diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_publish_docker_image.yml b/.github/workflows/build_publish_docker_image.yml index 053a6eb03167c..e1da28a53ce9e 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/build_publish_docker_image.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/build_publish_docker_image.yml @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ on: push: branches: - master + paths-ignore: + - '**/README.md' + - '**/.github/**' jobs: build: - if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' + if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' || 1 == 1 runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Build image job steps: @@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ jobs: uses: ilteoood/docker_buildx@1.1.0 with: tag: beta - imageName: rclone/rclone + imageName: rclone_rd platform: linux/amd64,linux/386,linux/arm64,linux/arm/v7,linux/arm/v6 publish: true dockerHubUser: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USER }} diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_publish_release_docker_image.yml b/.github/workflows/build_publish_release_docker_image.yml index a8f3f91f72ce1..9d89545dcd710 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/build_publish_release_docker_image.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/build_publish_release_docker_image.yml @@ -3,10 +3,15 @@ name: Docker release build on: release: types: [published] + workflow_dispatch: + inputs: + manual: + required: true + default: true jobs: build: - if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' + if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' || 1 == 1 runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Build image job steps: @@ -27,14 +32,14 @@ jobs: uses: ilteoood/docker_buildx@1.1.0 with: tag: latest,${{ steps.actual_patch_version.outputs.ACTUAL_PATCH_VERSION }},${{ steps.actual_minor_version.outputs.ACTUAL_MINOR_VERSION }},${{ steps.actual_major_version.outputs.ACTUAL_MAJOR_VERSION }} - imageName: rclone/rclone + imageName: itstoggle/rclone_rd platform: linux/amd64,linux/386,linux/arm64,linux/arm/v7,linux/arm/v6 publish: true dockerHubUser: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USER }} dockerHubPassword: ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD }} build_docker_volume_plugin: - if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' + if: github.repository == 'rclone/rclone' || 1 == 1 needs: build runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Build docker plugin job @@ -47,13 +52,13 @@ jobs: shell: bash run: | VER=${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/} - PLUGIN_USER=rclone + PLUGIN_USER=itstoggle docker login --username ${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_USER }} \ --password-stdin <<< "${{ secrets.DOCKER_HUB_PASSWORD }}" for PLUGIN_ARCH in amd64 arm64 arm/v7 arm/v6 ;do export PLUGIN_USER PLUGIN_ARCH make docker-plugin PLUGIN_TAG=${PLUGIN_ARCH/\//-} - make docker-plugin PLUGIN_TAG=${PLUGIN_ARCH/\//-}-${VER#v} + make docker-plugin PLUGIN_TAG=${PLUGIN_ARCH/\//-}-master done make docker-plugin PLUGIN_ARCH=amd64 PLUGIN_TAG=latest - make docker-plugin PLUGIN_ARCH=amd64 PLUGIN_TAG=${VER#v} + make docker-plugin PLUGIN_ARCH=amd64 PLUGIN_TAG=master diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index ff61403f32e3d..2a7950c61d00a 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -15,3 +15,9 @@ fuzz-build.zip *.rej Thumbs.db __pycache__ +sorting.txt +rclone-as-beta-linux-arm64 +rclone-as-beta.exe +z-rclone-as-beta-linux-arm64 +z-rclone-as-beta.exe +z-rclone-as-beta-linux diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml index 67b3edda9afa1..9828c53dd9df4 100644 --- a/.golangci.yml +++ b/.golangci.yml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ issues: exclude-use-default: false # Maximum issues count per one linter. Set to 0 to disable. Default is 50. - max-per-linter: 0 + max-issues-per-linter: 0 # Maximum count of issues with the same text. Set to 0 to disable. 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I You may sometimes be asked to [base your changes on the latest master](#basing-your-changes-on-the-latest-master) or [squash your commits](#squashing-your-commits). -## Using Git and Github ## +## Using Git and GitHub ## ### Committing your changes ### diff --git a/MANUAL.html b/MANUAL.html index 7b39794fbedda..f37861a9649b1 100644 --- a/MANUAL.html +++ b/MANUAL.html @@ -13,75 +13,13 @@ div.column{display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; width: 50%;} div.hanging-indent{margin-left: 1.5em; text-indent: -1.5em;} ul.task-list{list-style: none;} - pre > code.sourceCode { white-space: pre; position: relative; } - pre > code.sourceCode > span { display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25; } - pre > code.sourceCode > span:empty { height: 1.2em; } - code.sourceCode > span { color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; } - div.sourceCode { margin: 1em 0; } - pre.sourceCode { margin: 0; } - @media screen { - div.sourceCode { overflow: auto; } - } - @media print { - pre > code.sourceCode { white-space: pre-wrap; } - pre > code.sourceCode > span { text-indent: -5em; padding-left: 5em; } - } - pre.numberSource code - { counter-reset: source-line 0; } - pre.numberSource code > span - { position: relative; left: -4em; counter-increment: source-line; } - pre.numberSource code > span > a:first-child::before - { content: counter(source-line); - position: relative; left: -1em; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; - border: none; display: inline-block; - -webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; - -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; - -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none; - padding: 0 4px; width: 4em; - color: #aaaaaa; - } - pre.numberSource { margin-left: 3em; border-left: 1px solid #aaaaaa; padding-left: 4px; } - div.sourceCode - { } - @media screen { - pre > code.sourceCode > span > a:first-child::before { text-decoration: underline; } - } - code span.al { color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold; } /* Alert */ - code span.an { color: #60a0b0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } /* Annotation */ - code span.at { color: #7d9029; } /* Attribute */ - code span.bn { color: #40a070; } /* BaseN */ - code span.bu { } /* BuiltIn */ - code span.cf { color: #007020; font-weight: bold; } /* ControlFlow */ - code span.ch { color: #4070a0; } /* Char */ - code span.cn { color: #880000; } /* Constant */ - code span.co { color: #60a0b0; font-style: italic; } /* Comment */ - code span.cv { color: #60a0b0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } /* CommentVar */ - code span.do { color: #ba2121; font-style: italic; } /* Documentation */ - code span.dt { color: #902000; } /* DataType */ - code span.dv { color: #40a070; } /* DecVal */ - code span.er { color: #ff0000; font-weight: bold; } /* Error */ - code span.ex { } /* Extension */ - code span.fl { color: #40a070; } /* Float */ - code span.fu { color: #06287e; } /* Function */ - code span.im { } /* Import */ - code span.in { color: #60a0b0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } /* Information */ - code span.kw { color: #007020; font-weight: bold; } /* Keyword */ - code span.op { color: #666666; } /* Operator */ - code span.ot { color: #007020; } /* Other */ - code span.pp { color: #bc7a00; } /* Preprocessor */ - code span.sc { color: #4070a0; } /* SpecialChar */ - code span.ss { color: #bb6688; } /* SpecialString */ - code span.st { color: #4070a0; } /* String */ - code span.va { color: #19177c; } /* Variable */ - code span.vs { color: #4070a0; } /* VerbatimString */ - code span.wa { color: #60a0b0; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } /* Warning */

rclone(1) User Manual

Nick Craig-Wood

-

Mar 18, 2022

+

Dec 20, 2022

Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage

rclone logo

@@ -130,7 +68,7 @@

Features

  • Move files to cloud storage deleting the local after verification
  • Check hashes and for missing/extra files
  • Mount your cloud storage as a network disk
  • -
  • Serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/dlna
  • +
  • Serve local or remote files over HTTP/WebDav/FTP/SFTP/DLNA
  • Experimental Web based GUI
  • Supported providers

    @@ -144,8 +82,10 @@

    Supported providers

  • Backblaze B2
  • Box
  • Ceph
  • +
  • China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)
  • +
  • Arvan Cloud Object Storage (AOS)
  • Citrix ShareFile
  • -
  • C14
  • +
  • Cloudflare R2
  • DigitalOcean Spaces
  • Digi Storage
  • Dreamhost
  • @@ -156,11 +96,16 @@

    Supported providers

  • Google Drive
  • Google Photos
  • HDFS
  • +
  • Hetzner Storage Box
  • +
  • HiDrive
  • HTTP
  • -
  • Hubic
  • +
  • Internet Archive
  • Jottacloud
  • IBM COS S3
  • +
  • IDrive e2
  • +
  • IONOS Cloud
  • Koofr
  • +
  • Liara Object Storage
  • Mail.ru Cloud
  • Memset Memstore
  • Mega
  • @@ -172,12 +117,14 @@

    Supported providers

  • OVH
  • OpenDrive
  • OpenStack Swift
  • -
  • Oracle Cloud Storage
  • +
  • Oracle Cloud Storage Swift
  • +
  • Oracle Object Storage
  • ownCloud
  • pCloud
  • premiumize.me
  • put.io
  • QingStor
  • +
  • Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo)
  • Rackspace Cloud Files
  • rsync.net
  • Scaleway
  • @@ -186,6 +133,7 @@

    Supported providers

  • SeaweedFS
  • SFTP
  • Sia
  • +
  • SMB / CIFS
  • StackPath
  • Storj
  • SugarSync
  • @@ -197,7 +145,19 @@

    Supported providers

  • Zoho WorkDrive
  • The local filesystem
  • -

    Links

    +

    Virtual providers

    +

    These backends adapt or modify other storage providers:

    + + -

    See below for some expanded Linux / macOS instructions.

    +

    See below for some expanded Linux / macOS / Windows instructions.

    See the usage docs for how to use rclone, or run rclone -h.

    Already installed rclone can be easily updated to the latest version using the rclone selfupdate command.

    Script installation

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

    -
    curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
    +
    sudo -v ; curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

    For beta installation, run:

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

    +

    Linux installation

    +

    Precompiled binary

    Fetch and unpack

    curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
     unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
    @@ -237,10 +198,13 @@ 

    Linux installation from prec sudo mandb

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

    rclone config
    -

    macOS installation with brew

    +

    macOS installation

    +

    Installation with brew

    brew install rclone

    NOTE: This version of rclone will not support mount any more (see #5373). If mounting is wanted on macOS, either install a precompiled binary or enable the relevant option when installing from source.

    -

    macOS installation from precompiled binary, using curl

    +

    Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

    +

    Homebrew package

    +

    Precompiled binary, using curl

    To avoid problems with macOS gatekeeper enforcing the binary to be signed and notarized it is enough to download with curl.

    Download the latest version of rclone.

    cd && curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-osx-amd64.zip
    @@ -254,14 +218,44 @@

    macOS installatio
    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
    -

    macOS installation from precompiled binary, using a web browser

    +

    Precompiled binary, using a web browser

    When downloading a binary with a web browser, the browser will set the macOS gatekeeper quarantine attribute. Starting from Catalina, when attempting to run rclone, a pop-up will appear saying:

    -
    “rclone” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
    +
    "rclone" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
     macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.

    The simplest fix is to run

    xattr -d com.apple.quarantine rclone
    -

    Install with docker

    -

    The rclone maintains a docker image for rclone. These images are autobuilt by docker hub from the rclone source based on a minimal Alpine linux image.

    +

    Windows installation

    +

    Precompiled binary

    +

    Fetch the correct binary for your processor type by clicking on these links. If not sure, use the first link.

    + +

    Open this file in the Explorer and extract rclone.exe. Rclone is a portable executable so you can place it wherever is convenient.

    +

    Open a CMD window (or powershell) and run the binary. Note that rclone does not launch a GUI by default, it runs in the CMD Window.

    + +

    If you are planning to use the rclone mount feature then you will need to install the third party utility WinFsp also.

    +

    Chocolatey package manager

    +

    Make sure you have Choco installed

    +
    choco search rclone
    +choco install rclone
    +

    This will install rclone on your Windows machine. If you are planning to use rclone mount then

    +
    choco install winfsp
    +

    will install that too.

    +

    Note that this is a third party installer not controlled by the rclone developers so it may be out of date. Its current version is as below.

    +

    Chocolatey package

    +

    Package manager installation

    +

    Many Linux, Windows, macOS and other OS distributions package and distribute rclone.

    +

    The distributed versions of rclone are often quite out of date and for this reason we recommend one of the other installation methods if possible.

    +

    You can get an idea of how up to date or not your OS distribution's package is here.

    +

    Packaging status

    +

    Docker installation

    +

    The rclone developers maintain a docker image for rclone.

    +

    These images are built as part of the release process based on a minimal Alpine Linux.

    The :latest tag will always point to the latest stable release. You can use the :beta tag to get the latest build from master. You can also use version tags, e.g. :1.49.1, :1.49 or :1.

    $ docker pull rclone/rclone:latest
     latest: Pulling from rclone/rclone
    @@ -307,20 +301,29 @@ 

    Install with docker

    mount dropbox:Photos /data/mount & ls ~/data/mount kill %1
    -

    Install from source

    -

    Make sure you have at least Go go1.15 installed. Download go if necessary. The latest release is recommended. Then

    -
    git clone https://github.com/rclone/rclone.git
    -cd rclone
    -go build
    -# If on macOS and mount is wanted, instead run: make GOTAGS=cmount
    -./rclone version
    -

    This will leave you a checked out version of rclone you can modify and send pull requests with. If you use make instead of go build then the rclone build will have the correct version information in it.

    -

    You can also build the latest stable rclone with:

    +

    Source installation

    +

    Make sure you have git and Go installed. Go version 1.17 or newer is required, latest release is recommended. You can get it from your package manager, or download it from golang.org/dl. Then you can run the following:

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

    This will check out the rclone source in subfolder rclone, which you can later modify and send pull requests with. Then it will build the rclone executable in the same folder. As an initial check you can now run ./rclone version (.\rclone version on Windows).

    +

    Note that on macOS and Windows the mount command will not be available unless you specify an additional build tag cmount.

    +
    go build -tags cmount
    +

    This assumes you have a GCC compatible C compiler (GCC or Clang) in your PATH, as it uses cgo. But on Windows, the cgofuse library that the cmount implementation is based on, also supports building without cgo, i.e. by setting environment variable CGO_ENABLED to value 0 (static linking). This is how the official Windows release of rclone is being built, starting with version 1.59. It is still possible to build with cgo on Windows as well, by using the MinGW port of GCC, e.g. by installing it in a MSYS2 distribution (make sure you install it in the classic mingw64 subsystem, the ucrt64 version is not compatible).

    +

    Additionally, on Windows, you must install the third party utility WinFsp, with the "Developer" feature selected. If building with cgo, you must also set environment variable CPATH pointing to the fuse include directory within the WinFsp installation (normally C:\Program Files (x86)\WinFsp\inc\fuse).

    +

    You may also add arguments -ldflags -s (with or without -tags cmount), to omit symbol table and debug information, making the executable file smaller, and -trimpath to remove references to local file system paths. This is how the official rclone releases are built.

    +
    go build -trimpath -ldflags -s -tags cmount
    +

    Instead of executing the go build command directly, you can run it via the Makefile. It changes the version number suffix from "-DEV" to "-beta" and appends commit details. It also copies the resulting rclone executable into your GOPATH bin folder ($(go env GOPATH)/bin, which corresponds to ~/go/bin/rclone by default).

    +
    make
    +

    To include mount command on macOS and Windows with Makefile build:

    +
    make GOTAGS=cmount
    +

    There are other make targets that can be used for more advanced builds, such as cross-compiling for all supported os/architectures, embedding icon and version info resources into windows executable, and packaging results into release artifacts. See Makefile and cross-compile.go for details.

    +

    Another alternative is to download the source, build and install rclone in one operation, as a regular Go package. The source will be stored it in the Go module cache, and the resulting executable will be in your GOPATH bin folder ($(go env GOPATH)/bin, which corresponds to ~/go/bin/rclone by default).

    +

    With Go version 1.17 or newer:

    +
    go install github.com/rclone/rclone@latest
    +

    With Go versions older than 1.17 (do not use the -u flag, it causes Go to try to update the dependencies that rclone uses and sometimes these don't work with the current version):

    go get github.com/rclone/rclone
    -

    or the latest version (equivalent to the beta) with

    -
    go get github.com/rclone/rclone@master
    -

    These will build the binary in $(go env GOPATH)/bin (~/go/bin/rclone by default) after downloading the source to the go module cache. Note - do not use the -u flag here. This causes go to try to update the dependencies that rclone uses and sometimes these don't work with the current version of rclone.

    -

    Installation with Ansible

    +

    Ansible installation

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

    Instructions

      @@ -330,12 +333,12 @@

      Installation with Ansible

          - hosts: rclone-hosts
             roles:
                 - rclone
      -

      Portable installation

      +

      Portable installation

      As mentioned above, rclone is single executable (rclone, or rclone.exe on Windows) that you can download as a zip archive and extract into a location of your choosing. When executing different commands, it may create files in different locations, such as a configuration file and various temporary files. By default the locations for these are according to your operating system, e.g. configuration file in your user profile directory and temporary files in the standard temporary directory, but you can customize all of them, e.g. to make a completely self-contained, portable installation.

      Run the config paths command to see the locations that rclone will use.

      To override them set the corresponding options (as command-line arguments, or as environment variables): - --config - --cache-dir - --temp-dir

      Autostart

      -

      After installing and configuring rclone, as described above, you are ready to use rclone as an interactive command line utility. If your goal is to perform periodic operations, such as a regular sync, you will probably want to configure your rclone command in your operating system's scheduler. If you need to expose service-like features, such as remote control, GUI, serve or mount, you will often want an rclone command always running in the background, and configuring it to run in a service infrastructure may be a better option. Below are some alternatives on how to achieve this on different operating systems.

      +

      After installing and configuring rclone, as described above, you are ready to use rclone as an interactive command line utility. If your goal is to perform periodic operations, such as a regular sync, you will probably want to configure your rclone command in your operating system's scheduler. If you need to expose service-like features, such as remote control, GUI, serve or mount, you will often want an rclone command always running in the background, and configuring it to run in a service infrastructure may be a better option. Below are some alternatives on how to achieve this on different operating systems.

      NOTE: Before setting up autorun it is highly recommended that you have tested your command manually from a Command Prompt first.

      Autostart on Windows

      The most relevant alternatives for autostart on Windows are: - Run at user log on using the Startup folder - Run at user log on, at system startup or at schedule using Task Scheduler - Run at system startup using Windows service

      @@ -344,8 +347,8 @@

      Running in background

      Example command to run a sync in background:

      c:\rclone\rclone.exe sync c:\files remote:/files --no-console --log-file c:\rclone\logs\sync_files.txt

      User account

      -

      As mentioned in the mount documentation, mounted drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts, not even the account that was elevated as Administrator. By running the mount command as the built-in SYSTEM user account, it will create drives accessible for everyone on the system. Both scheduled task and Windows service can be used to achieve this.

      -

      NOTE: Remember that when rclone runs as the SYSTEM user, the user profile that it sees will not be yours. This means that if you normally run rclone with configuration file in the default location, to be able to use the same configuration when running as the system user you must explicitely tell rclone where to find it with the --config option, or else it will look in the system users profile path (C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile). To test your command manually from a Command Prompt, you can run it with the PsExec utility from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which takes option -s to execute commands as the SYSTEM user.

      +

      As mentioned in the mount documentation, mounted drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts, not even the account that was elevated as Administrator. By running the mount command as the built-in SYSTEM user account, it will create drives accessible for everyone on the system. Both scheduled task and Windows service can be used to achieve this.

      +

      NOTE: Remember that when rclone runs as the SYSTEM user, the user profile that it sees will not be yours. This means that if you normally run rclone with configuration file in the default location, to be able to use the same configuration when running as the system user you must explicitly tell rclone where to find it with the --config option, or else it will look in the system users profile path (C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile). To test your command manually from a Command Prompt, you can run it with the PsExec utility from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which takes option -s to execute commands as the SYSTEM user.

      Start from Startup folder

      To quickly execute an rclone command you can simply create a standard Windows Explorer shortcut for the complete rclone command you want to run. If you store this shortcut in the special "Startup" start-menu folder, Windows will automatically run it at login. To open this folder in Windows Explorer, enter path %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup, or C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp if you want the command to start for every user that logs in.

      This is the easiest approach to autostarting of rclone, but it offers no functionality to set it to run as different user, or to set conditions or actions on certain events. Setting up a scheduled task as described below will often give you better results.

      @@ -354,12 +357,12 @@

      Start from Task Scheduler

      Run as service

      For running rclone at system startup, you can create a Windows service that executes your rclone command, as an alternative to scheduled task configured to run at startup.

      Mount command built-in service integration
      -

      For mount commands, Rclone has a built-in Windows service integration via the third-party WinFsp library it uses. Registering as a regular Windows service easy, as you just have to execute the built-in PowerShell command New-Service (requires administrative privileges).

      +

      For mount commands, rclone has a built-in Windows service integration via the third-party WinFsp library it uses. Registering as a regular Windows service easy, as you just have to execute the built-in PowerShell command New-Service (requires administrative privileges).

      Example of a PowerShell command that creates a Windows service for mounting some remote:/files as drive letter X:, for all users (service will be running as the local system account):

      New-Service -Name Rclone -BinaryPathName 'c:\rclone\rclone.exe mount remote:/files X: --config c:\rclone\config\rclone.conf --log-file c:\rclone\logs\mount.txt'

      The WinFsp service infrastructure supports incorporating services for file system implementations, such as rclone, into its own launcher service, as kind of "child services". This has the additional advantage that it also implements a network provider that integrates into Windows standard methods for managing network drives. This is currently not officially supported by Rclone, but with WinFsp version 2019.3 B2 / v1.5B2 or later it should be possible through path rewriting as described here.

      Third-party service integration
      -

      To Windows service running any rclone command, the excellent third-party utility NSSM, the "Non-Sucking Service Manager", can be used. It includes some advanced features such as adjusting process periority, defining process environment variables, redirect to file anything written to stdout, and customized response to different exit codes, with a GUI to configure everything from (although it can also be used from command line ).

      +

      To Windows service running any rclone command, the excellent third-party utility NSSM, the "Non-Sucking Service Manager", can be used. It includes some advanced features such as adjusting process priority, defining process environment variables, redirect to file anything written to stdout, and customized response to different exit codes, with a GUI to configure everything from (although it can also be used from command line ).

      There are also several other alternatives. To mention one more, WinSW, "Windows Service Wrapper", is worth checking out. It requires .NET Framework, but it is preinstalled on newer versions of Windows, and it also provides alternative standalone distributions which includes necessary runtime (.NET 5). WinSW is a command-line only utility, where you have to manually create an XML file with service configuration. This may be a drawback for some, but it can also be an advantage as it is easy to back up and re-use the configuration settings, without having go through manual steps in a GUI. One thing to note is that by default it does not restart the service on error, one have to explicit enable this in the configuration file (via the "onfailure" parameter).

      Autostart on Linux

      Start as a service

      @@ -384,6 +387,7 @@

      Configure

    1. Chunker - transparently splits large files for other remotes
    2. Citrix ShareFile
    3. Compress
    4. +
    5. Combine
    6. Crypt - to encrypt other remotes
    7. DigitalOcean Spaces
    8. Digi Storage
    9. @@ -395,8 +399,9 @@

      Configure

    10. Google Photos
    11. Hasher - to handle checksums for other remotes
    12. HDFS
    13. +
    14. HiDrive
    15. HTTP
    16. -
    17. Hubic
    18. +
    19. Internet Archive
    20. Jottacloud
    21. Koofr
    22. Mail.ru Cloud
    23. @@ -406,6 +411,7 @@

      Configure

    24. Microsoft OneDrive
    25. OpenStack Swift / Rackspace Cloudfiles / Memset Memstore
    26. OpenDrive
    27. +
    28. Oracle Object Storage
    29. Pcloud
    30. premiumize.me
    31. put.io
    32. @@ -413,6 +419,7 @@

      Configure

    33. Seafile
    34. SFTP
    35. Sia
    36. +
    37. SMB
    38. Storj
    39. SugarSync
    40. Union
    41. @@ -462,8 +469,9 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone copy

      Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.

      Synopsis

      -

      Copy the source to the destination. Does not transfer files that are identical on source and destination, 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.

      +

      Copy the source to the destination. Does not transfer files that are identical on source and destination, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination. If you want to also delete files from destination, to make it match source, use the sync command instead.

      +

      Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the directory itself. So when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of source:path that are copied, not the directory name and contents.

      +

      To copy single files, use the copyto command instead.

      If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.

      For example

      rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath
      @@ -494,12 +502,13 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone sync

      Make source and dest identical, modifying destination only.

      Synopsis

      -

      Sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only. Doesn't transfer files that are identical on source and destination, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Destination is updated to match source, including deleting files if necessary (except duplicate objects, see below).

      +

      Sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only. Doesn't transfer files that are identical on source and destination, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Destination is updated to match source, including deleting files if necessary (except duplicate objects, see below). If you don't want to delete files from destination, use the copy command instead.

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

      rclone sync -i SOURCE remote:DESTINATION

      Note that files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any errors at any point. Duplicate objects (files with the same name, on those providers that support it) are also not yet handled.

      -

      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.

      +

      It is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the directory itself. 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 if unsure.

      If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.

      +

      It is not possible to sync overlapping remotes. However, you may exclude the destination from the sync with a filter rule or by putting an exclude-if-present file inside the destination directory and sync to a destination that is inside the source directory.

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

      Note: Use the rclone dedupe command to deal with "Duplicate object/directory found in source/destination - ignoring" errors. See this forum post for more info.

      rclone sync source:path dest:path [flags]
      @@ -515,9 +524,10 @@

      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.

      +

      To move single files, use the moveto command instead.

      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 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.

      +

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

      See the --no-traverse option for controlling whether rclone lists the destination directory or not. Supplying this option when moving a small number of files into a large destination can speed transfers up greatly.

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

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

      @@ -534,9 +544,9 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone delete

      Remove the files in 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 files but leaves the directory structure alone. If you want to delete a directory and all of its contents use the purge command.

      -

      If you supply the --rmdirs flag, it will remove all empty directories along with it. You can also use the separate command rmdir or rmdirs to delete empty directories only.

      +

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

      +

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

      +

      If you supply the --rmdirs flag, it will remove all empty directories along with it. You can also use the separate command rmdir or rmdirs to delete empty directories only.

      For example, to delete all files bigger than 100 MiB, you may first want to check what would be deleted (use either):

      rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
       rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path
      @@ -556,7 +566,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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 the delete command if you want to selectively delete files. To delete empty directories only, use command rmdir or rmdirs.

      +

      Remove the path and all of its contents. Note that this does not obey include/exclude filters - everything will be removed. Use the delete command if you want to selectively delete files. To delete empty directories only, use command rmdir or rmdirs.

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

      rclone purge remote:path [flags]

      Options

      @@ -579,8 +589,8 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone rmdir

      Remove the empty directory at path.

      Synopsis

      -

      This removes empty directory given by path. Will not remove the path if it has any objects in it, not even empty subdirectories. Use command rmdirs (or delete with option --rmdirs) to do that.

      -

      To delete a path and any objects in it, use purge command.

      +

      This removes empty directory given by path. Will not remove the path if it has any objects in it, not even empty subdirectories. Use command rmdirs (or delete with option --rmdirs) to do that.

      +

      To delete a path and any objects in it, use purge command.

      rclone rmdir remote:path [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help   help for rmdir
      @@ -593,6 +603,7 @@

      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 that don't match. It doesn't alter the source or destination.

      +

      For the crypt remote there is a dedicated command, cryptcheck, that are able to check the checksums of the crypted files.

      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 --checkfile HASH flag with a valid hash name, the source:path must point to a text file in the SUM format.

      @@ -645,7 +656,7 @@

      Synopsis

      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 (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      +

      Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      rclone ls remote:path [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help   help for ls
      @@ -657,7 +668,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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.

      +

      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
      @@ -667,7 +678,7 @@ 

      Synopsis

      -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".

      +

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

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

      There are several related list commands

        @@ -680,7 +691,7 @@

        Synopsis

        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 (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

        +

        Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

        rclone lsd remote:path [flags]

        Options

          -h, --help        help for lsd
        @@ -712,7 +723,7 @@ 

        Synopsis

        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 (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

        +

        Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

        rclone lsl remote:path [flags]

        Options

          -h, --help   help for lsl
        @@ -726,7 +737,8 @@

        rclone md5sum

        Synopsis

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

        By default, the hash is requested from the remote. If MD5 is not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned. With the download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and hashed locally enabling MD5 for any remote.

        -

        This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hypen will be treated literaly, as a relative path).

        +

        For other algorithms, see the hashsum command. Running rclone md5sum remote:path is equivalent to running rclone hashsum MD5 remote:path.

        +

        This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally, as a relative path).

        rclone md5sum remote:path [flags]

        Options

              --base64               Output base64 encoded hashsum
        @@ -744,7 +756,8 @@ 

        rclone sha1sum

        Synopsis

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

        By default, the hash is requested from the remote. If SHA-1 is not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned. With the download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and hashed locally enabling SHA-1 for any remote.

        -

        This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hypen will be treated literaly, as a relative path).

        +

        For other algorithms, see the hashsum command. Running rclone sha1sum remote:path is equivalent to running rclone hashsum SHA1 remote:path.

        +

        This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally, as a relative path).

        This command can also hash data received on STDIN, if not passing a remote:path.

        rclone sha1sum remote:path [flags]

        Options

        @@ -760,6 +773,11 @@

        SEE ALSO

      rclone size

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

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Counts objects in the path and calculates the total size. Prints the result to standard output.

      +

      By default the output is in human-readable format, but shows values in both human-readable format as well as the raw numbers (global option --human-readable is not considered). Use option --json to format output as JSON instead.

      +

      Recurses by default, use --max-depth 1 to stop the recursion.

      +

      Some backends do not always provide file sizes, see for example Google Photos and Google Drive. Rclone will then show a notice in the log indicating how many such files were encountered, and count them in as empty files in the output of the size command.

      rclone size remote:path [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help   help for size
      @@ -771,7 +789,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone version

      Show the version number.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Show the rclone version number, the go version, the build target OS and architecture, the runtime OS and kernel version and bitness, build tags and the type of executable (static or dynamic).

      For example:

      $ rclone version
      @@ -807,7 +825,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone cleanup

      Clean up the remote if possible.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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

      @@ -819,10 +837,10 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone dedupe

      Interactively find duplicate filenames and delete/rename them.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      By default dedupe interactively finds files with duplicate names and offers to delete all but one or rename them to be different. This is known as deduping by name.

      Deduping by name is only useful with a small group of backends (e.g. Google Drive, Opendrive) that can have duplicate file names. It can be run on wrapping backends (e.g. crypt) if they wrap a backend which supports duplicate file names.

      -

      However if --by-hash is passed in then dedupe will find files with duplicate hashes instead which will work on any backend which supports at least one hash. This can be used to find files with duplicate content. This is known as deduping by hash.

      +

      However if --by-hash is passed in then dedupe will find files with duplicate hashes instead which will work on any backend which supports at least one hash. This can be used to find files with duplicate content. This is known as deduping by hash.

      If deduping by name, first rclone will merge directories with the same name. It will do this iteratively until all the identically named directories have been merged.

      Next, if deduping by name, for every group of duplicate file names / hashes, it will delete all but one identical file it finds without confirmation. This means that for most duplicated files the dedupe command will not be interactive.

      dedupe considers files to be identical if they have the same file path and the same hash. If the backend does not support hashes (e.g. crypt wrapping Google Drive) then they will never be found to be identical. If you use the --size-only flag then files will be considered identical if they have the same size (any hash will be ignored). This can be useful on crypt backends which do not support hashes.

      @@ -898,7 +916,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone about

      Get quota information from the remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      rclone about prints quota information about a remote to standard output. The output is typically used, free, quota and trash contents.

      E.g. Typical output from rclone about remote: is:

      Total:   17 GiB
      @@ -944,7 +962,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone authorize

      Remote authorization.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

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

      Use the --auth-no-open-browser to prevent rclone to open auth link in default browser automatically.

      rclone authorize [flags]
      @@ -958,7 +976,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone backend

      Run a backend-specific command.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This runs a backend-specific command. The commands themselves (except for "help" and "features") are defined by the backends and you should see the backend docs for definitions.

      You can discover what commands a backend implements by using

      rclone backend help remote:
      @@ -981,9 +999,9 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

    42. rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    43. rclone bisync

      -

      Perform bidirectonal synchronization between two paths.

      -

      Synopsis

      -

      Perform bidirectonal synchronization between two paths.

      +

      Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.

      Bisync provides a bidirectional cloud sync solution in rclone. It retains the Path1 and Path2 filesystem listings from the prior run. On each successive run it will: - list files on Path1 and Path2, and check for changes on each side. Changes include New, Newer, Older, and Deleted files. - Propagate changes on Path1 to Path2, and vice-versa.

      See full bisync description for details.

      rclone bisync remote1:path1 remote2:path2 [flags]
      @@ -1006,7 +1024,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone cat

      Concatenates any files and sends them to stdout.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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
      @@ -1030,7 +1048,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone checksum

      Checks the files in the source against a SUM file.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Checks that hashsums of source files match the SUM file. It compares hashes (MD5, SHA1, etc) and logs a report of files which don't match. It doesn't alter the file system.

      If you supply the --download flag, it will download the data from remote and calculate the contents hash on the fly. This can be useful for remotes that don't support hashes or if you really want to check all the data.

      Note that hash values in the SUM file are treated as case insensitive.

      @@ -1061,8 +1079,8 @@

      SEE ALSO

    44. rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    45. rclone completion

      -

      generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell

      +

      Synopsis

      Generate the autocompletion script for rclone for the specified shell. See each sub-command's help for details on how to use the generated script.

      Options

        -h, --help   help for completion
      @@ -1070,18 +1088,23 @@

      Options

      SEE ALSO

      rclone completion bash

      -

      generate the autocompletion script for bash

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Generate the autocompletion script for bash

      +

      Synopsis

      Generate the autocompletion script for the bash shell.

      This script depends on the 'bash-completion' package. If it is not installed already, you can install it via your OS's package manager.

      -

      To load completions in your current shell session: $ source <(rclone completion bash)

      -

      To load completions for every new session, execute once: Linux: $ rclone completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/rclone MacOS: $ rclone completion bash > /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/rclone

      +

      To load completions in your current shell session:

      +
      source <(rclone completion bash)
      +

      To load completions for every new session, execute once:

      +

      Linux:

      +
      rclone completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/rclone
      +

      macOS:

      +
      rclone completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/rclone

      You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

      rclone completion bash

      Options

      @@ -1090,14 +1113,16 @@

      Options

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      rclone completion fish

      -

      generate the autocompletion script for fish

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Generate the autocompletion script for fish

      +

      Synopsis

      Generate the autocompletion script for the fish shell.

      -

      To load completions in your current shell session: $ rclone completion fish | source

      -

      To load completions for every new session, execute once: $ rclone completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/rclone.fish

      +

      To load completions in your current shell session:

      +
      rclone completion fish | source
      +

      To load completions for every new session, execute once:

      +
      rclone completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/rclone.fish

      You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

      rclone completion fish [flags]

      Options

      @@ -1106,13 +1131,14 @@

      Options

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      rclone completion powershell

      -

      generate the autocompletion script for powershell

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Generate the autocompletion script for powershell

      +

      Synopsis

      Generate the autocompletion script for powershell.

      -

      To load completions in your current shell session: PS C:> rclone completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

      +

      To load completions in your current shell session:

      +
      rclone completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

      To load completions for every new session, add the output of the above command to your powershell profile.

      rclone completion powershell [flags]

      Options

      @@ -1121,15 +1147,21 @@

      Options

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      rclone completion zsh

      -

      generate the autocompletion script for zsh

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Generate the autocompletion script for zsh

      +

      Synopsis

      Generate the autocompletion script for the zsh shell.

      If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:

      -

      $ echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc

      -

      To load completions for every new session, execute once: # Linux: $ rclone completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_rclone" # macOS: $ rclone completion zsh > /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_rclone

      +
      echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc
      +

      To load completions in your current shell session:

      +
      source <(rclone completion zsh); compdef _rclone rclone
      +

      To load completions for every new session, execute once:

      +

      Linux:

      +
      rclone completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_rclone"
      +

      macOS:

      +
      rclone completion zsh > $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_rclone

      You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

      rclone completion zsh [flags]

      Options

      @@ -1138,11 +1170,11 @@

      Options

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config create

      Create a new remote with name, type and options.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Create a new remote of name with type and options. The options should be passed in pairs of key value or as key=value.

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

      rclone config create myremote swift env_auth true
      @@ -1152,13 +1184,13 @@ 

      Synopsis

      Note that if the config process would normally ask a question the default is taken (unless --non-interactive is used). Each time that happens rclone will print or DEBUG a message saying how to affect the value taken.

      If any of the parameters passed is a password field, then rclone will automatically obscure them if they aren't already obscured before putting them in the config file.

      NB If the password parameter is 22 characters or longer and consists only of base64 characters then rclone can get confused about whether the password is already obscured or not and put unobscured passwords into the config file. If you want to be 100% certain that the passwords get obscured then use the --obscure flag, or if you are 100% certain you are already passing obscured passwords then use --no-obscure. You can also set obscured passwords using the rclone config password command.

      -

      The flag --non-interactive is for use by applications that wish to configure rclone themeselves, rather than using rclone's text based configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in it.

      +

      The flag --non-interactive is for use by applications that wish to configure rclone themselves, rather than using rclone's text based configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in it.

      This will look something like (some irrelevant detail removed):

      {
           "State": "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,,",
           "Option": {
               "Name": "config_is_local",
      -        "Help": "Use auto config?\n * Say Y if not sure\n * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine\n",
      +        "Help": "Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?\n * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use\n * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access\nIf not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.\n",
               "Default": true,
               "Examples": [
                   {
      @@ -1223,7 +1255,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config disconnect

      Disconnects user from remote

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This disconnects the remote: passed in to the cloud storage system.

      This normally means revoking the oauth token.

      To reconnect use "rclone config reconnect".

      @@ -1247,7 +1279,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config edit

      Enter an interactive configuration session.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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

      @@ -1269,7 +1301,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config password

      Update password in an existing remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Update an existing remote's password. The password should be passed in pairs of key password or as key=password. The password should be passed in in clear (unobscured).

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

      rclone config password myremote fieldname mypassword
      @@ -1305,7 +1337,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config reconnect

      Re-authenticates user with remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This reconnects remote: passed in to the cloud storage system.

      To disconnect the remote use "rclone config disconnect".

      This normally means going through the interactive oauth flow again.

      @@ -1339,7 +1371,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config update

      Update options in an existing remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Update an existing remote's options. The options should be passed in pairs of key value or as key=value.

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

      rclone config update myremote env_auth true
      @@ -1349,13 +1381,13 @@ 

      Synopsis

      Note that if the config process would normally ask a question the default is taken (unless --non-interactive is used). Each time that happens rclone will print or DEBUG a message saying how to affect the value taken.

      If any of the parameters passed is a password field, then rclone will automatically obscure them if they aren't already obscured before putting them in the config file.

      NB If the password parameter is 22 characters or longer and consists only of base64 characters then rclone can get confused about whether the password is already obscured or not and put unobscured passwords into the config file. If you want to be 100% certain that the passwords get obscured then use the --obscure flag, or if you are 100% certain you are already passing obscured passwords then use --no-obscure. You can also set obscured passwords using the rclone config password command.

      -

      The flag --non-interactive is for use by applications that wish to configure rclone themeselves, rather than using rclone's text based configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in it.

      +

      The flag --non-interactive is for use by applications that wish to configure rclone themselves, rather than using rclone's text based configuration questions. If this flag is set, and rclone needs to ask the user a question, a JSON blob will be returned with the question in it.

      This will look something like (some irrelevant detail removed):

      {
           "State": "*oauth-islocal,teamdrive,,",
           "Option": {
               "Name": "config_is_local",
      -        "Help": "Use auto config?\n * Say Y if not sure\n * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine\n",
      +        "Help": "Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?\n * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use\n * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access\nIf not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.\n",
               "Default": true,
               "Examples": [
                   {
      @@ -1410,7 +1442,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone config userinfo

      Prints info about logged in user of remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This prints the details of the person logged in to the cloud storage system.

      rclone config userinfo remote: [flags]

      Options

      @@ -1423,9 +1455,9 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone copyto

      Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      +

      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.

      So

      rclone copyto src dst

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

      @@ -1447,18 +1479,19 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone copyurl

      Copy url content to dest.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Download a URL's content and copy it to the destination without saving it in temporary storage.

      -

      Setting --auto-filename will cause the file name to be retrieved from the URL (after any redirections) and used in the destination path. With --print-filename in addition, the resulting file name will be printed.

      +

      Setting --auto-filename will attempt to automatically determine the filename from the URL (after any redirections) and used in the destination path. With --auto-filename-header in addition, if a specific filename is set in HTTP headers, it will be used instead of the name from the URL. With --print-filename in addition, the resulting file name will be printed.

      Setting --no-clobber will prevent overwriting file on the destination if there is one with the same name.

      Setting --stdout or making the output file name - will cause the output to be written to standard output.

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

      Options

      -
        -a, --auto-filename    Get the file name from the URL and use it for destination file path
      -  -h, --help             help for copyurl
      -      --no-clobber       Prevent overwriting file with same name
      -  -p, --print-filename   Print the resulting name from --auto-filename
      -      --stdout           Write the output to stdout rather than a file
      +
        -a, --auto-filename     Get the file name from the URL and use it for destination file path
      +      --header-filename   Get the file name from the Content-Disposition header
      +  -h, --help              help for copyurl
      +      --no-clobber        Prevent overwriting file with same name
      +  -p, --print-filename    Print the resulting name from --auto-filename
      +      --stdout            Write the output to stdout rather than a file

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -1466,8 +1499,8 @@

        SEE ALSO

      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.

