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v2.0"
  - OVH

--swift-user-id

User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).

Config: user_id
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_USER_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-domain

User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)

Config: domain
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_DOMAIN
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-tenant

Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)

Config: tenant
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-tenant-id

Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)

Config: tenant_id
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-tenant-domain

Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)

Config: tenant_domain
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_DOMAIN
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-region

Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)

Config: region
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_REGION
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-storage-url

Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)

Config: storage_url
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_URL
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-auth-token

Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)

Config: auth_token
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_TOKEN
Type: string
Default: ""

--swift-auth-version

AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)

Config: auth_version
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_VERSION
Type: int
Default: 0

--swift-endpoint-type

Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE)

Config: endpoint_type
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_ENDPOINT_TYPE
Type: string
Default: "public"
Examples:
- "public"
  - Public (default, choose this if not sure)
- "internal"
  - Internal (use internal service net)
- "admin"
  - Admin

--swift-storage-policy

The storage policy to use when creating a new container

This applies the specified storage policy when creating a new container. The policy cannot be changed afterwards. The allowed configuration values and their meaning depend on your Swift storage provider.

Config: storage_policy
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_POLICY
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- ""
  - Default
- "pcs"
  - OVH Public Cloud Storage
- "pca"
  - OVH Public Cloud Archive

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to swift (Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

--swift-chunk-size

Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container.

Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container. The default for this is 5GB which is its maximum value.

Config: chunk_size
Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_CHUNK_SIZE
Type: SizeSuffix
Default: 5G

Modified time

The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as X-Object-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

This is a defacto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.

Limitations

The Swift API doesn't return a correct MD5SUM for segmented files (Dynamic or Static Large Objects) so rclone won't check or use the MD5SUM for these.

Troubleshooting

Rclone gives Failed to create file system for "remote:": Bad Request

Due to an oddity of the underlying swift library, it gives a "Bad Request" error rather than a more sensible error when the authentication fails for Swift.

So this most likely means your username / password is wrong. You can investigate further with the --dump-bodies flag.

This may also be caused by specifying the region when you shouldn't have (eg OVH).

Rclone gives Failed to create file system: Response didn't have storage storage url and auth token

This is most likely caused by forgetting to specify your tenant when setting up a swift remote.

pCloud

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

The initial setup for pCloud involves getting a token from pCloud which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Box
   \ "box"
 5 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 6 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 7 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 8 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 9 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
10 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
11 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
12 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
13 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
14 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
15 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
16 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
17 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
18 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
19 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> pcloud
Pcloud App Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id> 
Pcloud App Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret> 
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id = 
client_secret = 
token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from pCloud. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your pCloud

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your pCloud

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an pCloud directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Modified time and hashes

pCloud allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not. In order to set a Modification time pCloud requires the object be re-uploaded.

pCloud supports MD5 and SHA1 type hashes, so you can use the --checksum flag.

Deleting files

Deleted files will be moved to the trash. Your subscription level will determine how long items stay in the trash. rclone cleanup can be used to empty the trash.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

--pcloud-client-id

Pcloud App Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--pcloud-client-secret

Pcloud App Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

SFTP

SFTP is the Secure (or SSH) File Transfer Protocol.

SFTP runs over SSH v2 and is installed as standard with most modern SSH installations.

Paths are specified as remote:path. If the path does not begin with a / it is relative to the home directory of the user. An empty path remote: refers to the user's home directory.

Note that some SFTP servers will need the leading / - Synology is a good example of this.

Here is an example of making an SFTP configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
 7 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 8 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 9 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
10 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
11 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
12 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
13 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
14 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
15 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> sftp
SSH host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "example.com"
host> example.com
SSH username, leave blank for current username, ncw
user> sftpuser
SSH port, leave blank to use default (22)
port> 
SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> n
Path to unencrypted PEM-encoded private key file, leave blank to use ssh-agent.
key_file> 
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
host = example.com
user = sftpuser
port = 
pass = 
key_file = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

This remote is called remote and can now be used like this:

See all directories in the home directory

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new directory

rclone mkdir remote:path/to/directory

List the contents of a directory

rclone ls remote:path/to/directory

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote directory, deleting any excess files in the directory.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:directory

SSH Authentication

The SFTP remote supports three authentication methods:

Password
Key file
ssh-agent

Key files should be unencrypted PEM-encoded private key files. For instance /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.

If you don't specify pass or key_file then rclone will attempt to contact an ssh-agent.

If you set the --sftp-ask-password option, rclone will prompt for a password when needed and no password has been configured.

ssh-agent on macOS

Note that there seem to be various problems with using an ssh-agent on macOS due to recent changes in the OS. The most effective work-around seems to be to start an ssh-agent in each session, eg

eval `ssh-agent -s` && ssh-add -A

And then at the end of the session

eval `ssh-agent -k`

These commands can be used in scripts of course.

Modified time

Modified times are stored on the server to 1 second precision.

Modified times are used in syncing and are fully supported.

Some SFTP servers disable setting/modifying the file modification time after upload (for example, certain configurations of ProFTPd with mod_sftp). If you are using one of these servers, you can set the option set_modtime = false in your RClone backend configuration to disable this behaviour.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP Connection).

--sftp-host

SSH host to connect to

Config: host
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_HOST
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "example.com"
  - Connect to example.com

--sftp-user

SSH username, leave blank for current username, ncw

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--sftp-port

SSH port, leave blank to use default (22)

Config: port
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_PORT
Type: string
Default: ""

--sftp-pass

SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.

Config: pass
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_PASS
Type: string
Default: ""

--sftp-key-file

Path to unencrypted PEM-encoded private key file, leave blank to use ssh-agent.

Config: key_file
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_KEY_FILE
Type: string
Default: ""

--sftp-use-insecure-cipher

Enable the use of the aes128-cbc cipher. This cipher is insecure and may allow plaintext data to be recovered by an attacker.

Config: use_insecure_cipher
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_USE_INSECURE_CIPHER
Type: bool
Default: false
Examples:
- "false"
  - Use default Cipher list.
- "true"
  - Enables the use of the aes128-cbc cipher.

--sftp-disable-hashcheck

Disable the execution of SSH commands to determine if remote file hashing is available. Leave blank or set to false to enable hashing (recommended), set to true to disable hashing.

Config: disable_hashcheck
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_DISABLE_HASHCHECK
Type: bool
Default: false

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP Connection).

--sftp-ask-password

Allow asking for SFTP password when needed.

Config: ask_password
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_ASK_PASSWORD
Type: bool
Default: false

--sftp-path-override

Override path used by SSH connection.

This allows checksum calculation when SFTP and SSH paths are different. This issue affects among others Synology NAS boxes.

Shared folders can be found in directories representing volumes

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/directory --ssh-path-override /volume2/directory

Home directory can be found in a shared folder called "home"

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/home/directory --ssh-path-override /volume1/homes/USER/directory

Config: path_override
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_PATH_OVERRIDE
Type: string
Default: ""

--sftp-set-modtime

Set the modified time on the remote if set.

Config: set_modtime
Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_SET_MODTIME
Type: bool
Default: true

Limitations

SFTP supports checksums if the same login has shell access and md5sum or sha1sum as well as echo are in the remote's PATH. This remote checksumming (file hashing) is recommended and enabled by default. Disabling the checksumming may be required if you are connecting to SFTP servers which are not under your control, and to which the execution of remote commands is prohibited. Set the configuration option disable_hashcheck to true to disable checksumming.

Note that some SFTP servers (eg Synology) the paths are different for SSH and SFTP so the hashes can't be calculated properly. For them using disable_hashcheck is a good idea.

The only ssh agent supported under Windows is Putty's pageant.

The Go SSH library disables the use of the aes128-cbc cipher by default, due to security concerns. This can be re-enabled on a per-connection basis by setting the use_insecure_cipher setting in the configuration file to true. Further details on the insecurity of this cipher can be found [in this paper] (http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/SandPfinal.pdf).

SFTP isn't supported under plan9 until this issue is fixed.

Note that since SFTP isn't HTTP based the following flags don't work with it: --dump-headers, --dump-bodies, --dump-auth

Note that --timeout isn't supported (but --contimeout is).

Union

The union remote provides a unification similar to UnionFS using other remotes.

Paths may be as deep as required or a local path, eg remote:directory/subdirectory or /directory/subdirectory.

During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the target remotes as a space separated list. The target remotes can either be a local paths or other remotes.

The order of the remotes is important as it defines which remotes take precedence over others if there are files with the same name in the same logical path. The last remote is the topmost remote and replaces files with the same name from previous remotes.

Only the last remote is used to write to and delete from, all other remotes are read-only.

Subfolders can be used in target remote. Asume a union remote named backup with the remotes mydrive:private/backup mydrive2:/backup. Invoking rclone mkdir backup:desktop is exactly the same as invoking rclone mkdir mydrive2:/backup/desktop.

There will be no special handling of paths containing .. segments. Invoking rclone mkdir backup:../desktop is exactly the same as invoking rclone mkdir mydrive2:/backup/../desktop.

Here is an example of how to make a union called remote for local folders. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Alias for a existing remote
   \ "alias"
 2 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 3 / Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Providers (AWS, Ceph, Dreamhost, IBM COS, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 4 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 5 / Box
   \ "box"
 6 / Builds a stackable unification remote, which can appear to merge the contents of several remotes
   \ "union"
 7 / Cache a remote
   \ "cache"
 8 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 9 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
10 / FTP Connection
   \ "ftp"
11 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
12 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
13 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
14 / JottaCloud
   \ "jottacloud"
15 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
16 / Mega
   \ "mega"
17 / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
   \ "azureblob"
18 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
19 / OpenDrive
   \ "opendrive"
20 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
21 / Pcloud
   \ "pcloud"
22 / QingCloud Object Storage
   \ "qingstor"
23 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
24 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
25 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
26 / http Connection
   \ "http"
Storage> union
List of space separated remotes.
Can be 'remotea:test/dir remoteb:', '"remotea:test/space dir" remoteb:', etc.
The last remote is used to write to.
Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
remotes>
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
type = union
remotes = C:\dir1 C:\dir2 C:\dir3
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y
Current remotes:

Name                 Type
====                 ====
remote               union

e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
r) Rename remote
c) Copy remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/r/c/s/q> q

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level in C:\dir1, C:\dir2 and C:\dir3

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in C:\dir1, C:\dir2 and C:\dir3

rclone ls remote:

Copy another local directory to the union directory called source, which will be placed into C:\dir3

rclone copy C:\source remote:source

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to union (A stackable unification remote, which can appear to merge the contents of several remotes).

--union-remotes

List of space separated remotes. Can be 'remotea:test/dir remoteb:', '"remotea:test/space dir" remoteb:', etc. The last remote is used to write to.

Config: remotes
Env Var: RCLONE_UNION_REMOTES
Type: string
Default: ""

WebDAV

Paths are specified as remote:path

Paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

To configure the WebDAV remote you will need to have a URL for it, and a username and password. If you know what kind of system you are connecting to then rclone can enable extra features.

Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote. First run:

 rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
n/s/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
[snip]
22 / Webdav
   \ "webdav"
[snip]
Storage> webdav
URL of http host to connect to
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Connect to example.com
   \ "https://example.com"
url> https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
Name of the Webdav site/service/software you are using
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Nextcloud
   \ "nextcloud"
 2 / Owncloud
   \ "owncloud"
 3 / Sharepoint
   \ "sharepoint"
 4 / Other site/service or software
   \ "other"
vendor> 1
User name
user> user
Password.
y) Yes type in my own password
g) Generate random password
n) No leave this optional password blank
y/g/n> y
Enter the password:
password:
Confirm the password:
password:
Bearer token instead of user/pass (eg a Macaroon)
bearer_token> 
Remote config
--------------------
[remote]
type = webdav
url = https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/
vendor = nextcloud
user = user
pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
bearer_token = 
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

List directories in top level of your WebDAV

rclone lsd remote:

List all the files in your WebDAV

rclone ls remote:

To copy a local directory to an WebDAV directory called backup

rclone copy /home/source remote:backup

Modified time and hashes

Plain WebDAV does not support modified times. However when used with Owncloud or Nextcloud rclone will support modified times.

Hashes are not supported.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to webdav (Webdav).

--webdav-url

URL of http host to connect to

Config: url
Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_URL
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "https://example.com"
  - Connect to example.com

--webdav-vendor

Name of the Webdav site/service/software you are using

Config: vendor
Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_VENDOR
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "nextcloud"
  - Nextcloud
- "owncloud"
  - Owncloud
- "sharepoint"
  - Sharepoint
- "other"
  - Other site/service or software

--webdav-user

User name

Config: user
Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_USER
Type: string
Default: ""

--webdav-pass

Password.

Config: pass
Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_PASS
Type: string
Default: ""

--webdav-bearer-token

Bearer token instead of user/pass (eg a Macaroon)

Config: bearer_token
Env Var: RCLONE_WEBDAV_BEARER_TOKEN
Type: string
Default: ""

Provider notes

See below for notes on specific providers.

Owncloud

Click on the settings cog in the bottom right of the page and this will show the WebDAV URL that rclone needs in the config step. It will look something like https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/.

Owncloud supports modified times using the X-OC-Mtime header.

Nextcloud

This is configured in an identical way to Owncloud. Note that Nextcloud does not support streaming of files (rcat) whereas Owncloud does. This may be fixed in the future.

Put.io

put.io can be accessed in a read only way using webdav.

Configure the url as https://webdav.put.io and use your normal account username and password for user and pass. Set the vendor to other.

Your config file should end up looking like this:

[putio]
type = webdav
url = https://webdav.put.io
vendor = other
user = YourUserName
pass = encryptedpassword

If you are using put.io with rclone mount then use the --read-only flag to signal to the OS that it can't write to the mount.

For more help see the put.io webdav docs.

Sharepoint

Rclone can be used with Sharepoint provided by OneDrive for Business or Office365 Education Accounts. This feature is only needed for a few of these Accounts, mostly Office365 Education ones. These accounts are sometimes not verified by the domain owner github#1975

This means that these accounts can't be added using the official API (other Accounts should work with the "onedrive" option). However, it is possible to access them using webdav.

To use a sharepoint remote with rclone, add it like this: First, you need to get your remote's URL:

Go here to open your OneDrive or to sign in
Now take a look at your address bar, the URL should look like this: https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx

You'll only need this URL upto the email address. After that, you'll most likely want to add "/Documents". That subdirectory contains the actual data stored on your OneDrive.

Add the remote to rclone like this: Configure the url as https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents and use your normal account email and password for user and pass. If you have 2FA enabled, you have to generate an app password. Set the vendor to sharepoint.

Your config file should look like this:

[sharepoint]
type = webdav
url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents
vendor = other
user = YourEmailAddress
pass = encryptedpassword

dCache

dCache is a storage system with WebDAV doors that support, beside basic and x509, authentication with Macaroons (bearer tokens).

Configure as normal using the other type. Don't enter a username or password, instead enter your Macaroon as the bearer_token.

The config will end up looking something like this.

[dcache]
type = webdav
url = https://dcache...
vendor = other
user =
pass =
bearer_token = your-macaroon

There is a script that obtains a Macaroon from a dCache WebDAV endpoint, and creates an rclone config file.

Yandex Disk

Yandex Disk is a cloud storage solution created by Yandex.

Yandex paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

Here is an example of making a yandex configuration. First run

rclone config

This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

No remotes found - make a new one
n) New remote
s) Set configuration password
n/s> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
 1 / Amazon Drive
   \ "amazon cloud drive"
 2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph, Minio)
   \ "s3"
 3 / Backblaze B2
   \ "b2"
 4 / Dropbox
   \ "dropbox"
 5 / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
   \ "crypt"
 6 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
   \ "google cloud storage"
 7 / Google Drive
   \ "drive"
 8 / Hubic
   \ "hubic"
 9 / Local Disk
   \ "local"
10 / Microsoft OneDrive
   \ "onedrive"
11 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
   \ "swift"
12 / SSH/SFTP Connection
   \ "sftp"
13 / Yandex Disk
   \ "yandex"
Storage> 13
Yandex Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Yandex Client Secret - leave blank normally.
client_secret>
Remote config
Use auto config?
 * Say Y if not sure
 * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"2016-12-29T12:27:11.362788025Z"}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y

See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

Note that rclone runs a webserver on your local machine to collect the token as returned from Yandex Disk. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. This is on http://127.0.0.1:53682/ and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall.

Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

See top level directories

rclone lsd remote:

Make a new directory

rclone mkdir remote:directory

List the contents of a directory

rclone ls remote:directory

Sync /home/local/directory to the remote path, deleting any excess files in the path.

rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:directory

Modified time

Modified times are supported and are stored accurate to 1 ns in custom metadata called rclone_modified in RFC3339 with nanoseconds format.

MD5 checksums

MD5 checksums are natively supported by Yandex Disk.

Emptying Trash

If you wish to empty your trash you can use the rclone cleanup remote: command which will permanently delete all your trashed files. This command does not take any path arguments.

Quota information

To view your current quota you can use the rclone about remote: command which will display your usage limit (quota) and the current usage.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

--yandex-client-id

Yandex Client Id Leave blank normally.

Config: client_id
Env Var: RCLONE_YANDEX_CLIENT_ID
Type: string
Default: ""

--yandex-client-secret

Yandex Client Secret Leave blank normally.

Config: client_secret
Env Var: RCLONE_YANDEX_CLIENT_SECRET
Type: string
Default: ""

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

--yandex-unlink

Remove existing public link to file/folder with link command rather than creating. Default is false, meaning link command will create or retrieve public link.

Config: unlink
Env Var: RCLONE_YANDEX_UNLINK
Type: bool
Default: false

Local Filesystem

Local paths are specified as normal filesystem paths, eg /path/to/wherever, so

rclone sync /home/source /tmp/destination

Will sync /home/source to /tmp/destination

These can be configured into the config file for consistencies sake, but it is probably easier not to.

Modified time

Rclone reads and writes the modified time using an accuracy determined by the OS. Typically this is 1ns on Linux, 10 ns on Windows and 1 Second on OS X.

Filenames

Filenames are expected to be encoded in UTF-8 on disk. This is the normal case for Windows and OS X.

There is a bit more uncertainty in the Linux world, but new distributions will have UTF-8 encoded files names. If you are using an old Linux filesystem with non UTF-8 file names (eg latin1) then you can use the convmv tool to convert the filesystem to UTF-8. This tool is available in most distributions' package managers.

If an invalid (non-UTF8) filename is read, the invalid characters will be replaced with the unicode replacement character, '<27>'. rclone will emit a debug message in this case (use -v to see), eg

Local file system at .: Replacing invalid UTF-8 characters in "gro\xdf"

Long paths on Windows

Rclone handles long paths automatically, by converting all paths to long UNC paths which allows paths up to 32,767 characters.

This is why you will see that your paths, for instance c:\files is converted to the UNC path \\?\c:\files in the output, and \\server\share is converted to \\?\UNC\server\share.

However, in rare cases this may cause problems with buggy file system drivers like EncFS. To disable UNC conversion globally, add this to your .rclone.conf file:

[local]
nounc = true

If you want to selectively disable UNC, you can add it to a separate entry like this:

[nounc]
type = local
nounc = true

And use rclone like this:

rclone copy c:\src nounc:z:\dst

This will use UNC paths on c:\src but not on z:\dst. Of course this will cause problems if the absolute path length of a file exceeds 258 characters on z, so only use this option if you have to.

Symlinks / Junction points

Normally rclone will ignore symlinks or junction points (which behave like symlinks under Windows).

If you supply --copy-links or -L then rclone will follow the symlink and copy the pointed to file or directory.

This flag applies to all commands.

For example, supposing you have a directory structure like this

$ tree /tmp/a
/tmp/a
├── b -> ../b
├── expected -> ../expected
├── one
└── two
    └── three

Then you can see the difference with and without the flag like this

$ rclone ls /tmp/a
        6 one
        6 two/three

and

$ rclone -L ls /tmp/a
     4174 expected
        6 one
        6 two/three
        6 b/two
        6 b/one

Restricting filesystems with --one-file-system

Normally rclone will recurse through filesystems as mounted.

However if you set --one-file-system or -x this tells rclone to stay in the filesystem specified by the root and not to recurse into different file systems.

For example if you have a directory hierarchy like this

root
├── disk1     - disk1 mounted on the root
│   └── file3 - stored on disk1
├── disk2     - disk2 mounted on the root
│   └── file4 - stored on disk12
├── file1     - stored on the root disk
└── file2     - stored on the root disk

Using rclone --one-file-system copy root remote: will only copy file1 and file2. Eg

$ rclone -q --one-file-system ls root
        0 file1
        0 file2

$ rclone -q ls root
        0 disk1/file3
        0 disk2/file4
        0 file1
        0 file2

NB Rclone (like most unix tools such as du, rsync and tar) treats a bind mount to the same device as being on the same filesystem.

NB This flag is only available on Unix based systems. On systems where it isn't supported (eg Windows) it will be ignored.

Standard Options

Here are the standard options specific to local (Local Disk).

--local-nounc

Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows

Config: nounc
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_NOUNC
Type: string
Default: ""
Examples:
- "true"
  - Disables long file names

Advanced Options

Here are the advanced options specific to local (Local Disk).

--copy-links

Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item.

Config: copy_links
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_COPY_LINKS
Type: bool
Default: false

--skip-links

Don't warn about skipped symlinks. This flag disables warning messages on skipped symlinks or junction points, as you explicitly acknowledge that they should be skipped.

Config: skip_links
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_SKIP_LINKS
Type: bool
Default: false

--local-no-unicode-normalization

Don't apply unicode normalization to paths and filenames (Deprecated)

This flag is deprecated now. Rclone no longer normalizes unicode file names, but it compares them with unicode normalization in the sync routine instead.

Config: no_unicode_normalization
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_UNICODE_NORMALIZATION
Type: bool
Default: false

--local-no-check-updated

Don't check to see if the files change during upload

Normally rclone checks the size and modification time of files as they are being uploaded and aborts with a message which starts "can't copy

source file is being updated" if the file changes during upload.

However on some file systems this modification time check may fail (eg Glusterfs #2206) so this check can be disabled with this flag.

Config: no_check_updated
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_NO_CHECK_UPDATED
Type: bool
Default: false

--one-file-system

Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only).

