[HN Gopher] Rclone is 10 years old today
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Rclone is 10 years old today
Author : vanburen
Score : 109 points
Date : 2022-11-24 17:32 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| Orlan wrote:
| I love rclone, have been using it to reliably move large files
| between different could providers (thanks Nick!). GUI
| applications were constantly crashing, rclone has always been
| reliable.
|
| Make sure to support your favorite open source projects!
| https://rclone.org/donate/
| floppydisc wrote:
| Rclone is such an epic tool. Props to the creators. Thank you for
| making cloud storage easily accessible for linux users
| Valord wrote:
| Rclone is great! I used it in a CI/CD pipeline to sync a files
| from a git repo to S3 for CDN distribution.
| opan wrote:
| I'm a heavy user of rsync and sftp between personal devices, but
| have never used rclone. Is it only used with cloud storage from
| the big companies? I have never used any of those so far.
| Valord wrote:
| No, while it supports a number of big-box cloud provider
| storage systems it also includes smaller providers and various
| protocols. Protocols like HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SMB, local
| filesystem, and things like "S3 compatible".
| [deleted]
| SeriousM wrote:
| I use it for jottacloud directory sync as jottacloud only
| supports dull sync. And I use it for zotero attachment sync
| from/into jottacloud.
|
| rclone is just awesome and well documented!
| garganzol wrote:
| We use Rclone as a "disk in the cloud" solution for the otherwise
| stateless docker images. Works perfectly well. And the best thing
| is - it supports transparent end-to-end encryption.
|
| Among all the cloud storages we've tried to use with Rclone,
| Azure Blobs turned out to be the fastest so far.
|
| The bitter part of the story is that I did not know about Rclone
| existence until a recent year or two. I still feel ashamed about
| that.
| bambambazooka wrote:
| Can you elaborate a bit? Do you mount something like a S3
| bucket inside of a container?
| garganzol wrote:
| Yes, exactly. The mount point is then used as a general disk
| for container data.
| nathants wrote:
| rclone with git-remote-gcrypt is the best git provider.
| rsync wrote:
| Here is a step by step, keystroke by keystroke, howto for rclone
| with S3 buckets as an example target:
|
| https://rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html
|
| ... this HOWTO uses an rsync.net account as an
| endpoint/throughpoint _but you can ignore that_ - this HOWTO is
| applicable to any general configuration.
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Rclone is another great example of open source being better than
| a commercial product. I'd rather use it than gsutil or s3cmd,
| it's simple, the commands make sense, and it doesn't bring in a
| lot of other cruft.
| eggfriedrice wrote:
| Yup, it's great. I used it to shuffle stuff from s3 into
| Dropbox and it was just the right tool for the job.
| rdegges wrote:
| So funny! I just spent a few hours last night setting up rclone
| for the first time on my Macbook!
|
| I've got one of those legacy Google Drive unlimited storage
| plans, and for years I've been using it to store all my code,
| video projects I work on, etc.
|
| The way I normally use it is inefficient: if I was importing
| videos for a project, I'd use the Google Drive web UI to upload
| them into Drive, where I'd later organize them, etc.
|
| Over the years I tried a variety of Goole Drive syncing tools,
| but all eventually stopped working, or were so unbearably slow
| that I couldn't justify it.
|
| Last night I spent some time and set up rclone for Drive, along
| with a persistent mount so that Google Drive is always accessible
| via ~/Drive. So far it seems like everything is working well --
| really amazing software! <3
| edsimpson wrote:
| Isn't google getting rid of all the old legacy unlimited plans?
| eterps wrote:
| I love it that it has a mount option.
| pfortuny wrote:
| If rclone's author is around... You should update the lage with
| an easy and VISIBLE link for dontations. I could not find it
| while browsing (ios) although it appears somewhere in the FAQ.
|
| Thanks for the product. Unbelievable.
| Datagenerator wrote:
| One of the Contributors here, if you use Azure Blob you'll use
| some of my code. Have fun moving Petabytes, it works quite
| well.
| pfortuny wrote:
| Only S3. In any case, GREAT work!
| [deleted]
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