      +

      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

      @@ -1502,14 +1535,14 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone cryptdecode

      Cryptdecode returns unencrypted file names.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      +

      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
      -

      Another way to accomplish this is by using the rclone backend encode (or decode)command. See the documentation on the crypt overlay for more info.

      +

      Another way to accomplish this is by using the rclone backend encode (or decode) command. See the documentation on the crypt overlay for more info.

      rclone cryptdecode encryptedremote: encryptedfilename [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help      help for cryptdecode
      @@ -1521,7 +1554,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone deletefile

      Remove a single file from remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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

      @@ -1533,8 +1566,8 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

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

      Options

        -h, --help   help for genautocomplete

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      @@ -1547,7 +1580,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone genautocomplete bash

      Output bash completion script for rclone.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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, e.g.

      sudo rclone genautocomplete bash
      @@ -1565,7 +1598,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone genautocomplete fish

      Output fish completion script for rclone.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Generates a fish autocompletion script for rclone.

      This writes to /etc/fish/completions/rclone.fish by default so will probably need to be run with sudo or as root, e.g.

      sudo rclone genautocomplete fish
      @@ -1583,7 +1616,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone genautocomplete zsh

      Output zsh completion script for rclone.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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, e.g.

      sudo rclone genautocomplete zsh
      @@ -1601,7 +1634,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone gendocs

      Output markdown docs for rclone to the directory supplied.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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

      @@ -1613,10 +1646,11 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone hashsum

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

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      By default, the hash is requested from the remote. If the hash is not supported by the remote, no hash will be returned. With the download flag, the file will be downloaded from the remote and hashed locally enabling any hash for any remote.

      -

      This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hypen will be treated literaly, as a relative path).

      +

      For the MD5 and SHA1 algorithms there are also dedicated commands, md5sum and sha1sum.

      +

      This command can also hash data received on standard input (stdin), by not passing a remote:path, or by passing a hyphen as remote:path when there is data to read (if not, the hyphen will be treated literally, as a relative path).

      Run without a hash to see the list of all supported hashes, e.g.

      $ rclone hashsum
       Supported hashes are:
      @@ -1626,6 +1660,7 @@ 

      Synopsis

      * crc32 * sha256 * dropbox + * hidrive * mailru * quickxor

      Then

      @@ -1645,7 +1680,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone link

      Generate public link to file/folder.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

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

      rclone link remote:path/to/file
       rclone link remote:path/to/folder/
      @@ -1666,9 +1701,9 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone listremotes

      List all the remotes in the config file.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

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

      -

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

      +

      When used with the --long flag it lists the types too.

      rclone listremotes [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help   help for listremotes
      @@ -1680,7 +1715,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone lsf

      List directories and objects in remote:path formatted for parsing.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      Eg

      $ rclone lsf swift:bucket
      @@ -1689,7 +1724,7 @@ 

      Synopsis

      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:

      +

      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
      @@ -1698,8 +1733,9 @@ 

      Synopsis

      o - Original ID of underlying object m - MimeType of object if known e - encrypted name -T - tier of storage if known, e.g. "Hot" or "Cool"
      -

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

      +T - tier of storage if known, e.g. "Hot" or "Cool" +M - Metadata of object in JSON blob format, eg {"key":"value"}
      +

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

      Eg

      $ rclone lsf  --format "tsp" swift:bucket
       2016-06-25 18:55:41;60295;bevajer5jef
      @@ -1707,7 +1743,7 @@ 

      Synopsis

      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.

      +

      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 .

      Eg

      @@ -1718,7 +1754,7 @@

      Synopsis

      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.

      +

      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.

      Eg

      $ rclone lsf  --separator "," --format "tshp" swift:bucket
       2016-06-25 18:55:41,60295,7908e352297f0f530b84a756f188baa3,bevajer5jef
      @@ -1732,7 +1768,7 @@ 

      Synopsis

      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-raw flag.

      +

      Note that the --absolute parameter is useful for making lists of files to pass to an rclone copy with the --files-from-raw 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-raw new_files /path/to/local remote:path
      @@ -1748,7 +1784,7 @@

      Synopsis

      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 (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      +

      Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      rclone lsf remote:path [flags]

      Options

            --absolute           Put a leading / in front of path names
      @@ -1768,18 +1804,37 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone lsjson

      List directories and objects in the path in JSON format.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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", "IsBucket" : false, "IsDir" : false, "MimeType" : "application/octet-stream", "ModTime" : "2017-05-31T16:15:57.034468261+01:00", "Name" : "file.txt", "Encrypted" : "v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338", "EncryptedPath" : "kja9098349023498/v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338", "Path" : "full/path/goes/here/file.txt", "Size" : 6, "Tier" : "hot", }

      -

      If --hash is not specified the Hashes property won't be emitted. The types of hash can be specified with the --hash-type parameter (which may be repeated). If --hash-type is set then it implies --hash.

      -

      If --no-modtime is specified then ModTime will be blank. This can speed things up on remotes where reading the ModTime takes an extra request (e.g. s3, swift).

      -

      If --no-mimetype is specified then MimeType will be blank. This can speed things up on remotes where reading the MimeType takes an extra request (e.g. s3, swift).

      -

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

      -

      If --dirs-only is not specified files in addition to directories are returned

      -

      If --files-only is not specified directories in addition to the files will be returned.

      -

      if --stat is set then a single JSON blob will be returned about the item pointed to. This will return an error if the item isn't found. However on bucket based backends (like s3, gcs, b2, azureblob etc) if the item isn't found it will return an empty directory as it isn't possible to tell empty directories from missing directories there.

      -

      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.

      +
      {
      +  "Hashes" : {
      +     "SHA-1" : "f572d396fae9206628714fb2ce00f72e94f2258f",
      +     "MD5" : "b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184",
      +     "DropboxHash" : "ecb65bb98f9d905b70458986c39fcbad7715e5f2fcc3b1f07767d7c83e2438cc"
      +  },
      +  "ID": "y2djkhiujf83u33",
      +  "OrigID": "UYOJVTUW00Q1RzTDA",
      +  "IsBucket" : false,
      +  "IsDir" : false,
      +  "MimeType" : "application/octet-stream",
      +  "ModTime" : "2017-05-31T16:15:57.034468261+01:00",
      +  "Name" : "file.txt",
      +  "Encrypted" : "v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338",
      +  "EncryptedPath" : "kja9098349023498/v0qpsdq8anpci8n929v3uu9338",
      +  "Path" : "full/path/goes/here/file.txt",
      +  "Size" : 6,
      +  "Tier" : "hot",
      +}
      +

      If --hash is not specified the Hashes property won't be emitted. The types of hash can be specified with the --hash-type parameter (which may be repeated). If --hash-type is set then it implies --hash.

      +

      If --no-modtime is specified then ModTime will be blank. This can speed things up on remotes where reading the ModTime takes an extra request (e.g. s3, swift).

      +

      If --no-mimetype is specified then MimeType will be blank. This can speed things up on remotes where reading the MimeType takes an extra request (e.g. s3, swift).

      +

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

      +

      If --dirs-only is not specified files in addition to directories are returned

      +

      If --files-only is not specified directories in addition to the files will be returned.

      +

      If --metadata is set then an additional Metadata key will be returned. This will have metadata in rclone standard format as a JSON object.

      +

      if --stat is set then a single JSON blob will be returned about the item pointed to. This will return an error if the item isn't found. However on bucket based backends (like s3, gcs, b2, azureblob etc) if the item isn't found it will return an empty directory as it isn't possible to tell empty directories from missing directories there.

      +

      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.

      If the directory is a bucket in a bucket-based backend, then "IsBucket" will be set to true. This key won't be present unless it is "true".

      The time is in RFC3339 format with up to nanosecond precision. The number of decimal digits in the seconds will depend on the precision that the remote can hold the times, so if times are accurate to the nearest millisecond (e.g. Google Drive) then 3 digits will always be shown ("2017-05-31T16:15:57.034+01:00") whereas if the times are accurate to the nearest second (Dropbox, Box, WebDav, etc.) no digits will be shown ("2017-05-31T16:15:57+01:00").

      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.

      @@ -1795,15 +1850,16 @@

      Synopsis

      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 (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      +

      Listing a nonexistent directory will produce an error except for remotes which can't have empty directories (e.g. s3, swift, or gcs - the bucket-based remotes).

      rclone lsjson remote:path [flags]

      Options

            --dirs-only               Show only directories in the listing
      -  -M, --encrypted               Show the encrypted names
      +      --encrypted               Show the encrypted names
             --files-only              Show only files in the listing
             --hash                    Include hashes in the output (may take longer)
             --hash-type stringArray   Show only this hash type (may be repeated)
         -h, --help                    help for lsjson
      +  -M, --metadata                Add metadata to the listing
             --no-mimetype             Don't read the mime type (can speed things up)
             --no-modtime              Don't read the modification time (can speed things up)
             --original                Show the ID of the underlying Object
      @@ -1816,7 +1872,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone mount

      Mount the remote as file system on a mountpoint.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      On Linux and macOS, you can run mount in either foreground or background (aka daemon) mode. Mount runs in foreground mode by default. Use the --daemon flag to force background mode. On Windows you can run mount in foreground only, the flag is ignored.

      @@ -1839,11 +1895,11 @@

      Synopsis

      The size of the mounted file system will be set according to information retrieved from the remote, the same as returned by the rclone about command. Remotes with unlimited storage may report the used size only, then an additional 1 PiB of free space is assumed. If the remote does not support the about feature at all, then 1 PiB is set as both the total and the free size.

      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.

      +

      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.

      Mounting modes on windows

      Unlike other operating systems, Microsoft Windows provides a different filesystem type for network and fixed drives. It optimises access on the assumption fixed disk drives are fast and reliable, while network drives have relatively high latency and less reliability. Some settings can also be differentiated between the two types, for example that Windows Explorer should just display icons and not create preview thumbnails for image and video files on network drives.

      In most cases, rclone will mount the remote as a normal, fixed disk drive by default. However, you can also choose to mount it as a remote network drive, often described as a network share. If you mount an rclone remote using the default, fixed drive mode and experience unexpected program errors, freezes or other issues, consider mounting as a network drive instead.

      -

      When mounting as a fixed disk drive you can either mount to an unused drive letter, or to a path representing a non-existent subdirectory of an existing parent directory or drive. Using the special value * will tell rclone to automatically assign the next available drive letter, starting with Z: and moving backward. Examples:

      +

      When mounting as a fixed disk drive you can either mount to an unused drive letter, or to a path representing a nonexistent subdirectory of an existing parent directory or drive. Using the special value * will tell rclone to automatically assign the next available drive letter, starting with Z: and moving backward. Examples:

      rclone mount remote:path/to/files *
       rclone mount remote:path/to/files X:
       rclone mount remote:path/to/files C:\path\parent\mount
      @@ -1852,10 +1908,10 @@ 

      Mounting modes on windows

      To mount as network drive, you can add option --network-mode to your mount command. Mounting to a directory path is not supported in this mode, it is a limitation Windows imposes on junctions, so the remote must always be mounted to a drive letter.

      rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode

      A volume name specified with --volname will be used to create the network share path. A complete UNC path, such as \\cloud\remote, optionally with path \\cloud\remote\madeup\path, will be used as is. Any other string will be used as the share part, after a default prefix \\server\. If no volume name is specified then \\server\share will be used. You must make sure the volume name is unique when you are mounting more than one drive, or else the mount command will fail. The share name will treated as the volume label for the mapped drive, shown in Windows Explorer etc, while the complete \\server\share will be reported as the remote UNC path by net use etc, just like a normal network drive mapping.

      -

      If you specify a full network share UNC path with --volname, this will implicitely set the --network-mode option, so the following two examples have same result:

      +

      If you specify a full network share UNC path with --volname, this will implicitly set the --network-mode option, so the following two examples have same result:

      rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --network-mode
       rclone mount remote:path/to/files X: --volname \\server\share
      -

      You may also specify the network share UNC path as the mountpoint itself. Then rclone will automatically assign a drive letter, same as with * and use that as mountpoint, and instead use the UNC path specified as the volume name, as if it were specified with the --volname option. This will also implicitely set the --network-mode option. This means the following two examples have same result:

      +

      You may also specify the network share UNC path as the mountpoint itself. Then rclone will automatically assign a drive letter, same as with * and use that as mountpoint, and instead use the UNC path specified as the volume name, as if it were specified with the --volname option. This will also implicitly set the --network-mode option. This means the following two examples have same result:

      rclone mount remote:path/to/files \\cloud\remote
       rclone mount remote:path/to/files * --volname \\cloud\remote

      There is yet another way to enable network mode, and to set the share path, and that is to pass the "native" libfuse/WinFsp option directly: --fuse-flag --VolumePrefix=\server\share. Note that the path must be with just a single backslash prefix in this case.

      @@ -1865,7 +1921,7 @@

      Mounting modes on windows

      Windows filesystem permissions

      The FUSE emulation layer on Windows must convert between the POSIX-based permission model used in FUSE, and the permission model used in Windows, based on access-control lists (ACL).

      The mounted filesystem will normally get three entries in its access-control list (ACL), representing permissions for the POSIX permission scopes: Owner, group and others. By default, the owner and group will be taken from the current user, and the built-in group "Everyone" will be used to represent others. The user/group can be customized with FUSE options "UserName" and "GroupName", e.g. -o UserName=user123 -o GroupName="Authenticated Users". The permissions on each entry will be set according to options --dir-perms and --file-perms, which takes a value in traditional numeric notation.

      -

      The default permissions corresponds to --file-perms 0666 --dir-perms 0777, i.e. read and write permissions to everyone. This means you will not be able to start any programs from the the mount. To be able to do that you must add execute permissions, e.g. --file-perms 0777 --dir-perms 0777 to add it to everyone. If the program needs to write files, chances are you will have to enable VFS File Caching as well (see also limitations).

      +

      The default permissions corresponds to --file-perms 0666 --dir-perms 0777, i.e. read and write permissions to everyone. This means you will not be able to start any programs from the mount. To be able to do that you must add execute permissions, e.g. --file-perms 0777 --dir-perms 0777 to add it to everyone. If the program needs to write files, chances are you will have to enable VFS File Caching as well (see also limitations).

      Note that the mapping of permissions is not always trivial, and the result you see in Windows Explorer may not be exactly like you expected. For example, when setting a value that includes write access, this will be mapped to individual permissions "write attributes", "write data" and "append data", but not "write extended attributes". Windows will then show this as basic permission "Special" instead of "Write", because "Write" includes the "write extended attributes" permission.

      If you set POSIX permissions for only allowing access to the owner, using --file-perms 0600 --dir-perms 0700, the user group and the built-in "Everyone" group will still be given some special permissions, such as "read attributes" and "read permissions", in Windows. This is done for compatibility reasons, e.g. to allow users without additional permissions to be able to read basic metadata about files like in UNIX. One case that may arise is that other programs (incorrectly) interprets this as the file being accessible by everyone. For example an SSH client may warn about "unprotected private key file".

      WinFsp 2021 (version 1.9) introduces a new FUSE option "FileSecurity", that allows the complete specification of file security descriptors using SDDL. With this you can work around issues such as the mentioned "unprotected private key file" by specifying -o FileSecurity="D:P(A;;FA;;;OW)", for file all access (FA) to the owner (OW).

      @@ -1873,11 +1929,11 @@

      Windows caveats

      Drives created as Administrator are not visible to other accounts, not even an account that was elevated to Administrator with the User Account Control (UAC) feature. A result of this is that if you mount to a drive letter from a Command Prompt run as Administrator, and then try to access the same drive from Windows Explorer (which does not run as Administrator), you will not be able to see the mounted drive.

      If you don't need to access the drive from applications running with administrative privileges, the easiest way around this is to always create the mount from a non-elevated command prompt.

      To make mapped drives available to the user account that created them regardless if elevated or not, there is a special Windows setting called linked connections that can be enabled.

      -

      It is also possible to make a drive mount available to everyone on the system, by running the process creating it as the built-in SYSTEM account. There are several ways to do this: One is to use the command-line utility PsExec, from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which has option -s to start processes as the SYSTEM account. Another alternative is to run the mount command from a Windows Scheduled Task, or a Windows Service, configured to run as the SYSTEM account. A third alternative is to use the WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure). Note that when running rclone as another user, it will not use the configuration file from your profile unless you tell it to with the --config option. Read more in the install documentation.

      +

      It is also possible to make a drive mount available to everyone on the system, by running the process creating it as the built-in SYSTEM account. There are several ways to do this: One is to use the command-line utility PsExec, from Microsoft's Sysinternals suite, which has option -s to start processes as the SYSTEM account. Another alternative is to run the mount command from a Windows Scheduled Task, or a Windows Service, configured to run as the SYSTEM account. A third alternative is to use the WinFsp.Launcher infrastructure). Note that when running rclone as another user, it will not use the configuration file from your profile unless you tell it to with the --config option. Read more in the install documentation.

      Note that mapping to a directory path, instead of a drive letter, does not suffer from the same limitations.

      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 VFS File Caching section for more info.

      -

      The bucket-based remotes (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2, Hubic) do not support the concept of empty directories, so empty directories will have a tendency to disappear once they fall out of the directory cache.

      +

      The bucket-based remotes (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2) do not support the concept of empty directories, so empty directories will have a tendency to disappear once they fall out of the directory cache.

      When rclone mount is invoked on Unix with --daemon flag, the main rclone program will wait for the background mount to become ready or until the timeout specified by the --daemon-wait flag. On Linux it can check mount status using ProcFS so the flag in fact sets maximum time to wait, while the real wait can be less. On macOS / BSD the time to wait is constant and the check is performed only at the end. We advise you to set wait time on macOS reasonably.

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

      rclone mount vs rclone sync/copy

      @@ -1936,7 +1992,7 @@

      VFS - Virtual File System

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -1999,6 +2055,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -2013,20 +2082,23 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      @@ -2036,14 +2108,14 @@

      Options

      --allow-other Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows) --allow-root Allow access to root user (not supported on Windows) --async-read Use asynchronous reads (not supported on Windows) (default true) - --attr-timeout duration Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s) + --attr-timeout Duration Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s) --daemon Run mount in background and exit parent process (as background output is suppressed, use --log-file with --log-format=pid,... to monitor) (not supported on Windows) - --daemon-timeout duration Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) - --daemon-wait duration Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s) + --daemon-timeout Duration Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) (default 0s) + --daemon-wait Duration Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s) --debug-fuse Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v --default-permissions Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode (not supported on Windows) --devname string Set the device name - default is remote:path - --dir-cache-time duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s) + --dir-cache-time Duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s) --dir-perms FileMode Directory permissions (default 0777) --file-perms FileMode File permissions (default 0666) --fuse-flag stringArray Flags or arguments to be passed direct to libfuse/WinFsp (repeat if required) @@ -2057,22 +2129,24 @@

      Options

      --noappledouble Ignore Apple Double (._) and .DS_Store files (supported on OSX only) (default true) --noapplexattr Ignore all "com.apple.*" extended attributes (supported on OSX only) -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 and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) - --read-only Mount read-only + --poll-interval Duration Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) + --read-only Only allow read-only access --uid uint32 Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000) --umask int Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2) - --vfs-cache-max-age duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) + --vfs-cache-max-age Duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix Max total size of objects in the cache (default off) --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off) - --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) + --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) --vfs-case-insensitive If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match + --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix Specify the total space of disk (default off) + --vfs-fast-fingerprint Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi) --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix 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) - --vfs-read-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) + --vfs-read-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) --vfs-used-is-size rclone size Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size - --vfs-write-back duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) - --vfs-write-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s) + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s) --volname string Set the volume name (supported on Windows and OSX only) --write-back-cache Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone (without this, writethrough caching is used) (not supported on Windows)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      @@ -2082,9 +2156,9 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone moveto

      Move file or directory from source to dest.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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 exactly like the move command.

      +

      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 exactly like the move command.

      So

      rclone moveto src dst

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

      @@ -2107,26 +2181,42 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone ncdu

      Explore a remote with a text based user interface.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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

      +

      You can interact with the user interface using key presses, press '?' to toggle the help on and off. The supported keys are:

       ↑,↓ or k,j to Move
        →,l to enter
        ←,h to return
      - c toggle counts
        g toggle graph
      + c toggle counts
        a toggle average size in directory
      + m toggle modified time
        u toggle human-readable format
      - n,s,C,A sort by name,size,count,average size
      + n,s,C,A,M sort by name,size,count,asize,mtime
        d delete file/directory
      + v select file/directory
      + V enter visual select mode
      + D delete selected files/directories
        y copy current path to clipboard
        Y display current path
      - ^L refresh screen
      + ^L refresh screen (fix screen corruption)
        ? to toggle help on and off
      - q/ESC/c-C to quit
      + q/ESC/^c to quit
      +

      Listed files/directories may be prefixed by a one-character flag, some of them combined with a description in brackets at end of line. These flags have the following meaning:

      +
      e means this is an empty directory, i.e. contains no files (but
      +  may contain empty subdirectories)
      +~ means this is a directory where some of the files (possibly in
      +  subdirectories) have unknown size, and therefore the directory
      +  size may be underestimated (and average size inaccurate, as it
      +  is average of the files with known sizes).
      +. means an error occurred while reading a subdirectory, and
      +  therefore the directory size may be underestimated (and average
      +  size inaccurate)
      +! means an error occurred while reading this directory

      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.

      +

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

      +

      For a non-interactive listing of the remote, see the tree command. To just get the total size of the remote you can also use the size command.

      rclone ncdu remote:path [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help   help for ncdu
      @@ -2137,11 +2227,11 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone obscure

      Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      In the rclone config file, human-readable passwords are obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them out in base64. This is not a secure way of encrypting these passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping" - namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by accident.

      Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64 character hex token.

      This command can also accept a password through STDIN instead of an argument by passing a hyphen as an argument. This will use the first line of STDIN as the password not including the trailing newline.

      -

      echo "secretpassword" | rclone obscure -

      +
      echo "secretpassword" | rclone obscure -

      If there is no data on STDIN to read, rclone obscure will default to obfuscating the hyphen itself.

      If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file encryption - see rclone config for more info.

      rclone obscure password [flags]
      @@ -2154,24 +2244,24 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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.

      +

      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.

      -

      The -o/--opt option can be used to set a key "opt" with key, value options in the form "-o key=value" or "-o key". It can be repeated as many times as required. This is useful for rc commands which take the "opt" parameter which by convention is a dictionary of strings.

      +

      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.

      +

      The -o/--opt option can be used to set a key "opt" with key, value options in the form -o key=value or -o key. It can be repeated as many times as required. This is useful for rc commands which take the "opt" parameter which by convention is a dictionary of strings.

      -o key=value -o key2

      Will place this in the "opt" value

      {"key":"value", "key2","")
      -

      The -a/--arg option can be used to set strings in the "arg" value. It can be repeated as many times as required. This is useful for rc commands which take the "arg" parameter which by convention is a list of strings.

      +

      The -a/--arg option can be used to set strings in the "arg" value. It can be repeated as many times as required. This is useful for rc commands which take the "arg" parameter which by convention is a list of strings.

      -a value -a value2

      Will place this in the "arg" value

      ["value", "value2"]
      -

      Use --loopback to connect to the rclone instance running "rclone rc". This is very useful for testing commands without having to run an rclone rc server, e.g.:

      +

      Use --loopback to connect to the rclone instance running rclone rc. This is very useful for testing commands without having to run an rclone rc server, e.g.:

      rclone rc --loopback operations/about fs=/
      -

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

      +

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

      rclone rc commands parameter [flags]

      Options

        -a, --arg stringArray   Argument placed in the "arg" array
      @@ -2190,14 +2280,14 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone rcat

      Copies standard input to file on remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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.

      -

      Use the |--size| flag to preallocate the file in advance at the remote end and actually stream it, even if remote backend doesn't support streaming.

      -

      |--size| should be the exact size of the input stream in bytes. If the size of the stream is different in length to the |--size| passed in then the transfer will likely fail.

      +

      Use the --size flag to preallocate the file in advance at the remote end and actually stream it, even if remote backend doesn't support streaming.

      +

      --size should be the exact size of the input stream in bytes. If the size of the stream is different in length to the --size passed in then the transfer will likely fail.

      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

      @@ -2210,11 +2300,114 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone rcd

      Run rclone listening to remote control commands only.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This runs rclone so that it only listens 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.

      +

      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.

      +

      You can use a unix socket by setting the url to unix:///path/to/socket or just by using an absolute path name. Note that unix sockets bypass the authentication - this is expected to be done with file system permissions.

      +

      --addr may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.

      +

      --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.

      +

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      +

      TLS (SSL)

      +

      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.

      +

      --min-tls-version is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

      +

      Template

      +

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP and WebDAV serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      + ++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
      ParameterDescription
      .NameThe full path of a file/directory.
      .TitleDirectory listing of .Name
      .SortThe current sort used. This is changeable via ?sort= parameter
      Sort Options: namedirfirst,name,size,time (default namedirfirst)
      .OrderThe current ordering used. This is changeable via ?order= parameter
      Order Options: asc,desc (default asc)
      .QueryCurrently unused.
      .BreadcrumbAllows for creating a relative navigation
      -- .LinkThe relative to the root link of the Text.
      -- .TextThe Name of the directory.
      .EntriesInformation about a specific file/directory.
      -- .URLThe 'url' of an entry.
      -- .LeafCurrently same as 'URL' but intended to be 'just' the name.
      -- .IsDirBoolean for if an entry is a directory or not.
      -- .SizeSize in Bytes of the entry.
      -- .ModTimeThe UTC timestamp of an entry.
      +

      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.

      +

      Use --salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

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

      Options

        -h, --help   help for rcd
      @@ -2225,11 +2418,11 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone rmdirs

      Remove empty directories under the path.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This recursively removes any empty directories (including directories that only contain empty directories), that it finds under the path. The root path itself will also be removed if it is empty, unless you supply the --leave-root flag.

      -

      Use command rmdir to delete just the empty directory given by path, not recurse.

      -

      This is useful for tidying up remotes that rclone has left a lot of empty directories in. For example the delete command will delete files but leave the directory structure (unless used with option --rmdirs).

      -

      To delete a path and any objects in it, use purge command.

      +

      Use command rmdir to delete just the empty directory given by path, not recurse.

      +

      This is useful for tidying up remotes that rclone has left a lot of empty directories in. For example the delete command will delete files but leave the directory structure (unless used with option --rmdirs).

      +

      To delete a path and any objects in it, use purge command.

      rclone rmdirs remote:path [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help         help for rmdirs
      @@ -2241,7 +2434,7 @@ 

      SEE ALSO

      rclone selfupdate

      Update the rclone binary.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This command downloads the latest release of rclone and replaces the currently running binary. The download is verified with a hashsum and cryptographically signed signature.

      If used without flags (or with implied --stable flag), this command will install the latest stable release. However, some issues may be fixed (or features added) only in the latest beta release. In such cases you should run the command with the --beta flag, i.e. rclone selfupdate --beta. You can check in advance what version would be installed by adding the --check flag, then repeat the command without it when you are satisfied.

      Sometimes the rclone team may recommend you a concrete beta or stable rclone release to troubleshoot your issue or add a bleeding edge feature. The --version VER flag, if given, will update to the concrete version instead of the latest one. If you omit micro version from VER (for example 1.53), the latest matching micro version will be used.

      @@ -2266,8 +2459,8 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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, e.g.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Serve a remote over a given protocol. Requires the use of a subcommand to specify the protocol, e.g.

      rclone serve http remote:

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

      rclone serve <protocol> [opts] <remote> [flags]
      @@ -2283,14 +2476,14 @@

      SEE ALSO

    46. rclone serve http - Serve the remote over HTTP.
    47. rclone serve restic - Serve the remote for restic's REST API.
    48. rclone serve sftp - Serve the remote over SFTP.
    49. -
    50. rclone serve webdav - Serve remote:path over webdav.
    51. +
    52. rclone serve webdav - Serve remote:path over WebDAV.
    53. rclone serve dlna

      Serve remote:path over DLNA

      -

      Synopsis

      -

      rclone serve dlna is a DLNA media server for media stored in an rclone remote. Many devices, such as the Xbox and PlayStation, can automatically discover this server in the LAN and play audio/video from it. VLC is also supported. Service discovery uses UDP multicast packets (SSDP) and will thus only work on LANs.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run a DLNA media server for media stored in an rclone remote. Many devices, such as the Xbox and PlayStation, can automatically discover this server in the LAN and play audio/video from it. VLC is also supported. Service discovery uses UDP multicast packets (SSDP) and will thus only work on LANs.

      Rclone will list all files present in the remote, without filtering based on media formats or file extensions. Additionally, there is no media transcoding support. This means that some players might show files that they are not able to play back correctly.

      -

      Server options

      +

      Server options

      Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should listen on, e.g. --addr 1.2.3.4:8000 or --addr :8080 to listen to all IPs.

      Use --name to choose the friendly server name, which is by default "rclone (hostname)".

      Use --log-trace in conjunction with -vv to enable additional debug logging of all UPNP traffic.

      @@ -2299,7 +2492,7 @@

      VFS - Virtual File System

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -2362,6 +2555,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -2376,52 +2582,59 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      rclone serve dlna remote:path [flags]

      Options

            --addr string                            The ip:port or :port to bind the DLNA http server to (default ":7879")
      -      --dir-cache-time duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      +      --announce-interval Duration             The interval between SSDP announcements (default 12m0s)
      +      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
             --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 0777)
             --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 0666)
             --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
         -h, --help                                   help for dlna
      +      --interface stringArray                  The interface to use for SSDP (repeat as necessary)
             --log-trace                              Enable trace logging of SOAP traffic
             --name string                            Name of DLNA server
             --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
      -      --poll-interval duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      -      --read-only                              Mount read-only
      +      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      +      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
             --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
             --umask int                              Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2)
      -      --vfs-cache-max-age duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
             --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
             --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      -      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
             --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      +      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      +      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
             --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
             --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
             --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   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)
      -      --vfs-read-wait duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      +      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
             --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      -      --vfs-write-back duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      -      --vfs-write-wait duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -2429,7 +2642,7 @@

        SEE ALSO

      rclone serve docker

      Serve any remote on docker's volume plugin API.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This command implements the Docker volume plugin API allowing docker to use rclone as a data storage mechanism for various cloud providers. rclone provides docker volume plugin based on it.

      To create a docker plugin, one must create a Unix or TCP socket that Docker will look for when you use the plugin and then it listens for commands from docker daemon and runs the corresponding code when necessary. Docker plugins can run as a managed plugin under control of the docker daemon or as an independent native service. For testing, you can just run it directly from the command line, for example:

      sudo rclone serve docker --base-dir /tmp/rclone-volumes --socket-addr localhost:8787 -vv
      @@ -2442,7 +2655,7 @@

      VFS - Virtual File System

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -2505,6 +2718,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -2519,20 +2745,23 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      @@ -2542,15 +2771,15 @@

      Options

      --allow-other Allow access to other users (not supported on Windows) --allow-root Allow access to root user (not supported on Windows) --async-read Use asynchronous reads (not supported on Windows) (default true) - --attr-timeout duration Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s) + --attr-timeout Duration Time for which file/directory attributes are cached (default 1s) --base-dir string Base directory for volumes (default "/var/lib/docker-volumes/rclone") --daemon Run mount in background and exit parent process (as background output is suppressed, use --log-file with --log-format=pid,... to monitor) (not supported on Windows) - --daemon-timeout duration Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) - --daemon-wait duration Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s) + --daemon-timeout Duration Time limit for rclone to respond to kernel (not supported on Windows) (default 0s) + --daemon-wait Duration Time to wait for ready mount from daemon (maximum time on Linux, constant sleep time on OSX/BSD) (not supported on Windows) (default 1m0s) --debug-fuse Debug the FUSE internals - needs -v --default-permissions Makes kernel enforce access control based on the file mode (not supported on Windows) --devname string Set the device name - default is remote:path - --dir-cache-time duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s) + --dir-cache-time Duration Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s) --dir-perms FileMode Directory permissions (default 0777) --file-perms FileMode File permissions (default 0666) --forget-state Skip restoring previous state @@ -2566,24 +2795,26 @@

      Options

      --noappledouble Ignore Apple Double (._) and .DS_Store files (supported on OSX only) (default true) --noapplexattr Ignore all "com.apple.*" extended attributes (supported on OSX only) -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 and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) - --read-only Mount read-only + --poll-interval Duration Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) + --read-only Only allow read-only access --socket-addr string Address <host:port> or absolute path (default: /run/docker/plugins/rclone.sock) --socket-gid int GID for unix socket (default: current process GID) (default 1000) --uid uint32 Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000) --umask int Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2) - --vfs-cache-max-age duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) + --vfs-cache-max-age Duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix Max total size of objects in the cache (default off) --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off) - --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) + --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) --vfs-case-insensitive If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match + --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix Specify the total space of disk (default off) + --vfs-fast-fingerprint Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi) --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix 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) - --vfs-read-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) + --vfs-read-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) --vfs-used-is-size rclone size Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size - --vfs-write-back duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) - --vfs-write-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s) + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s) --volname string Set the volume name (supported on Windows and OSX only) --write-back-cache Makes kernel buffer writes before sending them to rclone (without this, writethrough caching is used) (not supported on Windows)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      @@ -2593,12 +2824,12 @@

      SEE ALSO

      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

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run a basic FTP server to serve a 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, e.g. --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

      +

      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.

      VFS - Virtual File System

      @@ -2606,7 +2837,7 @@

      VFS - Virtual File System

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -2669,6 +2900,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -2683,20 +2927,23 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      @@ -2735,7 +2982,7 @@

      Options

            --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:2121")
             --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
             --cert string                            TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      -      --dir-cache-time duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      +      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
             --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 0777)
             --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 0666)
             --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      @@ -2746,24 +2993,26 @@ 

      Options

      --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 and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) + --poll-interval Duration Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) --public-ip string Public IP address to advertise for passive connections - --read-only Mount read-only + --read-only Only allow read-only access --uid uint32 Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000) --umask int Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (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-max-age Duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix Max total size of objects in the cache (default off) --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off) - --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) + --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) --vfs-case-insensitive If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match + --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix Specify the total space of disk (default off) + --vfs-fast-fingerprint Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi) --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix 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) - --vfs-read-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) + --vfs-read-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) --vfs-used-is-size rclone size Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size - --vfs-write-back duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) - --vfs-write-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -2771,22 +3020,25 @@

        SEE ALSO

      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 (e.g. --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

      -

      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.

      -

      --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.

      -

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      -

      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.

      -

      Template

      -

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for http and webdav serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run a basic web server to serve a 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 (e.g. --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

      +

      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.

      +

      You can use a unix socket by setting the url to unix:///path/to/socket or just by using an absolute path name. Note that unix sockets bypass the authentication - this is expected to be done with file system permissions.

      +

      --addr may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.

      +

      --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.

      +

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      +

      TLS (SSL)

      +

      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.

      +

      --min-tls-version is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

      +

      Template

      +

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP and WebDAV serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      @@ -2865,23 +3117,23 @@

      Template

      -

      Authentication

      +

      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.

      +

      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.

      -

      Use --salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

      +

      Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

      +

      Use --salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

      VFS - Virtual File System

      This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk filing system.

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -2944,6 +3196,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -2958,63 +3223,69 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      rclone serve http remote:path [flags]

      Options

      -
            --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "127.0.0.1:8080")
      +
            --addr stringArray                       IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default [127.0.0.1:8080])
             --baseurl string                         Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      -      --cert string                            SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      +      --cert string                            TLS 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)
      +      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
             --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 0777)
             --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 0666)
             --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
         -h, --help                                   help for http
             --htpasswd string                        A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      -      --key string                             SSL PEM Private key
      +      --key string                             TLS PEM Private key
             --max-header-bytes int                   Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      +      --min-tls-version string                 Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
             --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 and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      -      --read-only                              Mount read-only
      +      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      +      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
             --realm string                           Realm for authentication
             --salt string                            Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      -      --server-read-timeout duration           Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      -      --server-write-timeout duration          Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --server-read-timeout Duration           Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --server-write-timeout Duration          Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
             --template string                        User-specified template
             --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
             --umask int                              Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2)
             --user string                            User name for authentication
      -      --vfs-cache-max-age duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
             --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
             --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      -      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
             --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      +      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      +      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
             --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
             --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
             --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   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)
      -      --vfs-read-wait duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      +      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
             --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      -      --vfs-write-back duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      -      --vfs-write-wait duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -3022,20 +3293,20 @@

        SEE ALSO

      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.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run a basic web server to serve a remote over 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.

      +

      --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.

      +

      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.

      -

      Adding --cache-objects=false will cause rclone to stop caching objects returned from the List call. Caching is normally desirable as it speeds up downloading objects, saves transactions and uses very little memory.

      +

      Adding --cache-objects=false will cause rclone to stop caching objects returned from the List call. Caching is normally desirable as it speeds up downloading objects, saves transactions and uses very little memory.

      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.

      @@ -3062,124 +3333,50 @@

      Multiple repositories

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

      Private repositories

      -

      The "--private-repos" flag can be used to limit users to repositories starting with a path of /<username>/.

      -

      Server options

      -

      Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should listen on, e.g. --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.

      -

      --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.

      -

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      -

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for http and webdav serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      - ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      ParameterDescription
      .NameThe full path of a file/directory.
      .TitleDirectory listing of .Name
      .SortThe current sort used. This is changeable via ?sort= parameter
      Sort Options: namedirfirst,name,size,time (default namedirfirst)
      .OrderThe current ordering used. This is changeable via ?order= parameter
      Order Options: asc,desc (default asc)
      .QueryCurrently unused.
      .BreadcrumbAllows for creating a relative navigation
      -- .LinkThe relative to the root link of the Text.
      -- .TextThe Name of the directory.
      .EntriesInformation about a specific file/directory.
      -- .URLThe 'url' of an entry.
      -- .LeafCurrently same as 'URL' but intended to be 'just' the name.
      -- .IsDirBoolean for if an entry is a directory or not.
      -- .SizeSize in Bytes of the entry.
      -- .ModTimeThe UTC timestamp of an entry.
      -

      Authentication

      +

      The--private-repos flag can be used to limit users to repositories starting with a path of /<username>/.

      +

      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.

      +

      You can use a unix socket by setting the url to unix:///path/to/socket or just by using an absolute path name. Note that unix sockets bypass the authentication - this is expected to be done with file system permissions.

      +

      --addr may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.

      +

      --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.

      +

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      +

      TLS (SSL)

      +

      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.

      +

      --min-tls-version is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

      +

      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.

      +

      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 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.

      +

      Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

      +

      Use --salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

      rclone serve restic remote:path [flags]

      Options

      -
            --addr string                     IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:8080")
      +
            --addr stringArray                IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default [127.0.0.1:8080])
             --append-only                     Disallow deletion of repository data
             --baseurl string                  Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
             --cache-objects                   Cache listed objects (default true)
      -      --cert string                     SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      +      --cert string                     TLS 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
      +      --htpasswd string                 A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      +      --key string                      TLS PEM Private key
             --max-header-bytes int            Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      +      --min-tls-version string          Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
             --pass string                     Password for authentication
             --private-repos                   Users can only access their private repo
      -      --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)
      +      --realm string                    Realm for authentication
      +      --salt string                     Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      +      --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
      -      --template string                 User-specified template
             --user string                     User name for authentication

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      @@ -3188,26 +3385,27 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone serve sftp

      Serve the remote over SFTP.

      -

      Synopsis

      -

      rclone serve sftp implements an SFTP server to serve the remote over SFTP. This can be used with an SFTP client or you can make a remote of type sftp to use with it.

      -

      You can use the filter flags (e.g. --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.

      -

      You must provide some means of authentication, either with --user/--pass, an authorized keys file (specify location with --authorized-keys - the default is the same as ssh), an --auth-proxy, or set the --no-auth flag for no authentication when logging in.

      -

      Note that this also implements a small number of shell commands so that it can provide md5sum/sha1sum/df information for the rclone sftp backend. This means that is can support SHA1SUMs, MD5SUMs and the about command when paired with the rclone sftp backend.

      -

      If you don't supply a host --key then rclone will generate rsa, ecdsa and ed25519 variants, and cache them for later use in rclone's cache directory (see "rclone help flags cache-dir") in the "serve-sftp" directory.

      -

      By default the server binds to localhost:2022 - if you want it to be reachable externally then supply "--addr :2022" for example.

      -

      Note that the default of "--vfs-cache-mode off" is fine for the rclone sftp backend, but it may not be with other SFTP clients.

      -

      If --stdio is specified, rclone will serve SFTP over stdio, which can be used with sshd via ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, for example:

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run an SFTP server to serve a remote over SFTP. This can be used with an SFTP client or you can make a remote of type sftp to use with it.

      +

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

      +

      The server will respond to a small number of shell commands, mainly md5sum, sha1sum and df, which enable it to provide support for checksums and the about feature when accessed from an sftp remote.

      +

      Note that this server uses standard 32 KiB packet payload size, which means you must not configure the client to expect anything else, e.g. with the chunk_size option on an sftp remote.

      +

      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.

      +

      You must provide some means of authentication, either with --user/--pass, an authorized keys file (specify location with --authorized-keys - the default is the same as ssh), an --auth-proxy, or set the --no-auth flag for no authentication when logging in.

      +

      If you don't supply a host --key then rclone will generate rsa, ecdsa and ed25519 variants, and cache them for later use in rclone's cache directory (see rclone help flags cache-dir) in the "serve-sftp" directory.

      +

      By default the server binds to localhost:2022 - if you want it to be reachable externally then supply --addr :2022 for example.

      +

      Note that the default of --vfs-cache-mode off is fine for the rclone sftp backend, but it may not be with other SFTP clients.