Config: one_file_system
Env Var: RCLONE_LOCAL_ONE_FILE_SYSTEM
Type: bool
Default: false

Changelog

v1.45 - 2018-11-24

New backends
- The Yandex backend was re-written - see below for details (Sebastian Bünger)
New commands
- rcd: New command just to serve the remote control API (Nick Craig-Wood)
New Features
- The remote control API (rc) was greatly expanded to allow full control over rclone (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - sensitive operations require authorization or the --rc-no-auth flag
  - config/* operations to configure rclone
  - options/* for reading/setting command line flags
  - operations/* for all low level operations, eg copy file, list directory
  - sync/* for sync, copy and move
  - --rc-files flag to serve files on the rc http server
    - this is for building web native GUIs for rclone
  - Optionally serving objects on the rc http server
  - Ensure rclone fails to start up if the --rc port is in use already
  - See the rc docs for more info
- sync/copy/move
  - Make --files-from only read the objects specified and don't scan directories (Nick Craig-Wood)
    - This is a huge speed improvement for destinations with lots of files
- filter: Add --ignore-case flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
- ncdu: Add remove function ('d' key) (Henning Surmeier)
- rc command
  - Add --json flag for structured JSON input (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add --user and --pass flags and interpret --rc-user, --rc-pass, --rc-addr (Nick Craig-Wood)
- build
  - Require go1.8 or later for compilation (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Enable softfloat on MIPS arch (Scott Edlund)
  - Integration test framework revamped with a better report and better retries (Nick Craig-Wood)
Bug Fixes
- cmd: Make --progress update the stats correctly at the end (Nick Craig-Wood)
- config: Create config directory on save if it is missing (Nick Craig-Wood)
- dedupe: Check for existing filename before renaming a dupe file (ssaqua)
- move: Don't create directories with --dry-run (Nick Craig-Wood)
- operations: Fix Purge and Rmdirs when dir is not the root (Nick Craig-Wood)
- serve http/webdav/restic: Ensure rclone exits if the port is in use (Nick Craig-Wood)
Mount
- Make --volname work for Windows and macOS (Nick Craig-Wood)
Azure Blob
- Avoid context deadline exceeded error by setting a large TryTimeout value (brused27)
- Fix erroneous Rmdir error "directory not empty" (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Wait for up to 60s to create a just deleted container (Nick Craig-Wood)
Dropbox
- Add dropbox impersonate support (Jake Coggiano)
Jottacloud
- Fix bug in --fast-list handing of empty folders (albertony)
Opendrive
- Fix transfer of files with + and & in (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix retries of upload chunks (Nick Craig-Wood)
S3
- Set ACL for server side copies to that provided by the user (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix role_arn, credential_source, ... (Erik Swanson)
- Add config info for Wasabi's US-West endpoint (Henry Ptasinski)
SFTP
- Ensure file hash checking is really disabled (Jon Fautley)
Swift
- Add pacer for retries to make swift more reliable (Nick Craig-Wood)
WebDAV
- Add Content-Type to PUT requests (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix config parsing so --webdav-user and --webdav-pass flags work (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add RFC3339 date format (Ralf Hemberger)
Yandex
- The yandex backend was re-written (Sebastian Bünger)
  - This implements low level retries (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Copy, Move, DirMove, PublicLink and About optional interfaces (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Improved general error handling (Sebastian Bünger)
  - Removed ListR for now due to inconsistent behaviour (Sebastian Bünger)

v1.44 - 2018-10-15

New commands
- serve ftp: Add ftp server (Antoine GIRARD)
- settier: perform storage tier changes on supported remotes (sandeepkru)
New Features
- Reworked command line help
  - Make default help less verbose (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Split flags up into global and backend flags (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Implement specialised help for flags and backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Show URL of backend help page when starting config (Nick Craig-Wood)
- stats: Long names now split in center (Joanna Marek)
- Add --log-format flag for more control over log output (dcpu)
- rc: Add support for OPTIONS and basic CORS (frenos)
- stats: show FatalErrors and NoRetryErrors in stats (Cédric Connes)
Bug Fixes
- Fix -P not ending with a new line (Nick Craig-Wood)
- config: don't create default config dir when user supplies --config (albertony)
- Don't print non-ASCII characters with --progress on windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Correct logs for excluded items (ssaqua)
Mount
- Remove EXPERIMENTAL tags (Nick Craig-Wood)
VFS
- Fix race condition detected by serve ftp tests (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add vfs/poll-interval rc command (Fabian Möller)
- Enable rename for nearly all remotes using server side Move or Copy (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Reduce directory cache cleared by poll-interval (Fabian Möller)
- Remove EXPERIMENTAL tags (Nick Craig-Wood)
Local
- Skip bad symlinks in dir listing with -L enabled (Cédric Connes)
- Preallocate files on Windows to reduce fragmentation (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Preallocate files on linux with fallocate(2) (Nick Craig-Wood)
Cache
- Add cache/fetch rc function (Fabian Möller)
- Fix worker scale down (Fabian Möller)
- Improve performance by not sending info requests for cached chunks (dcpu)
- Fix error return value of cache/fetch rc method (Fabian Möller)
- Documentation fix for cache-chunk-total-size (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
- Preserve leading / in wrapped remote path (Fabian Möller)
- Add plex_insecure option to skip certificate validation (Fabian Möller)
- Remove entries that no longer exist in the source (dcpu)
Crypt
- Preserve leading / in wrapped remote path (Fabian Möller)
Alias
- Fix handling of Windows network paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
Azure Blob
- Add --azureblob-list-chunk parameter (Santiago Rodríguez)
- Implemented settier command support on azureblob remote. (sandeepkru)
- Work around SDK bug which causes errors for chunk-sized files (Nick Craig-Wood)
Box
- Implement link sharing. (Sebastian Bünger)
Drive
- Add --drive-import-formats - google docs can now be imported (Fabian Möller)
  - Rewrite mime type and extension handling (Fabian Möller)
  - Add document links (Fabian Möller)
  - Add support for multipart document extensions (Fabian Möller)
  - Add support for apps-script to json export (Fabian Möller)
  - Fix escaped chars in documents during list (Fabian Möller)
- Add --drive-v2-download-min-size a workaround for slow downloads (Fabian Möller)
- Improve directory notifications in ChangeNotify (Fabian Möller)
- When listing team drives in config, continue on failure (Nick Craig-Wood)
FTP
- Add a small pause after failed upload before deleting file (Nick Craig-Wood)
Google Cloud Storage
- Fix service_account_file being ignored (Fabian Möller)
Jottacloud
- Minor improvement in quota info (omit if unlimited) (albertony)
- Add --fast-list support (albertony)
- Add permanent delete support: --jottacloud-hard-delete (albertony)
- Add link sharing support (albertony)
- Fix handling of reserved characters. (Sebastian Bünger)
- Fix socket leak on Object.Remove (Nick Craig-Wood)
Onedrive
- Rework to support Microsoft Graph (Cnly)
  - NB this will require re-authenticating the remote
- Removed upload cutoff and always do session uploads (Oliver Heyme)
- Use single-part upload for empty files (Cnly)
- Fix new fields not saved when editing old config (Alex Chen)
- Fix sometimes special chars in filenames not replaced (Alex Chen)
- Ignore OneNote files by default (Alex Chen)
- Add link sharing support (jackyzy823)
S3
- Use custom pacer, to retry operations when reasonable (Craig Miskell)
- Use configured server-side-encryption and storace class options when calling CopyObject() (Paul Kohout)
- Make --s3-v2-auth flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix v2 auth on files with spaces (Nick Craig-Wood)
Union
- Implement union backend which reads from multiple backends (Felix Brucker)
- Implement optional interfaces (Move, DirMove, Copy etc) (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix ChangeNotify to support multiple remotes (Fabian Möller)
- Fix --backup-dir on union backend (Nick Craig-Wood)
WebDAV
- Add another time format (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add a small pause after failed upload before deleting file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add workaround for missing mtime (buergi)
- Sharepoint: Renew cookies after 12hrs (Henning Surmeier)
Yandex
- Remove redundant nil checks (teresy)

v1.43.1 - 2018-09-07

Point release to fix hubic and azureblob backends.

Bug Fixes
- ncdu: Return error instead of log.Fatal in Show (Fabian Möller)
- cmd: Fix crash with --progress and --stats 0 (Nick Craig-Wood)
- docs: Tidy website display (Anagh Kumar Baranwal)
Azure Blob:
- Fix multi-part uploads. (sandeepkru)
Hubic
- Fix uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Retry auth fetching if it fails to make hubic more reliable (Nick Craig-Wood)

v1.43 - 2018-09-01

New backends
- Jottacloud (Sebastian Bünger)
New commands
- copyurl: copies a URL to a remote (Denis)
New Features
- Reworked config for backends (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - All backend config can now be supplied by command line, env var or config file
  - Advanced section in the config wizard for the optional items
  - A large step towards rclone backends being usable in other go software
  - Allow on the fly remotes with :backend: syntax
- Stats revamp
  - Add --progress/-P flag to show interactive progress (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Show the total progress of the sync in the stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Add --stats-one-line flag for single line stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Added weekday schedule into --bwlimit (Mateusz)
- lsjson: Add option to show the original object IDs (Fabian Möller)
- serve webdav: Make Content-Type without reading the file and add --etag-hash (Nick Craig-Wood)
- build
  - Build macOS with native compiler (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Update to use go1.11 for the build (Nick Craig-Wood)
- rc
  - Added core/stats to return the stats (reddi1)
- version --check: Prints the current release and beta versions (Nick Craig-Wood)
Bug Fixes
- accounting
  - Fix time to completion estimates (Nick Craig-Wood)
  - Fix moving average speed for file stats (Nick Craig-Wood)
- config: Fix error reading password from piped input (Nick Craig-Wood)
- move: Fix --delete-empty-src-dirs flag to delete all empty dirs on move (ishuah)
Mount
- Implement --daemon-timeout flag for OSXFUSE (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix mount --daemon not working with encrypted config (Alex Chen)
- Clip the number of blocks to 2^32-1 on macOS - fixes borg backup (Nick Craig-Wood)
VFS
- Enable vfs-read-chunk-size by default (Fabian Möller)
- Add the vfs/refresh rc command (Fabian Möller)
- Add non recursive mode to vfs/refresh rc command (Fabian Möller)
- Try to seek buffer on read only files (Fabian Möller)
Local
- Fix crash when deprecated --local-no-unicode-normalization is supplied (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix mkdir error when trying to copy files to the root of a drive on windows (Nick Craig-Wood)
Cache
- Fix nil pointer deref when using lsjson on cached directory (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix nil pointer deref for occasional crash on playback (Nick Craig-Wood)
Crypt
- Fix accounting when checking hashes on upload (Nick Craig-Wood)
Amazon Cloud Drive
- Make very clear in the docs that rclone has no ACD keys (Nick Craig-Wood)
Azure Blob
- Add connection string and SAS URL auth (Nick Craig-Wood)
- List the container to see if it exists (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Port new Azure Blob Storage SDK (sandeepkru)
- Added blob tier, tier between Hot, Cool and Archive. (sandeepkru)
- Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
B2
- Support Application Keys (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
Box
- Fix upload of > 2GB files on 32 bit platforms (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Make --box-commit-retries flag defaulting to 100 to fix large uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
Drive
- Add --drive-keep-revision-forever flag (lewapm)
- Handle gdocs when filtering file names in list (Fabian Möller)
- Support using --fast-list for large speedups (Fabian Möller)
FTP
- Fix Put mkParentDir failed: 521 for BunnyCDN (Nick Craig-Wood)
Google Cloud Storage
- Fix index out of range error with --fast-list (Nick Craig-Wood)
Jottacloud
- Fix MD5 error check (Oliver Heyme)
- Handle empty time values (Martin Polden)
- Calculate missing MD5s (Oliver Heyme)
- Docs, fixes and tests for MD5 calculation (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add optional MimeTyper interface. (Sebastian Bünger)
- Implement optional About interface (for df support). (Sebastian Bünger)
Mega
- Wait for events instead of arbitrary sleeping (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add --mega-hard-delete flag (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix failed logins with upper case chars in email (Nick Craig-Wood)
Onedrive
- Shared folder support (Yoni Jah)
- Implement DirMove (Cnly)
- Fix rmdir sometimes deleting directories with contents (Nick Craig-Wood)
Pcloud
- Delete half uploaded files on upload error (Nick Craig-Wood)
Qingstor
- Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
S3
- Fix index out of range error with --fast-list (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add --s3-force-path-style (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add support for KMS Key ID (bsteiss)
- Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
Swift
- Add storage_policy (Ruben Vandamme)
- Make it so just storage_url or auth_token can be overidden (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Fix server side copy bug for unusal file names (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Remove leading / from paths (Nick Craig-Wood)
WebDAV
- Ensure we call MKCOL with a URL with a trailing / for QNAP interop (Nick Craig-Wood)
- If root ends with / then don't check if it is a file (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Don't accept redirects when reading metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Add bearer token (Macaroon) support for dCache (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Document dCache and Macaroons (Onno Zweers)
- Sharepoint recursion with different depth (Henning)
- Attempt to remove failed uploads (Nick Craig-Wood)
Yandex
- Fix listing/deleting files in the root (Nick Craig-Wood)