      +

      If --stdio is specified, rclone will serve SFTP over stdio, which can be used with sshd via ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, for example:

      restrict,command="rclone serve sftp --stdio ./photos" ssh-rsa ...
      -

      On the client you need to set "--transfers 1" when using --stdio. Otherwise multiple instances of the rclone server are started by OpenSSH which can lead to "corrupted on transfer" errors. This is the case because the client chooses indiscriminately which server to send commands to while the servers all have different views of the state of the filing system.

      -

      The "restrict" in authorized_keys prevents SHA1SUMs and MD5SUMs from beeing used. Omitting "restrict" and using --sftp-path-override to enable checksumming is possible but less secure and you could use the SFTP server provided by OpenSSH in this case.

      +

      On the client you need to set --transfers 1 when using --stdio. Otherwise multiple instances of the rclone server are started by OpenSSH which can lead to "corrupted on transfer" errors. This is the case because the client chooses indiscriminately which server to send commands to while the servers all have different views of the state of the filing system.

      +

      The "restrict" in authorized_keys prevents SHA1SUMs and MD5SUMs from beeing used. Omitting "restrict" and using --sftp-path-override to enable checksumming is possible but less secure and you could use the SFTP server provided by OpenSSH in this case.

      VFS - Virtual File System

      This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk filing system.

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -3270,6 +3468,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -3284,20 +3495,23 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      @@ -3336,7 +3550,7 @@

      Options

            --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:2022")
             --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
             --authorized-keys string                 Authorized keys file (default "~/.ssh/authorized_keys")
      -      --dir-cache-time duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
      +      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
             --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 0777)
             --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 0666)
             --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
      @@ -3347,45 +3561,53 @@ 

      Options

      --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 and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) - --read-only Mount read-only - --stdio Run an sftp server on run stdin/stdout + --poll-interval Duration Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s) + --read-only Only allow read-only access + --stdio Run an sftp server on stdin/stdout --uid uint32 Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000) --umask int Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2) --user string User name for authentication - --vfs-cache-max-age duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) + --vfs-cache-max-age Duration Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s) --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix Max total size of objects in the cache (default off) --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off) - --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) + --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s) --vfs-case-insensitive If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match + --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix Specify the total space of disk (default off) + --vfs-fast-fingerprint Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi) --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix 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) - --vfs-read-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) + --vfs-read-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms) --vfs-used-is-size rclone size Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size - --vfs-write-back duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) - --vfs-write-wait duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      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, through a web browser, or you can make a remote of type webdav to read and write it.

      -

      Webdav options

      +

      Serve remote:path over WebDAV.

      +

      Synopsis

      +

      Run a basic WebDAV server to serve a remote over HTTP via the WebDAV protocol. This can be viewed with a WebDAV client, through a web browser, 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

      -

      Use --addr to specify which IP address and port the server should listen on, e.g. --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.

      -

      --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.

      -

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      -

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for http and webdav serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      +

      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 the hashsum command to see the full list.

      +

      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.

      +

      You can use a unix socket by setting the url to unix:///path/to/socket or just by using an absolute path name. Note that unix sockets bypass the authentication - this is expected to be done with file system permissions.

      +

      --addr may be repeated to listen on multiple IPs/ports/sockets.

      +

      --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.

      +

      --baseurl controls the URL prefix that rclone serves from. By default rclone will serve from the root. If you used --baseurl "/rclone" then rclone would serve from a URL starting with "/rclone/". This is useful if you wish to proxy rclone serve. Rclone automatically inserts leading and trailing "/" on --baseurl, so --baseurl "rclone", --baseurl "/rclone" and --baseurl "/rclone/" are all treated identically.

      +

      TLS (SSL)

      +

      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.

      +

      --min-tls-version is minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

      +

      Template

      +

      --template allows a user to specify a custom markup template for HTTP and WebDAV serve functions. The server exports the following markup to be used within the template to server pages:

      @@ -3464,25 +3686,23 @@

      Server options

      -

      Authentication

      +

      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.

      +

      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 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.

      +

      Use --realm to set the authentication realm.

      +

      Use --salt to change the password hashing salt from the default.

      VFS - Virtual File System

      This command uses the VFS layer. This adapts the cloud storage objects that rclone uses into something which looks much more like a disk filing system.

      Cloud storage objects have lots of properties which aren't like disk files - you can't extend them or write to the middle of them, so the VFS layer has to deal with that. Because there is no one right way of doing this there are various options explained below.

      The VFS layer also implements a directory cache - this caches info about files and directories (but not the data) in memory.

      VFS Directory Cache

      -

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the mount will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      +

      Using the --dir-cache-time flag, you can control how long a directory should be considered up to date and not refreshed from the backend. Changes made through the VFS will appear immediately or invalidate the cache.

      --dir-cache-time duration   Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
       --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)

      However, changes made directly on the cloud storage by the web interface or a different copy of rclone will only be picked up once the directory cache expires if the backend configured does not support polling for changes. If the backend supports polling, changes will be picked up within the polling interval.

      @@ -3545,6 +3765,19 @@

      --vfs-cache-mode full

      When reading a file rclone will read --buffer-size plus --vfs-read-ahead bytes ahead. The --buffer-size is buffered in memory whereas the --vfs-read-ahead is buffered on disk.

      When using this mode it is recommended that --buffer-size is not set too large and --vfs-read-ahead is set large if required.

      IMPORTANT not all file systems support sparse files. In particular FAT/exFAT do not. Rclone will perform very badly if the cache directory is on a filesystem which doesn't support sparse files and it will log an ERROR message if one is detected.

      +

      Fingerprinting

      +

      Various parts of the VFS use fingerprinting to see if a local file copy has changed relative to a remote file. Fingerprints are made from:

      +
        +
      • size
      • +
      • modification time
      • +
      • hash
      • +
      +

      where available on an object.

      +

      On some backends some of these attributes are slow to read (they take an extra API call per object, or extra work per object).

      +

      For example hash is slow with the local and sftp backends as they have to read the entire file and hash it, and modtime is slow with the s3, swift, ftp and qinqstor backends because they need to do an extra API call to fetch it.

      +

      If you use the --vfs-fast-fingerprint flag then rclone will not include the slow operations in the fingerprint. This makes the fingerprinting less accurate but much faster and will improve the opening time of cached files.

      +

      If you are running a vfs cache over local, s3 or swift backends then using this flag is recommended.

      +

      Note that if you change the value of this flag, the fingerprints of the files in the cache may be invalidated and the files will need to be downloaded again.

      VFS Chunked Reading

      When rclone reads files from a remote it reads them in chunks. This means that rather than requesting the whole file rclone reads the chunk specified. 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.

      These flags control the chunking:

      @@ -3559,20 +3792,23 @@

      VFS Performance

      --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.
      ---read-only       Mount read-only.
      +--read-only Only allow read-only access.

      Sometimes rclone is delivered reads or writes out of order. Rather than seeking rclone will wait a short time for the in sequence read or write to come in. These flags only come into effect when not using an on disk cache file.

      --vfs-read-wait duration   Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
       --vfs-write-wait duration  Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      -

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from cache (the related global flag --checkers have no effect on mount).

      +

      When using VFS write caching (--vfs-cache-mode with value writes or full), the global flag --transfers can be set to adjust the number of parallel uploads of modified files from the cache (the related global flag --checkers has no effect on the VFS).

      --transfers int  Number of file transfers to run in parallel (default 4)

      VFS Case Sensitivity

      Linux file systems are case-sensitive: two files can differ only by case, and the exact case must be used when opening a file.

      File systems in modern Windows are case-insensitive but case-preserving: although existing files can be opened using any case, the exact case used to create the file is preserved and available for programs to query. It is not allowed for two files in the same directory to differ only by case.

      Usually file systems on macOS are case-insensitive. It is possible to make macOS file systems case-sensitive but that is not the default.

      -

      The --vfs-case-insensitive mount flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the mounted file system as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      -

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on mounted file system. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by an underlying mounted file system.

      -

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system mounted by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      +

      The --vfs-case-insensitive VFS flag controls how rclone handles these two cases. If its value is "false", rclone passes file names to the remote as-is. If the flag is "true" (or appears without a value on the command line), rclone may perform a "fixup" as explained below.

      +

      The user may specify a file name to open/delete/rename/etc with a case different than what is stored on the remote. If an argument refers to an existing file with exactly the same name, then the case of the existing file on the disk will be used. However, if a file name with exactly the same name is not found but a name differing only by case exists, rclone will transparently fixup the name. This fixup happens only when an existing file is requested. Case sensitivity of file names created anew by rclone is controlled by the underlying remote.

      +

      Note that case sensitivity of the operating system running rclone (the target) may differ from case sensitivity of a file system presented by rclone (the source). The flag controls whether "fixup" is performed to satisfy the target.

      If the flag is not provided on the command line, then its default value depends on the operating system where rclone runs: "true" on Windows and macOS, "false" otherwise. If the flag is provided without a value, then it is "true".

      +

      VFS Disk Options

      +

      This flag allows you to manually set the statistics about the filing system. It can be useful when those statistics cannot be read correctly automatically.

      +
      --vfs-disk-space-total-size    Manually set the total disk space size (example: 256G, default: -1)

      Alternate report of used bytes

      Some backends, most notably S3, do not report the amount of bytes used. If you need this information to be available when running df on the filesystem, then pass the flag --vfs-used-is-size to rclone. With this flag set, instead of relying on the backend to report this information, rclone will scan the whole remote similar to rclone size and compute the total used space itself.

      WARNING. Contrary to rclone size, this flag ignores filters so that the result is accurate. However, this is very inefficient and may cost lots of API calls resulting in extra charges. Use it as a last resort and only with caching.

      @@ -3608,46 +3844,50 @@

      Auth Proxy

      This can be used to build general purpose proxies to any kind of backend that rclone supports.

      rclone serve webdav remote:path [flags]

      Options

      -
            --addr string                            IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:8080")
      +
            --addr stringArray                       IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default [127.0.0.1:8080])
             --auth-proxy string                      A program to use to create the backend from the auth
             --baseurl string                         Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root
      -      --cert string                            SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate)
      +      --cert string                            TLS 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)
      +      --dir-cache-time Duration                Time to cache directory entries for (default 5m0s)
             --dir-perms FileMode                     Directory permissions (default 0777)
             --disable-dir-list                       Disable HTML directory list on GET request for a directory
             --etag-hash string                       Which hash to use for the ETag, or auto or blank for off
             --file-perms FileMode                    File permissions (default 0666)
             --gid uint32                             Override the gid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
         -h, --help                                   help for webdav
      -      --htpasswd string                        htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      -      --key string                             SSL PEM Private key
      +      --htpasswd string                        A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done
      +      --key string                             TLS PEM Private key
             --max-header-bytes int                   Maximum size of request header (default 4096)
      +      --min-tls-version string                 Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0")
             --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 and only on supported remotes (set 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)
      +      --poll-interval Duration                 Time to wait between polling for changes, must be smaller than dir-cache-time and only on supported remotes (set 0 to disable) (default 1m0s)
      +      --read-only                              Only allow read-only access
      +      --realm string                           Realm for authentication
      +      --salt string                            Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE")
      +      --server-read-timeout Duration           Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --server-write-timeout Duration          Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s)
             --template string                        User-specified template
             --uid uint32                             Override the uid field set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 1000)
             --umask int                              Override the permission bits set by the filesystem (not supported on Windows) (default 2)
             --user string                            User name for authentication
      -      --vfs-cache-max-age duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-max-age Duration             Max age of objects in the cache (default 1h0m0s)
             --vfs-cache-max-size SizeSuffix          Max total size of objects in the cache (default off)
             --vfs-cache-mode CacheMode               Cache mode off|minimal|writes|full (default off)
      -      --vfs-cache-poll-interval duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
      +      --vfs-cache-poll-interval Duration       Interval to poll the cache for stale objects (default 1m0s)
             --vfs-case-insensitive                   If a file name not found, find a case insensitive match
      +      --vfs-disk-space-total-size SizeSuffix   Specify the total space of disk (default off)
      +      --vfs-fast-fingerprint                   Use fast (less accurate) fingerprints for change detection
             --vfs-read-ahead SizeSuffix              Extra read ahead over --buffer-size when using cache-mode full
             --vfs-read-chunk-size SizeSuffix         Read the source objects in chunks (default 128Mi)
             --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit SizeSuffix   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)
      -      --vfs-read-wait duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
      +      --vfs-read-wait Duration                 Time to wait for in-sequence read before seeking (default 20ms)
             --vfs-used-is-size rclone size           Use the rclone size algorithm for Used size
      -      --vfs-write-back duration                Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s)
      -      --vfs-write-wait duration                Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)
      + --vfs-write-back Duration Time to writeback files after last use when using cache (default 5s) + --vfs-write-wait Duration Time to wait for in-sequence write before giving error (default 1s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -3655,7 +3895,7 @@

        SEE ALSO

      rclone settier

      Changes storage class/tier of objects in remote.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      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 changes 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

      @@ -3674,7 +3914,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone test

      Run a test command

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Rclone test is used to run test commands.

      Select which test comand you want with the subcommand, eg

      rclone test memory remote:
      @@ -3689,6 +3929,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

    54. rclone test changenotify - Log any change notify requests for the remote passed in.
    55. rclone test histogram - Makes a histogram of file name characters.
    56. rclone test info - Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.
    57. +
    58. rclone test makefile - Make files with random contents of the size given
    59. rclone test makefiles - Make a random file hierarchy in a directory
    60. rclone test memory - Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.
    61. @@ -3697,7 +3938,7 @@

      rclone test changenotify

      rclone test changenotify remote: [flags]

      Options

        -h, --help                     help for changenotify
      -      --poll-interval duration   Time to wait between polling for changes (default 10s)
      + --poll-interval Duration Time to wait between polling for changes (default 10s)

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

        @@ -3705,7 +3946,7 @@

        SEE ALSO

      rclone test histogram

      Makes a histogram of file name characters.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      This command outputs JSON which shows the histogram of characters used in filenames in the remote:path specified.

      The data doesn't contain any identifying information but is useful for the rclone developers when developing filename compression.

      rclone test histogram [remote:path] [flags]
      @@ -3718,7 +3959,7 @@

      SEE ALSO

      rclone test info

      Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      rclone info discovers what filenames and upload methods are possible to write to the paths passed in and how long they can be. It can take some time. It will write test files into the remote:path passed in. It outputs a bit of go code for each one.

      NB this can create undeletable files and other hazards - use with care

      rclone test info [remote:path]+ [flags]
      @@ -3729,43 +3970,65 @@

      Options

      --check-normalization Check UTF-8 Normalization --check-streaming Check uploads with indeterminate file size -h, --help help for info - --upload-wait duration Wait after writing a file + --upload-wait Duration Wait after writing a file (default 0s) --write-json string Write results to file

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      SEE ALSO

      +

      rclone test makefile

      +

      Make files with random contents of the size given

      +
      rclone test makefile <size> [<file>]+ [flags]
      +

      Options

      +
            --ascii      Fill files with random ASCII printable bytes only
      +      --chargen    Fill files with a ASCII chargen pattern
      +  -h, --help       help for makefile
      +      --pattern    Fill files with a periodic pattern
      +      --seed int   Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1)
      +      --sparse     Make the files sparse (appear to be filled with ASCII 0x00)
      +      --zero       Fill files with ASCII 0x00
      +

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      +

      SEE ALSO

      +

      rclone test makefiles

      Make a random file hierarchy in a directory

      rclone test makefiles <dir> [flags]
      -

      Options

      -
            --files int                  Number of files to create (default 1000)
      +

      Options

      +
            --ascii                      Fill files with random ASCII printable bytes only
      +      --chargen                    Fill files with a ASCII chargen pattern
      +      --files int                  Number of files to create (default 1000)
             --files-per-directory int    Average number of files per directory (default 10)
         -h, --help                       help for makefiles
      +      --max-depth int              Maximum depth of directory hierarchy (default 10)
             --max-file-size SizeSuffix   Maximum size of files to create (default 100)
             --max-name-length int        Maximum size of file names (default 12)
             --min-file-size SizeSuffix   Minimum size of file to create
             --min-name-length int        Minimum size of file names (default 4)
      -      --seed int                   Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1)
      + --pattern Fill files with a periodic pattern + --seed int Seed for the random number generator (0 for random) (default 1) + --sparse Make the files sparse (appear to be filled with ASCII 0x00) + --zero Fill files with ASCII 0x00

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      -

      SEE ALSO

      +

      SEE ALSO

      rclone test memory

      Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.

      rclone test memory remote:path [flags]
      -

      Options

      +

      Options

        -h, --help   help for memory

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      -

      SEE ALSO

      +

      SEE ALSO

      rclone touch

      Create new file or change file modification time.

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

      Set the modification time on file(s) as specified by remote:path to have the current time.

      If remote:path does not exist then a zero sized file will be created, unless --no-create or --recursive is provided.

      If --recursive is used then recursively sets the modification time on all existing files that is found under the path. Filters are supported, and you can test with the --dry-run or the --interactive flag.

      @@ -3777,20 +4040,20 @@

      Synopsis

      Note that value of --timestamp is in UTC. If you want local time then add the --localtime flag.

      rclone touch remote:path [flags]
      -

      Options

      +

      Options

        -h, --help               help for touch
             --localtime          Use localtime for timestamp, not UTC
         -C, --no-create          Do not create the file if it does not exist (implied with --recursive)
         -R, --recursive          Recursively touch all files
         -t, --timestamp string   Use specified time instead of the current time of day

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      -

      SEE ALSO

      +

      SEE ALSO

      • rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.

      rclone tree

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

      -

      Synopsis

      +

      Synopsis

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

      For example

      $ rclone tree remote:path
      @@ -3803,12 +4066,12 @@ 

      Synopsis

      └── file5 1 directories, 5 files
      -

      You can use any of the filtering options with the tree command (e.g. --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.

      +

      You can use any of the filtering options with the tree command (e.g. --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, for example you can include file sizes with --size. Note that not all of them have short options as they conflict with rclone's short options.

      +

      For a more interactive navigation of the remote see the ncdu command.

      rclone tree remote:path [flags]
      -

      Options

      +

      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
      @@ -3828,7 +4091,7 @@ 

      Options

      -U, --unsorted Leave files unsorted --version Sort files alphanumerically by version

      See the global flags page for global options not listed here.

      -

      SEE ALSO

      +

      SEE ALSO

      • rclone - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
      @@ -3907,7 +4170,8 @@

      Connection strings, config and lo

      Will get their own names

      DEBUG : :s3: detected overridden config - adding "{YTu53}" suffix to name

      Valid remote names

      -

      Remote names are case sensitive, and must adhere to the following rules: - May only contain 0-9, A-Z, a-z, _, -, . and space. - May not start with - or space.

      +

      Remote names are case sensitive, and must adhere to the following rules: - May contain number, letter, _, -, . and space. - May not start with - or space. - May not end with space.

      +

      Starting with rclone version 1.61, any Unicode numbers and letters are allowed, while in older versions it was limited to plain ASCII (0-9, A-Z, a-z). If you use the same rclone configuration from different shells, which may be configured with different character encoding, you must be cautious to use characters that are possible to write in all of them. This is mostly a problem on Windows, where the console traditionally uses a non-Unicode character set - defined by the so-called "code page".

      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

      @@ -3917,7 +4181,7 @@

      Linux / OSX

      If you want to send a ' you will need to use ", e.g.

      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

      +

      Windows

      If your names have spaces in you need to put them in ", e.g.

      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), e.g.

      @@ -3940,15 +4204,147 @@

      Server Side Copy

      This can be used when scripting to make aged backups efficiently, e.g.

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

      Options

      +

      Metadata support

      +

      Metadata is data about a file which isn't the contents of the file. Normally rclone only preserves the modification time and the content (MIME) type where possible.

      +

      Rclone supports preserving all the available metadata on files (not directories) when using the --metadata or -M flag.

      +

      Exactly what metadata is supported and what that support means depends on the backend. Backends that support metadata have a metadata section in their docs and are listed in the features table (Eg local, s3)

      +

      Rclone only supports a one-time sync of metadata. This means that metadata will be synced from the source object to the destination object only when the source object has changed and needs to be re-uploaded. If the metadata subsequently changes on the source object without changing the object itself then it won't be synced to the destination object. This is in line with the way rclone syncs Content-Type without the --metadata flag.

      +

      Using --metadata when syncing from local to local will preserve file attributes such as file mode, owner, extended attributes (not Windows).

      +

      Note that arbitrary metadata may be added to objects using the --metadata-set key=value flag when the object is first uploaded. This flag can be repeated as many times as necessary.

      +

      Types of metadata

      +

      Metadata is divided into two type. System metadata and User metadata.

      +

      Metadata which the backend uses itself is called system metadata. For example on the local backend the system metadata uid will store the user ID of the file when used on a unix based platform.

      +

      Arbitrary metadata is called user metadata and this can be set however is desired.

      +

      When objects are copied from backend to backend, they will attempt to interpret system metadata if it is supplied. Metadata may change from being user metadata to system metadata as objects are copied between different backends. For example copying an object from s3 sets the content-type metadata. In a backend which understands this (like azureblob) this will become the Content-Type of the object. In a backend which doesn't understand this (like the local backend) this will become user metadata. However should the local object be copied back to s3, the Content-Type will be set correctly.

      +

      Metadata framework

      +

      Rclone implements a metadata framework which can read metadata from an object and write it to the object when (and only when) it is being uploaded.

      +

      This metadata is stored as a dictionary with string keys and string values.

      +

      There are some limits on the names of the keys (these may be clarified further in the future).

      +
        +
      • must be lower case
      • +
      • may be a-z 0-9 containing . - or _
      • +
      • length is backend dependent
      • +
      +

      Each backend can provide system metadata that it understands. Some backends can also store arbitrary user metadata.

      +

      Where possible the key names are standardized, so, for example, it is possible to copy object metadata from s3 to azureblob for example and metadata will be translated appropriately.

      +

      Some backends have limits on the size of the metadata and rclone will give errors on upload if they are exceeded.

      +

      Metadata preservation

      +

      The goal of the implementation is to

      +
        +
      1. Preserve metadata if at all possible
      2. +
      3. Interpret metadata if at all possible
      4. +
      +

      The consequences of 1 is that you can copy an S3 object to a local disk then back to S3 losslessly. Likewise you can copy a local file with file attributes and xattrs from local disk to s3 and back again losslessly.

      +

      The consequence of 2 is that you can copy an S3 object with metadata to Azureblob (say) and have the metadata appear on the Azureblob object also.

      +

      Standard system metadata

      +

      Here is a table of standard system metadata which, if appropriate, a backend may implement.

      + +++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
      keydescriptionexample
      modeFile type and mode: octal, unix style0100664
      uidUser ID of owner: decimal number500
      gidGroup ID of owner: decimal number500
      rdevDevice ID (if special file) => hexadecimal0
      atimeTime of last access: RFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00
      mtimeTime of last modification: RFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00
      btimeTime of file creation (birth): RFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00
      cache-controlCache-Control headerno-cache
      content-dispositionContent-Disposition headerinline
      content-encodingContent-Encoding headergzip
      content-languageContent-Language headeren-US
      content-typeContent-Type headertext/plain
      +

      The metadata keys mtime and content-type will take precedence if supplied in the metadata over reading the Content-Type or modification time of the source object.

      +

      Hashes are not included in system metadata as there is a well defined way of reading those already.

      +

      Options

      Rclone has a number of options to control its behaviour.

      Options that take parameters can have the values passed in two ways, --option=value or --option value. However boolean (true/false) options behave slightly differently to the other options in that --boolean sets the option to true and the absence of the flag sets it to false. It is also possible to specify --boolean=false or --boolean=true. Note that --boolean false is not valid - this is parsed as --boolean and the false is parsed as an extra command line argument for rclone.

      -

      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".

      +

      Time or duration options

      +

      TIME or DURATION options can be specified as a duration string or a time string.

      +

      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". Default units are seconds or the following abbreviations are valid:

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

      These can also be specified as an absolute time in the following formats:

      +
        +
      • RFC3339 - e.g. 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z or 2006-01-02T15:04:05+07:00
      • +
      • ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - 2006-01-02T15:04:05
      • +
      • ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - 2006-01-02 15:04:05
      • +
      • ISO8601 Date - 2006-01-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)
      • +
      +

      Size options

      Options which use SIZE use KiB (multiples of 1024 bytes) by default. However, a suffix of B for Byte, K for KiB, M for MiB, G for GiB, T for TiB and P for PiB may be used. These are the binary units, e.g. 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.

      +

      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 without it being excluded by a filter rule.

      For example

      rclone sync -i /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.

      @@ -3960,7 +4356,7 @@

      --bwlimit=BANDWIDTH_SPEC

      This option controls the bandwidth limit. For example

      --bwlimit 10M

      would mean limit the upload and download bandwidth to 10 MiB/s. NB this is bytes per second not bits per second. To use a single limit, specify the desired bandwidth in KiB/s, or use a suffix B|K|M|G|T|P. The default is 0 which means to not limit bandwidth.

      -

      The upload and download bandwidth can be specified seperately, as --bwlimit UP:DOWN, so

      +

      The upload and download bandwidth can be specified separately, as --bwlimit UP:DOWN, so

      --bwlimit 10M:100k

      would mean limit the upload bandwidth to 10 MiB/s and the download bandwidth to 100 KiB/s. Either limit can be "off" meaning no limit, so to just limit the upload bandwidth you would use

      --bwlimit 10M:off
      @@ -4010,14 +4406,20 @@

      --check-first

      It can also be useful to ensure perfect ordering when using --order-by.

      Using this flag can use more memory as it effectively sets --max-backlog to infinite. This means that all the info on the objects to transfer is held in memory before the transfers start.

      --checkers=N

      -

      The number of checkers to run in parallel. Checkers do the equality checking of files during a sync. For some storage systems (e.g. 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.

      +

      Originally controlling just the number of file checkers to run in parallel, e.g. by rclone copy. Now a fairly universal parallelism control used by rclone in several places.

      +

      Note: checkers do the equality checking of files during a sync. For some storage systems (e.g. 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. However, in case of slow-reacting backends you may need to lower (rather than increase) this default by setting --checkers to 4 or less threads. This is especially advised if you are experiencing backend server crashes during file checking phase (e.g. on subsequent or top-up backups where little or no file copying is done and checking takes up most of the time). Increase this setting only with utmost care, while monitoring your server health and file checking throughput.

      -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, e.g. 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.

      +

      --color WHEN

      +

      Specifiy when colors (and other ANSI codes) should be added to the output.

      +

      AUTO (default) only allows ANSI codes when the output is a terminal

      +

      NEVER never allow ANSI codes

      +

      ALWAYS always add ANSI codes, regardless of the output format (terminal or file)

      --compare-dest=DIR

      When using sync, copy or move DIR is checked in addition to the destination for files. If a file identical to the source is found that file is NOT copied from source. This is useful to copy just files that have changed since the last backup.

      You must use the same remote as the destination of the sync. The compare directory must not overlap the destination directory.

      @@ -4068,7 +4470,8 @@

      --copy-dest=DIR

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

      See --compare-dest and --backup-dir.

      --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.

      +

      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
      @@ -4118,11 +4521,11 @@

      --header-upload

      --human-readable

      Rclone commands output values for sizes (e.g. number of bytes) and counts (e.g. number of files) either as raw numbers, or in human-readable format.

      In human-readable format the values are scaled to larger units, indicated with a suffix shown after the value, and rounded to three decimals. Rclone consistently uses binary units (powers of 2) for sizes and decimal units (powers of 10) for counts. The unit prefix for size is according to IEC standard notation, e.g. Ki for kibi. Used with byte unit, 1 KiB means 1024 Byte. In list type of output, only the unit prefix appended to the value (e.g. 9.762Ki), while in more textual output the full unit is shown (e.g. 9.762 KiB). For counts the SI standard notation is used, e.g. prefix k for kilo. Used with file counts, 1k means 1000 files.

      -

      The various list commands output raw numbers by default. Option --human-readable will make them output values in human-readable format instead (with the short unit prefix).

      -

      The about command outputs human-readable by default, with a command-specific option --full to output the raw numbers instead.

      -

      Command size outputs both human-readable and raw numbers in the same output.

      -

      The tree command also considers --human-readable, but it will not use the exact same notation as the other commands: It rounds to one decimal, and uses single letter suffix, e.g. K instead of Ki. The reason for this is that it relies on an external library.

      -

      The interactive command ncdu shows human-readable by default, and responds to key u for toggling human-readable format.

      +

      The various list commands output raw numbers by default. Option --human-readable will make them output values in human-readable format instead (with the short unit prefix).

      +

      The about command outputs human-readable by default, with a command-specific option --full to output the raw numbers instead.

      +

      Command size outputs both human-readable and raw numbers in the same output.

      +

      The tree command also considers --human-readable, but it will not use the exact same notation as the other commands: It rounds to one decimal, and uses single letter suffix, e.g. K instead of Ki. The reason for this is that it relies on an external library.

      +

      The interactive command ncdu shows human-readable by default, and responds to key u for toggling human-readable format.

      --ignore-case-sync

      Using this option will cause rclone to ignore the case of the files when synchronizing so files will not be copied/synced when the existing filenames are the same, even if the casing is different.

      --ignore-checksum

      @@ -4208,6 +4611,10 @@

      --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.

      +

      --metadata / -M

      +

      Setting this flag enables rclone to copy the metadata from the source to the destination. For local backends this is ownership, permissions, xattr etc. See the #metadata for more info.

      +

      --metadata-set key=value

      +

      Add metadata key = value when uploading. This can be repeated as many times as required. See the #metadata for more info.

      --cutoff-mode=hard|soft|cautious

      This modifies the behavior of --max-transfer Defaults to --cutoff-mode=hard.

      Specifying --cutoff-mode=hard will stop transferring immediately when Rclone reaches the limit.

      @@ -4328,6 +4735,10 @@

      --retries int

      --retries-sleep=TIME

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

      The default is 0. Use 0 to disable.

      +

      --server-side-across-configs

      +

      Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy or move) to work across different configurations.

      +

      This can be useful if you wish to do a server-side copy or move between two remotes which use the same backend but are configured differently.

      +

      Note that this isn't enabled by default because it isn't easy for rclone to tell if it will work between any two configurations.

      --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.

      @@ -4391,14 +4802,15 @@

      --tpslimit-burst int

      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.

      +

      An rclone sync with --track-renames runs like a normal sync, but keeps track of objects which exist in the destination but not in the source (which would normally be deleted), and which objects exist in the source but not the destination (which would normally be transferred). These objects are then candidates for renaming.

      +

      After the sync, rclone matches up the source only and destination only objects using the --track-renames-strategy specified and either renames the destination object or transfers the source and deletes the destination object. --track-renames is stateless like all of rclone's syncs.

      +

      To use this flag the destination must support server-side copy or server-side move, and to use a hash based --track-renames-strategy (the default) the source and the destination must have a compatible hash.

      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.

      Encrypted destinations are not currently supported by --track-renames if --track-renames-strategy includes hash.

      Note that --track-renames is incompatible with --no-traverse and that it 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.

      --track-renames-strategy (hash,modtime,leaf,size)

      -

      This option changes the matching criteria for --track-renames.

      +

      This option changes the file matching criteria for --track-renames.

      The matching is controlled by a comma separated selection of these tokens:

      • modtime - the modification time of the file - not supported on all backends
      • @@ -4406,9 +4818,9 @@

        --track-renames-strategy (ha
      • leaf - the name of the file not including its directory name
      • size - the size of the file (this is always enabled)
      -

      So using --track-renames-strategy modtime,leaf would match files based on modification time, the leaf of the file name and the size only.

      +

      The default option is hash.

      +

      Using --track-renames-strategy modtime,leaf would match files based on modification time, the leaf of the file name and the size only.

      Using --track-renames-strategy modtime or leaf can enable --track-renames support for encrypted destinations.

      -

      If nothing is specified, the default option is matching by hashes.

      Note that the hash strategy is not supported with encrypted destinations.

      --delete-(before,during,after)

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

      @@ -4417,7 +4829,7 @@

      --delete-(before,during,after)

      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 (e.g. 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 (e.g. S3, B2, GCS, Swift, Hubic).

      +

      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 (e.g. S3, B2, GCS, Swift).

      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)
      • @@ -4434,13 +4846,14 @@

        --timeout=TIME

        --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.

        +

        Look at --multi-thread-streams if you would like to control single file transfers.

        -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.

        This can be useful in avoiding needless transfers when transferring to a remote which doesn't support modification times directly (or when using --use-server-modtime to avoid extra API calls) as it is more accurate than a --size-only check and faster than using --checksum. On such remotes (or when using --use-server-modtime) the time checked will be the uploaded time.

        If an existing destination file has a modification time older than the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different. If the sizes are the same, it will be updated if the checksum is different or not available.

        If an existing destination file has a modification time equal (within the computed modify window) to the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different. The checksum will not be checked in this case unless the --checksum flag is provided.

        In all other cases the file will not be updated.

        -

        Consider using the --modify-window flag to compensate for time skews between the source and the backend, for backends that do not support mod times, and instead use uploaded times. However, if the backend does not support checksums, note that sync'ing or copying within the time skew window may still result in additional transfers for safety.

        +

        Consider using the --modify-window flag to compensate for time skews between the source and the backend, for backends that do not support mod times, and instead use uploaded times. However, if the backend does not support checksums, note that syncing or copying within the time skew window may still result in additional transfers for safety.

        --use-mmap

        If this flag is set then rclone will use anonymous memory allocated by mmap on Unix based platforms and VirtualAlloc on Windows for its transfer buffers (size controlled by --buffer-size). Memory allocated like this does not go on the Go heap and can be returned to the OS immediately when it is finished with.

        If this flag is not set then rclone will allocate and free the buffers using the Go memory allocator which may use more memory as memory pages are returned less aggressively to the OS.

        @@ -4452,6 +4865,7 @@

        --use-server-modtime

        -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.

        +

        When setting verbosity as an environment variable, use RCLONE_VERBOSE=1 or RCLONE_VERBOSE=2 for -v and -vv respectively.

        -V, --version

        Prints the version number

        SSL/TLS options

        @@ -4552,6 +4966,7 @@

        Filtering

      • --filter-from
      • --exclude
      • --exclude-from
      • +
      • --exclude-if-present
      • --include
      • --include-from
      • --files-from
      • @@ -4561,6 +4976,12 @@

        Filtering

      • --min-age
      • --max-age
      • --dump filters
      • +
      • --metadata-include
      • +
      • --metadata-include-from
      • +
      • --metadata-exclude
      • +
      • --metadata-exclude-from
      • +
      • --metadata-filter
      • +
      • --metadata-filter-from

      See the filtering section.

      Remote control

      @@ -4600,11 +5021,12 @@

      List of exit codes

      Environment Variables

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

      -

      Options

      +

      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.

      +

      Verbosity is slightly different, the environment variable equivalent of --verbose or -v is RCLONE_VERBOSE=1, or for -vv, RCLONE_VERBOSE=2.

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

      The options set by environment variables can be seen with the -vv flag, e.g. rclone version -vv.

      Config file

      @@ -4662,12 +5084,13 @@

      Configuring rclone on a

      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 (e.g. 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 run rclone config but answer N to the Use auto config? question.

      +

      On the headless box run rclone config but answer N to the Use web browser to automatically authenticate? question.

      ...
       Remote config
      -Use auto config?
      - * Say Y if not sure
      - * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
      +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
      + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
      + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
      +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
       y) Yes (default)
       n) No
       y/n> n
      @@ -4714,6 +5137,20 @@ 

      Configuring by copying the confi Configuration file is stored at: /home/user/.rclone.conf

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

      +

      Configuring using SSH Tunnel

      +

      Linux and MacOS users can utilize SSH Tunnel to redirect the headless box port 53682 to local machine by using the following command:

      +
      ssh -L localhost:53682:localhost:53682 username@remote_server
      +

      Then on the headless box run rclone config and answer Y to the Use web browser to automatically authenticate? question.

      +
      ...
      +Remote config
      +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
      + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
      + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
      +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
      +y) Yes (default)
      +n) No
      +y/n> y
      +

      Then copy and paste the auth url http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxx to the browser on your local machine, complete the auth and it is done.

      Filtering, includes and excludes

      Filter flags determine which files rclone sync, move, ls, lsl, md5sum, sha1sum, size, delete, check and similar commands apply to.

      They are specified in terms of path/file name patterns; path/file lists; file age and size, or presence of a file in a directory. Bucket based remotes without the concept of directory apply filters to object key, age and size in an analogous way.

      @@ -4723,7 +5160,7 @@

      Filtering, includes and excludes

      E.g. rclone copy "remote:dir*.jpg" /path/to/dir does not have a filter effect. rclone copy remote:dir /path/to/dir --include "*.jpg" does.

      Important Avoid mixing any two of --include..., --exclude... or --filter... flags in an rclone command. The results may not be what you expect. Instead use a --filter... flag.

      Patterns for matching path/file names

      -

      Pattern syntax

      +

      Pattern syntax

      Here is a formal definition of the pattern syntax, examples are below.

      Rclone matching rules follow a glob style:

      *         matches any sequence of non-separator (/) characters
      @@ -4780,7 +5217,7 @@ 

      Pattern syntax

      - matches "POTATO"

      Using regular expressions in filter patterns

      The syntax of filter patterns is glob style matching (like bash uses) to make things easy for users. However this does not provide absolute control over the matching, so for advanced users rclone also provides a regular expression syntax.

      -

      The regular expressions used are as defined in the Go regular expression reference. Regular expressions should be enclosed in {{ }}. They will match only the last path segment if the glob doesn't start with / or the whole path name if it does.

      +

      The regular expressions used are as defined in the Go regular expression reference. Regular expressions should be enclosed in {{ }}. They will match only the last path segment if the glob doesn't start with / or the whole path name if it does. Note that rclone does not attempt to parse the supplied regular expression, meaning that using any regular expression filter will prevent rclone from using directory filter rules, as it will instead check every path against the supplied regular expression(s).

      Here is how the {{regexp}} is transformed into an full regular expression to match the entire path:

      {{regexp}}  becomes (^|/)(regexp)$
       /{{regexp}} becomes ^(regexp)$
      @@ -4838,7 +5275,7 @@

      Filter pattern examples

      -/dir/file.gif +/dir/file.png /dir/file.gif @@ -4927,7 +5364,7 @@

      Filter pattern examples

      -

      How filter rules are applied to files

      +

      How filter rules are applied to files

      Rclone path/file name filters are made up of one or more of the following flags:

      • --include
      • @@ -4949,14 +5386,15 @@

        How filter rules are applied to f

        Any path/file included at that stage is processed by the rclone command.

        --files-from and --files-from-raw flags over-ride and cannot be combined with other filter options.

        To see the internal combined rule list, in regular expression form, for a command add the --dump filters flag. Running an rclone command with --dump filters and -vv flags lists the internal filter elements and shows how they are applied to each source path/file. There is not currently a means provided to pass regular expression filter options into rclone directly though character class filter rules contain character classes. Go regular expression reference

        -

        How filter rules are applied to directories

        +

        How filter rules are applied to directories

        Rclone commands are applied to path/file names not directories. The entire contents of a directory can be matched to a filter by the pattern directory/* or recursively by directory/**.

        Directory filter rules are defined with a closing / separator.

        E.g. /directory/subdirectory/ is an rclone directory filter rule.

        Rclone commands can use directory filter rules to determine whether they recurse into subdirectories. This potentially optimises access to a remote by avoiding listing unnecessary directories. Whether optimisation is desirable depends on the specific filter rules and source remote content.

        +

        If any regular expression filters are in use, then no directory recursion optimisation is possible, as rclone must check every path against the supplied regular expression(s).

        Directory recursion optimisation occurs if either:

          -
        • A source remote does not support the rclone ListR primitive. local, sftp, Microsoft OneDrive and WebDav do not support ListR. Google Drive and most bucket type storage do. Full list

        • +
        • A source remote does not support the rclone ListR primitive. local, sftp, Microsoft OneDrive and WebDAV do not support ListR. Google Drive and most bucket type storage do. Full list

        • On other remotes (those that support ListR), if the rclone command is not naturally recursive, and provided it is not run with the --fast-list flag. ls, lsf -R and size are naturally recursive but sync, copy and move are not.

        • Whenever the --disable ListR flag is applied to an rclone command.

        @@ -5118,34 +5556,21 @@

        Other filters

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

        Controls the minimum size file within the scope of an rclone command. Default units are KiB but abbreviations K, M, G, T or P are valid.

        E.g. rclone ls remote: --min-size 50k lists files on remote: of 50 KiB size or larger.

        +

        See the size option docs for more info.

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

        Controls the maximum size file within the scope of an rclone command. Default units are KiB but abbreviations K, M, G, T or P are valid.

        E.g. rclone ls remote: --max-size 1G lists files on remote: of 1 GiB size or smaller.

        +

        See the size option docs for more info.

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

        -

        Controls the maximum age of files within the scope of an rclone command. Default units are seconds or the following abbreviations are valid:

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

        --max-age can also be specified as an absolute time in the following formats:

        -
          -
        • RFC3339 - e.g. 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z or 2006-01-02T15:04:05+07:00
        • -
        • ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - 2006-01-02T15:04:05
        • -
        • ISO8601 Date and time, local timezone - 2006-01-02 15:04:05
        • -
        • ISO8601 Date - 2006-01-02 (YYYY-MM-DD)
        • -
        +

        Controls the maximum age of files within the scope of an rclone command.

        --max-age applies only to files and not to directories.

        E.g. rclone ls remote: --max-age 2d lists files on remote: of 2 days old or less.

        +

        See the time option docs for valid formats.

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

        Controls the minimum age of files within the scope of an rclone command. (see --max-age for valid formats)

        --min-age applies only to files and not to directories.

        E.g. rclone ls remote: --min-age 2d lists files on remote: of 2 days old or more.

        +

        See the time option docs for valid formats.

        Other flags

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

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

        @@ -5157,7 +5582,7 @@

        --dump filtersDumps the defined filters to standard output in regular expression format.

        Useful for debugging.

        Exclude directory based on a file

        -

        The --exclude-if-present flag controls whether a directory is within the scope of an rclone command based on the presence of a named file within it.

        +

        The --exclude-if-present flag controls whether a directory is within the scope of an rclone command based on the presence of a named file within it. The flag can be repeated to check for multiple file names, presence of any of them will exclude the directory.

        This flag has a priority over other filter flags.

        E.g. for the following directory structure:

        dir1/file1
        @@ -5165,7 +5590,24 @@ 

        Exclude directory based on a file

        The command rclone ls --exclude-if-present .ignore dir1 does not list dir3, file3 or .ignore.

        -

        --exclude-if-present can only be used once in an rclone command.

        +

        Metadata filters

        +

        The metadata filters work in a very similar way to the normal file name filters, except they match metadata on the object.

        +

        The metadata should be specified as key=value patterns. This may be wildcarded using the normal filter patterns or regular expressions.

        +

        For example if you wished to list only local files with a mode of 100664 you could do that with:

        +
        rclone lsf -M --files-only --metadata-include "mode=100664" .
        +

        Or if you wished to show files with an atime, mtime or btime at a given date:

        +
        rclone lsf -M --files-only --metadata-include "[abm]time=2022-12-16*" .
        +

        Like file filtering, metadata filtering only applies to files not to directories.

        +

        The filters can be applied using these flags.

        +
          +
        • --metadata-include - Include metadatas matching pattern
        • +
        • --metadata-include-from - Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
        • +
        • --metadata-exclude - Exclude metadatas matching pattern
        • +
        • --metadata-exclude-from - Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin)
        • +
        • --metadata-filter - Add a metadata filtering rule
        • +
        • --metadata-filter-from - Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin)
        • +
        +

        Each flag can be repeated. See the section on how filter rules are applied for more details - these flags work in an identical way to the file name filtering flags, but instead of file name patterns have metadata patterns.

        Common pitfalls

        The most frequent filter support issues on the rclone forum are:

          @@ -5245,8 +5687,8 @@

          Project

          If you have questions then please ask them on the rclone forum.

          Remote controlling rclone with its API

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

          -

          You can either use the rclone rc command to access the API or use HTTP directly.

          -

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

          +

          You can either use the rc command to access the API or use HTTP directly.

          +

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

          Supported parameters

          --rc

          Flag to start the http server listen on remote requests

          @@ -5262,6 +5704,8 @@

          --rc-key=PATH

          SSL PEM Private key

          --rc-max-header-bytes=VALUE

          Maximum size of request header (default 4096)

          +

          --rc-min-tls-version=VALUE

          +

          The minimum TLS version that is acceptable. Valid values are "tls1.0", "tls1.1", "tls1.2" and "tls1.3" (default "tls1.0").

          --rc-user=VALUE

          User name for authentication.

          --rc-pass=VALUE

          @@ -5310,6 +5754,11 @@

          --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.

          +

          --rc-baseurl

          +

          Prefix for URLs.

          +

          Default is root

          +

          --rc-template

          +

          User-specified template.

          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

          @@ -5427,7 +5876,7 @@

          Data types

          Specifying remotes to work on

          Remotes are specified with the fs=, srcFs=, dstFs= parameters depending on the command being used.

          The parameters can be a string as per the rest of rclone, eg s3:bucket/path or :sftp:/my/dir. They can also be specified as JSON blobs.

          -

          If specifyng a JSON blob it should be a object mapping strings to strings. These values will be used to configure the remote. There are 3 special values which may be set:

          +

          If specifying a JSON blob it should be a object mapping strings to strings. These values will be used to configure the remote. There are 3 special values which may be set:

          • type - set to type to specify a remote called :type:
          • _name - set to name to specify a remote called name:
          • @@ -5516,30 +5965,30 @@

            config/create: create the config for a remote.

          • result - result to restart with - used with continue
        -

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

        +

        See the config create 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.

        +

        See the config delete 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.

        +

        See the config dump 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.

        +

        See the config dump 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.

        +

        See the listremotes 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:

        @@ -5547,11 +5996,17 @@

        config/password: password the config for a remote.

      • name - name of remote
      • parameters - a map of { "key": "value" } pairs
      -

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

      +

      See the config password 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.

      +

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

      +

      Authentication is required for this call.

      +

      config/setpath: Set the path of the config file

      +

      Parameters:

      +
        +
      • path - path to the config file to use
      • +

      Authentication is required for this call.

      config/update: update the config for a remote.

      This takes the following parameters:

      @@ -5569,7 +6024,7 @@

      config/update: update the config for a remote.

    62. result - result to restart with - used with continue
    63. -

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

      +

      See the config update 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 the string passed in. This should be a single bandwidth limit entry or a pair of upload:download bandwidth.

      @@ -5636,7 +6091,7 @@

      core/command: Run a rclone terminal command over rc.

      "result": "<Raw command line output>" } -OR +OR { "error": true, "result": "<Raw command line output>" @@ -5774,6 +6229,14 @@

      debug/set-block-profile-rate: Set runtime.
      • rate - int
      +

      debug/set-gc-percent: Call runtime/debug.SetGCPercent for setting the garbage collection target percentage.

      +

      SetGCPercent sets the garbage collection target percentage: a collection is triggered when the ratio of freshly allocated data to live data remaining after the previous collection reaches this percentage. SetGCPercent returns the previous setting. The initial setting is the value of the GOGC environment variable at startup, or 100 if the variable is not set.

      +

      This setting may be effectively reduced in order to maintain a memory limit. A negative percentage effectively disables garbage collection, unless the memory limit is reached.

      +

      See https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#SetMemoryLimit for more details.

      +

      Parameters:

      +
        +
      • gc-percent - int
      • +

      debug/set-mutex-profile-fraction: Set runtime.SetMutexProfileFraction for mutex profiling.

      SetMutexProfileFraction controls the fraction of mutex contention events that are reported in the mutex profile. On average 1/rate events are reported. The previous rate is returned.

      To turn off profiling entirely, pass rate 0. To just read the current rate, pass rate < 0. (For n>1 the details of sampling may change.)

      @@ -5787,6 +6250,18 @@

      debug/set-mutex-profile-fraction: Set
      • previousRate - int
      +

      debug/set-soft-memory-limit: Call runtime/debug.SetMemoryLimit for setting a soft memory limit for the runtime.

      +

      SetMemoryLimit provides the runtime with a soft memory limit.

      +

      The runtime undertakes several processes to try to respect this memory limit, including adjustments to the frequency of garbage collections and returning memory to the underlying system more aggressively. This limit will be respected even if GOGC=off (or, if SetGCPercent(-1) is executed).

      +

      The input limit is provided as bytes, and includes all memory mapped, managed, and not released by the Go runtime. Notably, it does not account for space used by the Go binary and memory external to Go, such as memory managed by the underlying system on behalf of the process, or memory managed by non-Go code inside the same process. Examples of excluded memory sources include: OS kernel memory held on behalf of the process, memory allocated by C code, and memory mapped by syscall.Mmap (because it is not managed by the Go runtime).

      +

      A zero limit or a limit that's lower than the amount of memory used by the Go runtime may cause the garbage collector to run nearly continuously. However, the application may still make progress.

      +

      The memory limit is always respected by the Go runtime, so to effectively disable this behavior, set the limit very high. math.MaxInt64 is the canonical value for disabling the limit, but values much greater than the available memory on the underlying system work just as well.

      +

      See https://go.dev/doc/gc-guide for a detailed guide explaining the soft memory limit in more detail, as well as a variety of common use-cases and scenarios.

      +

      SetMemoryLimit returns the previously set memory limit. A negative input does not adjust the limit, and allows for retrieval of the currently set memory limit.

      +

      Parameters:

      +
        +
      • mem-limit - int
      • +

      fscache/clear: Clear the Fs cache.

      This clears the fs cache. This is where remotes created from backends are cached for a short while to make repeated rc calls more efficient.

      If you change the parameters of a backend then you may want to call this to clear an existing remote out of the cache before re-creating it.

      @@ -5824,6 +6299,11 @@

      job/stop: Stop the running job

      • jobid - id of the job (integer).
      +

      job/stopgroup: Stop all running jobs in a group

      +

      Parameters:

      +
        +
      • group - name of the group (string).
      • +

      mount/listmounts: Show current mount points

      This shows currently mounted points, which can be used for performing an unmount.

      This takes no parameters and returns

      @@ -5870,8 +6350,8 @@

      mount/unmount: Unmount selected active mount

      Example:

      rclone rc mount/unmount mountPoint=/home/<user>/mountPoint

      Authentication is required for this call.

      -

      mount/unmountall: Show current mount points

      -

      This shows currently mounted points, which can be used for performing an unmount.

      +

      mount/unmountall: Unmount all active mounts

      +

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

      This takes no parameters and returns error if unmount does not succeed.

      Eg

      rclone rc mount/unmountall
      @@ -5882,14 +6362,14 @@

      operations/about: Return the space used on the remote<
    64. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    65. The result is as returned from rclone about --json

      -

      See the about command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the about command for more information on the above.

      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 e.g. "drive:"
      -

      See the cleanup command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the cleanup 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:

      @@ -5906,15 +6386,16 @@

      operations/copyurl: Copy the URL to the object

    66. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    67. remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
    68. url - string, URL to read from
    69. -
    70. autoFilename - boolean, set to true to retrieve destination file name from url See the copyurl command command for more information on the above.
    71. +
    72. autoFilename - boolean, set to true to retrieve destination file name from url
    73. +

      See the copyurl 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 e.g. "drive:"
      -

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

      +

      See the delete 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:

      @@ -5922,7 +6403,7 @@

      operations/deletefile: Remove the single file poi
    74. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    75. remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
    76. -

      See the deletefile command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the deletefile command for more information on the above.

      Authentication is required for this call.

      operations/fsinfo: Return information about the remote

      This takes the following parameters:

      @@ -5931,46 +6412,103 @@

      operations/fsinfo: Return information about the remot

      This returns info about the remote passed in;

      {
      -    // optional features and whether they are available or not
      -    "Features": {
      -        "About": true,
      -        "BucketBased": false,
      -        "CanHaveEmptyDirectories": true,
      -        "CaseInsensitive": false,
      -        "ChangeNotify": false,
      -        "CleanUp": false,
      -        "Copy": false,
      -        "DirCacheFlush": false,
      -        "DirMove": true,
      -        "DuplicateFiles": false,
      -        "GetTier": false,
      -        "ListR": false,
      -        "MergeDirs": false,
      -        "Move": true,
      -        "OpenWriterAt": true,
      -        "PublicLink": false,
      -        "Purge": true,
      -        "PutStream": true,
      -        "PutUnchecked": false,
      -        "ReadMimeType": false,
      -        "ServerSideAcrossConfigs": false,
      -        "SetTier": false,
      -        "SetWrapper": false,
      -        "UnWrap": false,
      -        "WrapFs": false,
      -        "WriteMimeType": false
      -    },
      -    // Names of hashes available
      -    "Hashes": [
      -        "MD5",
      -        "SHA-1",
      -        "DropboxHash",
      -        "QuickXorHash"
      -    ],
      -    "Name": "local",    // Name as created
      -    "Precision": 1,     // Precision of timestamps in ns
      -    "Root": "/",        // Path as created
      -    "String": "Local file system at /" // how the remote will appear in logs
      +        // optional features and whether they are available or not
      +        "Features": {
      +                "About": true,
      +                "BucketBased": false,
      +                "BucketBasedRootOK": false,
      +                "CanHaveEmptyDirectories": true,
      +                "CaseInsensitive": false,
      +                "ChangeNotify": false,
      +                "CleanUp": false,
      +                "Command": true,
      +                "Copy": false,
      +                "DirCacheFlush": false,
      +                "DirMove": true,
      +                "Disconnect": false,
      +                "DuplicateFiles": false,
      +                "GetTier": false,
      +                "IsLocal": true,
      +                "ListR": false,
      +                "MergeDirs": false,
      +                "MetadataInfo": true,
      +                "Move": true,
      +                "OpenWriterAt": true,
      +                "PublicLink": false,
      +                "Purge": true,
      +                "PutStream": true,
      +                "PutUnchecked": false,
      +                "ReadMetadata": true,
      +                "ReadMimeType": false,
      +                "ServerSideAcrossConfigs": false,
      +                "SetTier": false,
      +                "SetWrapper": false,
      +                "Shutdown": false,
      +                "SlowHash": true,
      +                "SlowModTime": false,
      +                "UnWrap": false,
      +                "UserInfo": false,
      +                "UserMetadata": true,
      +                "WrapFs": false,
      +                "WriteMetadata": true,
      +                "WriteMimeType": false
      +        },
      +        // Names of hashes available
      +        "Hashes": [
      +                "md5",
      +                "sha1",
      +                "whirlpool",
      +                "crc32",
      +                "sha256",
      +                "dropbox",
      +                "mailru",
      +                "quickxor"
      +        ],
      +        "Name": "local",        // Name as created
      +        "Precision": 1,         // Precision of timestamps in ns
      +        "Root": "/",            // Path as created
      +        "String": "Local file system at /", // how the remote will appear in logs
      +        // Information about the system metadata for this backend
      +        "MetadataInfo": {
      +                "System": {
      +                        "atime": {
      +                                "Help": "Time of last access",
      +                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
      +                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
      +                        },
      +                        "btime": {
      +                                "Help": "Time of file birth (creation)",
      +                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
      +                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
      +                        },
      +                        "gid": {
      +                                "Help": "Group ID of owner",
      +                                "Type": "decimal number",
      +                                "Example": "500"
      +                        },
      +                        "mode": {
      +                                "Help": "File type and mode",
      +                                "Type": "octal, unix style",
      +                                "Example": "0100664"
      +                        },
      +                        "mtime": {
      +                                "Help": "Time of last modification",
      +                                "Type": "RFC 3339",
      +                                "Example": "2006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00"
      +                        },
      +                        "rdev": {
      +                                "Help": "Device ID (if special file)",
      +                                "Type": "hexadecimal",
      +                                "Example": "1abc"
      +                        },
      +                        "uid": {
      +                                "Help": "User ID of owner",
      +                                "Type": "decimal number",
      +                                "Example": "500"
      +                        }
      +                },
      +                "Help": "Textual help string\n"
      +        }
       }

      This command does not have a command line equivalent so use this instead:

      rclone rc --loopback operations/fsinfo fs=remote:
      @@ -5989,6 +6527,7 @@

      operations/list: List the given remote and path in JSON
    77. noMimeType - If set don't show mime types
    78. dirsOnly - If set only show directories
    79. filesOnly - If set only show files
    80. +
    81. metadata - If set return metadata of objects also
    82. hashTypes - array of strings of hash types to show if showHash set
    83. @@ -5999,7 +6538,7 @@

      operations/list: List the given remote and path in JSON
    84. This is an array of objects as described in the lsjson command
    85. -

      See the lsjson command for more information on the above and examples.

      +

      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:

      @@ -6007,7 +6546,7 @@

      operations/mkdir: Make a destination directory or cont
    86. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    87. remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
    88. -

      See the mkdir command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the mkdir 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:

      @@ -6030,7 +6569,7 @@

      operations/purge: Remove a directory or container and all of its contents

      This takes the following parameters:

      @@ -6038,7 +6577,7 @@

      operations/purge: Remove a directory or container and
    89. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    90. remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
    91. -

      See the purge command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the purge 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:

      @@ -6046,15 +6585,16 @@

      operations/rmdir: Remove an empty directory or contain
    92. fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
    93. remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
    94. -

      See the rmdir command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the rmdir 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 e.g. "drive:"
      • remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
      • -
      • leaveRoot - boolean, set to true not to delete the root See the rmdirs command command for more information on the above.
      • +
      • leaveRoot - boolean, set to true not to delete the root
      +

      See the rmdirs 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:

      @@ -6066,7 +6606,7 @@

      operations/size: Count the number of bytes and files in
    95. count - number of files
    96. bytes - number of bytes in those files
    97. -

      See the size command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the size command for more information on the above.

      Authentication is required for this call.

      operations/stat: Give information about the supplied file or directory

      This takes the following parameters

      @@ -6083,15 +6623,16 @@

      operations/stat: Give information about the supplied fi
    98. item - an object as described in the lsjson command. Will be null if not found.
    99. Note that if you are only interested in files then it is much more efficient to set the filesOnly flag in the options.

      -

      See the lsjson command for more information on the above and examples.

      +

      See the lsjson command for more information on the above and examples.

      Authentication is required for this call.

      operations/uploadfile: Upload file using multiform/form-data

      This takes the following parameters:

      • fs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:"
      • remote - a path within that remote e.g. "dir"
      • -
      • each part in body represents a file to be uploaded See the uploadfile command command for more information on the above.
      • +
      • each part in body represents a file to be uploaded
      +

      See the uploadfile 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

      @@ -6192,7 +6733,7 @@

      rc/noop: Echo the input to the output parameters

      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/bisync: Perform bidirectonal synchronization between two paths.

      +

      sync/bisync: Perform bidirectional synchronization between two paths.

      This takes the following parameters

      • path1 - a remote directory string e.g. drive:path1
      • @@ -6218,7 +6759,7 @@

        sync/copy: copy a directory from source remote to destination
      • dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:dst" for the destination
      • createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set
      -

      See the copy command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the copy 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:

      @@ -6228,7 +6769,7 @@

      sync/move: move a directory from source remote to destination
    100. createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set
    101. deleteEmptySrcDirs - delete empty src directories if set
    102. -

      See the move command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the move 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:

      @@ -6237,7 +6778,7 @@

      sync/sync: sync a directory from source remote to destination
    103. dstFs - a remote name string e.g. "drive:dst" for the destination
    104. createEmptySrcDirs - create empty src directories on destination if set
    105. -

      See the sync command command for more information on the above.

      +

      See the sync 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.

      @@ -6428,320 +6969,387 @@

      Features

      Case Insensitive Duplicate Files MIME Type +Metadata 1Fichier Whirlpool -No +- No Yes R +- Akamai Netstorage MD5, SHA256 -Yes +R/W No No R +- Amazon Drive MD5 -No +- Yes No R +- Amazon S3 (or S3 compatible) MD5 -Yes +R/W No No R/W +RWU Backblaze B2 SHA1 -Yes +R/W No No R/W +- Box SHA1 -Yes +R/W Yes No - +- Citrix ShareFile MD5 -Yes +R/W Yes No - +- Dropbox DBHASH ¹ -Yes +R Yes No - +- Enterprise File Fabric - -Yes +R/W Yes No R/W +- FTP - -No +R/W ¹⁰ No No - +- Google Cloud Storage MD5 -Yes +R/W No No R/W +- Google Drive MD5 -Yes +R/W No Yes R/W +- Google Photos - -No +- No Yes R +- HDFS - -Yes +R/W No No - +- +HiDrive +HiDrive ¹² +R/W +No +No +- +- + + HTTP - -No +R No No R +- - -Hubic -MD5 -Yes + +Internet Archive +MD5, SHA1, CRC32 +R/W ¹¹ No No -R/W +- +RWU - + Jottacloud MD5 -Yes +R/W Yes No R +- - + Koofr MD5 -No +- Yes No - +- - + Mail.ru Cloud Mailru ⁶ -Yes +R/W Yes No - +- - + Mega - -No +- No Yes - +- - + Memory MD5 -Yes +R/W No No - +- - + Microsoft Azure Blob Storage MD5 -Yes +R/W No No R/W +- - + Microsoft OneDrive SHA1 ⁵ -Yes +R/W Yes No R +- - + OpenDrive MD5 -Yes +R/W Yes Partial ⁸ - +- - + OpenStack Swift MD5 -Yes +R/W +No +No +R/W +- + + +Oracle Object Storage +MD5 +R/W No No R/W +- pCloud MD5, SHA1 ⁷ -Yes +R No No W +- premiumize.me - -No +- Yes No R +- put.io CRC-32 -Yes +R/W No Yes R +- QingStor MD5 -No +- ⁹ No No R/W +- Seafile - +- No No -No +- - SFTP MD5, SHA1 ² -Yes +R/W Depends No - +- Sia - +- No No -No +- - -SugarSync +SMB +- - +Yes No +- +- + + +SugarSync +- +- No No - +- - + Storj - -Yes +R No No - +- - + Uptobox - -No +- No Yes - +- - + WebDAV MD5, SHA1 ³ -Yes ⁴ +R ⁴ Depends No - +- - + Yandex Disk MD5 -Yes +R/W No No R +- - + Zoho WorkDrive - +- No No -No +- - - + The local filesystem All -Yes +R/W Depends No - +RWU @@ -6754,12 +7362,18 @@

      Notes

      ⁶ Mail.ru uses its own modified SHA1 hash

      ⁷ pCloud only supports SHA1 (not MD5) in its EU region

      ⁸ Opendrive does not support creation of duplicate files using their web client interface or other stock clients, but the underlying storage platform has been determined to allow duplicate files, and it is possible to create them with rclone. It may be that this is a mistake or an unsupported feature.

      +

      ⁹ QingStor does not support SetModTime for objects bigger than 5 GiB.

      +

      ¹⁰ FTP supports modtimes for the major FTP servers, and also others if they advertised required protocol extensions. See this for more details.

      +

      ¹¹ Internet Archive requires option wait_archive to be set to a non-zero value for full modtime support.

      +

      ¹² HiDrive supports its own custom hash. It combines SHA1 sums for each 4 KiB block hierarchically to a single top-level sum.

      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.

      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.

      +

      Almost all cloud storage systems store some sort of timestamp on objects, but several of them not something that is appropriate to use for syncing. E.g. some backends will only write a timestamp that represent the time of the upload. To be relevant for syncing it should be able to store the modification time of the source object. If this is not the case, rclone will only check the file size by default, though can be configured to check the file hash (with the --checksum flag). Ideally it should also be possible to change the timestamp of an existing file without having to re-upload it.

      +

      Storage systems with a - in the ModTime column, means the modification read on objects is not the modification time of the file when uploaded. It is most likely the time the file was uploaded, or possibly something else (like the time the picture was taken in Google Photos).

      +

      Storage systems with a R (for read-only) in the ModTime column, means the it keeps modification times on objects, and updates them when uploading objects, but it does not support changing only the modification time (SetModTime operation) without re-uploading, possibly not even without deleting existing first. Some operations in rclone, such as copy and sync commands, will automatically check for SetModTime support and re-upload if necessary to keep the modification times in sync. Other commands will not work without SetModTime support, e.g. touch command on an existing file will fail, and changes to modification time only on a files in a mount will be silently ignored.

      +

      Storage systems with R/W (for read/write) in the ModTime column, means they do also support modtime-only operations.

      Case Insensitive

      If a cloud storage systems is case sensitive then it is possible to have two files which differ only in case, e.g. 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.

      @@ -7000,120 +7614,158 @@

      Encoding option

      The --backend-encoding flags allow you to change that. You can disable the encoding completely with --backend-encoding None or set encoding = None in the config file.

      Encoding takes a comma separated list of encodings. You can see the list of all possible values by passing an invalid value to this flag, e.g. --local-encoding "help". The command rclone help flags encoding will show you the defaults for the backends.

      +++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + + - + +
      Encoding CharactersEncoded as
      Asterisk *
      BackQuote `
      BackSlash \
      Colon :
      CrLf CR 0x0D, LF 0x0A,
      Ctl All control characters 0x00-0x1F␀␁␂␃␄␅␆␇␈␉␊␋␌␍␎␏␐␑␒␓␔␕␖␗␘␙␚␛␜␝␞␟
      Del DEL 0x7F
      Dollar $
      Dot . or .. as entire string, ..
      DoubleQuote "
      Hash #
      InvalidUtf8 An invalid UTF-8 character (e.g. latin1)
      LeftCrLfHtVtCR 0x0D, LF 0x0A,HT 0x09, VT 0x0B on the left of a stringCR 0x0D, LF 0x0A, HT 0x09, VT 0x0B on the left of a string, , ,
      LeftPeriod . on the left of a string.
      LeftSpace SPACE on the left of a string
      LeftTilde ~ on the left of a string
      LtGt <, >,
      None No characters are encoded
      Percent %
      Pipe |
      Question ?
      RightCrLfHtVt CR 0x0D, LF 0x0A, HT 0x09, VT 0x0B on the right of a string, , ,
      RightPeriod . on the right of a string.
      RightSpace SPACE on the right of a string
      Semicolon;
      SingleQuote '
      Slash /
      SquareBracket [, ],
      @@ -7139,6 +7791,32 @@

      MIME Type

      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.

      +

      Metadata

      +

      Backends may or may support reading or writing metadata. They may support reading and writing system metadata (metadata intrinsic to that backend) and/or user metadata (general purpose metadata).

      +

      The levels of metadata support are

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
      KeyExplanation
      RRead only System Metadata
      RWRead and write System Metadata
      RWURead and write System Metadata and read and write User Metadata
      +

      See the metadata docs for more info.

      Optional Features

      All rclone remotes support a base command set. Other features depend upon backend-specific capabilities.

      @@ -7172,6 +7850,19 @@

      Optional Features

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + @@ -7184,8 +7875,8 @@

      Optional Features

      - - + + @@ -7197,7 +7888,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7210,7 +7901,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7223,7 +7914,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7236,7 +7927,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7249,7 +7940,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7262,7 +7953,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7275,7 +7966,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7288,7 +7979,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7301,7 +7992,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7314,7 +8005,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7327,6 +8018,19 @@

      Optional Features

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + @@ -7341,16 +8045,16 @@

      Optional Features

      - - - + + + @@ -7367,6 +8071,19 @@

      Optional Features

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + @@ -7379,7 +8096,7 @@

      Optional Features

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      Optional Features

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      - + @@ -7418,7 +8135,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7431,7 +8148,7 @@

      Optional Features

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      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7457,6 +8174,19 @@

      Optional Features

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + @@ -7536,6 +8266,32 @@

      Optional Features

      + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + @@ -7551,7 +8307,7 @@

      Optional Features

      - + @@ -7630,7 +8386,7 @@

      Optional Features

      Yes
      Akamai NetstorageYesNoNoNoNoYesYesNoNoYes
      Amazon Drive Yes No No Yes
      Amazon S3
      Amazon S3 (or S3 compatible) No Yes No No No
      Backblaze B2 No Yes No No
      Box Yes Yes Yes Yes
      Citrix ShareFile Yes Yes No Yes
      Dropbox Yes Yes Yes Yes
      Enterprise File Fabric Yes Yes No Yes
      FTP No No No Yes
      Google Cloud Storage Yes Yes No No
      Google Drive Yes Yes Yes Yes
      Google Photos No No No No
      HDFS Yes No Yes Yes
      HiDriveYesYesYesYesNoNoYesNoNoYes
      HTTP No Yes
      HubicYes †YesInternet Archive NoYes No No Yes Yes No YesYes No
      Yes
      KoofrYesYesYesYesNoNoYesYesYesYes
      Mail.ru Cloud Yes Yes Yes Yes
      Mega Yes No Yes Yes
      Memory No Yes No No
      Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Yes Yes No No
      Microsoft OneDrive Yes Yes Yes Yes
      OpenDrive Yes Yes No Yes
      OpenStack Swift Yes † Yes Yes No
      Oracle Object StorageNoYesNoNoYesYesYesNoNoNo
      pCloud Yes Yes
      SiaNoNoNoNoNoNoYesNoNoYes
      SMBNoNoYesYesNoNoYesNoNoYes
      SugarSync Yes Yes
      Storj Yes †NoYes Yes No No

      Purge

      This deletes a directory quicker than just deleting all the files in the directory.

      -

      † Note Swift, Hubic, and Storj 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.

      +

      † Note Swift and Storj 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.

      @@ -7675,9 +8431,10 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      -c, --checksum Skip based on checksum (if available) & size, not mod-time & size --client-cert string Client SSL certificate (PEM) for mutual TLS auth --client-key string Client SSL private key (PEM) for mutual TLS auth + --color string When to show colors (and other ANSI codes) AUTO|NEVER|ALWAYS (default "AUTO") --compare-dest stringArray Include additional comma separated server-side paths during comparison --config string Config file (default "$HOME/.config/rclone/rclone.conf") - --contimeout duration Connect timeout (default 1m0s) + --contimeout Duration Connect timeout (default 1m0s) --copy-dest stringArray Implies --compare-dest but also copies files from paths into destination --cpuprofile string Write cpu profile to file --cutoff-mode string Mode to stop transfers when reaching the max transfer limit HARD|SOFT|CAUTIOUS (default "HARD") @@ -7686,6 +8443,7 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --delete-during When synchronizing, delete files during transfer --delete-excluded Delete files on dest excluded from sync --disable string Disable a comma separated list of features (use --disable help to see a list) + --disable-http-keep-alives Disable HTTP keep-alives and use each connection once. --disable-http2 Disable HTTP/2 in the global transport -n, --dry-run Do a trial run with no permanent changes --dscp string Set DSCP value to connections, value or name, e.g. CS1, LE, DF, AF21 @@ -7694,16 +8452,16 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --dump-headers Dump HTTP headers - may contain sensitive info --error-on-no-transfer Sets exit code 9 if no files are transferred, useful in scripts --exclude stringArray Exclude files matching pattern - --exclude-from stringArray Read exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) - --exclude-if-present string Exclude directories if filename is present - --expect-continue-timeout duration Timeout when using expect / 100-continue in HTTP (default 1s) + --exclude-from stringArray Read file exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) + --exclude-if-present stringArray Exclude directories if filename is present + --expect-continue-timeout Duration Timeout when using expect / 100-continue in HTTP (default 1s) --fast-list Use recursive list if available; uses more memory but fewer transactions --files-from stringArray Read list of source-file names from file (use - to read from stdin) --files-from-raw stringArray Read list of source-file names from file without any processing of lines (use - to read from stdin) - -f, --filter stringArray Add a file-filtering rule - --filter-from stringArray Read filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin) - --fs-cache-expire-duration duration Cache remotes for this long (0 to disable caching) (default 5m0s) - --fs-cache-expire-interval duration Interval to check for expired remotes (default 1m0s) + -f, --filter stringArray Add a file filtering rule + --filter-from stringArray Read file filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin) + --fs-cache-expire-duration Duration Cache remotes for this long (0 to disable caching) (default 5m0s) + --fs-cache-expire-interval Duration Interval to check for expired remotes (default 1m0s) --header stringArray Set HTTP header for all transactions --header-download stringArray Set HTTP header for download transactions --header-upload stringArray Set HTTP header for upload transactions @@ -7717,9 +8475,9 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      -I, --ignore-times Don't skip files that match size and time - transfer all files --immutable Do not modify files, fail if existing files have been modified --include stringArray Include files matching pattern - --include-from stringArray Read include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) + --include-from stringArray Read file include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) -i, --interactive Enable interactive mode - --kv-lock-time duration Maximum time to keep key-value database locked by process (default 1s) + --kv-lock-time Duration Maximum time to keep key-value database locked by process (default 1s) --log-file string Log everything to this file --log-format string Comma separated list of log format options (default "date,time") --log-level string Log level DEBUG|INFO|NOTICE|ERROR (default "NOTICE") @@ -7729,14 +8487,22 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --max-backlog int Maximum number of objects in sync or check backlog (default 10000) --max-delete int When synchronizing, limit the number of deletes (default -1) --max-depth int If set limits the recursion depth to this (default -1) - --max-duration duration Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for + --max-duration Duration Maximum duration rclone will transfer data for (default 0s) --max-size SizeSuffix Only transfer files smaller than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off) --max-stats-groups int Maximum number of stats groups to keep in memory, on max oldest is discarded (default 1000) --max-transfer SizeSuffix Maximum size of data to transfer (default off) --memprofile string Write memory profile to file + -M, --metadata If set, preserve metadata when copying objects + --metadata-exclude stringArray Exclude metadatas matching pattern + --metadata-exclude-from stringArray Read metadata exclude patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) + --metadata-filter stringArray Add a metadata filtering rule + --metadata-filter-from stringArray Read metadata filtering patterns from a file (use - to read from stdin) + --metadata-include stringArray Include metadatas matching pattern + --metadata-include-from stringArray Read metadata include patterns from file (use - to read from stdin) + --metadata-set stringArray Add metadata key=value when uploading --min-age Duration Only transfer files older than this in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d|w|M|y (default off) --min-size SizeSuffix Only transfer files bigger than this in KiB or suffix B|K|M|G|T|P (default off) - --modify-window duration Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns) + --modify-window Duration Max time diff to be considered the same (default 1ns) --multi-thread-cutoff SizeSuffix Use multi-thread downloads for files above this size (default 250Mi) --multi-thread-streams int Max number of streams to use for multi-thread downloads (default 4) --no-check-certificate Do not verify the server SSL certificate (insecure) @@ -7752,24 +8518,26 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --progress-terminal-title Show progress on the terminal title (requires -P/--progress) -q, --quiet Print as little stuff as possible --rc Enable the remote control server - --rc-addr string IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default "localhost:5572") + --rc-addr stringArray IPaddress:Port or :Port to bind server to (default [localhost:5572]) --rc-allow-origin string Set the allowed origin for CORS --rc-baseurl string Prefix for URLs - leave blank for root - --rc-cert string SSL PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate) + --rc-cert string TLS PEM key (concatenation of certificate and CA certificate) --rc-client-ca string Client certificate authority to verify clients with --rc-enable-metrics Enable prometheus metrics on /metrics --rc-files string Path to local files to serve on the HTTP server - --rc-htpasswd string htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done - --rc-job-expire-duration duration Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s) - --rc-job-expire-interval duration Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s) - --rc-key string SSL PEM Private key + --rc-htpasswd string A htpasswd file - if not provided no authentication is done + --rc-job-expire-duration Duration Expire finished async jobs older than this value (default 1m0s) + --rc-job-expire-interval Duration Interval to check for expired async jobs (default 10s) + --rc-key string TLS PEM Private key --rc-max-header-bytes int Maximum size of request header (default 4096) + --rc-min-tls-version string Minimum TLS version that is acceptable (default "tls1.0") --rc-no-auth Don't require auth for certain methods --rc-pass string Password for authentication - --rc-realm string Realm for authentication (default "rclone") + --rc-realm string Realm for authentication + --rc-salt string Password hashing salt (default "dlPL2MqE") --rc-serve Enable the serving of remote objects - --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-server-read-timeout Duration Timeout for server reading data (default 1h0m0s) + --rc-server-write-timeout Duration Timeout for server writing data (default 1h0m0s) --rc-template string User-specified template --rc-user string User name for authentication --rc-web-fetch-url string URL to fetch the releases for webgui (default "https://api.github.com/repos/rclone/rclone-webui-react/releases/latest") @@ -7779,9 +8547,10 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --rc-web-gui-update Check and update to latest version of web gui --refresh-times Refresh the modtime of remote files --retries int Retry operations this many times if they fail (default 3) - --retries-sleep duration Interval between retrying operations if they fail, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) + --retries-sleep Duration Interval between retrying operations if they fail, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 0s) + --server-side-across-configs Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different configs --size-only Skip based on size only, not mod-time or checksum - --stats duration Interval between printing stats, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 1m0s) + --stats Duration Interval between printing stats, e.g. 500ms, 60s, 5m (0 to disable) (default 1m0s) --stats-file-name-length int Max file name length in stats (0 for no limit) (default 45) --stats-log-level string Log level to show --stats output DEBUG|INFO|NOTICE|ERROR (default "INFO") --stats-one-line Make the stats fit on one line @@ -7794,7 +8563,7 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --syslog Use Syslog for logging --syslog-facility string Facility for syslog, e.g. KERN,USER,... (default "DAEMON") --temp-dir string Directory rclone will use for temporary files (default "/tmp") - --timeout duration IO idle timeout (default 5m0s) + --timeout Duration IO idle timeout (default 5m0s) --tpslimit float Limit HTTP transactions per second to this --tpslimit-burst int Max burst of transactions for --tpslimit (default 1) --track-renames When synchronizing, track file renames and do a server-side move if possible @@ -7805,473 +8574,547 @@

      Non Backend Flags

      --use-json-log Use json log format --use-mmap Use mmap allocator (see docs) --use-server-modtime Use server modified time instead of object metadata - --user-agent string Set the user-agent to a specified string (default "rclone/v1.58.0") + --user-agent string Set the user-agent to a specified string (default "rclone/v1.61.0") -v, --verbose count Print lots more stuff (repeat for more)

    Backend Flags

    These flags are available for every command. They control the backends and may be set in the config file.