v1.42 - 2018-06-16

New backends
- OpenDrive (Oliver Heyme, Jakub Karlicek, ncw)
New commands
- deletefile command (Filip Bartodziej)
New Features
- copy, move: Copy single files directly, don't use --files-from work-around
  - this makes them much more efficient
- Implement --max-transfer flag to quit transferring at a limit
  - make exit code 8 for --max-transfer exceeded
- copy: copy empty source directories to destination (Ishuah Kariuki)
- check: Add --one-way flag (Kasper Byrdal Nielsen)
- Add siginfo handler for macOS for ctrl-T stats (kubatasiemski)
- rc
  - add core/gc to run a garbage collection on demand
  - enable go profiling by default on the --rc port
  - return error from remote on failure
- lsf
  - Add --absolute flag to add a leading / onto path names
  - Add --csv flag for compliant CSV output
  - Add 'm' format specifier to show the MimeType
  - Implement 'i' format for showing object ID
- lsjson
  - Add MimeType to the output
  - Add ID field to output to show Object ID
- Add --retries-sleep flag (Benjamin Joseph Dag)
- Oauth tidy up web page and error handling (Henning Surmeier)
Bug Fixes
- Password prompt output with --log-file fixed for unix (Filip Bartodziej)
- Calculate ModifyWindow each time on the fly to fix various problems (Stefan Breunig)
Mount
- Only print "File.rename error" if there actually is an error (Stefan Breunig)
- Delay rename if file has open writers instead of failing outright (Stefan Breunig)
- Ensure atexit gets run on interrupt
- macOS enhancements
  - Make --noappledouble --noapplexattr
  - Add --volname flag and remove special chars from it
  - Make Get/List/Set/Remove xattr return ENOSYS for efficiency
  - Make --daemon work for macOS without CGO
VFS
- Add --vfs-read-chunk-size and --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit (Fabian Möller)
- Fix ChangeNotify for new or changed folders (Fabian Möller)
Local
- Fix symlink/junction point directory handling under Windows
  - NB you will need to add -L to your command line to copy files with reparse points
Cache
- Add non cached dirs on notifications (Remus Bunduc)
- Allow root to be expired from rc (Remus Bunduc)
- Clean remaining empty folders from temp upload path (Remus Bunduc)
- Cache lists using batch writes (Remus Bunduc)
- Use secure websockets for HTTPS Plex addresses (John Clayton)
- Reconnect plex websocket on failures (Remus Bunduc)
- Fix panic when running without plex configs (Remus Bunduc)
- Fix root folder caching (Remus Bunduc)
Crypt
- Check the crypted hash of files when uploading for extra data security
Dropbox
- Make Dropbox for business folders accessible using an initial / in the path
Google Cloud Storage
- Low level retry all operations if necessary
Google Drive
- Add --drive-acknowledge-abuse to download flagged files
- Add --drive-alternate-export to fix large doc export
- Don't attempt to choose Team Drives when using rclone config create
- Fix change list polling with team drives
- Fix ChangeNotify for folders (Fabian Möller)
- Fix about (and df on a mount) for team drives
Onedrive
- Errorhandler for onedrive for business requests (Henning Surmeier)
S3
- Adjust upload concurrency with --s3-upload-concurrency (themylogin)
- Fix --s3-chunk-size which was always using the minimum
SFTP
- Add --ssh-path-override flag (Piotr Oleszczyk)
- Fix slow downloads for long latency connections
Webdav
- Add workarounds for biz.mail.ru
- Ignore Reason-Phrase in status line to fix 4shared (Rodrigo)
- Better error message generation

v1.41 - 2018-04-28

New backends
- Mega support added
- Webdav now supports SharePoint cookie authentication (hensur)
New commands
- link: create public link to files and folders (Stefan Breunig)
- about: gets quota info from a remote (a-roussos, ncw)
- hashsum: a generic tool for any hash to produce md5sum like output
New Features
- lsd: Add -R flag and fix and update docs for all ls commands
- ncdu: added a "refresh" key - CTRL-L (Keith Goldfarb)
- serve restic: Add append-only mode (Steve Kriss)
- serve restic: Disallow overwriting files in append-only mode (Alexander Neumann)
- serve restic: Print actual listener address (Matt Holt)
- size: Add --json flag (Matthew Holt)
- sync: implement --ignore-errors (Mateusz Pabian)
- dedupe: Add dedupe largest functionality (Richard Yang)
- fs: Extend SizeSuffix to include TB and PB for rclone about
- fs: add --dump goroutines and --dump openfiles for debugging
- rc: implement core/memstats to print internal memory usage info
- rc: new call rc/pid (Michael P. Dubner)
Compile
- Drop support for go1.6
Release
- Fix make tarball (Chih-Hsuan Yen)
Bug Fixes
- filter: fix --min-age and --max-age together check
- fs: limit MaxIdleConns and MaxIdleConnsPerHost in transport
- lsd,lsf: make sure all times we output are in local time
- rc: fix setting bwlimit to unlimited
- rc: take note of the --rc-addr flag too as per the docs
Mount
- Use About to return the correct disk total/used/free (eg in df)
- Set --attr-timeout default to 1s - fixes:
  - rclone using too much memory
  - rclone not serving files to samba
  - excessive time listing directories
- Fix df -i (upstream fix)
VFS
- Filter files . and .. from directory listing
- Only make the VFS cache if --vfs-cache-mode > Off
Local
- Add --local-no-check-updated to disable updated file checks
- Retry remove on Windows sharing violation error
Cache
- Flush the memory cache after close
- Purge file data on notification
- Always forget parent dir for notifications
- Integrate with Plex websocket
- Add rc cache/stats (seuffert)
- Add info log on notification
Box
- Fix failure reading large directories - parse file/directory size as float
Dropbox
- Fix crypt+obfuscate on dropbox
- Fix repeatedly uploading the same files
FTP
- Work around strange response from box FTP server
- More workarounds for FTP servers to fix mkParentDir error
- Fix no error on listing non-existent directory
Google Cloud Storage
- Add service_account_credentials (Matt Holt)
- Detect bucket presence by listing it - minimises permissions needed
- Ignore zero length directory markers
Google Drive
- Add service_account_credentials (Matt Holt)
- Fix directory move leaving a hardlinked directory behind
- Return proper google errors when Opening files
- When initialized with a filepath, optional features used incorrect root path (Stefan Breunig)
HTTP
- Fix sync for servers which don't return Content-Length in HEAD
Onedrive
- Add QuickXorHash support for OneDrive for business
- Fix socket leak in multipart session upload
S3
- Look in S3 named profile files for credentials
- Add --s3-disable-checksum to disable checksum uploading (Chris Redekop)
- Hierarchical configuration support (Giri Badanahatti)
- Add in config for all the supported S3 providers
- Add One Zone Infrequent Access storage class (Craig Rachel)
- Add --use-server-modtime support (Peter Baumgartner)
- Add --s3-chunk-size option to control multipart uploads
- Ignore zero length directory markers
SFTP
- Update docs to match code, fix typos and clarify disable_hashcheck prompt (Michael G. Noll)
- Update docs with Synology quirks
- Fail soft with a debug on hash failure
Swift
- Add --use-server-modtime support (Peter Baumgartner)
Webdav
- Support SharePoint cookie authentication (hensur)
- Strip leading and trailing / off root