    -
          --acd-auth-url string                          Auth server URL
    -      --acd-client-id string                         OAuth Client Id
    -      --acd-client-secret string                     OAuth Client Secret
    -      --acd-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --acd-templink-threshold SizeSuffix            Files >= this size will be downloaded via their tempLink (default 9Gi)
    -      --acd-token string                             OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --acd-token-url string                         Token server url
    -      --acd-upload-wait-per-gb Duration              Additional time per GiB to wait after a failed complete upload to see if it appears (default 3m0s)
    -      --alias-remote string                          Remote or path to alias
    -      --azureblob-access-tier string                 Access tier of blob: hot, cool or archive
    -      --azureblob-account string                     Storage Account Name
    -      --azureblob-archive-tier-delete                Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting
    -      --azureblob-chunk-size SizeSuffix              Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
    -      --azureblob-disable-checksum                   Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
    -      --azureblob-encoding MultiEncoder              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --azureblob-endpoint string                    Endpoint for the service
    -      --azureblob-key string                         Storage Account Key
    -      --azureblob-list-chunk int                     Size of blob list (default 5000)
    -      --azureblob-memory-pool-flush-time Duration    How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    -      --azureblob-memory-pool-use-mmap               Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    -      --azureblob-msi-client-id string               Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    -      --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id string               Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    -      --azureblob-msi-object-id string               Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    -      --azureblob-no-head-object                     If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
    -      --azureblob-public-access string               Public access level of a container: blob or container
    -      --azureblob-sas-url string                     SAS URL for container level access only
    -      --azureblob-service-principal-file string      Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal
    -      --azureblob-upload-concurrency int             Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 16)
    -      --azureblob-upload-cutoff string               Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated)
    -      --azureblob-use-emulator                       Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'
    -      --azureblob-use-msi                            Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure)
    -      --b2-account string                            Account ID or Application Key ID
    -      --b2-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Upload chunk size (default 96Mi)
    -      --b2-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4Gi)
    -      --b2-disable-checksum                          Disable checksums for large (> upload cutoff) files
    -      --b2-download-auth-duration Duration           Time before the authorization token will expire in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d (default 1w)
    -      --b2-download-url string                       Custom endpoint for downloads
    -      --b2-encoding MultiEncoder                     The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --b2-endpoint string                           Endpoint for the service
    -      --b2-hard-delete                               Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files
    -      --b2-key string                                Application Key
    -      --b2-memory-pool-flush-time Duration           How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    -      --b2-memory-pool-use-mmap                      Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    -      --b2-test-mode string                          A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header for debugging
    -      --b2-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                  Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    -      --b2-versions                                  Include old versions in directory listings
    -      --box-access-token string                      Box App Primary Access Token
    -      --box-auth-url string                          Auth server URL
    -      --box-box-config-file string                   Box App config.json location
    -      --box-box-sub-type string                       (default "user")
    -      --box-client-id string                         OAuth Client Id
    -      --box-client-secret string                     OAuth Client Secret
    -      --box-commit-retries int                       Max number of times to try committing a multipart file (default 100)
    -      --box-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --box-list-chunk int                           Size of listing chunk 1-1000 (default 1000)
    -      --box-owned-by string                          Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in
    -      --box-root-folder-id string                    Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point
    -      --box-token string                             OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --box-token-url string                         Token server url
    -      --box-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                 Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB) (default 50Mi)
    -      --cache-chunk-clean-interval Duration          How often should the cache perform cleanups of the chunk storage (default 1m0s)
    -      --cache-chunk-no-memory                        Disable the in-memory cache for storing chunks during streaming
    -      --cache-chunk-path string                      Directory to cache chunk files (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
    -      --cache-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  The size of a chunk (partial file data) (default 5Mi)
    -      --cache-chunk-total-size SizeSuffix            The total size that the chunks can take up on the local disk (default 10Gi)
    -      --cache-db-path string                         Directory to store file structure metadata DB (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
    -      --cache-db-purge                               Clear all the cached data for this remote on start
    -      --cache-db-wait-time Duration                  How long to wait for the DB to be available - 0 is unlimited (default 1s)
    -      --cache-info-age Duration                      How long to cache file structure information (directory listings, file size, times, etc.) (default 6h0m0s)
    -      --cache-plex-insecure string                   Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server
    -      --cache-plex-password string                   The password of the Plex user (obscured)
    -      --cache-plex-url string                        The URL of the Plex server
    -      --cache-plex-username string                   The username of the Plex user
    -      --cache-read-retries int                       How many times to retry a read from a cache storage (default 10)
    -      --cache-remote string                          Remote to cache
    -      --cache-rps int                                Limits the number of requests per second to the source FS (-1 to disable) (default -1)
    -      --cache-tmp-upload-path string                 Directory to keep temporary files until they are uploaded
    -      --cache-tmp-wait-time Duration                 How long should files be stored in local cache before being uploaded (default 15s)
    -      --cache-workers int                            How many workers should run in parallel to download chunks (default 4)
    -      --cache-writes                                 Cache file data on writes through the FS
    -      --chunker-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks (default 2Gi)
    -      --chunker-fail-hard                            Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks
    -      --chunker-hash-type string                     Choose how chunker handles hash sums (default "md5")
    -      --chunker-remote string                        Remote to chunk/unchunk
    -      --compress-level int                           GZIP compression level (-2 to 9) (default -1)
    -      --compress-mode string                         Compression mode (default "gzip")
    -      --compress-ram-cache-limit SizeSuffix          Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size (default 20Mi)
    -      --compress-remote string                       Remote to compress
    -  -L, --copy-links                                   Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item
    -      --crypt-directory-name-encryption              Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact (default true)
    -      --crypt-filename-encoding string               How to encode the encrypted filename to text string (default "base32")
    -      --crypt-filename-encryption string             How to encrypt the filenames (default "standard")
    -      --crypt-no-data-encryption                     Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted
    -      --crypt-password string                        Password or pass phrase for encryption (obscured)
    -      --crypt-password2 string                       Password or pass phrase for salt (obscured)
    -      --crypt-remote string                          Remote to encrypt/decrypt
    -      --crypt-server-side-across-configs             Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different crypt configs
    -      --crypt-show-mapping                           For all files listed show how the names encrypt
    -      --drive-acknowledge-abuse                      Set to allow files which return cannotDownloadAbusiveFile to be downloaded
    -      --drive-allow-import-name-change               Allow the filetype to change when uploading Google docs
    -      --drive-auth-owner-only                        Only consider files owned by the authenticated user
    -      --drive-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
    -      --drive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Upload chunk size (default 8Mi)
    -      --drive-client-id string                       Google Application Client Id
    -      --drive-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
    -      --drive-copy-shortcut-content                  Server side copy contents of shortcuts instead of the shortcut
    -      --drive-disable-http2                          Disable drive using http2 (default true)
    -      --drive-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default InvalidUtf8)
    -      --drive-export-formats string                  Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs (default "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg")
    -      --drive-formats string                         Deprecated: See export_formats
    -      --drive-impersonate string                     Impersonate this user when using a service account
    -      --drive-import-formats string                  Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs
    -      --drive-keep-revision-forever                  Keep new head revision of each file forever
    -      --drive-list-chunk int                         Size of listing chunk 100-1000, 0 to disable (default 1000)
    -      --drive-pacer-burst int                        Number of API calls to allow without sleeping (default 100)
    -      --drive-pacer-min-sleep Duration               Minimum time to sleep between API calls (default 100ms)
    -      --drive-root-folder-id string                  ID of the root folder
    -      --drive-scope string                           Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive
    -      --drive-server-side-across-configs             Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different drive configs
    -      --drive-service-account-credentials string     Service Account Credentials JSON blob
    -      --drive-service-account-file string            Service Account Credentials JSON file path
    -      --drive-shared-with-me                         Only show files that are shared with me
    -      --drive-size-as-quota                          Show sizes as storage quota usage, not actual size
    -      --drive-skip-checksum-gphotos                  Skip MD5 checksum on Google photos and videos only
    -      --drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts                If set skip dangling shortcut files
    -      --drive-skip-gdocs                             Skip google documents in all listings
    -      --drive-skip-shortcuts                         If set skip shortcut files
    -      --drive-starred-only                           Only show files that are starred
    -      --drive-stop-on-download-limit                 Make download limit errors be fatal
    -      --drive-stop-on-upload-limit                   Make upload limit errors be fatal
    -      --drive-team-drive string                      ID of the Shared Drive (Team Drive)
    -      --drive-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --drive-token-url string                       Token server url
    -      --drive-trashed-only                           Only show files that are in the trash
    -      --drive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix               Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 8Mi)
    -      --drive-use-created-date                       Use file created date instead of modified date
    -      --drive-use-shared-date                        Use date file was shared instead of modified date
    -      --drive-use-trash                              Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently (default true)
    -      --drive-v2-download-min-size SizeSuffix        If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download (default off)
    -      --dropbox-auth-url string                      Auth server URL
    -      --dropbox-batch-commit-timeout Duration        Max time to wait for a batch to finish comitting (default 10m0s)
    -      --dropbox-batch-mode string                    Upload file batching sync|async|off (default "sync")
    -      --dropbox-batch-size int                       Max number of files in upload batch
    -      --dropbox-batch-timeout Duration               Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading (default 0s)
    -      --dropbox-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Upload chunk size (< 150Mi) (default 48Mi)
    -      --dropbox-client-id string                     OAuth Client Id
    -      --dropbox-client-secret string                 OAuth Client Secret
    -      --dropbox-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --dropbox-impersonate string                   Impersonate this user when using a business account
    -      --dropbox-shared-files                         Instructs rclone to work on individual shared files
    -      --dropbox-shared-folders                       Instructs rclone to work on shared folders
    -      --dropbox-token string                         OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --dropbox-token-url string                     Token server url
    -      --fichier-api-key string                       Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl
    -      --fichier-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --fichier-file-password string                 If you want to download a shared file that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
    -      --fichier-folder-password string               If you want to list the files in a shared folder that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
    -      --fichier-shared-folder string                 If you want to download a shared folder, add this parameter
    -      --filefabric-encoding MultiEncoder             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --filefabric-permanent-token string            Permanent Authentication Token
    -      --filefabric-root-folder-id string             ID of the root folder
    -      --filefabric-token string                      Session Token
    -      --filefabric-token-expiry string               Token expiry time
    -      --filefabric-url string                        URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
    -      --filefabric-version string                    Version read from the file fabric
    -      --ftp-ask-password                             Allow asking for FTP password when needed
    -      --ftp-close-timeout Duration                   Maximum time to wait for a response to close (default 1m0s)
    -      --ftp-concurrency int                          Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited
    -      --ftp-disable-epsv                             Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support
    -      --ftp-disable-mlsd                             Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support
    -      --ftp-disable-tls13                            Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)
    -      --ftp-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot)
    -      --ftp-explicit-tls                             Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
    -      --ftp-host string                              FTP host to connect to
    -      --ftp-idle-timeout Duration                    Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
    -      --ftp-no-check-certificate                     Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server
    -      --ftp-pass string                              FTP password (obscured)
    -      --ftp-port int                                 FTP port number (default 21)
    -      --ftp-shut-timeout Duration                    Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status (default 1m0s)
    -      --ftp-tls                                      Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
    -      --ftp-tls-cache-size int                       Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections (default 32)
    -      --ftp-user string                              FTP username (default "$USER")
    -      --ftp-writing-mdtm                             Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)
    -      --gcs-anonymous                                Access public buckets and objects without credentials
    -      --gcs-auth-url string                          Auth server URL
    -      --gcs-bucket-acl string                        Access Control List for new buckets
    -      --gcs-bucket-policy-only                       Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies
    -      --gcs-client-id string                         OAuth Client Id
    -      --gcs-client-secret string                     OAuth Client Secret
    -      --gcs-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --gcs-location string                          Location for the newly created buckets
    -      --gcs-object-acl string                        Access Control List for new objects
    -      --gcs-project-number string                    Project number
    -      --gcs-service-account-file string              Service Account Credentials JSON file path
    -      --gcs-storage-class string                     The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage
    -      --gcs-token string                             OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --gcs-token-url string                         Token server url
    -      --gphotos-auth-url string                      Auth server URL
    -      --gphotos-client-id string                     OAuth Client Id
    -      --gphotos-client-secret string                 OAuth Client Secret
    -      --gphotos-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --gphotos-include-archived                     Also view and download archived media
    -      --gphotos-read-only                            Set to make the Google Photos backend read only
    -      --gphotos-read-size                            Set to read the size of media items
    -      --gphotos-start-year int                       Year limits the photos to be downloaded to those which are uploaded after the given year (default 2000)
    -      --gphotos-token string                         OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --gphotos-token-url string                     Token server url
    -      --hasher-auto-size SizeSuffix                  Auto-update checksum for files smaller than this size (disabled by default)
    -      --hasher-hashes CommaSepList                   Comma separated list of supported checksum types (default md5,sha1)
    -      --hasher-max-age Duration                      Maximum time to keep checksums in cache (0 = no cache, off = cache forever) (default off)
    -      --hasher-remote string                         Remote to cache checksums for (e.g. myRemote:path)
    -      --hdfs-data-transfer-protection string         Kerberos data transfer protection: authentication|integrity|privacy
    -      --hdfs-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Colon,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --hdfs-namenode string                         Hadoop name node and port
    -      --hdfs-service-principal-name string           Kerberos service principal name for the namenode
    -      --hdfs-username string                         Hadoop user name
    -      --http-headers CommaSepList                    Set HTTP headers for all transactions
    -      --http-no-head                                 Don't use HEAD requests
    -      --http-no-slash                                Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /
    -      --http-url string                              URL of http host to connect to
    -      --hubic-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
    -      --hubic-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container (default 5Gi)
    -      --hubic-client-id string                       OAuth Client Id
    -      --hubic-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
    -      --hubic-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --hubic-no-chunk                               Don't chunk files during streaming upload
    -      --hubic-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --hubic-token-url string                       Token server url
    -      --jottacloud-encoding MultiEncoder             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --jottacloud-hard-delete                       Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    -      --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit SizeSuffix       Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate the MD5 if required (default 10Mi)
    -      --jottacloud-no-versions                       Avoid server side versioning by deleting files and recreating files instead of overwriting them
    -      --jottacloud-trashed-only                      Only show files that are in the trash
    -      --jottacloud-upload-resume-limit SizeSuffix    Files bigger than this can be resumed if the upload fail's (default 10Mi)
    -      --koofr-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --koofr-endpoint string                        The Koofr API endpoint to use
    -      --koofr-mountid string                         Mount ID of the mount to use
    -      --koofr-password string                        Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password) (obscured)
    -      --koofr-provider string                        Choose your storage provider
    -      --koofr-setmtime                               Does the backend support setting modification time (default true)
    -      --koofr-user string                            Your user name
    -  -l, --links                                        Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
    -      --local-case-insensitive                       Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive
    -      --local-case-sensitive                         Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive
    -      --local-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Dot)
    -      --local-no-check-updated                       Don't check to see if the files change during upload
    -      --local-no-preallocate                         Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files
    -      --local-no-set-modtime                         Disable setting modtime
    -      --local-no-sparse                              Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads
    -      --local-nounc string                           Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows
    -      --local-unicode-normalization                  Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames
    -      --local-zero-size-links                        Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated)
    -      --mailru-check-hash                            What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid (default true)
    -      --mailru-encoding MultiEncoder                 The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --mailru-pass string                           Password (obscured)
    -      --mailru-speedup-enable                        Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash (default true)
    -      --mailru-speedup-file-patterns string          Comma separated list of file name patterns eligible for speedup (put by hash) (default "*.mkv,*.avi,*.mp4,*.mp3,*.zip,*.gz,*.rar,*.pdf")
    -      --mailru-speedup-max-disk SizeSuffix           This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files (default 3Gi)
    -      --mailru-speedup-max-memory SizeSuffix         Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk (default 32Mi)
    -      --mailru-user string                           User name (usually email)
    -      --mega-debug                                   Output more debug from Mega
    -      --mega-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --mega-hard-delete                             Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    -      --mega-pass string                             Password (obscured)
    -      --mega-user string                             User name
    -      --netstorage-account string                    Set the NetStorage account name
    -      --netstorage-host string                       Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to
    -      --netstorage-protocol string                   Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol (default "https")
    -      --netstorage-secret string                     Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication (obscured)
    -  -x, --one-file-system                              Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only)
    -      --onedrive-auth-url string                     Auth server URL
    -      --onedrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix               Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) (default 10Mi)
    -      --onedrive-client-id string                    OAuth Client Id
    -      --onedrive-client-secret string                OAuth Client Secret
    -      --onedrive-disable-site-permission             Disable the request for Sites.Read.All permission
    -      --onedrive-drive-id string                     The ID of the drive to use
    -      --onedrive-drive-type string                   The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary)
    -      --onedrive-encoding MultiEncoder               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --onedrive-expose-onenote-files                Set to make OneNote files show up in directory listings
    -      --onedrive-link-password string                Set the password for links created by the link command
    -      --onedrive-link-scope string                   Set the scope of the links created by the link command (default "anonymous")
    -      --onedrive-link-type string                    Set the type of the links created by the link command (default "view")
    -      --onedrive-list-chunk int                      Size of listing chunk (default 1000)
    -      --onedrive-no-versions                         Remove all versions on modifying operations
    -      --onedrive-region string                       Choose national cloud region for OneDrive (default "global")
    -      --onedrive-root-folder-id string               ID of the root folder
    -      --onedrive-server-side-across-configs          Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different onedrive configs
    -      --onedrive-token string                        OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --onedrive-token-url string                    Token server url
    -      --opendrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix              Files will be uploaded in chunks this size (default 10Mi)
    -      --opendrive-encoding MultiEncoder              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --opendrive-password string                    Password (obscured)
    -      --opendrive-username string                    Username
    -      --pcloud-auth-url string                       Auth server URL
    -      --pcloud-client-id string                      OAuth Client Id
    -      --pcloud-client-secret string                  OAuth Client Secret
    -      --pcloud-encoding MultiEncoder                 The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --pcloud-hostname string                       Hostname to connect to (default "api.pcloud.com")
    -      --pcloud-root-folder-id string                 Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point (default "d0")
    -      --pcloud-token string                          OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --pcloud-token-url string                      Token server url
    -      --premiumizeme-encoding MultiEncoder           The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --putio-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --qingstor-access-key-id string                QingStor Access Key ID
    -      --qingstor-chunk-size SizeSuffix               Chunk size to use for uploading (default 4Mi)
    -      --qingstor-connection-retries int              Number of connection retries (default 3)
    -      --qingstor-encoding MultiEncoder               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --qingstor-endpoint string                     Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API
    -      --qingstor-env-auth                            Get QingStor credentials from runtime
    -      --qingstor-secret-access-key string            QingStor Secret Access Key (password)
    -      --qingstor-upload-concurrency int              Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 1)
    -      --qingstor-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix            Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    -      --qingstor-zone string                         Zone to connect to
    -      --s3-access-key-id string                      AWS Access Key ID
    -      --s3-acl string                                Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects
    -      --s3-bucket-acl string                         Canned ACL used when creating buckets
    -      --s3-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
    -      --s3-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4.656Gi)
    -      --s3-disable-checksum                          Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
    -      --s3-disable-http2                             Disable usage of http2 for S3 backends
    -      --s3-download-url string                       Custom endpoint for downloads
    -      --s3-encoding MultiEncoder                     The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --s3-endpoint string                           Endpoint for S3 API
    -      --s3-env-auth                                  Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars)
    -      --s3-force-path-style                          If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style (default true)
    -      --s3-leave-parts-on-error                      If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery
    -      --s3-list-chunk int                            Size of listing chunk (response list for each ListObject S3 request) (default 1000)
    -      --s3-list-url-encode Tristate                  Whether to url encode listings: true/false/unset (default unset)
    -      --s3-list-version int                          Version of ListObjects to use: 1,2 or 0 for auto
    -      --s3-location-constraint string                Location constraint - must be set to match the Region
    -      --s3-max-upload-parts int                      Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload (default 10000)
    -      --s3-memory-pool-flush-time Duration           How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    -      --s3-memory-pool-use-mmap                      Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    -      --s3-no-check-bucket                           If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
    -      --s3-no-head                                   If set, don't HEAD uploaded objects to check integrity
    -      --s3-no-head-object                            If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
    -      --s3-profile string                            Profile to use in the shared credentials file
    -      --s3-provider string                           Choose your S3 provider
    -      --s3-region string                             Region to connect to
    -      --s3-requester-pays                            Enables requester pays option when interacting with S3 bucket
    -      --s3-secret-access-key string                  AWS Secret Access Key (password)
    -      --s3-server-side-encryption string             The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
    -      --s3-session-token string                      An AWS session token
    -      --s3-shared-credentials-file string            Path to the shared credentials file
    -      --s3-sse-customer-algorithm string             If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
    -      --s3-sse-customer-key string                   If using SSE-C you must provide the secret encryption key used to encrypt/decrypt your data
    -      --s3-sse-customer-key-md5 string               If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional)
    -      --s3-sse-kms-key-id string                     If using KMS ID you must provide the ARN of Key
    -      --s3-storage-class string                      The storage class to use when storing new objects in S3
    -      --s3-upload-concurrency int                    Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 4)
    -      --s3-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                  Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    -      --s3-use-accelerate-endpoint                   If true use the AWS S3 accelerated endpoint
    -      --s3-use-multipart-etag Tristate               Whether to use ETag in multipart uploads for verification (default unset)
    -      --s3-v2-auth                                   If true use v2 authentication
    -      --seafile-2fa                                  Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
    -      --seafile-create-library                       Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist
    -      --seafile-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --seafile-library string                       Name of the library
    -      --seafile-library-key string                   Library password (for encrypted libraries only) (obscured)
    -      --seafile-pass string                          Password (obscured)
    -      --seafile-url string                           URL of seafile host to connect to
    -      --seafile-user string                          User name (usually email address)
    -      --sftp-ask-password                            Allow asking for SFTP password when needed
    -      --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads                If set don't use concurrent reads
    -      --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes               If set don't use concurrent writes
    -      --sftp-disable-hashcheck                       Disable the execution of SSH commands to determine if remote file hashing is available
    -      --sftp-host string                             SSH host to connect to
    -      --sftp-idle-timeout Duration                   Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
    -      --sftp-key-file string                         Path to PEM-encoded private key file
    -      --sftp-key-file-pass string                    The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file (obscured)
    -      --sftp-key-pem string                          Raw PEM-encoded private key
    -      --sftp-key-use-agent                           When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent
    -      --sftp-known-hosts-file string                 Optional path to known_hosts file
    -      --sftp-md5sum-command string                   The command used to read md5 hashes
    -      --sftp-pass string                             SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent (obscured)
    -      --sftp-path-override string                    Override path used by SSH connection
    -      --sftp-port int                                SSH port number (default 22)
    -      --sftp-pubkey-file string                      Optional path to public key file
    -      --sftp-server-command string                   Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host
    -      --sftp-set-modtime                             Set the modified time on the remote if set (default true)
    -      --sftp-sha1sum-command string                  The command used to read sha1 hashes
    -      --sftp-skip-links                              Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files
    -      --sftp-subsystem string                        Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host (default "sftp")
    -      --sftp-use-fstat                               If set use fstat instead of stat
    -      --sftp-use-insecure-cipher                     Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods
    -      --sftp-user string                             SSH username (default "$USER")
    -      --sharefile-chunk-size SizeSuffix              Upload chunk size (default 64Mi)
    -      --sharefile-encoding MultiEncoder              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --sharefile-endpoint string                    Endpoint for API calls
    -      --sharefile-root-folder-id string              ID of the root folder
    -      --sharefile-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix           Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (default 128Mi)
    -      --sia-api-password string                      Sia Daemon API Password (obscured)
    -      --sia-api-url string                           Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980 (default "http://127.0.0.1:9980")
    -      --sia-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --sia-user-agent string                        Siad User Agent (default "Sia-Agent")
    -      --skip-links                                   Don't warn about skipped symlinks
    -      --storj-access-grant string                    Access grant
    -      --storj-api-key string                         API key
    -      --storj-passphrase string                      Encryption passphrase
    -      --storj-provider string                        Choose an authentication method (default "existing")
    -      --storj-satellite-address string               Satellite address (default "us-central-1.storj.io")
    -      --sugarsync-access-key-id string               Sugarsync Access Key ID
    -      --sugarsync-app-id string                      Sugarsync App ID
    -      --sugarsync-authorization string               Sugarsync authorization
    -      --sugarsync-authorization-expiry string        Sugarsync authorization expiry
    -      --sugarsync-deleted-id string                  Sugarsync deleted folder id
    -      --sugarsync-encoding MultiEncoder              The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --sugarsync-hard-delete                        Permanently delete files if true
    -      --sugarsync-private-access-key string          Sugarsync Private Access Key
    -      --sugarsync-refresh-token string               Sugarsync refresh token
    -      --sugarsync-root-id string                     Sugarsync root id
    -      --sugarsync-user string                        Sugarsync user
    -      --swift-application-credential-id string       Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID)
    -      --swift-application-credential-name string     Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME)
    -      --swift-application-credential-secret string   Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET)
    -      --swift-auth string                            Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL)
    -      --swift-auth-token string                      Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
    -      --swift-auth-version int                       AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)
    -      --swift-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container (default 5Gi)
    -      --swift-domain string                          User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)
    -      --swift-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --swift-endpoint-type string                   Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE) (default "public")
    -      --swift-env-auth                               Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form
    -      --swift-key string                             API key or password (OS_PASSWORD)
    -      --swift-leave-parts-on-error                   If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure
    -      --swift-no-chunk                               Don't chunk files during streaming upload
    -      --swift-region string                          Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)
    -      --swift-storage-policy string                  The storage policy to use when creating a new container
    -      --swift-storage-url string                     Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)
    -      --swift-tenant string                          Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)
    -      --swift-tenant-domain string                   Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)
    -      --swift-tenant-id string                       Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)
    -      --swift-user string                            User name to log in (OS_USERNAME)
    -      --swift-user-id string                         User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID)
    -      --union-action-policy string                   Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category (default "epall")
    -      --union-cache-time int                         Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds) (default 120)
    -      --union-create-policy string                   Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category (default "epmfs")
    -      --union-search-policy string                   Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category (default "ff")
    -      --union-upstreams string                       List of space separated upstreams
    -      --uptobox-access-token string                  Your access token
    -      --uptobox-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,BackQuote,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --webdav-bearer-token string                   Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon)
    -      --webdav-bearer-token-command string           Command to run to get a bearer token
    -      --webdav-encoding string                       The encoding for the backend
    -      --webdav-headers CommaSepList                  Set HTTP headers for all transactions
    -      --webdav-pass string                           Password (obscured)
    -      --webdav-url string                            URL of http host to connect to
    -      --webdav-user string                           User name
    -      --webdav-vendor string                         Name of the Webdav site/service/software you are using
    -      --yandex-auth-url string                       Auth server URL
    -      --yandex-client-id string                      OAuth Client Id
    -      --yandex-client-secret string                  OAuth Client Secret
    -      --yandex-encoding MultiEncoder                 The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    -      --yandex-hard-delete                           Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    -      --yandex-token string                          OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --yandex-token-url string                      Token server url
    -      --zoho-auth-url string                         Auth server URL
    -      --zoho-client-id string                        OAuth Client Id
    -      --zoho-client-secret string                    OAuth Client Secret
    -      --zoho-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    -      --zoho-region string                           Zoho region to connect to
    -      --zoho-token string                            OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    -      --zoho-token-url string                        Token server url
    +
          --acd-auth-url string                            Auth server URL
    +      --acd-client-id string                           OAuth Client Id
    +      --acd-client-secret string                       OAuth Client Secret
    +      --acd-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --acd-templink-threshold SizeSuffix              Files >= this size will be downloaded via their tempLink (default 9Gi)
    +      --acd-token string                               OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --acd-token-url string                           Token server url
    +      --acd-upload-wait-per-gb Duration                Additional time per GiB to wait after a failed complete upload to see if it appears (default 3m0s)
    +      --alias-remote string                            Remote or path to alias
    +      --azureblob-access-tier string                   Access tier of blob: hot, cool or archive
    +      --azureblob-account string                       Azure Storage Account Name
    +      --azureblob-archive-tier-delete                  Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting
    +      --azureblob-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Upload chunk size (default 4Mi)
    +      --azureblob-client-certificate-password string   Password for the certificate file (optional) (obscured)
    +      --azureblob-client-certificate-path string       Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key
    +      --azureblob-client-id string                     The ID of the client in use
    +      --azureblob-client-secret string                 One of the service principal's client secrets
    +      --azureblob-client-send-certificate-chain        Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth
    +      --azureblob-disable-checksum                     Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
    +      --azureblob-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8)
    +      --azureblob-endpoint string                      Endpoint for the service
    +      --azureblob-env-auth                             Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI)
    +      --azureblob-key string                           Storage Account Shared Key
    +      --azureblob-list-chunk int                       Size of blob list (default 5000)
    +      --azureblob-memory-pool-flush-time Duration      How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    +      --azureblob-memory-pool-use-mmap                 Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    +      --azureblob-msi-client-id string                 Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    +      --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id string                 Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    +      --azureblob-msi-object-id string                 Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any
    +      --azureblob-no-check-container                   If set, don't attempt to check the container exists or create it
    +      --azureblob-no-head-object                       If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
    +      --azureblob-password string                      The user's password (obscured)
    +      --azureblob-public-access string                 Public access level of a container: blob or container
    +      --azureblob-sas-url string                       SAS URL for container level access only
    +      --azureblob-service-principal-file string        Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal
    +      --azureblob-tenant string                        ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID
    +      --azureblob-upload-concurrency int               Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 16)
    +      --azureblob-upload-cutoff string                 Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated)
    +      --azureblob-use-emulator                         Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'
    +      --azureblob-use-msi                              Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure)
    +      --azureblob-username string                      User name (usually an email address)
    +      --b2-account string                              Account ID or Application Key ID
    +      --b2-chunk-size SizeSuffix                       Upload chunk size (default 96Mi)
    +      --b2-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                      Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4Gi)
    +      --b2-disable-checksum                            Disable checksums for large (> upload cutoff) files
    +      --b2-download-auth-duration Duration             Time before the authorization token will expire in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d (default 1w)
    +      --b2-download-url string                         Custom endpoint for downloads
    +      --b2-encoding MultiEncoder                       The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --b2-endpoint string                             Endpoint for the service
    +      --b2-hard-delete                                 Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files
    +      --b2-key string                                  Application Key
    +      --b2-memory-pool-flush-time Duration             How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    +      --b2-memory-pool-use-mmap                        Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    +      --b2-test-mode string                            A flag string for X-Bz-Test-Mode header for debugging
    +      --b2-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    +      --b2-version-at Time                             Show file versions as they were at the specified time (default off)
    +      --b2-versions                                    Include old versions in directory listings
    +      --box-access-token string                        Box App Primary Access Token
    +      --box-auth-url string                            Auth server URL
    +      --box-box-config-file string                     Box App config.json location
    +      --box-box-sub-type string                         (default "user")
    +      --box-client-id string                           OAuth Client Id
    +      --box-client-secret string                       OAuth Client Secret
    +      --box-commit-retries int                         Max number of times to try committing a multipart file (default 100)
    +      --box-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --box-list-chunk int                             Size of listing chunk 1-1000 (default 1000)
    +      --box-owned-by string                            Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in
    +      --box-root-folder-id string                      Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point
    +      --box-token string                               OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --box-token-url string                           Token server url
    +      --box-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                   Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB) (default 50Mi)
    +      --cache-chunk-clean-interval Duration            How often should the cache perform cleanups of the chunk storage (default 1m0s)
    +      --cache-chunk-no-memory                          Disable the in-memory cache for storing chunks during streaming
    +      --cache-chunk-path string                        Directory to cache chunk files (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
    +      --cache-chunk-size SizeSuffix                    The size of a chunk (partial file data) (default 5Mi)
    +      --cache-chunk-total-size SizeSuffix              The total size that the chunks can take up on the local disk (default 10Gi)
    +      --cache-db-path string                           Directory to store file structure metadata DB (default "$HOME/.cache/rclone/cache-backend")
    +      --cache-db-purge                                 Clear all the cached data for this remote on start
    +      --cache-db-wait-time Duration                    How long to wait for the DB to be available - 0 is unlimited (default 1s)
    +      --cache-info-age Duration                        How long to cache file structure information (directory listings, file size, times, etc.) (default 6h0m0s)
    +      --cache-plex-insecure string                     Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server
    +      --cache-plex-password string                     The password of the Plex user (obscured)
    +      --cache-plex-url string                          The URL of the Plex server
    +      --cache-plex-username string                     The username of the Plex user
    +      --cache-read-retries int                         How many times to retry a read from a cache storage (default 10)
    +      --cache-remote string                            Remote to cache
    +      --cache-rps int                                  Limits the number of requests per second to the source FS (-1 to disable) (default -1)
    +      --cache-tmp-upload-path string                   Directory to keep temporary files until they are uploaded
    +      --cache-tmp-wait-time Duration                   How long should files be stored in local cache before being uploaded (default 15s)
    +      --cache-workers int                              How many workers should run in parallel to download chunks (default 4)
    +      --cache-writes                                   Cache file data on writes through the FS
    +      --chunker-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks (default 2Gi)
    +      --chunker-fail-hard                              Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks
    +      --chunker-hash-type string                       Choose how chunker handles hash sums (default "md5")
    +      --chunker-remote string                          Remote to chunk/unchunk
    +      --combine-upstreams SpaceSepList                 Upstreams for combining
    +      --compress-level int                             GZIP compression level (-2 to 9) (default -1)
    +      --compress-mode string                           Compression mode (default "gzip")
    +      --compress-ram-cache-limit SizeSuffix            Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size (default 20Mi)
    +      --compress-remote string                         Remote to compress
    +  -L, --copy-links                                     Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item
    +      --crypt-directory-name-encryption                Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact (default true)
    +      --crypt-filename-encoding string                 How to encode the encrypted filename to text string (default "base32")
    +      --crypt-filename-encryption string               How to encrypt the filenames (default "standard")
    +      --crypt-no-data-encryption                       Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted
    +      --crypt-password string                          Password or pass phrase for encryption (obscured)
    +      --crypt-password2 string                         Password or pass phrase for salt (obscured)
    +      --crypt-remote string                            Remote to encrypt/decrypt
    +      --crypt-server-side-across-configs               Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different crypt configs
    +      --crypt-show-mapping                             For all files listed show how the names encrypt
    +      --drive-acknowledge-abuse                        Set to allow files which return cannotDownloadAbusiveFile to be downloaded
    +      --drive-allow-import-name-change                 Allow the filetype to change when uploading Google docs
    +      --drive-auth-owner-only                          Only consider files owned by the authenticated user
    +      --drive-auth-url string                          Auth server URL
    +      --drive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                    Upload chunk size (default 8Mi)
    +      --drive-client-id string                         Google Application Client Id
    +      --drive-client-secret string                     OAuth Client Secret
    +      --drive-copy-shortcut-content                    Server side copy contents of shortcuts instead of the shortcut
    +      --drive-disable-http2                            Disable drive using http2 (default true)
    +      --drive-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default InvalidUtf8)
    +      --drive-export-formats string                    Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs (default "docx,xlsx,pptx,svg")
    +      --drive-formats string                           Deprecated: See export_formats
    +      --drive-impersonate string                       Impersonate this user when using a service account
    +      --drive-import-formats string                    Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs
    +      --drive-keep-revision-forever                    Keep new head revision of each file forever
    +      --drive-list-chunk int                           Size of listing chunk 100-1000, 0 to disable (default 1000)
    +      --drive-pacer-burst int                          Number of API calls to allow without sleeping (default 100)
    +      --drive-pacer-min-sleep Duration                 Minimum time to sleep between API calls (default 100ms)
    +      --drive-resource-key string                      Resource key for accessing a link-shared file
    +      --drive-root-folder-id string                    ID of the root folder
    +      --drive-scope string                             Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive
    +      --drive-server-side-across-configs               Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different drive configs
    +      --drive-service-account-credentials string       Service Account Credentials JSON blob
    +      --drive-service-account-file string              Service Account Credentials JSON file path
    +      --drive-shared-with-me                           Only show files that are shared with me
    +      --drive-size-as-quota                            Show sizes as storage quota usage, not actual size
    +      --drive-skip-checksum-gphotos                    Skip MD5 checksum on Google photos and videos only
    +      --drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts                  If set skip dangling shortcut files
    +      --drive-skip-gdocs                               Skip google documents in all listings
    +      --drive-skip-shortcuts                           If set skip shortcut files
    +      --drive-starred-only                             Only show files that are starred
    +      --drive-stop-on-download-limit                   Make download limit errors be fatal
    +      --drive-stop-on-upload-limit                     Make upload limit errors be fatal
    +      --drive-team-drive string                        ID of the Shared Drive (Team Drive)
    +      --drive-token string                             OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --drive-token-url string                         Token server url
    +      --drive-trashed-only                             Only show files that are in the trash
    +      --drive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                 Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 8Mi)
    +      --drive-use-created-date                         Use file created date instead of modified date
    +      --drive-use-shared-date                          Use date file was shared instead of modified date
    +      --drive-use-trash                                Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently (default true)
    +      --drive-v2-download-min-size SizeSuffix          If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download (default off)
    +      --dropbox-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
    +      --dropbox-batch-commit-timeout Duration          Max time to wait for a batch to finish committing (default 10m0s)
    +      --dropbox-batch-mode string                      Upload file batching sync|async|off (default "sync")
    +      --dropbox-batch-size int                         Max number of files in upload batch
    +      --dropbox-batch-timeout Duration                 Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading (default 0s)
    +      --dropbox-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Upload chunk size (< 150Mi) (default 48Mi)
    +      --dropbox-client-id string                       OAuth Client Id
    +      --dropbox-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
    +      --dropbox-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --dropbox-impersonate string                     Impersonate this user when using a business account
    +      --dropbox-shared-files                           Instructs rclone to work on individual shared files
    +      --dropbox-shared-folders                         Instructs rclone to work on shared folders
    +      --dropbox-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --dropbox-token-url string                       Token server url
    +      --fichier-api-key string                         Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl
    +      --fichier-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,SingleQuote,BackQuote,Dollar,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --fichier-file-password string                   If you want to download a shared file that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
    +      --fichier-folder-password string                 If you want to list the files in a shared folder that is password protected, add this parameter (obscured)
    +      --fichier-shared-folder string                   If you want to download a shared folder, add this parameter
    +      --filefabric-encoding MultiEncoder               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --filefabric-permanent-token string              Permanent Authentication Token
    +      --filefabric-root-folder-id string               ID of the root folder
    +      --filefabric-token string                        Session Token
    +      --filefabric-token-expiry string                 Token expiry time
    +      --filefabric-url string                          URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
    +      --filefabric-version string                      Version read from the file fabric
    +      --ftp-ask-password                               Allow asking for FTP password when needed
    +      --ftp-close-timeout Duration                     Maximum time to wait for a response to close (default 1m0s)
    +      --ftp-concurrency int                            Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited
    +      --ftp-disable-epsv                               Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support
    +      --ftp-disable-mlsd                               Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support
    +      --ftp-disable-tls13                              Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)
    +      --ftp-disable-utf8                               Disable using UTF-8 even if server advertises support
    +      --ftp-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot)
    +      --ftp-explicit-tls                               Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
    +      --ftp-force-list-hidden                          Use LIST -a to force listing of hidden files and folders. This will disable the use of MLSD
    +      --ftp-host string                                FTP host to connect to
    +      --ftp-idle-timeout Duration                      Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
    +      --ftp-no-check-certificate                       Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server
    +      --ftp-pass string                                FTP password (obscured)
    +      --ftp-port int                                   FTP port number (default 21)
    +      --ftp-shut-timeout Duration                      Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status (default 1m0s)
    +      --ftp-tls                                        Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS)
    +      --ftp-tls-cache-size int                         Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections (default 32)
    +      --ftp-user string                                FTP username (default "$USER")
    +      --ftp-writing-mdtm                               Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)
    +      --gcs-anonymous                                  Access public buckets and objects without credentials
    +      --gcs-auth-url string                            Auth server URL
    +      --gcs-bucket-acl string                          Access Control List for new buckets
    +      --gcs-bucket-policy-only                         Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies
    +      --gcs-client-id string                           OAuth Client Id
    +      --gcs-client-secret string                       OAuth Client Secret
    +      --gcs-decompress                                 If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
    +      --gcs-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --gcs-endpoint string                            Endpoint for the service
    +      --gcs-location string                            Location for the newly created buckets
    +      --gcs-no-check-bucket                            If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
    +      --gcs-object-acl string                          Access Control List for new objects
    +      --gcs-project-number string                      Project number
    +      --gcs-service-account-file string                Service Account Credentials JSON file path
    +      --gcs-storage-class string                       The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage
    +      --gcs-token string                               OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --gcs-token-url string                           Token server url
    +      --gphotos-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
    +      --gphotos-client-id string                       OAuth Client Id
    +      --gphotos-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
    +      --gphotos-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,CrLf,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --gphotos-include-archived                       Also view and download archived media
    +      --gphotos-read-only                              Set to make the Google Photos backend read only
    +      --gphotos-read-size                              Set to read the size of media items
    +      --gphotos-start-year int                         Year limits the photos to be downloaded to those which are uploaded after the given year (default 2000)
    +      --gphotos-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --gphotos-token-url string                       Token server url
    +      --hasher-auto-size SizeSuffix                    Auto-update checksum for files smaller than this size (disabled by default)
    +      --hasher-hashes CommaSepList                     Comma separated list of supported checksum types (default md5,sha1)
    +      --hasher-max-age Duration                        Maximum time to keep checksums in cache (0 = no cache, off = cache forever) (default off)
    +      --hasher-remote string                           Remote to cache checksums for (e.g. myRemote:path)
    +      --hdfs-data-transfer-protection string           Kerberos data transfer protection: authentication|integrity|privacy
    +      --hdfs-encoding MultiEncoder                     The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Colon,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --hdfs-namenode string                           Hadoop name node and port
    +      --hdfs-service-principal-name string             Kerberos service principal name for the namenode
    +      --hdfs-username string                           Hadoop user name
    +      --hidrive-auth-url string                        Auth server URL
    +      --hidrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                  Chunksize for chunked uploads (default 48Mi)
    +      --hidrive-client-id string                       OAuth Client Id
    +      --hidrive-client-secret string                   OAuth Client Secret
    +      --hidrive-disable-fetching-member-count          Do not fetch number of objects in directories unless it is absolutely necessary
    +      --hidrive-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Dot)
    +      --hidrive-endpoint string                        Endpoint for the service (default "https://api.hidrive.strato.com/2.1")
    +      --hidrive-root-prefix string                     The root/parent folder for all paths (default "/")
    +      --hidrive-scope-access string                    Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive (default "rw")
    +      --hidrive-scope-role string                      User-level that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive (default "user")
    +      --hidrive-token string                           OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --hidrive-token-url string                       Token server url
    +      --hidrive-upload-concurrency int                 Concurrency for chunked uploads (default 4)
    +      --hidrive-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix               Cutoff/Threshold for chunked uploads (default 96Mi)
    +      --http-headers CommaSepList                      Set HTTP headers for all transactions
    +      --http-no-head                                   Don't use HEAD requests
    +      --http-no-slash                                  Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /
    +      --http-url string                                URL of HTTP host to connect to
    +      --internetarchive-access-key-id string           IAS3 Access Key
    +      --internetarchive-disable-checksum               Don't ask the server to test against MD5 checksum calculated by rclone (default true)
    +      --internetarchive-encoding MultiEncoder          The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,CrLf,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --internetarchive-endpoint string                IAS3 Endpoint (default "https://s3.us.archive.org")
    +      --internetarchive-front-endpoint string          Host of InternetArchive Frontend (default "https://archive.org")
    +      --internetarchive-secret-access-key string       IAS3 Secret Key (password)
    +      --internetarchive-wait-archive Duration          Timeout for waiting the server's processing tasks (specifically archive and book_op) to finish (default 0s)
    +      --jottacloud-encoding MultiEncoder               The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --jottacloud-hard-delete                         Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    +      --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit SizeSuffix         Files bigger than this will be cached on disk to calculate the MD5 if required (default 10Mi)
    +      --jottacloud-no-versions                         Avoid server side versioning by deleting files and recreating files instead of overwriting them
    +      --jottacloud-trashed-only                        Only show files that are in the trash
    +      --jottacloud-upload-resume-limit SizeSuffix      Files bigger than this can be resumed if the upload fail's (default 10Mi)
    +      --koofr-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --koofr-endpoint string                          The Koofr API endpoint to use
    +      --koofr-mountid string                           Mount ID of the mount to use
    +      --koofr-password string                          Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password) (obscured)
    +      --koofr-provider string                          Choose your storage provider
    +      --koofr-setmtime                                 Does the backend support setting modification time (default true)
    +      --koofr-user string                              Your user name
    +  -l, --links                                          Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension
    +      --local-case-insensitive                         Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive
    +      --local-case-sensitive                           Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive
    +      --local-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Dot)
    +      --local-no-check-updated                         Don't check to see if the files change during upload
    +      --local-no-preallocate                           Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files
    +      --local-no-set-modtime                           Disable setting modtime
    +      --local-no-sparse                                Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads
    +      --local-nounc                                    Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows
    +      --local-unicode-normalization                    Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames
    +      --local-zero-size-links                          Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated)
    +      --mailru-check-hash                              What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid (default true)
    +      --mailru-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --mailru-pass string                             Password (obscured)
    +      --mailru-speedup-enable                          Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash (default true)
    +      --mailru-speedup-file-patterns string            Comma separated list of file name patterns eligible for speedup (put by hash) (default "*.mkv,*.avi,*.mp4,*.mp3,*.zip,*.gz,*.rar,*.pdf")
    +      --mailru-speedup-max-disk SizeSuffix             This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files (default 3Gi)
    +      --mailru-speedup-max-memory SizeSuffix           Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk (default 32Mi)
    +      --mailru-user string                             User name (usually email)
    +      --mega-debug                                     Output more debug from Mega
    +      --mega-encoding MultiEncoder                     The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --mega-hard-delete                               Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    +      --mega-pass string                               Password (obscured)
    +      --mega-user string                               User name
    +      --netstorage-account string                      Set the NetStorage account name
    +      --netstorage-host string                         Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to
    +      --netstorage-protocol string                     Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol (default "https")
    +      --netstorage-secret string                       Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication (obscured)
    +  -x, --one-file-system                                Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only)
    +      --onedrive-access-scopes SpaceSepList            Set scopes to be requested by rclone (default Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access)
    +      --onedrive-auth-url string                       Auth server URL
    +      --onedrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                 Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) (default 10Mi)
    +      --onedrive-client-id string                      OAuth Client Id
    +      --onedrive-client-secret string                  OAuth Client Secret
    +      --onedrive-drive-id string                       The ID of the drive to use
    +      --onedrive-drive-type string                     The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary)
    +      --onedrive-encoding MultiEncoder                 The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --onedrive-expose-onenote-files                  Set to make OneNote files show up in directory listings
    +      --onedrive-link-password string                  Set the password for links created by the link command
    +      --onedrive-link-scope string                     Set the scope of the links created by the link command (default "anonymous")
    +      --onedrive-link-type string                      Set the type of the links created by the link command (default "view")
    +      --onedrive-list-chunk int                        Size of listing chunk (default 1000)
    +      --onedrive-no-versions                           Remove all versions on modifying operations
    +      --onedrive-region string                         Choose national cloud region for OneDrive (default "global")
    +      --onedrive-root-folder-id string                 ID of the root folder
    +      --onedrive-server-side-across-configs            Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different onedrive configs
    +      --onedrive-token string                          OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --onedrive-token-url string                      Token server url
    +      --oos-chunk-size SizeSuffix                      Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
    +      --oos-compartment string                         Object storage compartment OCID
    +      --oos-config-file string                         Path to OCI config file (default "~/.oci/config")
    +      --oos-config-profile string                      Profile name inside the oci config file (default "Default")
    +      --oos-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                     Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4.656Gi)
    +      --oos-copy-timeout Duration                      Timeout for copy (default 1m0s)
    +      --oos-disable-checksum                           Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
    +      --oos-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --oos-endpoint string                            Endpoint for Object storage API
    +      --oos-leave-parts-on-error                       If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery
    +      --oos-namespace string                           Object storage namespace
    +      --oos-no-check-bucket                            If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
    +      --oos-provider string                            Choose your Auth Provider (default "env_auth")
    +      --oos-region string                              Object storage Region
    +      --oos-upload-concurrency int                     Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 10)
    +      --oos-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                   Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    +      --opendrive-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Files will be uploaded in chunks this size (default 10Mi)
    +      --opendrive-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --opendrive-password string                      Password (obscured)
    +      --opendrive-username string                      Username
    +      --pcloud-auth-url string                         Auth server URL
    +      --pcloud-client-id string                        OAuth Client Id
    +      --pcloud-client-secret string                    OAuth Client Secret
    +      --pcloud-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --pcloud-hostname string                         Hostname to connect to (default "api.pcloud.com")
    +      --pcloud-password string                         Your pcloud password (obscured)
    +      --pcloud-root-folder-id string                   Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point (default "d0")
    +      --pcloud-token string                            OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --pcloud-token-url string                        Token server url
    +      --pcloud-username string                         Your pcloud username
    +      --premiumizeme-encoding MultiEncoder             The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --putio-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --qingstor-access-key-id string                  QingStor Access Key ID
    +      --qingstor-chunk-size SizeSuffix                 Chunk size to use for uploading (default 4Mi)
    +      --qingstor-connection-retries int                Number of connection retries (default 3)
    +      --qingstor-encoding MultiEncoder                 The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    +      --qingstor-endpoint string                       Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API
    +      --qingstor-env-auth                              Get QingStor credentials from runtime
    +      --qingstor-secret-access-key string              QingStor Secret Access Key (password)
    +      --qingstor-upload-concurrency int                Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 1)
    +      --qingstor-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix              Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    +      --qingstor-zone string                           Zone to connect to
    +      --s3-access-key-id string                        AWS Access Key ID
    +      --s3-acl string                                  Canned ACL used when creating buckets and storing or copying objects
    +      --s3-bucket-acl string                           Canned ACL used when creating buckets
    +      --s3-chunk-size SizeSuffix                       Chunk size to use for uploading (default 5Mi)
    +      --s3-copy-cutoff SizeSuffix                      Cutoff for switching to multipart copy (default 4.656Gi)
    +      --s3-decompress                                  If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects
    +      --s3-disable-checksum                            Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata
    +      --s3-disable-http2                               Disable usage of http2 for S3 backends
    +      --s3-download-url string                         Custom endpoint for downloads
    +      --s3-encoding MultiEncoder                       The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --s3-endpoint string                             Endpoint for S3 API
    +      --s3-env-auth                                    Get AWS credentials from runtime (environment variables or EC2/ECS meta data if no env vars)
    +      --s3-force-path-style                            If true use path style access if false use virtual hosted style (default true)
    +      --s3-leave-parts-on-error                        If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery
    +      --s3-list-chunk int                              Size of listing chunk (response list for each ListObject S3 request) (default 1000)
    +      --s3-list-url-encode Tristate                    Whether to url encode listings: true/false/unset (default unset)
    +      --s3-list-version int                            Version of ListObjects to use: 1,2 or 0 for auto
    +      --s3-location-constraint string                  Location constraint - must be set to match the Region
    +      --s3-max-upload-parts int                        Maximum number of parts in a multipart upload (default 10000)
    +      --s3-memory-pool-flush-time Duration             How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed (default 1m0s)
    +      --s3-memory-pool-use-mmap                        Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool
    +      --s3-might-gzip Tristate                         Set this if the backend might gzip objects (default unset)
    +      --s3-no-check-bucket                             If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it
    +      --s3-no-head                                     If set, don't HEAD uploaded objects to check integrity
    +      --s3-no-head-object                              If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects
    +      --s3-no-system-metadata                          Suppress setting and reading of system metadata
    +      --s3-profile string                              Profile to use in the shared credentials file
    +      --s3-provider string                             Choose your S3 provider
    +      --s3-region string                               Region to connect to
    +      --s3-requester-pays                              Enables requester pays option when interacting with S3 bucket
    +      --s3-secret-access-key string                    AWS Secret Access Key (password)
    +      --s3-server-side-encryption string               The server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
    +      --s3-session-token string                        An AWS session token
    +      --s3-shared-credentials-file string              Path to the shared credentials file
    +      --s3-sse-customer-algorithm string               If using SSE-C, the server-side encryption algorithm used when storing this object in S3
    +      --s3-sse-customer-key string                     To use SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key used to encrypt/decrypt your data
    +      --s3-sse-customer-key-base64 string              If using SSE-C you must provide the secret encryption key encoded in base64 format to encrypt/decrypt your data
    +      --s3-sse-customer-key-md5 string                 If using SSE-C you may provide the secret encryption key MD5 checksum (optional)
    +      --s3-sse-kms-key-id string                       If using KMS ID you must provide the ARN of Key
    +      --s3-storage-class string                        The storage class to use when storing new objects in S3
    +      --s3-upload-concurrency int                      Concurrency for multipart uploads (default 4)
    +      --s3-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix                    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (default 200Mi)
    +      --s3-use-accelerate-endpoint                     If true use the AWS S3 accelerated endpoint
    +      --s3-use-multipart-etag Tristate                 Whether to use ETag in multipart uploads for verification (default unset)
    +      --s3-use-presigned-request                       Whether to use a presigned request or PutObject for single part uploads
    +      --s3-v2-auth                                     If true use v2 authentication
    +      --s3-version-at Time                             Show file versions as they were at the specified time (default off)
    +      --s3-versions                                    Include old versions in directory listings
    +      --seafile-2fa                                    Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
    +      --seafile-create-library                         Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist
    +      --seafile-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    +      --seafile-library string                         Name of the library
    +      --seafile-library-key string                     Library password (for encrypted libraries only) (obscured)
    +      --seafile-pass string                            Password (obscured)
    +      --seafile-url string                             URL of seafile host to connect to
    +      --seafile-user string                            User name (usually email address)
    +      --sftp-ask-password                              Allow asking for SFTP password when needed
    +      --sftp-chunk-size SizeSuffix                     Upload and download chunk size (default 32Ki)
    +      --sftp-ciphers SpaceSepList                      Space separated list of ciphers to be used for session encryption, ordered by preference
    +      --sftp-concurrency int                           The maximum number of outstanding requests for one file (default 64)
    +      --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads                  If set don't use concurrent reads
    +      --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes                 If set don't use concurrent writes
    +      --sftp-disable-hashcheck                         Disable the execution of SSH commands to determine if remote file hashing is available
    +      --sftp-host string                               SSH host to connect to
    +      --sftp-idle-timeout Duration                     Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
    +      --sftp-key-exchange SpaceSepList                 Space separated list of key exchange algorithms, ordered by preference
    +      --sftp-key-file string                           Path to PEM-encoded private key file
    +      --sftp-key-file-pass string                      The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file (obscured)
    +      --sftp-key-pem string                            Raw PEM-encoded private key
    +      --sftp-key-use-agent                             When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent
    +      --sftp-known-hosts-file string                   Optional path to known_hosts file
    +      --sftp-macs SpaceSepList                         Space separated list of MACs (message authentication code) algorithms, ordered by preference
    +      --sftp-md5sum-command string                     The command used to read md5 hashes
    +      --sftp-pass string                               SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent (obscured)
    +      --sftp-path-override string                      Override path used by SSH shell commands
    +      --sftp-port int                                  SSH port number (default 22)
    +      --sftp-pubkey-file string                        Optional path to public key file
    +      --sftp-server-command string                     Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host
    +      --sftp-set-env SpaceSepList                      Environment variables to pass to sftp and commands
    +      --sftp-set-modtime                               Set the modified time on the remote if set (default true)
    +      --sftp-sha1sum-command string                    The command used to read sha1 hashes
    +      --sftp-shell-type string                         The type of SSH shell on remote server, if any
    +      --sftp-skip-links                                Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files
    +      --sftp-subsystem string                          Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host (default "sftp")
    +      --sftp-use-fstat                                 If set use fstat instead of stat
    +      --sftp-use-insecure-cipher                       Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods
    +      --sftp-user string                               SSH username (default "$USER")
    +      --sharefile-chunk-size SizeSuffix                Upload chunk size (default 64Mi)
    +      --sharefile-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --sharefile-endpoint string                      Endpoint for API calls
    +      --sharefile-root-folder-id string                ID of the root folder
    +      --sharefile-upload-cutoff SizeSuffix             Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (default 128Mi)
    +      --sia-api-password string                        Sia Daemon API Password (obscured)
    +      --sia-api-url string                             Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980 (default "http://127.0.0.1:9980")
    +      --sia-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --sia-user-agent string                          Siad User Agent (default "Sia-Agent")
    +      --skip-links                                     Don't warn about skipped symlinks
    +      --smb-case-insensitive                           Whether the server is configured to be case-insensitive (default true)
    +      --smb-domain string                              Domain name for NTLM authentication (default "WORKGROUP")
    +      --smb-encoding MultiEncoder                      The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --smb-hide-special-share                         Hide special shares (e.g. print$) which users aren't supposed to access (default true)
    +      --smb-host string                                SMB server hostname to connect to
    +      --smb-idle-timeout Duration                      Max time before closing idle connections (default 1m0s)
    +      --smb-pass string                                SMB password (obscured)
    +      --smb-port int                                   SMB port number (default 445)
    +      --smb-user string                                SMB username (default "$USER")
    +      --storj-access-grant string                      Access grant
    +      --storj-api-key string                           API key
    +      --storj-passphrase string                        Encryption passphrase
    +      --storj-provider string                          Choose an authentication method (default "existing")
    +      --storj-satellite-address string                 Satellite address (default "us-central-1.storj.io")
    +      --sugarsync-access-key-id string                 Sugarsync Access Key ID
    +      --sugarsync-app-id string                        Sugarsync App ID
    +      --sugarsync-authorization string                 Sugarsync authorization
    +      --sugarsync-authorization-expiry string          Sugarsync authorization expiry
    +      --sugarsync-deleted-id string                    Sugarsync deleted folder id
    +      --sugarsync-encoding MultiEncoder                The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --sugarsync-hard-delete                          Permanently delete files if true
    +      --sugarsync-private-access-key string            Sugarsync Private Access Key
    +      --sugarsync-refresh-token string                 Sugarsync refresh token
    +      --sugarsync-root-id string                       Sugarsync root id
    +      --sugarsync-user string                          Sugarsync user
    +      --swift-application-credential-id string         Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID)
    +      --swift-application-credential-name string       Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME)
    +      --swift-application-credential-secret string     Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET)
    +      --swift-auth string                              Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL)
    +      --swift-auth-token string                        Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN)
    +      --swift-auth-version int                         AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION)
    +      --swift-chunk-size SizeSuffix                    Above this size files will be chunked into a _segments container (default 5Gi)
    +      --swift-domain string                            User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)
    +      --swift-encoding MultiEncoder                    The encoding for the backend (default Slash,InvalidUtf8)
    +      --swift-endpoint-type string                     Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE) (default "public")
    +      --swift-env-auth                                 Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form
    +      --swift-key string                               API key or password (OS_PASSWORD)
    +      --swift-leave-parts-on-error                     If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure
    +      --swift-no-chunk                                 Don't chunk files during streaming upload
    +      --swift-no-large-objects                         Disable support for static and dynamic large objects
    +      --swift-region string                            Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME)
    +      --swift-storage-policy string                    The storage policy to use when creating a new container
    +      --swift-storage-url string                       Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL)
    +      --swift-tenant string                            Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME)
    +      --swift-tenant-domain string                     Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME)
    +      --swift-tenant-id string                         Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID)
    +      --swift-user string                              User name to log in (OS_USERNAME)
    +      --swift-user-id string                           User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID)
    +      --union-action-policy string                     Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category (default "epall")
    +      --union-cache-time int                           Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds) (default 120)
    +      --union-create-policy string                     Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category (default "epmfs")
    +      --union-min-free-space SizeSuffix                Minimum viable free space for lfs/eplfs policies (default 1Gi)
    +      --union-search-policy string                     Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category (default "ff")
    +      --union-upstreams string                         List of space separated upstreams
    +      --uptobox-access-token string                    Your access token
    +      --uptobox-encoding MultiEncoder                  The encoding for the backend (default Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,BackQuote,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --webdav-bearer-token string                     Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon)
    +      --webdav-bearer-token-command string             Command to run to get a bearer token
    +      --webdav-encoding string                         The encoding for the backend
    +      --webdav-headers CommaSepList                    Set HTTP headers for all transactions
    +      --webdav-pass string                             Password (obscured)
    +      --webdav-url string                              URL of http host to connect to
    +      --webdav-user string                             User name
    +      --webdav-vendor string                           Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using
    +      --yandex-auth-url string                         Auth server URL
    +      --yandex-client-id string                        OAuth Client Id
    +      --yandex-client-secret string                    OAuth Client Secret
    +      --yandex-encoding MultiEncoder                   The encoding for the backend (default Slash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot)
    +      --yandex-hard-delete                             Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash
    +      --yandex-token string                            OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --yandex-token-url string                        Token server url
    +      --zoho-auth-url string                           Auth server URL
    +      --zoho-client-id string                          OAuth Client Id
    +      --zoho-client-secret string                      OAuth Client Secret
    +      --zoho-encoding MultiEncoder                     The encoding for the backend (default Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8)
    +      --zoho-region string                             Zoho region to connect to
    +      --zoho-token string                              OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob
    +      --zoho-token-url string                          Token server url