v1.40 - 2018-03-19

New backends
- Alias backend to create aliases for existing remote names (Fabian Möller)
New commands
- lsf: list for parsing purposes (Jakub Tasiemski)
  - by default this is a simple non recursive list of files and directories
  - it can be configured to add more info in an easy to parse way
- serve restic: for serving a remote as a Restic REST endpoint
  - This enables restic to use any backends that rclone can access
  - Thanks Alexander Neumann for help, patches and review
- rc: enable the remote control of a running rclone
  - The running rclone must be started with --rc and related flags.
  - Currently there is support for bwlimit, and flushing for mount and cache.
New Features
- --max-delete flag to add a delete threshold (Bjørn Erik Pedersen)
- All backends now support RangeOption for ranged Open
  - cat: Use RangeOption for limited fetches to make more efficient
  - cryptcheck: make reading of nonce more efficient with RangeOption
- serve http/webdav/restic
  - support SSL/TLS
  - add --user --pass and --htpasswd for authentication
- copy/move: detect file size change during copy/move and abort transfer (ishuah)
- cryptdecode: added option to return encrypted file names. (ishuah)
- lsjson: add --encrypted to show encrypted name (Jakub Tasiemski)
- Add --stats-file-name-length to specify the printed file name length for stats (Will Gunn)
Compile
- Code base was shuffled and factored
  - backends moved into a backend directory
  - large packages split up
  - See the CONTRIBUTING.md doc for info as to what lives where now
- Update to using go1.10 as the default go version
- Implement daily full integration tests
Release
- Include a source tarball and sign it and the binaries
- Sign the git tags as part of the release process
- Add .deb and .rpm packages as part of the build
- Make a beta release for all branches on the main repo (but not pull requests)
Bug Fixes
- config: fixes errors on non existing config by loading config file only on first access
- config: retry saving the config after failure (Mateusz)
- sync: when using --backup-dir don't delete files if we can't set their modtime
  - this fixes odd behaviour with Dropbox and --backup-dir
- fshttp: fix idle timeouts for HTTP connections
- serve http: fix serving files with : in - fixes
- Fix --exclude-if-present to ignore directories which it doesn't have permission for (Iakov Davydov)
- Make accounting work properly with crypt and b2
- remove --no-traverse flag because it is obsolete
Mount
- Add --attr-timeout flag to control attribute caching in kernel
  - this now defaults to 0 which is correct but less efficient
  - see the mount docs for more info
- Add --daemon flag to allow mount to run in the background (ishuah)
- Fix: Return ENOSYS rather than EIO on attempted link
  - This fixes FileZilla accessing an rclone mount served over sftp.
- Fix setting modtime twice
- Mount tests now run on CI for Linux (mount & cmount)/Mac/Windows
- Many bugs fixed in the VFS layer - see below
VFS
- Many fixes for --vfs-cache-mode writes and above
  - Update cached copy if we know it has changed (fixes stale data)
  - Clean path names before using them in the cache
  - Disable cache cleaner if --vfs-cache-poll-interval=0
  - Fill and clean the cache immediately on startup
- Fix Windows opening every file when it stats the file
- Fix applying modtime for an open Write Handle
- Fix creation of files when truncating
- Write 0 bytes when flushing unwritten handles to avoid race conditions in FUSE
- Downgrade "poll-interval is not supported" message to Info
- Make OpenFile and friends return EINVAL if O_RDONLY and O_TRUNC
Local
- Downgrade "invalid cross-device link: trying copy" to debug
- Make DirMove return fs.ErrorCantDirMove to allow fallback to Copy for cross device
- Fix race conditions updating the hashes
Cache
- Add support for polling - cache will update when remote changes on supported backends
- Reduce log level for Plex api
- Fix dir cache issue
- Implement --cache-db-wait-time flag
- Improve efficiency with RangeOption and RangeSeek
- Fix dirmove with temp fs enabled
- Notify vfs when using temp fs
- Offline uploading
- Remote control support for path flushing
Amazon cloud drive
- Rclone no longer has any working keys - disable integration tests
- Implement DirChangeNotify to notify cache/vfs/mount of changes
Azureblob
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- Improve accounting for chunked uploads
Backblaze B2
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
Box
- Improve accounting for chunked uploads
Dropbox
- Fix custom oauth client parameters
Google Cloud Storage
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
Google Drive
- Migrate to api v3 (Fabian Möller)
- Add scope configuration and root folder selection
- Add --drive-impersonate for service accounts
  - thanks to everyone who tested, explored and contributed docs
- Add --drive-use-created-date to use created date as modified date (nbuchanan)
- Request the export formats only when required
  - This makes rclone quicker when there are no google docs
- Fix finding paths with latin1 chars (a workaround for a drive bug)
- Fix copying of a single Google doc file
- Fix --drive-auth-owner-only to look in all directories
HTTP
- Fix handling of directories with & in
Onedrive
- Removed upload cutoff and always do session uploads
  - this stops the creation of multiple versions on business onedrive
- Overwrite object size value with real size when reading file. (Victor)
  - this fixes oddities when onedrive misreports the size of images
Pcloud
- Remove unused chunked upload flag and code
Qingstor
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
S3
- Support hashes for multipart files (Chris Redekop)
- Initial support for IBM COS (S3) (Giri Badanahatti)
- Update docs to discourage use of v2 auth with CEPH and others
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
- Fix server side copy and set modtime on files with + in
SFTP
- Add option to disable remote hash check command execution (Jon Fautley)
- Add --sftp-ask-password flag to prompt for password when needed (Leo R. Lundgren)
- Add set_modtime configuration option
- Fix following of symlinks
- Fix reading config file outside of Fs setup
- Fix reading $USER in username fallback not $HOME
- Fix running under crontab - Use correct OS way of reading username
Swift
- Fix refresh of authentication token
  - in v1.39 a bug was introduced which ignored new tokens - this fixes it
- Fix extra HEAD transaction when uploading a new file
- Don't check for bucket/container presense if listing was OK
  - this makes rclone do one less request per invocation
Webdav
- Add new time formats to support mydrive.ch and others

v1.39 - 2017-12-23

New backends
- WebDAV
  - tested with nextcloud, owncloud, put.io and others!
- Pcloud
- cache - wraps a cache around other backends (Remus Bunduc)
  - useful in combination with mount
  - NB this feature is in beta so use with care
New commands
- serve command with subcommands:
  - serve webdav: this implements a webdav server for any rclone remote.
  - serve http: command to serve a remote over HTTP
- config: add sub commands for full config file management
  - create/delete/dump/edit/file/password/providers/show/update
- touch: to create or update the timestamp of a file (Jakub Tasiemski)
New Features
- curl install for rclone (Filip Bartodziej)
- --stats now shows percentage, size, rate and ETA in condensed form (Ishuah Kariuki)
- --exclude-if-present to exclude a directory if a file is present (Iakov Davydov)
- rmdirs: add --leave-root flag (lewpam)
- move: add --delete-empty-src-dirs flag to remove dirs after move (Ishuah Kariuki)
- Add --dump flag, introduce --dump requests, responses and remove --dump-auth, --dump-filters
  - Obscure X-Auth-Token: from headers when dumping too
- Document and implement exit codes for different failure modes (Ishuah Kariuki)
Compile
Bug Fixes
- Retry lots more different types of errors to make multipart transfers more reliable
- Save the config before asking for a token, fixes disappearing oauth config
- Warn the user if --include and --exclude are used together (Ernest Borowski)
- Fix duplicate files (eg on Google drive) causing spurious copies
- Allow trailing and leading whitespace for passwords (Jason Rose)
- ncdu: fix crashes on empty directories
- rcat: fix goroutine leak
- moveto/copyto: Fix to allow copying to the same name
Mount
- --vfs-cache mode to make writes into mounts more reliable.
  - this requires caching files on the disk (see --cache-dir)
  - As this is a new feature, use with care
- Use sdnotify to signal systemd the mount is ready (Fabian Möller)
- Check if directory is not empty before mounting (Ernest Borowski)
Local
- Add error message for cross file system moves
- Fix equality check for times
Dropbox
- Rework multipart upload
  - buffer the chunks when uploading large files so they can be retried
  - change default chunk size to 48MB now we are buffering them in memory
  - retry every error after the first chunk is done successfully
- Fix error when renaming directories
Swift
- Fix crash on bad authentication
Google Drive
- Add service account support (Tim Cooijmans)
S3
- Make it work properly with Digital Ocean Spaces (Andrew Starr-Bochicchio)
- Fix crash if a bad listing is received
- Add support for ECS task IAM roles (David Minor)
Backblaze B2
- Fix multipart upload retries
- Fix --hard-delete to make it work 100% of the time
Swift
- Allow authentication with storage URL and auth key (Giovanni Pizzi)
- Add new fields for swift configuration to support IBM Bluemix Swift (Pierre Carlson)
- Add OS_TENANT_ID and OS_USER_ID to config
- Allow configs with user id instead of user name
- Check if swift segments container exists before creating (John Leach)
- Fix memory leak in swift transfers (upstream fix)
SFTP
- Add option to enable the use of aes128-cbc cipher (Jon Fautley)
Amazon cloud drive
- Fix download of large files failing with "Only one auth mechanism allowed"
crypt
- Option to encrypt directory names or leave them intact
- Implement DirChangeNotify (Fabian Möller)
onedrive
- Add option to choose resourceURL during setup of OneDrive Business account if more than one is available for user

v1.38 - 2017-09-30

New backends
- Azure Blob Storage (thanks Andrei Dragomir)
- Box
- Onedrive for Business (thanks Oliver Heyme)
- QingStor from QingCloud (thanks wuyu)
New commands
- rcat - read from standard input and stream upload
- tree - shows a nicely formatted recursive listing
- cryptdecode - decode crypted file names (thanks ishuah)
- config show - print the config file
- config file - print the config file location
New Features
- Empty directories are deleted on sync
- dedupe - implement merging of duplicate directories
- check and cryptcheck made more consistent and use less memory
- cleanup for remaining remotes (thanks ishuah)
- --immutable for ensuring that files don't change (thanks Jacob McNamee)
- --user-agent option (thanks Alex McGrath Kraak)
- --disable flag to disable optional features
- --bind flag for choosing the local addr on outgoing connections
- Support for zsh auto-completion (thanks bpicode)
- Stop normalizing file names but do a normalized compare in sync
Compile
- Update to using go1.9 as the default go version
- Remove snapd build due to maintenance problems
Bug Fixes
- Improve retriable error detection which makes multipart uploads better
- Make check obey --ignore-size
- Fix bwlimit toggle in conjunction with schedules (thanks cbruegg)
- config ensures newly written config is on the same mount
Local
- Revert to copy when moving file across file system boundaries
- --skip-links to suppress symlink warnings (thanks Zhiming Wang)
Mount
- Re-use rcat internals to support uploads from all remotes
Dropbox
- Fix "entry doesn't belong in directory" error
- Stop using deprecated API methods
Swift
- Fix server side copy to empty container with --fast-list
Google Drive
- Change the default for --drive-use-trash to true
S3
- Set session token when using STS (thanks Girish Ramakrishnan)
- Glacier docs and error messages (thanks Jan Varho)
- Read 1000 (not 1024) items in dir listings to fix Wasabi
Backblaze B2
- Fix SHA1 mismatch when downloading files with no SHA1
- Calculate missing hashes on the fly instead of spooling
- --b2-hard-delete to permanently delete (not hide) files (thanks John Papandriopoulos)
Hubic
- Fix creating containers - no longer have to use the default container
Swift
- Optionally configure from a standard set of OpenStack environment vars
- Add endpoint_type config
Google Cloud Storage
- Fix bucket creation to work with limited permission users
SFTP
- Implement connection pooling for multiple ssh connections
- Limit new connections per second
- Add support for MD5 and SHA1 hashes where available (thanks Christian Brüggemann)
HTTP
- Fix URL encoding issues
- Fix directories with : in
- Fix panic with URL encoded content