    Docker Volume Plugin

    Introduction

    Docker 1.9 has added support for creating named volumes via command-line interface and mounting them in containers as a way to share data between them. Since Docker 1.10 you can create named volumes with Docker Compose by descriptions in docker-compose.yml files for use by container groups on a single host. As of Docker 1.12 volumes are supported by Docker Swarm included with Docker Engine and created from descriptions in swarm compose v3 files for use with swarm stacks across multiple cluster nodes.

    @@ -8539,7 +9382,7 @@

    Command line syntax

    -v, --verbose Increases logging verbosity. May be specified more than once for more details. -h, --help help for bisync
    -

    Arbitrary rclone flags may be specified on the bisync command line, for example rclone bsync ./testdir/path1/ gdrive:testdir/path2/ --drive-skip-gdocs -v -v --timeout 10s Note that interactions of various rclone flags with bisync process flow has not been fully tested yet.

    +

    Arbitrary rclone flags may be specified on the bisync command line, for example rclone bisync ./testdir/path1/ gdrive:testdir/path2/ --drive-skip-gdocs -v -v --timeout 10s Note that interactions of various rclone flags with bisync process flow has not been fully tested yet.

    Paths

    Path1 and Path2 arguments may be references to any mix of local directory paths (absolute or relative), UNC paths (//server/share/path), Windows drive paths (with a drive letter and :) or configured remotes with optional subdirectory paths. Cloud references are distinguished by having a : in the argument (see Windows support below).

    Path1 and Path2 are treated equally, in that neither has priority for file changes, and access efficiency does not change whether a remote is on Path1 or Path2.

    @@ -8706,7 +9549,7 @@

    Modification time

    Error handling

    Certain bisync critical errors, such as file copy/move failing, will result in a bisync lockout of following runs. The lockout is asserted because the sync status and history of the Path1 and Path2 filesystems cannot be trusted, so it is safer to block any further changes until someone checks things out. The recovery is to do a --resync again.

    It is recommended to use --resync --dry-run --verbose initially and carefully review what changes will be made before running the --resync without --dry-run.

    -

    Most of these events come up due to a error status from an internal call. On such a critical error the {...}.path1.lst and {...}.path2.lst listing files are renamed to extension .lst-err, which blocks any future bisync runs (since the normal .lst files are not found). Bisync keeps them under bisync subdirectory of the rclone cache direcory, typically at ${HOME}/.cache/rclone/bisync/ on Linux.

    +

    Most of these events come up due to a error status from an internal call. On such a critical error the {...}.path1.lst and {...}.path2.lst listing files are renamed to extension .lst-err, which blocks any future bisync runs (since the normal .lst files are not found). Bisync keeps them under bisync subdirectory of the rclone cache directory, typically at ${HOME}/.cache/rclone/bisync/ on Linux.

    Some errors are considered temporary and re-running the bisync is not blocked. The critical return blocks further bisync runs.

    Lock file

    When bisync is running, a lock file is created in the bisync working directory, typically at ~/.cache/rclone/bisync/PATH1..PATH2.lck on Linux. If bisync should crash or hang, the lock file will remain in place and block any further runs of bisync for the same paths. Delete the lock file as part of debugging the situation. The lock file effectively blocks follow-on (e.g., scheduled by cron) runs when the prior invocation is taking a long time. The lock file contains PID of the blocking process, which may help in debug.

    @@ -8715,7 +9558,7 @@

    Return codes

    rclone bisync returns the following codes to calling program: - 0 on a successful run, - 1 for a non-critical failing run (a rerun may be successful), - 2 for a critically aborted run (requires a --resync to recover).

    Limitations

    Supported backends

    -

    Bisync is considered BETA and has been tested with the following backends: - Local filesystem - Google Drive - Dropbox - OneDrive - S3 - SFTP

    +

    Bisync is considered BETA and has been tested with the following backends: - Local filesystem - Google Drive - Dropbox - OneDrive - S3 - SFTP - Yandex Disk

    It has not been fully tested with other services yet. If it works, or sorta works, please let us know and we'll update the list. Run the test suite to check for proper operation as described below.

    First release of rclone bisync requires that underlying backend supported the modification time feature and will refuse to run otherwise. This limitation will be lifted in a future rclone bisync release.

    Concurrent modifications

    @@ -8731,7 +9574,7 @@

    Renamed directories

    Case sensitivity

    Synching with case-insensitive filesystems, such as Windows or Box, can result in file name conflicts. This will be fixed in a future release. The near term workaround is to make sure that files on both sides don't have spelling case differences (Smile.jpg vs. smile.jpg).

    Windows support

    -

    Bisync has been tested on Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and on Windows Github runners.

    +

    Bisync has been tested on Windows 8.1, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit and on Windows GitHub runners.

    Drive letters are allowed, including drive letters mapped to network drives (rclone bisync J:\localsync GDrive:). If a drive letter is omitted, the shell current drive is the default. Drive letters are a single character follows by :, so cloud names must be more than one character long.

    Absolute paths (with or without a drive letter), and relative paths (with or without a drive letter) are supported.

    Working directory is created at C:\Users\MyLogin\AppData\Local\rclone\bisync.

    @@ -8883,7 +9726,7 @@

    Retries

    Denied downloads of "infected" or "abusive" files

    Google Drive has a filter for certain file types (.exe, .apk, et cetera) that by default cannot be copied from Google Drive to the local filesystem. If you are having problems, run with --verbose to see specifically which files are generating complaints. If the error is This file has been identified as malware or spam and cannot be downloaded, consider using the flag --drive-acknowledge-abuse.

    Google Doc files

    -

    Google docs exist as virtual files on Google Drive and cannot be transferred to other filesystems natively. While it is possible to export a Google doc to a normal file (with .xlsx extension, for example), it's not possible to import a normal file back into a Google document.

    +

    Google docs exist as virtual files on Google Drive and cannot be transferred to other filesystems natively. While it is possible to export a Google doc to a normal file (with .xlsx extension, for example), it is not possible to import a normal file back into a Google document.

    Bisync's handling of Google Doc files is to flag them in the run log output for user's attention and ignore them for any file transfers, deletes, or syncs. They will show up with a length of -1 in the listings. This bisync run is otherwise successful:

    2021/05/11 08:23:15 INFO  : Synching Path1 "/path/to/local/tree/base/" with Path2 "GDrive:"
     2021/05/11 08:23:15 INFO  : ...path2.lst-new: Ignoring incorrect line: "- -1 - - 2018-07-29T08:49:30.136000000+0000 GoogleDoc.docx"
    @@ -8988,11 +9831,11 @@ 

    Notes about testing

  • path1 and/or path2 subdirectories are created in a temporary directory under the respective local or cloud test remote.
  • By default, the Path1 and Path2 test dirs and workdir will be deleted after each test run. The -no-cleanup flag disables purging these directories when validating and debugging a given test. These directories will be flushed before running another test, independent of the -no-cleanup usage.
  • You will likely want to add `- /testdir/to your normal bisync--filters-fileso that normal syncs do not attempt to sync the test temporary directories, which may haveRCLONE_TESTmiscompares in some testcases which would otherwise trip the--check-accesssystem. The--check-accessmechanism is hard-coded to ignoreRCLONE_TESTfiles beneathbisync/testdata`, so the test cases may reside on the synched tree even if there are check file mismatches in the test tree.
  • -
  • Some Dropbox tests can fail, notably printing the following message: src and dst identical but can't set mod time without deleting and re-uploading This is expected and happens due a way Dropbox handles modificaion times. You should use the -refresh-times test flag to make up for this.
  • +
  • Some Dropbox tests can fail, notably printing the following message: src and dst identical but can't set mod time without deleting and re-uploading This is expected and happens due a way Dropbox handles modification times. You should use the -refresh-times test flag to make up for this.
  • If Dropbox tests hit request limit for you and print error message too_many_requests/...: Too many requests or write operations. then follow the Dropbox App ID instructions.
  • Updating golden results

    -

    Sometimes even a slight change in the bisync source can cause little changes spread around many log files. Updating them manually would be a nighmare.

    +

    Sometimes even a slight change in the bisync source can cause little changes spread around many log files. Updating them manually would be a nightmare.

    The -golden flag will store the test.log and *.lst listings from each test case into respective golden directories. Golden results will automatically contain generic strings instead of local or cloud paths which means that they should match when run with a different cloud service.

    Your normal workflow might be as follows: 1. Git-clone the rclone sources locally 2. Modify bisync source and check that it builds 3. Run the whole test suite go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local 4. If some tests show log difference, recheck them individually, e.g.: go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local -case basic 5. If you are convinced with the difference, goldenize all tests at once: go test ./cmd/bisync -remote local -golden 6. Use word diff: git diff --word-diff ./cmd/bisync/testdata/. Please note that normal line-level diff is generally useless here. 7. Check the difference carefully! 8. Commit the change (git commit) only if you are sure. If unsure, save your code changes then wipe the log diffs from git: git reset [--hard].

    Structure of test scenarios

    @@ -9223,7 +10066,7 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

    --fichier-api-key

    Your API Key, get it from https://1fichier.com/console/params.pl.

    Properties:

    @@ -9234,7 +10077,7 @@

    --fichier-api-key

  • Required: false
  • Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to fichier (1Fichier).

    --fichier-shared-folder

    If you want to download a shared folder, add this parameter.

    Properties:

    @@ -9276,13 +10119,14 @@

    --fichier-encoding

    Limitations

    rclone about is not supported by the 1Fichier backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    Alias

    The alias remote provides a new name for another remote.

    Paths may be as deep as required or a local path, e.g. 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. Assume an 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.

    +

    The target remote can also be a connection string. This can be used to modify the config of a remote for different uses, e.g. the alias myDriveTrash with the target remote myDrive,trashed_only: can be used to only show the trashed files in myDrive.

    Configuration

    Here is an example of how to make an alias called remote for local folder. First run:

     rclone config
    @@ -9334,7 +10178,7 @@

    Configuration

    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 an existing remote).

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to alias (Alias for an existing remote).

    --alias-remote

    Remote or path to alias.

    Can be "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket", "myremote:" or "/local/path".

    @@ -9384,9 +10228,10 @@

    Configuration

    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 +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote? + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N. y) Yes n) No y/n> y @@ -9446,7 +10291,7 @@

    Deleting files

    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).

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to amazon cloud drive (Amazon Drive).

    --acd-client-id

    OAuth Client Id.

    Leave blank normally.

    @@ -9468,7 +10313,7 @@

    --acd-client-secret

  • Required: false
  • Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to amazon cloud drive (Amazon Drive).

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to amazon cloud drive (Amazon Drive).

    --acd-token

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    Properties:

    @@ -9549,17 +10394,25 @@

    Limitations

    At the time of writing (Jan 2016) is in the area of 50 GiB 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.

    rclone about is not supported by the Amazon Drive backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    Amazon S3 Storage Providers

    The S3 backend can be used with a number of different providers:

    +

    Netease NOS

    +

    For Netease NOS configure as per the configurator rclone config setting the provider Netease. This will automatically set force_path_style = false which is necessary for it to run properly.

    +

    Storj

    +

    Storj is a decentralized cloud storage which can be used through its native protocol or an S3 compatible gateway.

    +

    The S3 compatible gateway is configured using rclone config with a type of s3 and with a provider name of Storj. Here is an example run of the configurator.

    +
    Type of storage to configure.
    +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 boolean value (true or false).
    +Press Enter for the default (false).
    + 1 / Enter AWS credentials in the next step.
    +   \ (false)
    + 2 / Get AWS credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
    +   \ (true)
    +env_auth> 1
    +Option access_key_id.
    +AWS Access Key ID.
    +Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
    +Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
    +access_key_id> XXXX (as shown when creating the access grant)
    +Option secret_access_key.
    +AWS Secret Access Key (password).
    +Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.
    +Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
    +secret_access_key> XXXX (as shown when creating the access grant)
    +Option endpoint.
    +Endpoint of the Shared Gateway.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +Press Enter to leave empty.
    + 1 / EU1 Shared Gateway
    +   \ (gateway.eu1.storjshare.io)
    + 2 / US1 Shared Gateway
    +   \ (gateway.us1.storjshare.io)
    + 3 / Asia-Pacific Shared Gateway
    +   \ (gateway.ap1.storjshare.io)
    +endpoint> 1 (as shown when creating the access grant)
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +

    Note that s3 credentials are generated when you create an access grant.

    +

    Backend quirks

    -

    --box-box-sub-type

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to box (Box).

    -

    --box-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-root-folder-id

    -

    Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-upload-cutoff

    -

    Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB).

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-commit-retries

    -

    Max number of times to try committing a multipart file.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-list-chunk

    -

    Size of listing chunk 1-1000.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-owned-by

    -

    Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --box-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    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 (U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus).

    -

    Box only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the Box backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Cache (DEPRECATED)

    -

    The cache remote wraps another existing remote and stores file structure and its data for long running tasks like rclone mount.

    -

    Status

    -

    The cache backend code is working but it currently doesn't have a maintainer so there are outstanding bugs which aren't getting fixed.

    -

    The cache backend is due to be phased out in favour of the VFS caching layer eventually which is more tightly integrated into rclone.

    -

    Until this happens we recommend only using the cache backend if you find you can't work without it. There are many docs online describing the use of the cache backend to minimize API hits and by-and-large these are out of date and the cache backend isn't needed in those scenarios any more.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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:

    +

    One general purpose workaround is to set --s3-upload-cutoff 5G. This means that rclone will upload files smaller than 5GiB as single parts. Note that this can be set in the config file with upload_cutoff = 5G or configured in the advanced settings. If you regularly transfer files larger than 5G then using --checksum or --size-only in rclone sync is the recommended workaround.

    +

    Comparison with the native protocol

    +

    Use the the native protocol to take advantage of client-side encryption as well as to achieve the best possible download performance. Uploads will be erasure-coded locally, thus a 1gb upload will result in 2.68gb of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    +

    Use this backend and the S3 compatible Hosted Gateway to increase upload performance and reduce the load on your systems and network. Uploads will be encrypted and erasure-coded server-side, thus a 1GB upload will result in only in 1GB of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    +

    For more detailed comparison please check the documentation of the storj backend.

    +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the S3 backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    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, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making a b2 configuration. First run

    +
    rclone config
    +

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process. To authenticate you will either need your Account ID (a short hex number) and Master Application Key (a long hex number) OR an Application Key, which is the recommended method. See below for further details on generating and using an Application Key.

    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
    +n/q> n
    +name> remote
     Type of storage to configure.
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
     [snip]
    -XX / Cache a remote
    -   \ "cache"
    +XX / Backblaze B2
    +   \ "b2"
     [snip]
    -Storage> cache
    -Remote to cache.
    -Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "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 / 1 MiB
    -   \ "1M"
    - 2 / 5 MiB
    -   \ "5M"
    - 3 / 10 MiB
    -   \ "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 MiB
    -   \ "500M"
    - 2 / 1 GiB
    -   \ "1G"
    - 3 / 10 GiB
    -   \ "10G"
    -chunk_total_size> 3
    +Storage> b2
    +Account ID or Application Key ID
    +account> 123456789abc
    +Application Key
    +key> 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789
    +Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally.
    +endpoint>
     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:

    -
      -
    1. An upload is started (usually by copying a file on the cache remote)
    2. -
    3. 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)
    4. -
    5. 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
    6. -
    7. Reading the file still works during the upload but most modifications on it will be prohibited
    8. -
    9. Once the move is complete the file is unlocked for modifications as it becomes as any other regular file
    10. -
    11. 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)
    12. -
    -

    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 URLs to ensure certificate validation succeeds. These URLs are used by Plex internally to connect to the Plex server securely.

    -

    The format for these URLs 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 dependent on them.

    -

    Any reports or feedback on how cache behaves on this OS is greatly appreciated.

    +[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 -i /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; you will need to use rclone version 1.43 or later.

    +

    Follow Backblaze's docs to create an Application Key with the required permission and add the applicationKeyId as the account and the Application Key itself as the key.

    +

    Note that you must put the applicationKeyId 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. Note that if a modification time needs to be updated on an object then it will create a new version of the object.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Note that in 2020-05 Backblaze started allowing  characters in file names. Rclone hasn't changed its encoding as this could cause syncs to re-transfer files. If you want rclone not to replace  then see the --b2-encoding flag below and remove the BackSlash from the string. This can be set in the config.

    +

    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 MiB by default) will use a 96 MiB 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.

    +

    It is also possible to view a bucket as it was at a certain point in time, using the --b2-version-at flag. This will show the file versions as they were at that time, showing files that have been deleted afterwards, and hiding files that were created since.

    +

    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, e.g. rclone cleanup remote:bucket/path/to/stuff.

    +

    Note that cleanup will remove partially uploaded files from the bucket if they are more than a day old.

    +

    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 viewed 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.

    + +

    Rclone supports generating file share links for private B2 buckets. They can either be for a file for example:

    +
    ./rclone link B2:bucket/path/to/file.txt
    +https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/to/file.txt?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
    +
    +

    or if run on a directory you will get:

    +
    ./rclone link B2:bucket/path
    +https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
    +

    you can then use the authorization token (the part of the url from the ?Authorization= on) on any file path under that directory. For example:

    +
    https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/to/file1?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
    +https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/file2?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
    +https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/bucket/path/folder/file3?Authorization=xxxxxxxx
    +
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

    +

    --b2-account

    +

    Account ID or Application Key ID.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    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 information (--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 yields 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, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    +

    --b2-key

    +

    Application Key.

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-plex-url

    -

    The URL of the Plex server.

    +

    --b2-hard-delete

    +

    Permanently delete files on remote removal, otherwise hide files.

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-plex-username

    -

    The username of the Plex user.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to b2 (Backblaze B2).

    +

    --b2-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for the service.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-plex-password

    -

    The password of the Plex user.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --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:

    + +

    These will be set in the "X-Bz-Test-Mode" header which is documented in the b2 integrations checklist.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --b2-version-at

    +

    Show file versions as they were at the specified time.

    +

    Note that when using this no file write operations are permitted, so you can't upload files or delete them.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --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 4.657 GiB (== 5 GB).

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

    -

    --cache-plex-token

    -

    The plex token for authentication - auto set normally.

    +

    --b2-copy-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

    +

    Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be copied in chunks of this size.

    +

    The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 4.6 GiB.

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-plex-insecure

    -

    Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server.

    +

    --b2-chunk-size

    +

    Upload chunk size.

    +

    When uploading large files, chunk the file into this size.

    +

    Must fit in memory. These chunks are buffered in memory and there might a maximum of "--transfers" chunks in progress at once.

    +

    5,000,000 Bytes is the minimum size.

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-db-path

    -

    Directory to store file structure metadata DB.

    -

    The remote name is used as the DB file name.

    +

    --b2-disable-checksum

    +

    Disable checksums for large (> upload cutoff) files.

    +

    Normally rclone will calculate the SHA1 checksum of the input before uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files to start uploading.

    Properties:

    -

    --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".

    +

    --b2-download-url

    +

    Custom endpoint for downloads.

    +

    This is usually set to a Cloudflare CDN URL as Backblaze offers free egress for data downloaded through the Cloudflare network. Rclone works with private buckets by sending an "Authorization" header. If the custom endpoint rewrites the requests for authentication, e.g., in Cloudflare Workers, this header needs to be handled properly. Leave blank if you want to use the endpoint provided by Backblaze.

    +

    The URL provided here SHOULD have the protocol and SHOULD NOT have a trailing slash or specify the /file/bucket subpath as rclone will request files with "{download_url}/file/{bucket_name}/{path}".

    +

    Example: > https://mysubdomain.mydomain.tld (No trailing "/", "file" or "bucket")

    Properties:

    -

    --cache-db-purge

    -

    Clear all the cached data for this remote on start.

    +

    --b2-download-auth-duration

    +

    Time before the authorization token will expire in s or suffix ms|s|m|h|d.

    +

    The duration before the download authorization token will expire. The minimum value is 1 second. The maximum value is one week.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --b2-memory-pool-flush-time

    +

    How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed. Uploads which requires additional buffers (f.e multipart) will use memory pool for allocations. This option controls how often unused buffers will be removed from the pool.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --b2-memory-pool-use-mmap

    +

    Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --b2-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Backend commands

    -

    Here are the commands specific to the cache backend.

    -

    Run them with

    -
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    -

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    -

    See the "rclone backend" command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    -

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    -

    stats

    -

    Print stats on the cache backend in JSON format.

    -
    rclone backend stats remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    Chunker (BETA)

    -

    The chunker overlay transparently splits large files into smaller chunks during upload to wrapped remote and transparently assembles them back when the file is downloaded. This allows to effectively overcome size limits imposed by storage providers.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    To use it, first set up the underlying remote following the configuration instructions for that remote. You can also use a local pathname instead of a remote.

    -

    First check your chosen remote is working - we'll call it remote:path here. Note that anything inside remote:path will be chunked and anything outside won't. This means that if you are using a bucket-based remote (e.g. S3, B2, swift) then you should probably put the bucket in the remote s3:bucket.

    -

    Now configure chunker using rclone config. We will call this one overlay to separate it from the remote itself.

    +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the B2 backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Box

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    The initial setup for Box involves getting a token from Box which you can do either in your browser, or with a config.json downloaded from Box to use JWT authentication. rclone config walks you through it.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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> overlay
    +name> remote
     Type of storage to configure.
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
     [snip]
    -XX / Transparently chunk/split large files
    -   \ "chunker"
    +XX / Box
    +   \ "box"
     [snip]
    -Storage> chunker
    -Remote to chunk/unchunk.
    -Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
    -"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
    +Storage> box
    +Box App Client Id - leave blank normally.
    +client_id> 
    +Box App Client Secret - leave blank normally.
    +client_secret>
    +Box App config.json location
    +Leave blank normally.
     Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -remote> remote:path
    -Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.
    -Enter a size with suffix K,M,G,T. Press Enter for the default ("2G").
    -chunk_size> 100M
    -Choose how chunker handles hash sums. All modes but "none" require metadata.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("md5").
    +box_config_file>
    +Box App Primary Access Token
    +Leave blank normally.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +access_token>
    +
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("user").
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Pass any hash supported by wrapped remote for non-chunked files, return nothing otherwise
    -   \ "none"
    - 2 / MD5 for composite files
    -   \ "md5"
    - 3 / SHA1 for composite files
    -   \ "sha1"
    - 4 / MD5 for all files
    -   \ "md5all"
    - 5 / SHA1 for all files
    -   \ "sha1all"
    - 6 / Copying a file to chunker will request MD5 from the source falling back to SHA1 if unsupported
    -   \ "md5quick"
    - 7 / Similar to "md5quick" but prefers SHA1 over MD5
    -   \ "sha1quick"
    -hash_type> md5
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    + 1 / Rclone should act on behalf of a user
    +   \ "user"
    + 2 / Rclone should act on behalf of a service account
    +   \ "enterprise"
    +box_sub_type>
    +Remote config
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
     y) Yes
     n) No
    -y/n> n
    -Remote config
    +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
     --------------------
    -[overlay]
    -type = chunker
    -remote = remote:bucket
    -chunk_size = 100M
    -hash_type = md5
    +[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
    -

    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 chunk stuff in that directory. If you use a remote of name then rclone will put files in a directory called name in the current directory.

    -

    Chunking

    -

    When rclone starts a file upload, chunker checks the file size. If it doesn't exceed the configured chunk size, chunker will just pass the file to the wrapped remote. If a file is large, chunker will transparently cut data in pieces with temporary names and stream them one by one, on the fly. Each data chunk will contain the specified number of bytes, except for the last one which may have less data. If file size is unknown in advance (this is called a streaming upload), chunker will internally create a temporary copy, record its size and repeat the above process.

    -

    When upload completes, temporary chunk files are finally renamed. This scheme guarantees that operations can be run in parallel and look from outside as atomic. A similar method with hidden temporary chunks is used for other operations (copy/move/rename, etc.). If an operation fails, hidden chunks are normally destroyed, and the target composite file stays intact.

    -

    When a composite file download is requested, chunker transparently assembles it by concatenating data chunks in order. As the split is trivial one could even manually concatenate data chunks together to obtain the original content.

    -

    When the list rclone command scans a directory on wrapped remote, the potential chunk files are accounted for, grouped and assembled into composite directory entries. Any temporary chunks are hidden.

    -

    List and other commands can sometimes come across composite files with missing or invalid chunks, e.g. shadowed by like-named directory or another file. This usually means that wrapped file system has been directly tampered with or damaged. If chunker detects a missing chunk it will by default print warning, skip the whole incomplete group of chunks but proceed with current command. You can set the --chunker-fail-hard flag to have commands abort with error message in such cases.

    -

    Chunk names

    -

    The default chunk name format is *.rclone_chunk.###, hence by default chunk names are BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001, BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.002 etc. You can configure another name format using the name_format configuration file option. The format uses asterisk * as a placeholder for the base file name and one or more consecutive hash characters # as a placeholder for sequential chunk number. There must be one and only one asterisk. The number of consecutive hash characters defines the minimum length of a string representing a chunk number. If decimal chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is left-padded by zeros. If the decimal string is longer, it is left intact. By default numbering starts from 1 but there is another option that allows user to start from 0, e.g. for compatibility with legacy software.

    -

    For example, if name format is big_*-##.part and original file name is data.txt and numbering starts from 0, then the first chunk will be named big_data.txt-00.part, the 99th chunk will be big_data.txt-98.part and the 302nd chunk will become big_data.txt-301.part.

    -

    Note that list assembles composite directory entries only when chunk names match the configured format and treats non-conforming file names as normal non-chunked files.

    -

    When using norename transactions, chunk names will additionally have a unique file version suffix. For example, BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001_bp562k.

    -

    Metadata

    -

    Besides data chunks chunker will by default create metadata object for a composite file. The object is named after the original file. Chunker allows user to disable metadata completely (the none format). Note that metadata is normally not created for files smaller than the configured chunk size. This may change in future rclone releases.

    -

    Simple JSON metadata format

    -

    This is the default format. It supports hash sums and chunk validation for composite files. Meta objects carry the following fields:

    - -

    There is no field for composite file name as it's simply equal to the name of meta object on the wrapped remote. Please refer to respective sections for details on hashsums and modified time handling.

    -

    No metadata

    -

    You can disable meta objects by setting the meta format option to none. In this mode chunker will scan directory for all files that follow configured chunk name format, group them by detecting chunks with the same base name and show group names as virtual composite files. This method is more prone to missing chunk errors (especially missing last chunk) than format with metadata enabled.

    -

    Hashsums

    -

    Chunker supports hashsums only when a compatible metadata is present. Hence, if you choose metadata format of none, chunker will report hashsum as UNSUPPORTED.

    -

    Please note that by default metadata is stored only for composite files. If a file is smaller than configured chunk size, chunker will transparently redirect hash requests to wrapped remote, so support depends on that. You will see the empty string as a hashsum of requested type for small files if the wrapped remote doesn't support it.