v1.37 - 2017-07-22

New backends
- FTP - thanks to Antonio Messina
- HTTP - thanks to Vasiliy Tolstov
New commands
- rclone ncdu - for exploring a remote with a text based user interface.
- rclone lsjson - for listing with a machine readable output
- rclone dbhashsum - to show Dropbox style hashes of files (local or Dropbox)
New Features
- Implement --fast-list flag
  - This allows remotes to list recursively if they can
  - This uses less transactions (important if you pay for them)
  - This may or may not be quicker
  - This will use more memory as it has to hold the listing in memory
  - --old-sync-method deprecated - the remaining uses are covered by --fast-list
  - This involved a major re-write of all the listing code
- Add --tpslimit and --tpslimit-burst to limit transactions per second
  - this is useful in conjuction with rclone mount to limit external apps
- Add --stats-log-level so can see --stats without -v
- Print password prompts to stderr - Hraban Luyat
- Warn about duplicate files when syncing
- Oauth improvements
  - allow auth_url and token_url to be set in the config file
  - Print redirection URI if using own credentials.
- Don't Mkdir at the start of sync to save transactions
Compile
- Update build to go1.8.3
- Require go1.6 for building rclone
- Compile 386 builds with "GO386=387" for maximum compatibility
Bug Fixes
- Fix menu selection when no remotes
- Config saving reworked to not kill the file if disk gets full
- Don't delete remote if name does not change while renaming
- moveto, copyto: report transfers and checks as per move and copy
Local
- Add --local-no-unicode-normalization flag - Bob Potter
Mount
- Now supported on Windows using cgofuse and WinFsp - thanks to Bill Zissimopoulos for much help
- Compare checksums on upload/download via FUSE
- Unmount when program ends with SIGINT (Ctrl+C) or SIGTERM - Jérôme Vizcaino
- On read only open of file, make open pending until first read
- Make --read-only reject modify operations
- Implement ModTime via FUSE for remotes that support it
- Allow modTime to be changed even before all writers are closed
- Fix panic on renames
- Fix hang on errored upload
Crypt
- Report the name:root as specified by the user
- Add an "obfuscate" option for filename encryption - Stephen Harris
Amazon Drive
- Fix initialization order for token renewer
- Remove revoked credentials, allow oauth proxy config and update docs
B2
- Reduce minimum chunk size to 5MB
Drive
- Add team drive support
- Reduce bandwidth by adding fields for partial responses - Martin Kristensen
- Implement --drive-shared-with-me flag to view shared with me files - Danny Tsai
- Add --drive-trashed-only to read only the files in the trash
- Remove obsolete --drive-full-list
- Add missing seek to start on retries of chunked uploads
- Fix stats accounting for upload
- Convert / in names to a unicode equivalent (／)
- Poll for Google Drive changes when mounted
OneDrive
- Fix the uploading of files with spaces
- Fix initialization order for token renewer
- Display speeds accurately when uploading - Yoni Jah
- Swap to using http://localhost:53682/ as redirect URL - Michael Ledin
- Retry on token expired error, reset upload body on retry - Yoni Jah
Google Cloud Storage
- Add ability to specify location and storage class via config and command line - thanks gdm85
- Create container if necessary on server side copy
- Increase directory listing chunk to 1000 to increase performance
- Obtain a refresh token for GCS - Steven Lu
Yandex
- Fix the name reported in log messages (was empty)
- Correct error return for listing empty directory
Dropbox
- Rewritten to use the v2 API
  - Now supports ModTime
    - Can only set by uploading the file again
    - If you uploaded with an old rclone, rclone may upload everything again
    - Use --size-only or --checksum to avoid this
  - Now supports the Dropbox content hashing scheme
  - Now supports low level retries
S3
- Work around eventual consistency in bucket creation
- Create container if necessary on server side copy
- Add us-east-2 (Ohio) and eu-west-2 (London) S3 regions - Zahiar Ahmed
Swift, Hubic
- Fix zero length directory markers showing in the subdirectory listing
  - this caused lots of duplicate transfers
- Fix paged directory listings
  - this caused duplicate directory errors
- Create container if necessary on server side copy
- Increase directory listing chunk to 1000 to increase performance
- Make sensible error if the user forgets the container
SFTP
- Add support for using ssh key files
- Fix under Windows
- Fix ssh agent on Windows
- Adapt to latest version of library - Igor Kharin

v1.36 - 2017-03-18

New Features
- SFTP remote (Jack Schmidt)
- Re-implement sync routine to work a directory at a time reducing memory usage
- Logging revamped to be more inline with rsync - now much quieter * -v only shows transfers * -vv is for full debug * --syslog to log to syslog on capable platforms
- Implement --backup-dir and --suffix
- Implement --track-renames (initial implementation by Bjørn Erik Pedersen)
- Add time-based bandwidth limits (Lukas Loesche)
- rclone cryptcheck: checks integrity of crypt remotes
- Allow all config file variables and options to be set from environment variables
- Add --buffer-size parameter to control buffer size for copy
- Make --delete-after the default
- Add --ignore-checksum flag (fixed by Hisham Zarka)
- rclone check: Add --download flag to check all the data, not just hashes
- rclone cat: add --head, --tail, --offset, --count and --discard
- rclone config: when choosing from a list, allow the value to be entered too
- rclone config: allow rename and copy of remotes
- rclone obscure: for generating encrypted passwords for rclone's config (T.C. Ferguson)
- Comply with XDG Base Directory specification (Dario Giovannetti)
  - this moves the default location of the config file in a backwards compatible way
- Release changes
  - Ubuntu snap support (Dedsec1)
  - Compile with go 1.8
  - MIPS/Linux big and little endian support
Bug Fixes
- Fix copyto copying things to the wrong place if the destination dir didn't exist
- Fix parsing of remotes in moveto and copyto
- Fix --delete-before deleting files on copy
- Fix --files-from with an empty file copying everything
- Fix sync: don't update mod times if --dry-run set
- Fix MimeType propagation
- Fix filters to add ** rules to directory rules
Local
- Implement -L, --copy-links flag to allow rclone to follow symlinks
- Open files in write only mode so rclone can write to an rclone mount
- Fix unnormalised unicode causing problems reading directories
- Fix interaction between -x flag and --max-depth
Mount
- Implement proper directory handling (mkdir, rmdir, renaming)
- Make include and exclude filters apply to mount
- Implement read and write async buffers - control with --buffer-size
- Fix fsync on for directories
- Fix retry on network failure when reading off crypt
Crypt
- Add --crypt-show-mapping to show encrypted file mapping
- Fix crypt writer getting stuck in a loop
  - IMPORTANT this bug had the potential to cause data corruption when
    - reading data from a network based remote and
    - writing to a crypt on Google Drive
  - Use the cryptcheck command to validate your data if you are concerned
  - If syncing two crypt remotes, sync the unencrypted remote
Amazon Drive
- Fix panics on Move (rename)
- Fix panic on token expiry
B2
- Fix inconsistent listings and rclone check
- Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
- Constrain memory usage when doing multipart uploads
- Fix upload url not being refreshed properly
Drive
- Fix Rmdir on directories with trashed files
- Fix "Ignoring unknown object" when downloading
- Add --drive-list-chunk
- Add --drive-skip-gdocs (Károly Oláh)
OneDrive
- Implement Move
- Fix Copy
  - Fix overwrite detection in Copy
  - Fix waitForJob to parse errors correctly
- Use token renewer to stop auth errors on long uploads
- Fix uploading empty files with go1.8
Google Cloud Storage
- Fix depth 1 directory listings
Yandex
- Fix single level directory listing
Dropbox
- Normalise the case for single level directory listings
- Fix depth 1 listing
S3
- Added ca-central-1 region (Jon Yergatian)

v1.35 - 2017-01-02

New Features
- moveto and copyto commands for choosing a destination name on copy/move
- rmdirs command to recursively delete empty directories
- Allow repeated --include/--exclude/--filter options
- Only show transfer stats on commands which transfer stuff
  - show stats on any command using the --stats flag
- Allow overlapping directories in move when server side dir move is supported
- Add --stats-unit option - thanks Scott McGillivray
Bug Fixes
- Fix the config file being overwritten when two rclones are running
- Make rclone lsd obey the filters properly
- Fix compilation on mips
- Fix not transferring files that don't differ in size
- Fix panic on nil retry/fatal error
Mount
- Retry reads on error - should help with reliability a lot
- Report the modification times for directories from the remote
- Add bandwidth accounting and limiting (fixes --bwlimit)
- If --stats provided will show stats and which files are transferring
- Support R/W files if truncate is set.
- Implement statfs interface so df works
- Note that write is now supported on Amazon Drive
- Report number of blocks in a file - thanks Stefan Breunig
Crypt
- Prevent the user pointing crypt at itself
- Fix failed to authenticate decrypted block errors
  - these will now return the underlying unexpected EOF instead
Amazon Drive
- Add support for server side move and directory move - thanks Stefan Breunig
- Fix nil pointer deref on size attribute
B2
- Use new prefix and delimiter parameters in directory listings
  - This makes --max-depth 1 dir listings as used in mount much faster
- Reauth the account while doing uploads too - should help with token expiry
Drive
- Make DirMove more efficient and complain about moving the root
- Create destination directory on Move()

v1.34 - 2016-11-06

New Features
- Stop single file and --files-from operations iterating through the source bucket.
- Stop removing failed upload to cloud storage remotes
- Make ContentType be preserved for cloud to cloud copies
- Add support to toggle bandwidth limits via SIGUSR2 - thanks Marco Paganini
- rclone check shows count of hashes that couldn't be checked
- rclone listremotes command
- Support linux/arm64 build - thanks Fredrik Fornwall
- Remove Authorization: lines from --dump-headers output
Bug Fixes
- Ignore files with control characters in the names
- Fix rclone move command
  - Delete src files which already existed in dst
  - Fix deletion of src file when dst file older
- Fix rclone check on crypted file systems
- Make failed uploads not count as "Transferred"
- Make sure high level retries show with -q
- Use a vendor directory with godep for repeatable builds
rclone mount - FUSE
- Implement FUSE mount options
  - --no-modtime, --debug-fuse, --read-only, --allow-non-empty, --allow-root, --allow-other
  - --default-permissions, --write-back-cache, --max-read-ahead, --umask, --uid, --gid
- Add --dir-cache-time to control caching of directory entries
- Implement seek for files opened for read (useful for video players)
  - with -no-seek flag to disable
- Fix crash on 32 bit ARM (alignment of 64 bit counter)
- ...and many more internal fixes and improvements!
Crypt
- Don't show encrypted password in configurator to stop confusion
Amazon Drive
- New wait for upload option --acd-upload-wait-per-gb
  - upload timeouts scale by file size and can be disabled
- Add 502 Bad Gateway to list of errors we retry
- Fix overwriting a file with a zero length file
- Fix ACD file size warning limit - thanks Felix Bünemann
Local
- Unix: implement -x/--one-file-system to stay on a single file system
  - thanks Durval Menezes and Luiz Carlos Rumbelsperger Viana
- Windows: ignore the symlink bit on files
- Windows: Ignore directory based junction points
B2
- Make sure each upload has at least one upload slot - fixes strange upload stats
- Fix uploads when using crypt
- Fix download of large files (sha1 mismatch)
- Return error when we try to create a bucket which someone else owns
- Update B2 docs with Data usage, and Crypt section - thanks Tomasz Mazur
S3
- Command line and config file support for
  - Setting/overriding ACL - thanks Radek Senfeld
  - Setting storage class - thanks Asko Tamm
Drive
- Make exponential backoff work exactly as per Google specification
- add .epub, .odp and .tsv as export formats.
Swift
- Don't read metadata for directory marker objects

v1.33 - 2016-08-24

New Features
- Implement encryption
  - data encrypted in NACL secretbox format
  - with optional file name encryption
- New commands
  - rclone mount - implements FUSE mounting of remotes (EXPERIMENTAL)
    - works on Linux, FreeBSD and OS X (need testers for the last 2!)
  - rclone cat - outputs remote file or files to the terminal
  - rclone genautocomplete - command to make a bash completion script for rclone
- Editing a remote using rclone config now goes through the wizard
- Compile with go 1.7 - this fixes rclone on macOS Sierra and on 386 processors
- Use cobra for sub commands and docs generation
drive
- Document how to make your own client_id
s3
- User-configurable Amazon S3 ACL (thanks Radek Šenfeld)
b2
- Fix stats accounting for upload - no more jumping to 100% done
- On cleanup delete hide marker if it is the current file
- New B2 API endpoint (thanks Per Cederberg)
- Set maximum backoff to 5 Minutes
onedrive
- Fix URL escaping in file names - eg uploading files with + in them.
amazon cloud drive
- Fix token expiry during large uploads
- Work around 408 REQUEST_TIMEOUT and 504 GATEWAY_TIMEOUT errors
local
- Fix filenames with invalid UTF-8 not being uploaded
- Fix problem with some UTF-8 characters on OS X

v1.32 - 2016-07-13

Backblaze B2
- Fix upload of files large files not in root

v1.31 - 2016-07-13

New Features
- Reduce memory on sync by about 50%
- Implement --no-traverse flag to stop copy traversing the destination remote.
  - This can be used to reduce memory usage down to the smallest possible.
  - Useful to copy a small number of files into a large destination folder.
- Implement cleanup command for emptying trash / removing old versions of files
  - Currently B2 only
- Single file handling improved
  - Now copied with --files-from
  - Automatically sets --no-traverse when copying a single file
- Info on using installing with ansible - thanks Stefan Weichinger
- Implement --no-update-modtime flag to stop rclone fixing the remote modified times.
Bug Fixes
- Fix move command - stop it running for overlapping Fses - this was causing data loss.
Local
- Fix incomplete hashes - this was causing problems for B2.
Amazon Drive
- Rename Amazon Cloud Drive to Amazon Drive - no changes to config file needed.
Swift
- Add support for non-default project domain - thanks Antonio Messina.
S3
- Add instructions on how to use rclone with minio.
- Add ap-northeast-2 (Seoul) and ap-south-1 (Mumbai) regions.
- Skip setting the modified time for objects > 5GB as it isn't possible.
Backblaze B2
- Add --b2-versions flag so old versions can be listed and retreived.
- Treat 403 errors (eg cap exceeded) as fatal.
- Implement cleanup command for deleting old file versions.
- Make error handling compliant with B2 integrations notes.
- Fix handling of token expiry.
- Implement --b2-test-mode to set X-Bz-Test-Mode header.
- Set cutoff for chunked upload to 200MB as per B2 guidelines.
- Make upload multi-threaded.
Dropbox
- Don't retry 461 errors.

v1.30 - 2016-06-18

New Features
- Directory listing code reworked for more features and better error reporting (thanks to Klaus Post for help). This enables
  - Directory include filtering for efficiency
  - --max-depth parameter
  - Better error reporting
  - More to come
- Retry more errors
- Add --ignore-size flag - for uploading images to onedrive
- Log -v output to stdout by default
- Display the transfer stats in more human readable form
- Make 0 size files specifiable with --max-size 0b
- Add b suffix so we can specify bytes in --bwlimit, --min-size etc
- Use "password:" instead of "password>" prompt - thanks Klaus Post and Leigh Klotz
Bug Fixes
- Fix retry doing one too many retries
Local
- Fix problems with OS X and UTF-8 characters
Amazon Drive
- Check a file exists before uploading to help with 408 Conflict errors
- Reauth on 401 errors - this has been causing a lot of problems
- Work around spurious 403 errors
- Restart directory listings on error
Google Drive
- Check a file exists before uploading to help with duplicates
- Fix retry of multipart uploads
Backblaze B2
- Implement large file uploading
S3
- Add AES256 server-side encryption for - thanks Justin R. Wilson
Google Cloud Storage
- Make sure we don't use conflicting content types on upload
- Add service account support - thanks Michal Witkowski
Swift
- Add auth version parameter
- Add domain option for openstack (v3 auth) - thanks Fabian Ruff

v1.29 - 2016-04-18

New Features
- Implement -I, --ignore-times for unconditional upload
- Improve dedupecommand
  - Now removes identical copies without asking
  - Now obeys --dry-run
  - Implement --dedupe-mode for non interactive running
    - --dedupe-mode interactive - interactive the default.
    - --dedupe-mode skip - removes identical files then skips anything left.
    - --dedupe-mode first - removes identical files then keeps the first one.
    - --dedupe-mode newest - removes identical files then keeps the newest one.
    - --dedupe-mode oldest - removes identical files then keeps the oldest one.
    - --dedupe-mode rename - removes identical files then renames the rest to be different.
Bug fixes
- Make rclone check obey the --size-only flag.
- Use "application/octet-stream" if discovered mime type is invalid.
- Fix missing "quit" option when there are no remotes.
Google Drive
- Increase default chunk size to 8 MB - increases upload speed of big files
- Speed up directory listings and make more reliable
- Add missing retries for Move and DirMove - increases reliability
- Preserve mime type on file update
Backblaze B2
- Enable mod time syncing
  - This means that B2 will now check modification times
  - It will upload new files to update the modification times
  - (there isn't an API to just set the mod time.)
  - If you want the old behaviour use --size-only.
- Update API to new version
- Fix parsing of mod time when not in metadata
Swift/Hubic
- Don't return an MD5SUM for static large objects
S3
- Fix uploading files bigger than 50GB

v1.28 - 2016-03-01

New Features
- Configuration file encryption - thanks Klaus Post
- Improve rclone config adding more help and making it easier to understand
- Implement -u/--update so creation times can be used on all remotes
- Implement --low-level-retries flag
- Optionally disable gzip compression on downloads with --no-gzip-encoding
Bug fixes
- Don't make directories if --dry-run set
- Fix and document the move command
- Fix redirecting stderr on unix-like OSes when using --log-file
- Fix delete command to wait until all finished - fixes missing deletes.
Backblaze B2
- Use one upload URL per go routine fixes more than one upload using auth token
- Add pacing, retries and reauthentication - fixes token expiry problems
- Upload without using a temporary file from local (and remotes which support SHA1)
- Fix reading metadata for all files when it shouldn't have been
Drive
- Fix listing drive documents at root
- Disable copy and move for Google docs
Swift
- Fix uploading of chunked files with non ASCII characters
- Allow setting of storage_url in the config - thanks Xavier Lucas
S3
- Allow IAM role and credentials from environment variables - thanks Brian Stengaard
- Allow low privilege users to use S3 (check if directory exists during Mkdir) - thanks Jakub Gedeon
Amazon Drive
- Retry on more things to make directory listings more reliable

v1.27 - 2016-01-31

New Features
- Easier headless configuration with rclone authorize
- Add support for multiple hash types - we now check SHA1 as well as MD5 hashes.
- delete command which does obey the filters (unlike purge)
- dedupe command to deduplicate a remote. Useful with Google Drive.
- Add --ignore-existing flag to skip all files that exist on destination.
- Add --delete-before, --delete-during, --delete-after flags.
- Add --memprofile flag to debug memory use.
- Warn the user about files with same name but different case
- Make --include rules add their implict exclude * at the end of the filter list
- Deprecate compiling with go1.3
Amazon Drive
- Fix download of files > 10 GB
- Fix directory traversal ("Next token is expired") for large directory listings
- Remove 409 conflict from error codes we will retry - stops very long pauses
Backblaze B2
- SHA1 hashes now checked by rclone core
Drive
- Add --drive-auth-owner-only to only consider files owned by the user - thanks Björn Harrtell
- Export Google documents
Dropbox
- Make file exclusion error controllable with -q
Swift
- Fix upload from unprivileged user.
S3
- Fix updating of mod times of files with + in.
Local
- Add local file system option to disable UNC on Windows.

v1.26 - 2016-01-02

New Features
- Yandex storage backend - thank you Dmitry Burdeev ("dibu")
- Implement Backblaze B2 storage backend
- Add --min-age and --max-age flags - thank you Adriano Aurélio Meirelles
- Make ls/lsl/md5sum/size/check obey includes and excludes
Fixes
- Fix crash in http logging
- Upload releases to github too
Swift
- Fix sync for chunked files
OneDrive
- Re-enable server side copy
- Don't mask HTTP error codes with JSON decode error
S3
- Fix corrupting Content-Type on mod time update (thanks Joseph Spurrier)

v1.25 - 2015-11-14

New features
- Implement Hubic storage system
Fixes
- Fix deletion of some excluded files without --delete-excluded
  - This could have deleted files unexpectedly on sync
  - Always check first with --dry-run!
Swift
- Stop SetModTime losing metadata (eg X-Object-Manifest)
  - This could have caused data loss for files > 5GB in size
- Use ContentType from Object to avoid lookups in listings
OneDrive
- disable server side copy as it seems to be broken at Microsoft

v1.24 - 2015-11-07

New features
- Add support for Microsoft OneDrive
- Add --no-check-certificate option to disable server certificate verification
- Add async readahead buffer for faster transfer of big files
Fixes
- Allow spaces in remotes and check remote names for validity at creation time
- Allow '&' and disallow ':' in Windows filenames.
Swift
- Ignore directory marker objects where appropriate - allows working with Hubic
- Don't delete the container if fs wasn't at root
S3
- Don't delete the bucket if fs wasn't at root
Google Cloud Storage
- Don't delete the bucket if fs wasn't at root

v1.23 - 2015-10-03

New features
- Implement rclone size for measuring remotes
Fixes
- Fix headless config for drive and gcs
- Tell the user they should try again if the webserver method failed
- Improve output of --dump-headers
S3
- Allow anonymous access to public buckets
Swift
- Stop chunked operations logging "Failed to read info: Object Not Found"
- Use Content-Length on uploads for extra reliability

v1.22 - 2015-09-28

Implement rsync like include and exclude flags
swift
- Support files > 5GB - thanks Sergey Tolmachev

v1.21 - 2015-09-22

New features
- Display individual transfer progress
- Make lsl output times in localtime
Fixes
- Fix allowing user to override credentials again in Drive, GCS and ACD
Amazon Drive
- Implement compliant pacing scheme
Google Drive
- Make directory reads concurrent for increased speed.

v1.20 - 2015-09-15

New features
- Amazon Drive support
- Oauth support redone - fix many bugs and improve usability
  - Use "golang.org/x/oauth2" as oauth libary of choice
  - Improve oauth usability for smoother initial signup
  - drive, googlecloudstorage: optionally use auto config for the oauth token
- Implement --dump-headers and --dump-bodies debug flags
- Show multiple matched commands if abbreviation too short
- Implement server side move where possible
local
- Always use UNC paths internally on Windows - fixes a lot of bugs
dropbox
- force use of our custom transport which makes timeouts work
Thanks to Klaus Post for lots of help with this release

v1.19 - 2015-08-28

New features
- Server side copies for s3/swift/drive/dropbox/gcs
- Move command - uses server side copies if it can
- Implement --retries flag - tries 3 times by default
- Build for plan9/amd64 and solaris/amd64 too
Fixes
- Make a current version download with a fixed URL for scripting
- Ignore rmdir in limited fs rather than throwing error
dropbox
- Increase chunk size to improve upload speeds massively
- Issue an error message when trying to upload bad file name

v1.18 - 2015-08-17

drive
- Add --drive-use-trash flag so rclone trashes instead of deletes
- Add "Forbidden to download" message for files with no downloadURL
dropbox
- Remove datastore
  - This was deprecated and it caused a lot of problems
  - Modification times and MD5SUMs no longer stored
- Fix uploading files > 2GB
s3
- use official AWS SDK from github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go
- NB will most likely require you to delete and recreate remote
- enable multipart upload which enables files > 5GB
- tested with Ceph / RadosGW / S3 emulation
- many thanks to Sam Liston and Brian Haymore at the Utah Center for High Performance Computing for a Ceph test account
misc
- Show errors when reading the config file
- Do not print stats in quiet mode - thanks Leonid Shalupov
- Add FAQ
- Fix created directories not obeying umask
- Linux installation instructions - thanks Shimon Doodkin

v1.17 - 2015-06-14

dropbox: fix case insensitivity issues - thanks Leonid Shalupov

v1.16 - 2015-06-09

Fix uploading big files which was causing timeouts or panics
Don't check md5sum after download with --size-only