    -

    Many storage backends support MD5 and SHA1 hash types, so does chunker. With chunker you can choose one or another but not both. MD5 is set by default as the most supported type. Since chunker keeps hashes for composite files and falls back to the wrapped remote hash for non-chunked ones, we advise you to choose the same hash type as supported by wrapped remote so that your file listings look coherent.

    -

    If your storage backend does not support MD5 or SHA1 but you need consistent file hashing, configure chunker with md5all or sha1all. These two modes guarantee given hash for all files. If wrapped remote doesn't support it, chunker will then add metadata to all files, even small. However, this can double the amount of small files in storage and incur additional service charges. You can even use chunker to force md5/sha1 support in any other remote at expense of sidecar meta objects by setting e.g. chunk_type=sha1all to force hashsums and chunk_size=1P to effectively disable chunking.

    -

    Normally, when a file is copied to chunker controlled remote, chunker will ask the file source for compatible file hash and revert to on-the-fly calculation if none is found. This involves some CPU overhead but provides a guarantee that given hashsum is available. Also, chunker will reject a server-side copy or move operation if source and destination hashsum types are different resulting in the extra network bandwidth, too. In some rare cases this may be undesired, so chunker provides two optional choices: sha1quick and md5quick. If the source does not support primary hash type and the quick mode is enabled, chunker will try to fall back to the secondary type. This will save CPU and bandwidth but can result in empty hashsums at destination. Beware of consequences: the sync command will revert (sometimes silently) to time/size comparison if compatible hashsums between source and target are not found.

    -

    Modified time

    -

    Chunker stores modification times using the wrapped remote so support depends on that. For a small non-chunked file the chunker overlay simply manipulates modification time of the wrapped remote file. For a composite file with metadata chunker will get and set modification time of the metadata object on the wrapped remote. If file is chunked but metadata format is none then chunker will use modification time of the first data chunk.

    -

    Migrations

    -

    The idiomatic way to migrate to a different chunk size, hash type, transaction style or chunk naming scheme is to:

    - -

    If rclone gets killed during a long operation on a big composite file, hidden temporary chunks may stay in the directory. They will not be shown by the list command but will eat up your account quota. Please note that the deletefile command deletes only active chunks of a file. As a workaround, you can use remote of the wrapped file system to see them. An easy way to get rid of hidden garbage is to copy littered directory somewhere using the chunker remote and purge the original directory. The copy command will copy only active chunks while the purge will remove everything including garbage.

    -

    Caveats and Limitations

    -

    Chunker requires wrapped remote to support server-side move (or copy + delete) operations, otherwise it will explicitly refuse to start. This is because it internally renames temporary chunk files to their final names when an operation completes successfully.

    -

    Chunker encodes chunk number in file name, so with default name_format setting it adds 17 characters. Also chunker adds 7 characters of temporary suffix during operations. Many file systems limit base file name without path by 255 characters. Using rclone's crypt remote as a base file system limits file name by 143 characters. Thus, maximum name length is 231 for most files and 119 for chunker-over-crypt. A user in need can change name format to e.g. *.rcc## and save 10 characters (provided at most 99 chunks per file).

    -

    Note that a move implemented using the copy-and-delete method may incur double charging with some cloud storage providers.

    -

    Chunker will not automatically rename existing chunks when you run rclone config on a live remote and change the chunk name format. Beware that in result of this some files which have been treated as chunks before the change can pop up in directory listings as normal files and vice versa. The same warning holds for the chunk size. If you desperately need to change critical chunking settings, you should run data migration as described above.

    -

    If wrapped remote is case insensitive, the chunker overlay will inherit that property (so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and "hello.doc" in the same directory).

    -

    Chunker included in rclone releases up to v1.54 can sometimes fail to detect metadata produced by recent versions of rclone. We recommend users to keep rclone up-to-date to avoid data corruption.

    -

    Changing transactions is dangerous and requires explicit migration.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

    -

    --chunker-remote

    -

    Remote to chunk/unchunk.

    -

    Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --chunker-chunk-size

    -

    Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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
    +

    Using rclone with an Enterprise account with SSO

    +

    If you have an "Enterprise" account type with Box with single sign on (SSO), you need to create a password to use Box with rclone. This can be done at your Enterprise Box account by going to Settings, "Account" Tab, and then set the password in the "Authentication" field.

    +

    Once you have done this, you can setup your Enterprise Box account using the same procedure detailed above in the, using the password you have just set.

    +

    Invalid refresh token

    +

    According to the box docs:

    +
    +

    Each refresh_token is valid for one use in 60 days.

    +
    +

    This means that if you

    -

    --chunker-hash-type

    -

    Choose how chunker handles hash sums.

    -

    All modes but "none" require metadata.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

    -

    --chunker-name-format

    -

    String format of chunk file names.

    -

    The two placeholders are: base file name (*) and chunk number (#...). There must be one and only one asterisk and one or more consecutive hash characters. If chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is left-padded by zeros. If there are more digits in the number, they are left as is. Possible chunk files are ignored if their name does not match given format.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --chunker-start-from

    -

    Minimum valid chunk number. Usually 0 or 1.

    -

    By default chunk numbers start from 1.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --chunker-meta-format

    -

    Format of the metadata object or "none".

    -

    By default "simplejson". Metadata is a small JSON file named after the composite file.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --chunker-fail-hard

    -

    Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --chunker-transactions

    -

    Choose how chunker should handle temporary files during transactions.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Citrix ShareFile

    -

    Citrix ShareFile is a secure file sharing and transfer service aimed as business.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for Citrix ShareFile involves getting a token from Citrix ShareFile which you can 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?
    +

    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
    -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
    -XX / Citrix Sharefile
    -   \ "sharefile"
    -Storage> sharefile
    -** See help for sharefile backend at: https://rclone.org/sharefile/ **
    -
    -ID of the root folder
    -
    -Leave blank to access "Personal Folders".  You can use one of the
    -standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Access the Personal Folders. (Default)
    -   \ ""
    - 2 / Access the Favorites folder.
    -   \ "favorites"
    - 3 / Access all the shared folders.
    -   \ "allshared"
    - 4 / Access all the individual connectors.
    -   \ "connectors"
    - 5 / Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.
    -   \ "top"
    -root_folder_id> 
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +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
    -Use auto config?
    - * Say Y if not sure
    - * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
    +Already have a token - refresh?
     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?state=XXX
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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 = sharefile
    -endpoint = https://XXX.sharefile.com
    -token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2019-09-30T19:41:45.878561877+01:00"}
    +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
    -

    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 Citrix ShareFile. 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 ShareFile

    -
    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your ShareFile

    -
    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to an ShareFile directory called backup

    -
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    ShareFile allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

    -

    ShareFile supports MD5 type hashes, so you can use the --checksum flag.

    -

    Transfers

    -

    For files above 128 MiB 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 64 MiB so increasing --transfers will increase memory use.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -14475,750 +16468,982 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - - + +
    0x5C
    *0x2A
    +

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    <0x3C
    >0x3E
    ?0x3F
    :0x3A
    |0x7C
    "0x22
    -

    File names can also not start or end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    .0x2ESP0x20

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

    -

    --sharefile-root-folder-id

    -

    ID of the root folder.

    -

    Leave blank to access "Personal Folders". You can use one of the standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).

    +

    Transfers

    +

    For files above 50 MiB 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 8 MiB 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.

    +

    Emptying the trash is supported via the rclone however cleanup command however this deletes every trashed file and folder individually so it may take a very long time. Emptying the trash via the WebUI does not have this limitation so it is advised to empty the trash via the WebUI.

    +

    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 the root of your Box 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.

    +

    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 Box web interface.

    +

    So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like https://app.box.com/folder/11xxxxxxxxx8 in the browser, then you use 11xxxxxxxxx8 as the root_folder_id in the config.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to box (Box).

    +

    --box-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    +

    --box-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    +

    --box-box-config-file

    +

    Box App config.json location

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "favorites" +
  • Config: box_config_file
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_BOX_CONFIG_FILE
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • + +

    --box-access-token

    +

    Box App Primary Access Token

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "allshared" +
  • Config: access_token
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • + +

    --box-box-sub-type

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "connectors" +
  • Config: box_sub_type
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_BOX_BOX_SUB_TYPE
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Default: "user"
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Access all the individual connectors.
    • +
    • "user" +
        +
      • Rclone should act on behalf of a user.
    • -
    • "top" +
    • "enterprise"
        -
      • Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.
      • +
      • Rclone should act on behalf of a service account.
  • -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

    -

    --sharefile-upload-cutoff

    -

    Cutoff for switching to multipart upload.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to box (Box).

    +

    --box-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --box-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --box-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --box-root-folder-id

    +

    Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --box-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to multipart upload (>= 50 MiB).

    Properties:

    -

    --sharefile-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.

    +

    --box-commit-retries

    +

    Max number of times to try committing a multipart file.

    Properties:

    -

    --sharefile-endpoint

    -

    Endpoint for API calls.

    -

    This is usually auto discovered as part of the oauth process, but can be set manually to something like: https://XXX.sharefile.com

    +

    --box-list-chunk

    +

    Size of listing chunk 1-1000.

    Properties:

    +

    --box-owned-by

    +

    Only show items owned by the login (email address) passed in.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --sharefile-encoding

    +

    --box-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Limitations

    -

    Note that ShareFile is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    -

    ShareFile only supports filenames up to 256 characters in length.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the Citrix ShareFile backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Crypt

    -

    Rclone crypt remotes encrypt and decrypt other remotes.

    -

    A remote of type crypt does not access a storage system directly, but instead wraps another remote, which in turn accesses the storage system. This is similar to how alias, union, chunker and a few others work. It makes the usage very flexible, as you can add a layer, in this case an encryption layer, on top of any other backend, even in multiple layers. Rclone's functionality can be used as with any other remote, for example you can mount a crypt remote.

    -

    Accessing a storage system through a crypt remote realizes client-side encryption, which makes it safe to keep your data in a location you do not trust will not get compromised. When working against the crypt remote, rclone will automatically encrypt (before uploading) and decrypt (after downloading) on your local system as needed on the fly, leaving the data encrypted at rest in the wrapped remote. If you access the storage system using an application other than rclone, or access the wrapped remote directly using rclone, there will not be any encryption/decryption: Downloading existing content will just give you the encrypted (scrambled) format, and anything you upload will not become encrypted.

    -

    The encryption is a secret-key encryption (also called symmetric key encryption) algorithm, where a password (or pass phrase) is used to generate real encryption key. The password can be supplied by user, or you may chose to let rclone generate one. It will be stored in the configuration file, in a lightly obscured form. If you are in an environment where you are not able to keep your configuration secured, you should add configuration encryption as protection. As long as you have this configuration file, you will be able to decrypt your data. Without the configuration file, as long as you remember the password (or keep it in a safe place), you can re-create the configuration and gain access to the existing data. You may also configure a corresponding remote in a different installation to access the same data. See below for guidance to changing password.

    -

    Encryption uses cryptographic salt, to permute the encryption key so that the same string may be encrypted in different ways. When configuring the crypt remote it is optional to enter a salt, or to let rclone generate a unique salt. If omitted, rclone uses a built-in unique string. Normally in cryptography, the salt is stored together with the encrypted content, and do not have to be memorized by the user. This is not the case in rclone, because rclone does not store any additional information on the remotes. Use of custom salt is effectively a second password that must be memorized.

    -

    File content encryption is performed using NaCl SecretBox, based on XSalsa20 cipher and Poly1305 for integrity. Names (file- and directory names) are also encrypted by default, but this has some implications and is therefore possible to turned off.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called secret.

    -

    To use crypt, first set up the underlying remote. Follow the rclone config instructions for the specific backend.

    -

    Before configuring the crypt remote, check the underlying remote is working. In this example the underlying remote is called remote. We will configure a path path within this remote to contain the encrypted content. Anything inside remote:path will be encrypted and anything outside will not.

    -

    Configure crypt using rclone config. In this example the crypt remote is called secret, to differentiate it from the underlying remote.

    -

    When you are done you can use the crypt remote named secret just as you would with any other remote, e.g. rclone copy D:\docs secret:\docs, and rclone will encrypt and decrypt as needed on the fly. If you access the wrapped remote remote:path directly you will bypass the encryption, and anything you read will be in encrypted form, and anything you write will be unencrypted. To avoid issues it is best to configure a dedicated path for encrypted content, and access it exclusively through a crypt remote.

    +

    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 (U+FF3C Fullwidth Reverse Solidus).

    +

    Box only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

    +

    Box has API rate limits that sometimes reduce the speed of rclone.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the Box backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Cache

    +

    The cache remote wraps another existing remote and stores file structure and its data for long running tasks like rclone mount.

    +

    Status

    +

    The cache backend code is working but it currently doesn't have a maintainer so there are outstanding bugs which aren't getting fixed.

    +

    The cache backend is due to be phased out in favour of the VFS caching layer eventually which is more tightly integrated into rclone.

    +

    Until this happens we recommend only using the cache backend if you find you can't work without it. There are many docs online describing the use of the cache backend to minimize API hits and by-and-large these are out of date and the cache backend isn't needed in those scenarios any more.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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/s/q> n
    -name> secret
    +n/r/c/s/q> n
    +name> test-cache
     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]
    -XX / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
    -   \ "crypt"
    +XX / Cache a remote
    +   \ "cache"
     [snip]
    -Storage> crypt
    -** See help for crypt backend at: https://rclone.org/crypt/ **
    -
    -Remote to encrypt/decrypt.
    -Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
    -"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -remote> remote:path
    -How to encrypt the filenames.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("standard").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    -   / Encrypt the filenames.
    - 1 | See the docs for the details.
    -   \ "standard"
    - 2 / Very simple filename obfuscation.
    -   \ "obfuscate"
    -   / Don't encrypt the file names.
    - 3 | Adds a ".bin" extension only.
    -   \ "off"
    -filename_encryption>
    -Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.
    -
    -NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
    -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"
    -directory_name_encryption>
    -Password or pass phrase for encryption.
    +Storage> cache
    +Remote to cache.
    +Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "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
    -y/g> y
    +n) No leave this optional password blank
    +y/g/n> 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 (default)
    -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? Please note that an obscured version of this
    -password (and not the password itself) will be stored under your
    -configuration file, so keep this generated password in a safe place.
    -y) Yes (default)
    -n) No
    -y/n>
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    -y) Yes
    -n) No (default)
    -y/n>
    +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 / 1 MiB
    +   \ "1M"
    + 2 / 5 MiB
    +   \ "5M"
    + 3 / 10 MiB
    +   \ "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 MiB
    +   \ "500M"
    + 2 / 1 GiB
    +   \ "1G"
    + 3 / 10 GiB
    +   \ "10G"
    +chunk_total_size> 3
     Remote config
     --------------------
    -[secret]
    -type = crypt
    -remote = remote:path
    -password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    -password2 = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d>
    -

    Important The crypt password stored in rclone.conf is lightly obscured. That only protects it from cursory inspection. It is not secure unless configuration encryption of rclone.conf is specified.

    -

    A long passphrase is recommended, or rclone config can generate a random one.

    -

    The obscured password is created using AES-CTR with a static key. The salt is stored verbatim at the beginning of the obscured password. This static key is shared between all versions of rclone.

    -

    If you reconfigure rclone with the same passwords/passphrases elsewhere it will be compatible, but the obscured version will be different due to the different salt.

    -

    Rclone does not encrypt

    +[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:

    +
      +
    1. An upload is started (usually by copying a file on the cache remote)
    2. +
    3. 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)
    4. +
    5. 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
    6. +
    7. Reading the file still works during the upload but most modifications on it will be prohibited
    8. +
    9. Once the move is complete the file is unlocked for modifications as it becomes as any other regular file
    10. +
    11. 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)
    12. +
    +

    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 URLs to ensure certificate validation succeeds. These URLs are used by Plex internally to connect to the Plex server securely.

    +

    The format for these URLs 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 dependent on them.

    +

    Any reports or feedback on how cache behaves on this OS is greatly appreciated.

    -

    Specifying the remote

    -

    When configuring the remote to encrypt/decrypt, you may specify any string that rclone accepts as a source/destination of other commands.

    -

    The primary use case is to specify the path into an already configured remote (e.g. remote:path/to/dir or remote:bucket), such that data in a remote untrusted location can be stored encrypted.

    -

    You may also specify a local filesystem path, such as /path/to/dir on Linux, C:\path\to\dir on Windows. By creating a crypt remote pointing to such a local filesystem path, you can use rclone as a utility for pure local file encryption, for example to keep encrypted files on a removable USB drive.

    -

    Note: A string which do not contain a : will by rclone be treated as a relative path in the local filesystem. For example, if you enter the name remote without the trailing :, it will be treated as a subdirectory of the current directory with name "remote".

    -

    If a path remote:path/to/dir is specified, rclone stores encrypted files in path/to/dir on the remote. With file name encryption, files saved to secret:subdir/subfile are stored in the unencrypted path path/to/dir but the subdir/subpath element is encrypted.

    -

    The path you specify does not have to exist, rclone will create it when needed.

    -

    If you intend to use the wrapped remote both directly for keeping unencrypted content, as well as through a crypt remote for encrypted content, it is recommended to point the crypt remote to a separate directory within the wrapped remote. If you use a bucket-based storage system (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2, Hubic) it is generally advisable to wrap the crypt remote around a specific bucket (s3:bucket). If wrapping around the entire root of the storage (s3:), and use the optional file name encryption, rclone will encrypt the bucket name.

    -

    Changing password

    -

    Should the password, or the configuration file containing a lightly obscured form of the password, be compromised, you need to re-encrypt your data with a new password. Since rclone uses secret-key encryption, where the encryption key is generated directly from the password kept on the client, it is not possible to change the password/key of already encrypted content. Just changing the password configured for an existing crypt remote means you will no longer able to decrypt any of the previously encrypted content. The only possibility is to re-upload everything via a crypt remote configured with your new password.

    -

    Depending on the size of your data, your bandwith, storage quota etc, there are different approaches you can take: - If you have everything in a different location, for example on your local system, you could remove all of the prior encrypted files, change the password for your configured crypt remote (or delete and re-create the crypt configuration), and then re-upload everything from the alternative location. - If you have enough space on the storage system you can create a new crypt remote pointing to a separate directory on the same backend, and then use rclone to copy everything from the original crypt remote to the new, effectively decrypting everything on the fly using the old password and re-encrypting using the new password. When done, delete the original crypt remote directory and finally the rclone crypt configuration with the old password. All data will be streamed from the storage system and back, so you will get half the bandwith and be charged twice if you have upload and download quota on the storage system.

    -

    Note: A security problem related to the random password generator was fixed in rclone version 1.53.3 (released 2020-11-19). Passwords generated by rclone config in version 1.49.0 (released 2019-08-26) to 1.53.2 (released 2020-10-26) are not considered secure and should be changed. If you made up your own password, or used rclone version older than 1.49.0 or newer than 1.53.2 to generate it, you are not affected by this issue. See issue #4783 for more details, and a tool you can use to check if you are affected.

    -

    Example

    -

    Create the following file structure 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

    -
    $ 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
    -

    The crypt remote looks like

    -
    $ rclone -q ls remote:path
    -       55 hagjclgavj2mbiqm6u6cnjjqcg
    -       54 v05749mltvv1tf4onltun46gls
    -       57 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/dlj7fkq4kdq72emafg7a7s41uo
    -       58 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/7uu829995du6o42n32otfhjqp4/b9pausrfansjth5ob3jkdqd4lc
    -       56 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/8njh1sk437gttmep3p70g81aps
    -

    The directory structure is preserved

    -
    $ rclone -q ls secret:subdir
    -        8 file2.txt
    -        9 file3.txt
    -       10 subsubdir/file4.txt
    -

    Without file name encryption .bin extensions are added to underlying names. This prevents the cloud provider attempting to interpret file content.

    -
    $ 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

    -

    Off

    +

    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 information (--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:

    -

    Standard

    +

    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 yields 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, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Obfuscation

    -

    This is a simple "rotate" of the filename, with each file having a rot distance based on the filename. Rclone stores the distance at the beginning of the filename. A file called "hello" may become "53.jgnnq".

    -

    Obfuscation is not a strong encryption of filenames, but hinders automated scanning tools picking up on filename patterns. It is an intermediate between "off" and "standard" which 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.

    -

    Obfuscation cannot be relied upon for strong protection.

    +

    --cache-plex-url

    +

    The URL of the Plex server.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Cloud storage systems have limits on file name length and total path length which rclone is more likely to breach using "Standard" file name encryption. Where file names are less than 156 characters in length issues should not be encountered, irrespective of cloud storage provider.

    -

    An experimental advanced option filename_encoding is now provided to address this problem to a certain degree. For cloud storage systems with case sensitive file names (e.g. Google Drive), base64 can be used to reduce file name length. For cloud storage systems using UTF-16 to store file names internally (e.g. OneDrive), base32768 can be used to drastically reduce file name length.

    -

    An alternative, future rclone file name encryption mode may tolerate backend provider path length limits.

    -

    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.

    -

    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, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    +

    --cache-plex-username

    +

    The username of the Plex user.

    Properties:

    -

    --crypt-filename-encryption

    -

    How to encrypt the filenames.

    +

    --cache-plex-password

    +

    The password of the Plex user.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --crypt-directory-name-encryption

    -

    Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.

    -

    NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    -

    --crypt-password

    -

    Password or pass phrase for encryption.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to cache (Cache a remote).

    +

    --cache-plex-token

    +

    The plex token for authentication - auto set normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --crypt-password2

    -

    Password or pass phrase for salt.

    -

    Optional but recommended. Should be different to the previous password.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --cache-plex-insecure

    +

    Skip all certificate verification when connecting to the Plex server.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

    -

    --crypt-server-side-across-configs

    -

    Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different crypt configs.

    -

    Normally this option is not what you want, but if you have two crypts pointing to the same backend you can use it.

    -

    This can be used, for example, to change file name encryption type without re-uploading all the data. Just make two crypt backends pointing to two different directories with the single changed parameter and use rclone move to move the files between the crypt remotes.

    +

    --cache-db-path

    +

    Directory to store file structure metadata DB.

    +

    The remote name is used as the DB file name.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --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".

    Properties:

    -

    --crypt-no-data-encryption

    -

    Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted.

    +

    --cache-db-purge

    +

    Clear all the cached data for this remote on start.

    Properties:

    -

    --crypt-filename-encoding

    -

    How to encode the encrypted filename to text string.

    -

    This option could help with shortening the encrypted filename. The suitable option would depend on the way your remote count the filename length and if it's case sensitve.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "base32768" +
  • 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.

    +

    Properties:

    - +
  • Config: chunk_no_memory
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_CACHE_CHUNK_NO_MEMORY
  • +
  • Type: bool
  • +
  • Default: false
  • -

    Backend commands

    -

    Here are the commands specific to the crypt backend.

    -

    Run them with

    -
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    -

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    -

    See the "rclone backend" command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    -

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    -

    encode

    -

    Encode the given filename(s)

    -
    rclone backend encode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This encodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of strings of the encoded results.

    -

    Usage Example:

    -
    rclone backend encode crypt: file1 [file2...]
    -rclone rc backend/command command=encode fs=crypt: file1 [file2...]
    -

    decode

    -

    Decode the given filename(s)

    -
    rclone backend decode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This decodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of strings of the decoded results. It will return an error if any of the inputs are invalid.

    -

    Usage Example:

    -
    rclone backend decode crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
    -rclone rc backend/command command=decode fs=crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
    -

    Backing up a crypted remote

    -

    If you wish to backup a crypted remote, it is 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

    - -

    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 -i 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

    - -

    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 64 KiB 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:

    - -

    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

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    49 bytes total

    -

    1 MiB (1048576 bytes) file will encrypt to

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    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 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

    +

    --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

    +

    Properties:

    -

    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:

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    base32 is used rather than the more efficient base64 so rclone can be used on case insensitive remotes (e.g. 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.

    -

    SEE ALSO

    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Compress (Experimental)

    -

    Warning

    -

    This remote is currently experimental. Things may break and data may be lost. Anything you do with this remote is at your own risk. Please understand the risks associated with using experimental code and don't use this remote in critical applications.

    -

    The Compress remote adds compression to another remote. It is best used with remotes containing many large compressible files.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    To use this remote, all you need to do is specify another remote and a compression mode to use:

    -
    Current remotes:
    -
    -Name                 Type
    -====                 ====
    -remote_to_press      sometype
    -
    -e) Edit existing remote
    -$ rclone config
    +

    Backend commands

    +

    Here are the commands specific to the cache backend.

    +

    Run them with

    +
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    +

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    +

    See the backend command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    +

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    +

    stats

    +

    Print stats on the cache backend in JSON format.

    +
    rclone backend stats remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    Chunker

    +

    The chunker overlay transparently splits large files into smaller chunks during upload to wrapped remote and transparently assembles them back when the file is downloaded. This allows to effectively overcome size limits imposed by storage providers.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    To use it, first set up the underlying remote following the configuration instructions for that remote. You can also use a local pathname instead of a remote.

    +

    First check your chosen remote is working - we'll call it remote:path here. Note that anything inside remote:path will be chunked and anything outside won't. This means that if you are using a bucket-based remote (e.g. S3, B2, swift) then you should probably put the bucket in the remote s3:bucket.

    +

    Now configure chunker using rclone config. We will call this one overlay to separate it from the remote itself.

    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
     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> compress
    -...
    - 8 / Compress a remote
    -   \ "compress"
    -...
    -Storage> compress
    -** See help for compress backend at: https://rclone.org/compress/ **
    -
    -Remote to compress.
    +n/s/q> n
    +name> overlay
    +Type of storage to configure.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    +[snip]
    +XX / Transparently chunk/split large files
    +   \ "chunker"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> chunker
    +Remote to chunk/unchunk.
    +Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir",
    +"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
     Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -remote> remote_to_press:subdir 
    -Compression mode.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("gzip").
    +remote> remote:path
    +Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.
    +Enter a size with suffix K,M,G,T. Press Enter for the default ("2G").
    +chunk_size> 100M
    +Choose how chunker handles hash sums. All modes but "none" require metadata.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("md5").
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Gzip compression balanced for speed and compression strength.
    -   \ "gzip"
    -compression_mode> gzip
    + 1 / Pass any hash supported by wrapped remote for non-chunked files, return nothing otherwise
    +   \ "none"
    + 2 / MD5 for composite files
    +   \ "md5"
    + 3 / SHA1 for composite files
    +   \ "sha1"
    + 4 / MD5 for all files
    +   \ "md5all"
    + 5 / SHA1 for all files
    +   \ "sha1all"
    + 6 / Copying a file to chunker will request MD5 from the source falling back to SHA1 if unsupported
    +   \ "md5quick"
    + 7 / Similar to "md5quick" but prefers SHA1 over MD5
    +   \ "sha1quick"
    +hash_type> md5
     Edit advanced config? (y/n)
     y) Yes
    -n) No (default)
    +n) No
     y/n> n
     Remote config
     --------------------
    -[compress]
    -type = compress
    -remote = remote_to_press:subdir
    -compression_mode = gzip
    +[overlay]
    +type = chunker
    +remote = remote:bucket
    +chunk_size = 100M
    +hash_type = md5
     --------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +y) Yes this is OK
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
     y/e/d> y
    -

    Compression Modes

    -

    Currently only gzip compression is supported. It provides a decent balance between speed and size and is well supported by other applications. Compression strength can further be configured via an advanced setting where 0 is no compression and 9 is strongest compression.

    -

    File types

    -

    If you open a remote wrapped by compress, you will see that there are many files with an extension corresponding to the compression algorithm you chose. These files are standard files that can be opened by various archive programs, but they have some hidden metadata that allows them to be used by rclone. While you may download and decompress these files at will, do not manually delete or rename files. Files without correct metadata files will not be recognized by rclone.

    -

    File names

    -

    The compressed files will be named *.###########.gz where * is the base file and the # part is base64 encoded size of the uncompressed file. The file names should not be changed by anything other than the rclone compression backend.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to compress (Compress a remote).

    -

    --compress-remote

    -

    Remote to compress.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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 chunk stuff in that directory. If you use a remote of name then rclone will put files in a directory called name in the current directory.

    +

    Chunking

    +

    When rclone starts a file upload, chunker checks the file size. If it doesn't exceed the configured chunk size, chunker will just pass the file to the wrapped remote. If a file is large, chunker will transparently cut data in pieces with temporary names and stream them one by one, on the fly. Each data chunk will contain the specified number of bytes, except for the last one which may have less data. If file size is unknown in advance (this is called a streaming upload), chunker will internally create a temporary copy, record its size and repeat the above process.

    +

    When upload completes, temporary chunk files are finally renamed. This scheme guarantees that operations can be run in parallel and look from outside as atomic. A similar method with hidden temporary chunks is used for other operations (copy/move/rename, etc.). If an operation fails, hidden chunks are normally destroyed, and the target composite file stays intact.

    +

    When a composite file download is requested, chunker transparently assembles it by concatenating data chunks in order. As the split is trivial one could even manually concatenate data chunks together to obtain the original content.

    +

    When the list rclone command scans a directory on wrapped remote, the potential chunk files are accounted for, grouped and assembled into composite directory entries. Any temporary chunks are hidden.

    +

    List and other commands can sometimes come across composite files with missing or invalid chunks, e.g. shadowed by like-named directory or another file. This usually means that wrapped file system has been directly tampered with or damaged. If chunker detects a missing chunk it will by default print warning, skip the whole incomplete group of chunks but proceed with current command. You can set the --chunker-fail-hard flag to have commands abort with error message in such cases.

    +

    Chunk names

    +

    The default chunk name format is *.rclone_chunk.###, hence by default chunk names are BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001, BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.002 etc. You can configure another name format using the name_format configuration file option. The format uses asterisk * as a placeholder for the base file name and one or more consecutive hash characters # as a placeholder for sequential chunk number. There must be one and only one asterisk. The number of consecutive hash characters defines the minimum length of a string representing a chunk number. If decimal chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is left-padded by zeros. If the decimal string is longer, it is left intact. By default numbering starts from 1 but there is another option that allows user to start from 0, e.g. for compatibility with legacy software.

    +

    For example, if name format is big_*-##.part and original file name is data.txt and numbering starts from 0, then the first chunk will be named big_data.txt-00.part, the 99th chunk will be big_data.txt-98.part and the 302nd chunk will become big_data.txt-301.part.

    +

    Note that list assembles composite directory entries only when chunk names match the configured format and treats non-conforming file names as normal non-chunked files.

    +

    When using norename transactions, chunk names will additionally have a unique file version suffix. For example, BIG_FILE_NAME.rclone_chunk.001_bp562k.

    +

    Metadata

    +

    Besides data chunks chunker will by default create metadata object for a composite file. The object is named after the original file. Chunker allows user to disable metadata completely (the none format). Note that metadata is normally not created for files smaller than the configured chunk size. This may change in future rclone releases.

    +

    Simple JSON metadata format

    +

    This is the default format. It supports hash sums and chunk validation for composite files. Meta objects carry the following fields:

    -

    --compress-mode

    -

    Compression mode.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    There is no field for composite file name as it's simply equal to the name of meta object on the wrapped remote. Please refer to respective sections for details on hashsums and modified time handling.

    +

    No metadata

    +

    You can disable meta objects by setting the meta format option to none. In this mode chunker will scan directory for all files that follow configured chunk name format, group them by detecting chunks with the same base name and show group names as virtual composite files. This method is more prone to missing chunk errors (especially missing last chunk) than format with metadata enabled.

    +

    Hashsums

    +

    Chunker supports hashsums only when a compatible metadata is present. Hence, if you choose metadata format of none, chunker will report hashsum as UNSUPPORTED.

    +

    Please note that by default metadata is stored only for composite files. If a file is smaller than configured chunk size, chunker will transparently redirect hash requests to wrapped remote, so support depends on that. You will see the empty string as a hashsum of requested type for small files if the wrapped remote doesn't support it.

    +

    Many storage backends support MD5 and SHA1 hash types, so does chunker. With chunker you can choose one or another but not both. MD5 is set by default as the most supported type. Since chunker keeps hashes for composite files and falls back to the wrapped remote hash for non-chunked ones, we advise you to choose the same hash type as supported by wrapped remote so that your file listings look coherent.

    +

    If your storage backend does not support MD5 or SHA1 but you need consistent file hashing, configure chunker with md5all or sha1all. These two modes guarantee given hash for all files. If wrapped remote doesn't support it, chunker will then add metadata to all files, even small. However, this can double the amount of small files in storage and incur additional service charges. You can even use chunker to force md5/sha1 support in any other remote at expense of sidecar meta objects by setting e.g. chunk_type=sha1all to force hashsums and chunk_size=1P to effectively disable chunking.

    +

    Normally, when a file is copied to chunker controlled remote, chunker will ask the file source for compatible file hash and revert to on-the-fly calculation if none is found. This involves some CPU overhead but provides a guarantee that given hashsum is available. Also, chunker will reject a server-side copy or move operation if source and destination hashsum types are different resulting in the extra network bandwidth, too. In some rare cases this may be undesired, so chunker provides two optional choices: sha1quick and md5quick. If the source does not support primary hash type and the quick mode is enabled, chunker will try to fall back to the secondary type. This will save CPU and bandwidth but can result in empty hashsums at destination. Beware of consequences: the sync command will revert (sometimes silently) to time/size comparison if compatible hashsums between source and target are not found.

    +

    Modified time

    +

    Chunker stores modification times using the wrapped remote so support depends on that. For a small non-chunked file the chunker overlay simply manipulates modification time of the wrapped remote file. For a composite file with metadata chunker will get and set modification time of the metadata object on the wrapped remote. If file is chunked but metadata format is none then chunker will use modification time of the first data chunk.

    +

    Migrations

    +

    The idiomatic way to migrate to a different chunk size, hash type, transaction style or chunk naming scheme is to:

    +

    If rclone gets killed during a long operation on a big composite file, hidden temporary chunks may stay in the directory. They will not be shown by the list command but will eat up your account quota. Please note that the deletefile command deletes only active chunks of a file. As a workaround, you can use remote of the wrapped file system to see them. An easy way to get rid of hidden garbage is to copy littered directory somewhere using the chunker remote and purge the original directory. The copy command will copy only active chunks while the purge will remove everything including garbage.

    +

    Caveats and Limitations

    +

    Chunker requires wrapped remote to support server-side move (or copy + delete) operations, otherwise it will explicitly refuse to start. This is because it internally renames temporary chunk files to their final names when an operation completes successfully.

    +

    Chunker encodes chunk number in file name, so with default name_format setting it adds 17 characters. Also chunker adds 7 characters of temporary suffix during operations. Many file systems limit base file name without path by 255 characters. Using rclone's crypt remote as a base file system limits file name by 143 characters. Thus, maximum name length is 231 for most files and 119 for chunker-over-crypt. A user in need can change name format to e.g. *.rcc## and save 10 characters (provided at most 99 chunks per file).

    +

    Note that a move implemented using the copy-and-delete method may incur double charging with some cloud storage providers.

    +

    Chunker will not automatically rename existing chunks when you run rclone config on a live remote and change the chunk name format. Beware that in result of this some files which have been treated as chunks before the change can pop up in directory listings as normal files and vice versa. The same warning holds for the chunk size. If you desperately need to change critical chunking settings, you should run data migration as described above.

    +

    If wrapped remote is case insensitive, the chunker overlay will inherit that property (so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and "hello.doc" in the same directory).

    +

    Chunker included in rclone releases up to v1.54 can sometimes fail to detect metadata produced by recent versions of rclone. We recommend users to keep rclone up-to-date to avoid data corruption.

    +

    Changing transactions is dangerous and requires explicit migration.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

    +

    --chunker-remote

    +

    Remote to chunk/unchunk.

    +

    Normally should contain a ':' and a path, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --chunker-chunk-size

    +

    Files larger than chunk size will be split in chunks.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --chunker-hash-type

    +

    Choose how chunker handles hash sums.

    +

    All modes but "none" require metadata.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to compress (Compress a remote).

    -

    --compress-level

    -

    GZIP compression level (-2 to 9).

    -

    Generally -1 (default, equivalent to 5) is recommended. Levels 1 to 9 increase compression at the cost of speed. Going past 6 generally offers very little return.

    -

    Level -2 uses Huffmann encoding only. Only use if you know what you are doing. Level 0 turns off compression.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to chunker (Transparently chunk/split large files).

    +

    --chunker-name-format

    +

    String format of chunk file names.

    +

    The two placeholders are: base file name (*) and chunk number (#...). There must be one and only one asterisk and one or more consecutive hash characters. If chunk number has less digits than the number of hashes, it is left-padded by zeros. If there are more digits in the number, they are left as is. Possible chunk files are ignored if their name does not match given format.

    Properties:

    +

    --chunker-start-from

    +

    Minimum valid chunk number. Usually 0 or 1.

    +

    By default chunk numbers start from 1.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --compress-ram-cache-limit

    -

    Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size. In this case the compressed file will need to be cached to determine it's size.

    -

    Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, files larger than this limit will be cached on disk.

    +

    --chunker-meta-format

    +

    Format of the metadata object or "none".

    +

    By default "simplejson". Metadata is a small JSON file named after the composite file.

    Properties:

    -

    Dropbox

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Dropbox paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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.

    +

    --chunker-fail-hard

    +

    Choose how chunker should handle files with missing or invalid chunks.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --chunker-transactions

    +

    Choose how chunker should handle temporary files during transactions.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Citrix ShareFile

    +

    Citrix ShareFile is a secure file sharing and transfer service aimed as business.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for Citrix ShareFile involves getting a token from Citrix ShareFile which you can 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
    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
    +n) New remote
    +s) Set configuration password
     q) Quit config
    -e/n/d/q> n
    +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]
    -XX / Dropbox
    -   \ "dropbox"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> dropbox
    -Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally.
    -app_key>
    -Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally.
    -app_secret>
    +XX / Citrix Sharefile
    +   \ "sharefile"
    +Storage> sharefile
    +** See help for sharefile backend at: https://rclone.org/sharefile/ **
    +
    +ID of the root folder
    +
    +Leave blank to access "Personal Folders".  You can use one of the
    +standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Access the Personal Folders. (Default)
    +   \ ""
    + 2 / Access the Favorites folder.
    +   \ "favorites"
    + 3 / Access all the shared folders.
    +   \ "allshared"
    + 4 / Access all the individual connectors.
    +   \ "connectors"
    + 5 / Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.
    +   \ "top"
    +root_folder_id> 
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No
    +y/n> n
     Remote config
    -Please visit:
    -https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code
    -Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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?state=XXX
    +Log in and authorize rclone for access
    +Waiting for code...
    +Got code
     --------------------
     [remote]
    -app_key =
    -app_secret =
    -token = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    +type = sharefile
    +endpoint = https://XXX.sharefile.com
    +token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2019-09-30T19:41:45.878561877+01:00"}
     --------------------
     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

    +

    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 Citrix ShareFile. 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 ShareFile

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your dropbox

    +

    List all the files in your ShareFile

    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to a dropbox directory called backup

    +

    To copy a local directory to an ShareFile 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.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    ShareFile allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

    +

    ShareFile supports MD5 type hashes, so you can use the --checksum flag.

    +

    Transfers

    +

    For files above 128 MiB 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 64 MiB so increasing --transfers will increase memory use.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -15229,28 +17454,48 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - + + + - - - + + + - - - + + + - - - + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    NUL0x00\0x5C
    /0x2F*0x2A
    DEL0x7F<0x3C
    \0x5C>0x3E
    ?0x3F
    :0x3A
    |0x7C
    "0x22
    -

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    +

    File names can also not start or end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

    @@ -15265,725 +17510,751 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    + + + + +
    0x20
    .0x2E

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Batch mode uploads

    -

    Using batch mode uploads is very important for performance when using the Dropbox API. See the dropbox performance guide for more info.

    -

    There are 3 modes rclone can use for uploads.

    -

    --dropbox-batch-mode off

    -

    In this mode rclone will not use upload batching. This was the default before rclone v1.55. It has the disadvantage that it is very likely to encounter too_many_requests errors like this

    -
    NOTICE: too_many_requests/.: Too many requests or write operations. Trying again in 15 seconds.
    -

    When rclone receives these it has to wait for 15s or sometimes 300s before continuing which really slows down transfers.

    -

    This will happen especially if --transfers is large, so this mode isn't recommended except for compatibility or investigating problems.

    -

    --dropbox-batch-mode sync

    -

    In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by --dropbox-batch-size and commit them together.

    -

    Using this mode means you can use a much higher --transfers parameter (32 or 64 works fine) without receiving too_many_requests errors.

    -

    This mode ensures full data integrity.

    -

    Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone finishes up the last batch using this mode.

    -

    --dropbox-batch-mode async

    -

    In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by --dropbox-batch-size and commit them together.

    -

    However it will not wait for the status of the batch to be returned to the caller. This means rclone can use a much bigger batch size (much bigger than --transfers), at the cost of not being able to check the status of the upload.

    -

    This provides the maximum possible upload speed especially with lots of small files, however rclone can't check the file got uploaded properly using this mode.

    -

    If you are using this mode then using "rclone check" after the transfer completes is recommended. Or you could do an initial transfer with --dropbox-batch-mode async then do a final transfer with --dropbox-batch-mode sync (the default).

    -

    Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone finishes up the last batch using this mode.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

    -

    --dropbox-client-id

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

    +

    --sharefile-root-folder-id

    +

    ID of the root folder.

    +

    Leave blank to access "Personal Folders". You can use one of the standard values here or any folder ID (long hex number ID).