v1.15 - 2015-06-06

Add --checksum flag to only discard transfers by MD5SUM - thanks Alex Couper
Implement --size-only flag to sync on size not checksum & modtime
Expand docs and remove duplicated information
Document rclone's limitations with directories
dropbox: update docs about case insensitivity

v1.14 - 2015-05-21

local: fix encoding of non utf-8 file names - fixes a duplicate file problem
drive: docs about rate limiting
google cloud storage: Fix compile after API change in "google.golang.org/api/storage/v1"

v1.13 - 2015-05-10

Revise documentation (especially sync)
Implement --timeout and --conntimeout
s3: ignore etags from multipart uploads which aren't md5sums

v1.12 - 2015-03-15

drive: Use chunked upload for files above a certain size
drive: add --drive-chunk-size and --drive-upload-cutoff parameters
drive: switch to insert from update when a failed copy deletes the upload
core: Log duplicate files if they are detected

v1.11 - 2015-03-04

swift: add region parameter
drive: fix crash on failed to update remote mtime
In remote paths, change native directory separators to /
Add synchronization to ls/lsl/lsd output to stop corruptions
Ensure all stats/log messages to go stderr
Add --log-file flag to log everything (including panics) to file
Make it possible to disable stats printing with --stats=0
Implement --bwlimit to limit data transfer bandwidth

v1.10 - 2015-02-12

s3: list an unlimited number of items
Fix getting stuck in the configurator

v1.09 - 2015-02-07

windows: Stop drive letters (eg C:) getting mixed up with remotes (eg drive:)
local: Fix directory separators on Windows
drive: fix rate limit exceeded errors

v1.08 - 2015-02-04

drive: fix subdirectory listing to not list entire drive
drive: Fix SetModTime
dropbox: adapt code to recent library changes

v1.07 - 2014-12-23

google cloud storage: fix memory leak

v1.06 - 2014-12-12

Fix "Couldn't find home directory" on OSX
swift: Add tenant parameter
Use new location of Google API packages

v1.05 - 2014-08-09

Improved tests and consequently lots of minor fixes
core: Fix race detected by go race detector
core: Fixes after running errcheck
drive: reset root directory on Rmdir and Purge
fs: Document that Purger returns error on empty directory, test and fix
google cloud storage: fix ListDir on subdirectory
google cloud storage: re-read metadata in SetModTime
s3: make reading metadata more reliable to work around eventual consistency problems
s3: strip trailing / from ListDir()
swift: return directories without / in ListDir

v1.04 - 2014-07-21

google cloud storage: Fix crash on Update

v1.03 - 2014-07-20

swift, s3, dropbox: fix updated files being marked as corrupted
Make compile with go 1.1 again

v1.02 - 2014-07-19

Implement Dropbox remote
Implement Google Cloud Storage remote
Verify Md5sums and Sizes after copies
Remove times from "ls" command - lists sizes only
Add add "lsl" - lists times and sizes
Add "md5sum" command

v1.01 - 2014-07-04

drive: fix transfer of big files using up lots of memory

v1.00 - 2014-07-03

drive: fix whole second dates

v0.99 - 2014-06-26

Fix --dry-run not working
Make compatible with go 1.1

v0.98 - 2014-05-30

s3: Treat missing Content-Length as 0 for some ceph installations
rclonetest: add file with a space in

v0.97 - 2014-05-05

Implement copying of single files
s3 & swift: support paths inside containers/buckets

v0.96 - 2014-04-24

drive: Fix multiple files of same name being created
drive: Use o.Update and fs.Put to optimise transfers
Add version number, -V and --version

v0.95 - 2014-03-28

rclone.org: website, docs and graphics
drive: fix path parsing

v0.94 - 2014-03-27

Change remote format one last time
GNU style flags

v0.93 - 2014-03-16

drive: store token in config file
cross compile other versions
set strict permissions on config file

v0.92 - 2014-03-15

Config fixes and --config option

v0.91 - 2014-03-15

Make config file

v0.90 - 2013-06-27

Project named rclone

v0.00 - 2012-11-18

Project started

Bugs and Limitations

Empty directories are left behind / not created

With remotes that have a concept of directory, eg Local and Drive, empty directories may be left behind, or not created when one was expected.

This is because rclone doesn't have a concept of a directory - it only works on objects. Most of the object storage systems can't actually store a directory so there is nowhere for rclone to store anything about directories.

You can work round this to some extent with thepurge command which will delete everything under the path, inluding empty directories.

This may be fixed at some point in Issue #100

Directory timestamps aren't preserved

For the same reason as the above, rclone doesn't have a concept of a directory - it only works on objects, therefore it can't preserve the timestamps of directories.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do all cloud storage systems support all rclone commands

Yes they do. All the rclone commands (eg sync, copy etc) will work on all the remote storage systems.

Can I copy the config from one machine to another

Sure! Rclone stores all of its config in a single file. If you want to find this file, the simplest way is to run rclone -h and look at the help for the --config flag which will tell you where it is.

See the remote setup docs for more info.

How do I configure rclone on a remote / headless box with no browser?

This has now been documented in its own remote setup page.

Can rclone sync directly from drive to s3

Rclone can sync between two remote cloud storage systems just fine.

Note that it effectively downloads the file and uploads it again, so the node running rclone would need to have lots of bandwidth.

The syncs would be incremental (on a file by file basis).

rclone sync drive:Folder s3:bucket

Using rclone from multiple locations at the same time

You can use rclone from multiple places at the same time if you choose different subdirectory for the output, eg

Server A> rclone sync /tmp/whatever remote:ServerA
Server B> rclone sync /tmp/whatever remote:ServerB

If you sync to the same directory then you should use rclone copy otherwise the two rclones may delete each others files, eg

Server A> rclone copy /tmp/whatever remote:Backup
Server B> rclone copy /tmp/whatever remote:Backup

The file names you upload from Server A and Server B should be different in this case, otherwise some file systems (eg Drive) may make duplicates.

Why doesn't rclone support partial transfers / binary diffs like rsync?

Rclone stores each file you transfer as a native object on the remote cloud storage system. This means that you can see the files you upload as expected using alternative access methods (eg using the Google Drive web interface). There is a 1:1 mapping between files on your hard disk and objects created in the cloud storage system.

Cloud storage systems (at least none I've come across yet) don't support partially uploading an object. You can't take an existing object, and change some bytes in the middle of it.

It would be possible to make a sync system which stored binary diffs instead of whole objects like rclone does, but that would break the 1:1 mapping of files on your hard disk to objects in the remote cloud storage system.

All the cloud storage systems support partial downloads of content, so it would be possible to make partial downloads work. However to make this work efficiently this would require storing a significant amount of metadata, which breaks the desired 1:1 mapping of files to objects.

Can rclone do bi-directional sync?

No, not at present. rclone only does uni-directional sync from A -> B. It may do in the future though since it has all the primitives - it just requires writing the algorithm to do it.

Can I use rclone with an HTTP proxy?

Yes. rclone will follow the standard environment variables for proxies, similar to cURL and other programs.

In general the variables are called http_proxy (for services reached over http) and https_proxy (for services reached over https). Most public services will be using https, but you may wish to set both.

If you ever use FTP then you would need to set ftp_proxy.

The content of the variable is protocol://server:port. The protocol value is the one used to talk to the proxy server, itself, and is commonly either http or socks5.

Slightly annoyingly, there is no standard for the name; some applications may use http_proxy but another one HTTP_PROXY. The Go libraries used by rclone will try both variations, but you may wish to set all possibilities. So, on Linux, you may end up with code similar to

export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:12345
export https_proxy=$http_proxy
export HTTP_PROXY=$http_proxy
export HTTPS_PROXY=$http_proxy

The NO_PROXY allows you to disable the proxy for specific hosts. Hosts must be comma separated, and can contain domains or parts. For instance "foo.com" also matches "bar.foo.com".

e.g.

export no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,my.host.name
export NO_PROXY=$no_proxy

Rclone gives x509: failed to load system roots and no roots provided error

This means that rclone can't file the SSL root certificates. Likely you are running rclone on a NAS with a cut-down Linux OS, or possibly on Solaris.

Rclone (via the Go runtime) tries to load the root certificates from these places on Linux.

"/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt", // Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo etc.
"/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt",   // Fedora/RHEL
"/etc/ssl/ca-bundle.pem",             // OpenSUSE
"/etc/pki/tls/cacert.pem",            // OpenELEC

So doing something like this should fix the problem. It also sets the time which is important for SSL to work properly.

mkdir -p /etc/ssl/certs/
curl -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt
ntpclient -s -h pool.ntp.org

The two environment variables SSL_CERT_FILE and SSL_CERT_DIR, mentioned in the x509 pacakge, provide an additional way to provide the SSL root certificates.

Note that you may need to add the --insecure option to the curl command line if it doesn't work without.

curl --insecure -o /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bagder/ca-bundle/master/ca-bundle.crt

Rclone gives Failed to load config file: function not implemented error

Likely this means that you are running rclone on Linux version not supported by the go runtime, ie earlier than version 2.6.23.

See the system requirements section in the go install docs for full details.

All my uploaded docx/xlsx/pptx files appear as archive/zip

This is caused by uploading these files from a Windows computer which hasn't got the Microsoft Office suite installed. The easiest way to fix is to install the Word viewer and the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 and later versions' file formats

tcp lookup some.domain.com no such host

This happens when rclone cannot resolve a domain. Please check that your DNS setup is generally working, e.g.

# both should print a long list of possible IP addresses
dig www.googleapis.com          # resolve using your default DNS
dig www.googleapis.com @8.8.8.8 # resolve with Google's DNS server

If you are using systemd-resolved (default on Arch Linux), ensure it is at version 233 or higher. Previous releases contain a bug which causes not all domains to be resolved properly.

Additionally with the GODEBUG=netdns= environment variable the Go resolver decision can be influenced. This also allows to resolve certain issues with DNS resolution. See the name resolution section in the go docs.

License

This is free software under the terms of MIT the license (check the COPYING file included with the source code).

Copyright (C) 2012 by Nick Craig-Wood https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

Authors

Nick Craig-Wood nick@craig-wood.com

Contributors

Alex Couper amcouper@gmail.com
Leonid Shalupov leonid@shalupov.com shalupov@diverse.org.ru
Shimon Doodkin helpmepro1@gmail.com
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Contact the rclone project

Forum

Forum for general discussions and questions:

https://forum.rclone.org

Gitub project

The project website is at:

https://github.com/ncw/rclone

There you can file bug reports, ask for help or contribute pull requests.

Google+

Rclone has a Google+ page which announcements are posted to

Google+ page for general comments

Twitter

You can also follow me on twitter for rclone announcements

@njcw

Email

Or if all else fails or you want to ask something private or confidential email Nick Craig-Wood

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Rclone

Install

Quickstart

Script installation

Linux installation from precompiled binary

macOS installation from precompiled binary

Install from source

Installation with Ansible

Configure

Usage

Subcommands

rclone config

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rclone copy

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rclone sync

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rclone move

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rclone delete

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rclone purge

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rclone mkdir

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rclone rmdir

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rclone check

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rclone ls

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rclone lsd

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rclone lsl

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rclone md5sum

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rclone sha1sum

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rclone size

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rclone version

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rclone cleanup

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rclone dedupe

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rclone about

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rclone authorize

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rclone cachestats

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rclone cat

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rclone config create

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