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: client_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_ID
    • +
    • Config: root_folder_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: client_secret
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CLIENT_SECRET
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

    -

    --dropbox-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • ""
      -
    • Config: token
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_TOKEN
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Access the Personal Folders (default).
  • + +
  • "favorites"
      -
    • Config: auth_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_AUTH_URL
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Access the Favorites folder.
    • +
  • +
  • "allshared" +
      +
    • Access all the shared folders.
    • +
  • +
  • "connectors" +
      +
    • Access all the individual connectors.
    • +
  • +
  • "top" +
      +
    • Access the home, favorites, and shared folders as well as the connectors.
    • +
  • + -

    --dropbox-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to sharefile (Citrix Sharefile).

    +

    --sharefile-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to multipart upload.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: token_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_TOKEN_URL
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Config: upload_cutoff
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SHAREFILE_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 128Mi
    -

    --dropbox-chunk-size

    -

    Upload chunk size (< 150Mi).

    -

    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 128 MiB in tests) at the cost of using more memory. It can be set smaller if you are tight on memory.

    +

    --sharefile-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.

    Properties:

    • Config: chunk_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SHAREFILE_CHUNK_SIZE
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 48Mi
    • +
    • Default: 64Mi
    -

    --dropbox-impersonate

    -

    Impersonate this user when using a business account.

    -

    Note that if you want to use impersonate, you should make sure this flag is set when running "rclone config" as this will cause rclone to request the "members.read" scope which it won't normally. This is needed to lookup a members email address into the internal ID that dropbox uses in the API.

    -

    Using the "members.read" scope will require a Dropbox Team Admin to approve during the OAuth flow.

    -

    You will have to use your own App (setting your own client_id and client_secret) to use this option as currently rclone's default set of permissions doesn't include "members.read". This can be added once v1.55 or later is in use everywhere.

    +

    --sharefile-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for API calls.

    +

    This is usually auto discovered as part of the oauth process, but can be set manually to something like: https://XXX.sharefile.com

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: impersonate
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_IMPERSONATE
    • +
    • Config: endpoint
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ENDPOINT
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --dropbox-shared-files

    -

    Instructs rclone to work on individual shared files.

    -

    In this mode rclone's features are extremely limited - only list (ls, lsl, etc.) operations and read operations (e.g. downloading) are supported in this mode. All other operations will be disabled.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: shared_files
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHARED_FILES
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-shared-folders

    -

    Instructs rclone to work on shared folders.

    -

    When this flag is used with no path only the List operation is supported and all available shared folders will be listed. If you specify a path the first part will be interpreted as the name of shared folder. Rclone will then try to mount this shared to the root namespace. On success shared folder rclone proceeds normally. The shared folder is now pretty much a normal folder and all normal operations are supported.

    -

    Note that we don't unmount the shared folder afterwards so the --dropbox-shared-folders can be omitted after the first use of a particular shared folder.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: shared_folders
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHARED_FOLDERS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-batch-mode

    -

    Upload file batching sync|async|off.

    -

    This sets the batch mode used by rclone.

    -

    For full info see the main docs

    -

    This has 3 possible values

    -
      -
    • off - no batching
    • -
    • sync - batch uploads and check completion (default)
    • -
    • async - batch upload and don't check completion
    • -
    -

    Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make a delay on quit.

    +

    --sharefile-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: batch_mode
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_MODE
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "sync"
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-batch-size

    -

    Max number of files in upload batch.

    -

    This sets the batch size of files to upload. It has to be less than 1000.

    -

    By default this is 0 which means rclone which calculate the batch size depending on the setting of batch_mode.

    -
      -
    • batch_mode: async - default batch_size is 100
    • -
    • batch_mode: sync - default batch_size is the same as --transfers
    • -
    • batch_mode: off - not in use
    • +
    • Config: encoding
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SHAREFILE_ENCODING
    • +
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • +
    • Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftPeriod,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make a delay on quit.

    -

    Setting this is a great idea if you are uploading lots of small files as it will make them a lot quicker. You can use --transfers 32 to maximise throughput.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: batch_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_SIZE
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 0
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-batch-timeout

    -

    Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading.

    -

    If an upload batch is idle for more than this long then it will be uploaded.

    -

    The default for this is 0 which means rclone will choose a sensible default based on the batch_mode in use.

    -
      -
    • batch_mode: async - default batch_timeout is 500ms
    • -
    • batch_mode: sync - default batch_timeout is 10s
    • -
    • batch_mode: off - not in use
    • -
    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: batch_timeout
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_TIMEOUT
    • -
    • Type: Duration
    • -
    • Default: 0s
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-batch-commit-timeout

    -

    Max time to wait for a batch to finish comitting

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: batch_commit_timeout
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_COMMIT_TIMEOUT
    • -
    • Type: Duration
    • -
    • Default: 10m0s
    • -
    -

    --dropbox-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_ENCODING
    • -
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,RightSpace,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • -
    -

    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.

    -

    Some errors may occur if you try to sync copyright-protected files because Dropbox has its own copyright detector that prevents this sort of file being downloaded. This will return the error ERROR : /path/to/your/file: Failed to copy: failed to open source object: path/restricted_content/.

    -

    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.

    -

    When using rclone link you'll need to set --expire if using a non-personal account otherwise the visibility may not be correct. (Note that --expire isn't supported on personal accounts). See the forum discussion and the dropbox SDK issue.

    -

    Get your own Dropbox App ID

    -

    When you use rclone with Dropbox in its default configuration you are using rclone's App ID. This is shared between all the rclone users.

    -

    Here is how to create your own Dropbox App ID for rclone:

    -
      -
    1. Log into the Dropbox App console with your Dropbox Account (It need not to be the same account as the Dropbox you want to access)

    2. -
    3. Choose an API => Usually this should be Dropbox API

    4. -
    5. Choose the type of access you want to use => Full Dropbox or App Folder

    6. -
    7. Name your App. The app name is global, so you can't use rclone for example

    8. -
    9. Click the button Create App

    10. -
    11. Switch to the Permissions tab. Enable at least the following permissions: account_info.read, files.metadata.write, files.content.write, files.content.read, sharing.write. The files.metadata.read and sharing.read checkboxes will be marked too. Click Submit

    12. -
    13. Switch to the Settings tab. Fill OAuth2 - Redirect URIs as http://localhost:53682/

    14. -
    15. Find the App key and App secret values on the Settings tab. Use these values in rclone config to add a new remote or edit an existing remote. The App key setting corresponds to client_id in rclone config, the App secret corresponds to client_secret

    16. -
    -

    Enterprise File Fabric

    -

    This backend supports Storage Made Easy's Enterprise File Fabric™ which provides a software solution to integrate and unify File and Object Storage accessible through a global file system.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for the Enterprise File Fabric backend involves getting a token from the the Enterprise File Fabric 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:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    Note that ShareFile is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    +

    ShareFile only supports filenames up to 256 characters in length.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the Citrix ShareFile backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Crypt

    +

    Rclone crypt remotes encrypt and decrypt other remotes.

    +

    A remote of type crypt does not access a storage system directly, but instead wraps another remote, which in turn accesses the storage system. This is similar to how alias, union, chunker and a few others work. It makes the usage very flexible, as you can add a layer, in this case an encryption layer, on top of any other backend, even in multiple layers. Rclone's functionality can be used as with any other remote, for example you can mount a crypt remote.

    +

    Accessing a storage system through a crypt remote realizes client-side encryption, which makes it safe to keep your data in a location you do not trust will not get compromised. When working against the crypt remote, rclone will automatically encrypt (before uploading) and decrypt (after downloading) on your local system as needed on the fly, leaving the data encrypted at rest in the wrapped remote. If you access the storage system using an application other than rclone, or access the wrapped remote directly using rclone, there will not be any encryption/decryption: Downloading existing content will just give you the encrypted (scrambled) format, and anything you upload will not become encrypted.

    +

    The encryption is a secret-key encryption (also called symmetric key encryption) algorithm, where a password (or pass phrase) is used to generate real encryption key. The password can be supplied by user, or you may chose to let rclone generate one. It will be stored in the configuration file, in a lightly obscured form. If you are in an environment where you are not able to keep your configuration secured, you should add configuration encryption as protection. As long as you have this configuration file, you will be able to decrypt your data. Without the configuration file, as long as you remember the password (or keep it in a safe place), you can re-create the configuration and gain access to the existing data. You may also configure a corresponding remote in a different installation to access the same data. See below for guidance to changing password.

    +

    Encryption uses cryptographic salt, to permute the encryption key so that the same string may be encrypted in different ways. When configuring the crypt remote it is optional to enter a salt, or to let rclone generate a unique salt. If omitted, rclone uses a built-in unique string. Normally in cryptography, the salt is stored together with the encrypted content, and do not have to be memorized by the user. This is not the case in rclone, because rclone does not store any additional information on the remotes. Use of custom salt is effectively a second password that must be memorized.

    +

    File content encryption is performed using NaCl SecretBox, based on XSalsa20 cipher and Poly1305 for integrity. Names (file- and directory names) are also encrypted by default, but this has some implications and is therefore possible to turned off.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called secret.

    +

    To use crypt, first set up the underlying remote. Follow the rclone config instructions for the specific backend.

    +

    Before configuring the crypt remote, check the underlying remote is working. In this example the underlying remote is called remote. We will configure a path path within this remote to contain the encrypted content. Anything inside remote:path will be encrypted and anything outside will not.

    +

    Configure crypt using rclone config. In this example the crypt remote is called secret, to differentiate it from the underlying remote.

    +

    When you are done you can use the crypt remote named secret just as you would with any other remote, e.g. rclone copy D:\docs secret:\docs, and rclone will encrypt and decrypt as needed on the fly. If you access the wrapped remote remote:path directly you will bypass the encryption, and anything you read will be in encrypted form, and anything you write will be unencrypted. To avoid issues it is best to configure a dedicated path for encrypted content, and access it exclusively through a crypt remote.

    No remotes found, make a new one?
     n) New remote
     s) Set configuration password
     q) Quit config
     n/s/q> n
    -name> remote
    +name> secret
     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]
    -XX / Enterprise File Fabric
    -   \ "filefabric"
    +XX / Encrypt/Decrypt a remote
    +   \ "crypt"
     [snip]
    -Storage> filefabric
    -** See help for filefabric backend at: https://rclone.org/filefabric/ **
    -
    -URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Storage Made Easy US
    -   \ "https://storagemadeeasy.com"
    - 2 / Storage Made Easy EU
    -   \ "https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com"
    - 3 / Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric
    -   \ "https://yourfabric.smestorage.com"
    -url> https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
    -ID of the root folder
    -Leave blank normally.
    -
    -Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.
    +Storage> crypt
    +** See help for crypt backend at: https://rclone.org/crypt/ **
     
    +Remote to encrypt/decrypt.
    +Normally should contain a ':' and a path, eg "myremote:path/to/dir",
    +"myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).
     Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -root_folder_id> 
    -Permanent Authentication Token
    -
    -A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File
    -Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry
    -you'll see called "My Authentication Tokens". Click the Manage button
    -to create one.
    -
    -These tokens are normally valid for several years.
    -
    -For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens
    +remote> remote:path
    +How to encrypt the filenames.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("standard").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +   / Encrypt the filenames.
    + 1 | See the docs for the details.
    +   \ "standard"
    + 2 / Very simple filename obfuscation.
    +   \ "obfuscate"
    +   / Don't encrypt the file names.
    + 3 | Adds a ".bin" extension only.
    +   \ "off"
    +filename_encryption>
    +Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.
     
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -permanent_token> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.
    +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
    +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"
    +directory_name_encryption>
    +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 (default)
    +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? Please note that an obscured version of this
    +password (and not the password itself) will be stored under your
    +configuration file, so keep this generated password in a safe place.
    +y) Yes (default)
    +n) No
    +y/n>
     Edit advanced config? (y/n)
     y) Yes
     n) No (default)
    -y/n> n
    +y/n>
     Remote config
     --------------------
    -[remote]
    -type = filefabric
    -url = https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
    -permanent_token = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +[secret]
    +type = crypt
    +remote = remote:path
    +password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +password2 = *** ENCRYPTED ***
     --------------------
     y) Yes this is OK (default)
     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 Enterprise File Fabric

    -
    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your Enterprise File Fabric

    -
    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to an Enterprise File Fabric directory called backup

    -
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    The Enterprise File Fabric allows modification times to be set on files accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

    -

    The Enterprise File Fabric does not support any data hashes at this time.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    The default restricted characters set will be replaced.

    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Empty files

    -

    Empty files aren't supported by the Enterprise File Fabric. Rclone will therefore upload an empty file as a single space with a mime type of application/vnd.rclone.empty.file and files with that mime type are treated as empty.

    -

    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 the root of your Enterprise File Fabric.

    -

    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.

    -

    In order to do this you will have to find the Folder ID of the directory you wish rclone to display. These aren't displayed in the web interface, but you can use rclone lsf to find them, for example

    -
    $ rclone lsf --dirs-only -Fip --csv filefabric:
    -120673758,Burnt PDFs/
    -120673759,My Quick Uploads/
    -120673755,My Syncs/
    -120673756,My backups/
    -120673757,My contacts/
    -120673761,S3 Storage/
    -

    The ID for "S3 Storage" would be 120673761.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

    -

    --filefabric-url

    -

    URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_URL
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: true
    • -
    • Examples: -
        -
      • "https://storagemadeeasy.com" -
          -
        • Storage Made Easy US
        • -
      • -
      • "https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com" -
          -
        • Storage Made Easy EU
        • -
      • -
      • "https://yourfabric.smestorage.com" -
          -
        • Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric
        • -
      • -
    • -
    -

    --filefabric-root-folder-id

    -

    ID of the root folder.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.

    -

    Properties:

    +y/e/d>
    +

    Important The crypt password stored in rclone.conf is lightly obscured. That only protects it from cursory inspection. It is not secure unless configuration encryption of rclone.conf is specified.

    +

    A long passphrase is recommended, or rclone config can generate a random one.

    +

    The obscured password is created using AES-CTR with a static key. The salt is stored verbatim at the beginning of the obscured password. This static key is shared between all versions of rclone.

    +

    If you reconfigure rclone with the same passwords/passphrases elsewhere it will be compatible, but the obscured version will be different due to the different salt.

    +

    Rclone does not encrypt

    -

    --filefabric-permanent-token

    -

    Permanent Authentication Token.

    -

    A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry you'll see called "My Authentication Tokens". Click the Manage button to create one.

    -

    These tokens are normally valid for several years.

    -

    For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens

    +

    Specifying the remote

    +

    When configuring the remote to encrypt/decrypt, you may specify any string that rclone accepts as a source/destination of other commands.

    +

    The primary use case is to specify the path into an already configured remote (e.g. remote:path/to/dir or remote:bucket), such that data in a remote untrusted location can be stored encrypted.

    +

    You may also specify a local filesystem path, such as /path/to/dir on Linux, C:\path\to\dir on Windows. By creating a crypt remote pointing to such a local filesystem path, you can use rclone as a utility for pure local file encryption, for example to keep encrypted files on a removable USB drive.

    +

    Note: A string which do not contain a : will by rclone be treated as a relative path in the local filesystem. For example, if you enter the name remote without the trailing :, it will be treated as a subdirectory of the current directory with name "remote".

    +

    If a path remote:path/to/dir is specified, rclone stores encrypted files in path/to/dir on the remote. With file name encryption, files saved to secret:subdir/subfile are stored in the unencrypted path path/to/dir but the subdir/subpath element is encrypted.

    +

    The path you specify does not have to exist, rclone will create it when needed.

    +

    If you intend to use the wrapped remote both directly for keeping unencrypted content, as well as through a crypt remote for encrypted content, it is recommended to point the crypt remote to a separate directory within the wrapped remote. If you use a bucket-based storage system (e.g. Swift, S3, Google Compute Storage, B2) it is generally advisable to wrap the crypt remote around a specific bucket (s3:bucket). If wrapping around the entire root of the storage (s3:), and use the optional file name encryption, rclone will encrypt the bucket name.

    +

    Changing password

    +

    Should the password, or the configuration file containing a lightly obscured form of the password, be compromised, you need to re-encrypt your data with a new password. Since rclone uses secret-key encryption, where the encryption key is generated directly from the password kept on the client, it is not possible to change the password/key of already encrypted content. Just changing the password configured for an existing crypt remote means you will no longer able to decrypt any of the previously encrypted content. The only possibility is to re-upload everything via a crypt remote configured with your new password.

    +

    Depending on the size of your data, your bandwidth, storage quota etc, there are different approaches you can take: - If you have everything in a different location, for example on your local system, you could remove all of the prior encrypted files, change the password for your configured crypt remote (or delete and re-create the crypt configuration), and then re-upload everything from the alternative location. - If you have enough space on the storage system you can create a new crypt remote pointing to a separate directory on the same backend, and then use rclone to copy everything from the original crypt remote to the new, effectively decrypting everything on the fly using the old password and re-encrypting using the new password. When done, delete the original crypt remote directory and finally the rclone crypt configuration with the old password. All data will be streamed from the storage system and back, so you will get half the bandwidth and be charged twice if you have upload and download quota on the storage system.

    +

    Note: A security problem related to the random password generator was fixed in rclone version 1.53.3 (released 2020-11-19). Passwords generated by rclone config in version 1.49.0 (released 2019-08-26) to 1.53.2 (released 2020-10-26) are not considered secure and should be changed. If you made up your own password, or used rclone version older than 1.49.0 or newer than 1.53.2 to generate it, you are not affected by this issue. See issue #4783 for more details, and a tool you can use to check if you are affected.

    +

    Example

    +

    Create the following file structure 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

    +
    $ 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
    +

    The crypt remote looks like

    +
    $ rclone -q ls remote:path
    +       55 hagjclgavj2mbiqm6u6cnjjqcg
    +       54 v05749mltvv1tf4onltun46gls
    +       57 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/dlj7fkq4kdq72emafg7a7s41uo
    +       58 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/7uu829995du6o42n32otfhjqp4/b9pausrfansjth5ob3jkdqd4lc
    +       56 86vhrsv86mpbtd3a0akjuqslj8/8njh1sk437gttmep3p70g81aps
    +

    The directory structure is preserved

    +
    $ rclone -q ls secret:subdir
    +        8 file2.txt
    +        9 file3.txt
    +       10 subsubdir/file4.txt
    +

    Without file name encryption .bin extensions are added to underlying names. This prevents the cloud provider attempting to interpret file content.

    +
    $ 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

    +

    Off

    + +

    Standard

    + +

    Obfuscation

    +

    This is a simple "rotate" of the filename, with each file having a rot distance based on the filename. Rclone stores the distance at the beginning of the filename. A file called "hello" may become "53.jgnnq".

    +

    Obfuscation is not a strong encryption of filenames, but hinders automated scanning tools picking up on filename patterns. It is an intermediate between "off" and "standard" which 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.

    +

    Obfuscation cannot be relied upon for strong protection.

    + +

    Cloud storage systems have limits on file name length and total path length which rclone is more likely to breach using "Standard" file name encryption. Where file names are less than 156 characters in length issues should not be encountered, irrespective of cloud storage provider.

    +

    An experimental advanced option filename_encoding is now provided to address this problem to a certain degree. For cloud storage systems with case sensitive file names (e.g. Google Drive), base64 can be used to reduce file name length. For cloud storage systems using UTF-16 to store file names internally (e.g. OneDrive), base32768 can be used to drastically reduce file name length.

    +

    An alternative, future rclone file name encryption mode may tolerate backend provider path length limits.

    +

    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.

    +

    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, e.g. "myremote:path/to/dir", "myremote:bucket" or maybe "myremote:" (not recommended).

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

    -

    --filefabric-token

    -

    Session Token.

    -

    This is a session token which rclone caches in the config file. It is usually valid for 1 hour.

    -

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    +

    --crypt-filename-encryption

    +

    How to encrypt the filenames.

    Properties:

    -

    --filefabric-token-expiry

    -

    Token expiry time.

    -

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    +

    --crypt-directory-name-encryption

    +

    Option to either encrypt directory names or leave them intact.

    +

    NB If filename_encryption is "off" then this option will do nothing.

    Properties:

    +

    --crypt-password

    +

    Password or pass phrase for encryption.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --filefabric-version

    -

    Version read from the file fabric.

    -

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    +

    --crypt-password2

    +

    Password or pass phrase for salt.

    +

    Optional but recommended. Should be different to the previous password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --filefabric-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to crypt (Encrypt/Decrypt a remote).

    +

    --crypt-server-side-across-configs

    +

    Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different crypt configs.

    +

    Normally this option is not what you want, but if you have two crypts pointing to the same backend you can use it.

    +

    This can be used, for example, to change file name encryption type without re-uploading all the data. Just make two crypt backends pointing to two different directories with the single changed parameter and use rclone move to move the files between the crypt remotes.

    Properties:

    -

    FTP

    -

    FTP is the File Transfer Protocol. Rclone FTP support is provided using the github.com/jlaffaye/ftp package.

    -

    Limitations of Rclone's FTP backend

    -

    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.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    To create an FTP configuration named remote, run

    -
    rclone config
    -

    Rclone config guides you through an interactive setup process. A minimal rclone FTP remote definition only requires host, username and password. For an anonymous FTP server, use anonymous as username and your email address as 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.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    -[snip]
    -XX / FTP Connection
    -   \ "ftp"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> ftp
    -** See help for ftp backend at: https://rclone.org/ftp/ **
    -
    -FTP host to connect to
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -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
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER").
    -user> 
    -FTP port number
    -Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the 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:
    -Use FTP over TLS (Implicit)
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    -tls> 
    -Use FTP over TLS (Explicit)
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    -explicit_tls> 
    -Remote config
    ---------------------
    -[remote]
    -type = ftp
    -host = ftp.example.com
    -pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -

    To see all directories in the home directory of remote

    -
    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    -

    Example without a config file

    -
    rclone lsf :ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=`rclone obscure dummy`
    -

    Implicit TLS

    -

    Rlone FTP supports implicit FTP over TLS servers (FTPS). This has to be enabled in the FTP backend config for the remote, or with --ftp-tls. The default FTPS port is 990, not 21 and can be set with --ftp-port.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    -

    File names cannot end with the following characters. Repacement is limited to the last character in a file name:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    -

    Not all FTP servers can have all characters in file names, for example:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    FTP ServerForbidden characters
    proftpd*
    pureftpd\ [ ]
    -

    This backend's interactive configuration wizard provides a selection of sensible encoding settings for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd. Just hit a selection number when prompted.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to ftp (FTP Connection).

    -

    --ftp-host

    -

    FTP host to connect to.

    -

    E.g. "ftp.example.com".

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    -

    --ftp-user

    -

    FTP username.

    +

    --crypt-no-data-encryption

    +

    Option to either encrypt file data or leave it unencrypted.

    Properties:

    -

    --ftp-port

    -

    FTP port number.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: no_data_encryption
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_CRYPT_NO_DATA_ENCRYPTION
  • +
  • Type: bool
  • +
  • Default: false
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: port
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_PORT
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 21
    • +
    • "true" +
        +
      • Don't encrypt file data, leave it unencrypted.
      • +
    • +
    • "false" +
        +
      • Encrypt file data.
      • +
    • +
  • -

    --ftp-pass

    -

    FTP password.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --crypt-filename-encoding

    +

    How to encode the encrypted filename to text string.

    +

    This option could help with shortening the encrypted filename. The suitable option would depend on the way your remote count the filename length and if it's case sensitive.

    Properties:

    -

    --ftp-tls

    -

    Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

    -

    When using implicit FTP over TLS the client connects using TLS right from the start which breaks compatibility with non-TLS-aware servers. This is usually served over port 990 rather than port 21. Cannot be used in combination with explicit FTP.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Default: "base32"
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: tls
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_TLS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --ftp-explicit-tls

    -

    Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

    -

    When using explicit FTP over TLS the client explicitly requests security from the server in order to upgrade a plain text connection to an encrypted one. Cannot be used in combination with implicit FTP.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "base32"
      -
    • Config: explicit_tls
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_EXPLICIT_TLS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to ftp (FTP Connection).

    -

    --ftp-concurrency

    -

    Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Encode using base32. Suitable for all remote.
  • + +
  • "base64"
      -
    • Config: concurrency
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_CONCURRENCY
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 0
    • -
    -

    --ftp-no-check-certificate

    -

    Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Encode using base64. Suitable for case sensitive remote.
  • + +
  • "base32768"
      -
    • Config: no_check_certificate
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_NO_CHECK_CERTIFICATE
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • +
    • Encode using base32768. Suitable if your remote counts UTF-16 or
    • +
    • Unicode codepoint instead of UTF-8 byte length. (Eg. Onedrive)
    • +
  • + -

    --ftp-disable-epsv

    -

    Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    Metadata

    +

    Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    Backend commands

    +

    Here are the commands specific to the crypt backend.

    +

    Run them with

    +
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    +

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    +

    See the backend command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    +

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    +

    encode

    +

    Encode the given filename(s)

    +
    rclone backend encode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This encodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of strings of the encoded results.

    +

    Usage Example:

    +
    rclone backend encode crypt: file1 [file2...]
    +rclone rc backend/command command=encode fs=crypt: file1 [file2...]
    +

    decode

    +

    Decode the given filename(s)

    +
    rclone backend decode remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This decodes the filenames given as arguments returning a list of strings of the decoded results. It will return an error if any of the inputs are invalid.

    +

    Usage Example:

    +
    rclone backend decode crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
    +rclone rc backend/command command=decode fs=crypt: encryptedfile1 [encryptedfile2...]
    +

    Backing up a crypted remote

    +

    If you wish to backup a crypted remote, it is 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

    -

    --ftp-disable-mlsd

    -

    Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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 -i 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

    -

    --ftp-writing-mdtm

    -

    Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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 64 KiB 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:

    -

    --ftp-idle-timeout

    -

    Max time before closing idle connections.

    -

    If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

    -

    Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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

    -

    --ftp-close-timeout

    -

    Maximum time to wait for a response to close.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    49 bytes total

    +

    1 MiB (1048576 bytes) file will encrypt to

    -

    --ftp-tls-cache-size

    -

    Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections.

    -

    TLS cache allows to resume TLS sessions and reuse PSK between connections. Increase if default size is not enough resulting in TLS resumption errors. Enabled by default. Use 0 to disable.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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 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

    -

    --ftp-disable-tls13

    -

    Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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:

    -

    --ftp-shut-timeout

    -

    Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    base32 is used rather than the more efficient base64 so rclone can be used on case insensitive remotes (e.g. 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.

    +

    SEE ALSO

    -

    --ftp-ask-password

    -

    Allow asking for FTP password when needed.

    -

    If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will ask for a password

    +

    Compress

    +

    Warning

    +

    This remote is currently experimental. Things may break and data may be lost. Anything you do with this remote is at your own risk. Please understand the risks associated with using experimental code and don't use this remote in critical applications.

    +

    The Compress remote adds compression to another remote. It is best used with remotes containing many large compressible files.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    To use this remote, all you need to do is specify another remote and a compression mode to use:

    +
    Current remotes:
    +
    +Name                 Type
    +====                 ====
    +remote_to_press      sometype
    +
    +e) Edit existing remote
    +$ rclone config
    +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> compress
    +...
    + 8 / Compress a remote
    +   \ "compress"
    +...
    +Storage> compress
    +** See help for compress backend at: https://rclone.org/compress/ **
    +
    +Remote to compress.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +remote> remote_to_press:subdir 
    +Compression mode.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("gzip").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Gzip compression balanced for speed and compression strength.
    +   \ "gzip"
    +compression_mode> gzip
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[compress]
    +type = compress
    +remote = remote_to_press:subdir
    +compression_mode = gzip
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Compression Modes

    +

    Currently only gzip compression is supported. It provides a decent balance between speed and size and is well supported by other applications. Compression strength can further be configured via an advanced setting where 0 is no compression and 9 is strongest compression.

    +

    File types

    +

    If you open a remote wrapped by compress, you will see that there are many files with an extension corresponding to the compression algorithm you chose. These files are standard files that can be opened by various archive programs, but they have some hidden metadata that allows them to be used by rclone. While you may download and decompress these files at will, do not manually delete or rename files. Files without correct metadata files will not be recognized by rclone.

    +

    File names

    +

    The compressed files will be named *.###########.gz where * is the base file and the # part is base64 encoded size of the uncompressed file. The file names should not be changed by anything other than the rclone compression backend.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to compress (Compress a remote).

    +

    --compress-remote

    +

    Remote to compress.

    Properties:

    -

    --ftp-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    --compress-mode

    +

    Compression mode.

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: level
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_COMPRESS_LEVEL
  • +
  • Type: int
  • +
  • Default: -1
  • -

    Limitations

    -

    FTP servers acting as rclone remotes must support passive mode. The mode cannot be configured as passive is the only supported one. Rclone's FTP implementation is not compatible with active mode as the library it uses doesn't support it. This will likely never be supported due to security concerns.

    -

    Rclone's FTP backend does not support any checksums but can compare file sizes.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the FTP backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    The implementation of : --dump headers, --dump bodies, --dump auth for debugging isn't the same as for rclone HTTP based backends - it has less fine grained control.

    -

    --timeout isn't supported (but --contimeout is).

    -

    --bind isn't supported.

    -

    Rclone's FTP backend could support server-side move but does not at present.

    -

    The ftp_proxy environment variable is not currently supported.

    -

    Modified time

    -

    File modification time (timestamps) is supported to 1 second resolution for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd, and FileZilla FTP server. The VsFTPd server has non-standard implementation of time related protocol commands and needs a special configuration setting: writing_mdtm = true.

    -

    Support for precise file time with other FTP servers varies depending on what protocol extensions they advertise. If all the MLSD, MDTM and MFTM extensions are present, rclone will use them together to provide precise time. Otherwise the times you see on the FTP server through rclone are those of the last file upload.

    -

    You can use the following command to check whether rclone can use precise time with your FTP server: rclone backend features your_ftp_remote: (the trailing colon is important). Look for the number in the line tagged by Precision designating the remote time precision expressed as nanoseconds. A value of 1000000000 means that file time precision of 1 second is available. A value of 3153600000000000000 (or another large number) means "unsupported".

    -

    Google Cloud Storage

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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.

    +

    --compress-ram-cache-limit

    +

    Some remotes don't allow the upload of files with unknown size. In this case the compressed file will need to be cached to determine it's size.

    +

    Files smaller than this limit will be cached in RAM, files larger than this limit will be cached on disk.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Metadata

    +

    Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    Combine

    +

    The combine backend joins remotes together into a single directory tree.

    +

    For example you might have a remote for images on one provider:

    +
    $ rclone tree s3:imagesbucket
    +/
    +├── image1.jpg
    +└── image2.jpg
    +

    And a remote for files on another:

    +
    $ rclone tree drive:important/files
    +/
    +├── file1.txt
    +└── file2.txt
    +

    The combine backend can join these together into a synthetic directory structure like this:

    +
    $ rclone tree combined:
    +/
    +├── files
    +│   ├── file1.txt
    +│   └── file2.txt
    +└── images
    +    ├── image1.jpg
    +    └── image2.jpg
    +

    You'd do this by specifying an upstreams parameter in the config like this

    +
    upstreams = images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
    +

    During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the upstreams remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can either be a local paths or other remotes.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a combine called remote for the example above. 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
    +Option Storage.
    +Type of storage to configure.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +...
    +XX / Combine several remotes into one
    +   \ (combine)
    +...
    +Storage> combine
    +Option upstreams.
    +Upstreams for combining
    +These should be in the form
    +    dir=remote:path dir2=remote2:path
    +Where before the = is specified the root directory and after is the remote to
    +put there.
    +Embedded spaces can be added using quotes
    +    "dir=remote:path with space" "dir2=remote2:path with space"
    +Enter a fs.SpaceSepList value.
    +upstreams> images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = combine
    +upstreams = images=s3:imagesbucket files=drive:important/files
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Configuring for Google Drive Shared Drives

    +

    Rclone has a convenience feature for making a combine backend for all the shared drives you have access to.

    +

    Assuming your main (non shared drive) Google drive remote is called drive: you would run

    +
    rclone backend -o config drives drive:
    +

    This would produce something like this:

    +
    [My Drive]
    +type = alias
    +remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEF-01234567890,root_folder_id=:
    +
    +[Test Drive]
    +type = alias
    +remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl,root_folder_id=:
    +
    +[AllDrives]
    +type = combine
    +upstreams = "My Drive=My Drive:" "Test Drive=Test Drive:"
    +

    If you then add that config to your config file (find it with rclone config file) then you can access all the shared drives in one place with the AllDrives: remote.

    +

    See the Google Drive docs for full info.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to combine (Combine several remotes into one).

    +

    --combine-upstreams

    +

    Upstreams for combining

    +

    These should be in the form

    +
    dir=remote:path dir2=remote2:path
    +

    Where before the = is specified the root directory and after is the remote to put there.

    +

    Embedded spaces can be added using quotes

    +
    "dir=remote:path with space" "dir2=remote2:path with space"
    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Metadata

    +

    Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    Dropbox

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Dropbox paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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:

    @@ -15995,156 +18266,48 @@

    Configuration

    Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value [snip] -XX / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive) - \ "google cloud storage" +XX / Dropbox + \ "dropbox" [snip] -Storage> google cloud storage -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 +Storage> dropbox +Dropbox App Key - leave blank normally. +app_key> +Dropbox App Secret - leave blank normally. +app_secret> 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 +Please visit: +https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&response_type=code +Enter the code: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXXXXXXXX -------------------- [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 +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
    -

    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

    +

    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 Dropbox. 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 it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall, or use manual mode.

    +

    You can then use it like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your dropbox

    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 -i /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.

    -

    Anonymous Access

    -

    For downloads of objects that permit public access you can configure rclone to use anonymous access by setting anonymous to true. With unauthorized access you can't write or create files but only read or list those buckets and objects that have public read access.

    -

    Application Default Credentials

    -

    If no other source of credentials is provided, rclone will fall back to Application Default Credentials this is useful both when you already have configured authentication for your developer account, or in production when running on a google compute host. Note that if running in docker, you may need to run additional commands on your google compute machine - see this page.

    -

    Note that in the case application default credentials are used, there is no need to explicitly configure a project number.

    -

    --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.

    -

    Custom upload headers

    -

    You can set custom upload headers with the --header-upload flag. Google Cloud Storage supports the headers as described in the working with metadata documentation

    - -

    Eg --header-upload "Content-Type text/potato"

    -

    Note that the last of these is for setting custom metadata in the form --header-upload "x-goog-meta-key: value"

    -

    Modification time

    -

    Google Cloud Storage stores md5sum natively. Google's gsutil tool stores modification time with one-second precision as goog-reserved-file-mtime in file metadata.

    -

    To ensure compatibility with gsutil, rclone stores modification time in 2 separate metadata entries. mtime uses RFC3339 format with one-nanosecond precision. goog-reserved-file-mtime uses Unix timestamp format with one-second precision. To get modification time from object metadata, rclone reads the metadata in the following order: mtime, goog-reserved-file-mtime, object updated time.

    -

    Note that rclone's default modify window is 1ns. Files uploaded by gsutil only contain timestamps with one-second precision. If you use rclone to sync files previously uploaded by gsutil, rclone will attempt to update modification time for all these files. To avoid these possibly unnecessary updates, use --modify-window 1s.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    @@ -16160,429 +18323,442 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - + + + - - - + + + - - - + + + + + +
    LF0x0A/0x2F
    CR0x0DDEL0x7F
    /0x2F\0x5C
    +

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

    -

    --gcs-client-id

    +

    Batch mode uploads

    +

    Using batch mode uploads is very important for performance when using the Dropbox API. See the dropbox performance guide for more info.

    +

    There are 3 modes rclone can use for uploads.

    +

    --dropbox-batch-mode off

    +

    In this mode rclone will not use upload batching. This was the default before rclone v1.55. It has the disadvantage that it is very likely to encounter too_many_requests errors like this

    +
    NOTICE: too_many_requests/.: Too many requests or write operations. Trying again in 15 seconds.
    +

    When rclone receives these it has to wait for 15s or sometimes 300s before continuing which really slows down transfers.

    +

    This will happen especially if --transfers is large, so this mode isn't recommended except for compatibility or investigating problems.

    +

    --dropbox-batch-mode sync

    +

    In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by --dropbox-batch-size and commit them together.

    +

    Using this mode means you can use a much higher --transfers parameter (32 or 64 works fine) without receiving too_many_requests errors.

    +

    This mode ensures full data integrity.

    +

    Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone finishes up the last batch using this mode.

    +

    --dropbox-batch-mode async

    +

    In this mode rclone will batch up uploads to the size specified by --dropbox-batch-size and commit them together.

    +

    However it will not wait for the status of the batch to be returned to the caller. This means rclone can use a much bigger batch size (much bigger than --transfers), at the cost of not being able to check the status of the upload.

    +

    This provides the maximum possible upload speed especially with lots of small files, however rclone can't check the file got uploaded properly using this mode.

    +

    If you are using this mode then using "rclone check" after the transfer completes is recommended. Or you could do an initial transfer with --dropbox-batch-mode async then do a final transfer with --dropbox-batch-mode sync (the default).

    +

    Note that there may be a pause when quitting rclone while rclone finishes up the last batch using this mode.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

    +

    --dropbox-client-id

    OAuth Client Id.

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-client-secret

    +

    --dropbox-client-secret

    OAuth Client Secret.

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-project-number

    -

    Project number.

    -

    Optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to dropbox (Dropbox).

    +

    --dropbox-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-service-account-file

    -

    Service Account Credentials JSON file path.

    -

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    -

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    --dropbox-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-service-account-credentials

    -

    Service Account Credentials JSON blob.

    -

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    +

    --dropbox-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-anonymous

    -

    Access public buckets and objects without credentials.

    -

    Set to 'true' if you just want to download files and don't configure credentials.

    +

    --dropbox-chunk-size

    +

    Upload chunk size (< 150Mi).

    +

    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 128 MiB in tests) at the cost of using more memory. It can be set smaller if you are tight on memory.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-object-acl

    -

    Access Control List for new objects.

    +

    --dropbox-impersonate

    +

    Impersonate this user when using a business account.

    +

    Note that if you want to use impersonate, you should make sure this flag is set when running "rclone config" as this will cause rclone to request the "members.read" scope which it won't normally. This is needed to lookup a members email address into the internal ID that dropbox uses in the API.

    +

    Using the "members.read" scope will require a Dropbox Team Admin to approve during the OAuth flow.

    +

    You will have to use your own App (setting your own client_id and client_secret) to use this option as currently rclone's default set of permissions doesn't include "members.read". This can be added once v1.55 or later is in use everywhere.

    Properties:

    +

    --dropbox-shared-folders

    +

    Instructs rclone to work on shared folders.

    +

    When this flag is used with no path only the List operation is supported and all available shared folders will be listed. If you specify a path the first part will be interpreted as the name of shared folder. Rclone will then try to mount this shared to the root namespace. On success shared folder rclone proceeds normally. The shared folder is now pretty much a normal folder and all normal operations are supported.

    +

    Note that we don't unmount the shared folder afterwards so the --dropbox-shared-folders can be omitted after the first use of a particular shared folder.

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "private" -
  • -
  • "projectPrivate" -
  • -
  • "publicRead" +
  • Config: shared_folders
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_SHARED_FOLDERS
  • +
  • Type: bool
  • +
  • Default: false
  • + +

    --dropbox-batch-mode

    +

    Upload file batching sync|async|off.

    +

    This sets the batch mode used by rclone.

    +

    For full info see the main docs

    +

    This has 3 possible values

    - +
  • off - no batching
  • +
  • sync - batch uploads and check completion (default)
  • +
  • async - batch upload and don't check completion
  • -

    --gcs-bucket-acl

    -

    Access Control List for new buckets.

    +

    Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make a delay on quit.

    Properties:

    +

    Rclone will close any outstanding batches when it exits which may make a delay on quit.

    +

    Setting this is a great idea if you are uploading lots of small files as it will make them a lot quicker. You can use --transfers 32 to maximise throughput.

    +

    Properties:

    -
  • "publicRead" +
  • Config: batch_size
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_SIZE
  • +
  • Type: int
  • +
  • Default: 0
  • + +

    --dropbox-batch-timeout

    +

    Max time to allow an idle upload batch before uploading.

    +

    If an upload batch is idle for more than this long then it will be uploaded.

    +

    The default for this is 0 which means rclone will choose a sensible default based on the batch_mode in use.

    -
  • "publicReadWrite" +
  • batch_mode: async - default batch_timeout is 500ms
  • +
  • batch_mode: sync - default batch_timeout is 10s
  • +
  • batch_mode: off - not in use
  • + +

    Properties:

    - +
  • Config: batch_timeout
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_DROPBOX_BATCH_TIMEOUT
  • +
  • Type: Duration
  • +
  • Default: 0s
  • -

    --gcs-bucket-policy-only

    -

    Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies.

    -

    If you want to upload objects to a bucket with Bucket Policy Only set then you will need to set this.

    -

    When it is set, rclone:

    +

    --dropbox-batch-commit-timeout

    +

    Max time to wait for a batch to finish committing

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Docs: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucket-policy-only

    +

    --dropbox-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-location

    -

    Location for the newly created buckets.

    +

    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.

    +

    Some errors may occur if you try to sync copyright-protected files because Dropbox has its own copyright detector that prevents this sort of file being downloaded. This will return the error ERROR : /path/to/your/file: Failed to copy: failed to open source object: path/restricted_content/.

    +

    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.

    +

    When using rclone link you'll need to set --expire if using a non-personal account otherwise the visibility may not be correct. (Note that --expire isn't supported on personal accounts). See the forum discussion and the dropbox SDK issue.

    +

    Get your own Dropbox App ID

    +

    When you use rclone with Dropbox in its default configuration you are using rclone's App ID. This is shared between all the rclone users.

    +

    Here is how to create your own Dropbox App ID for rclone:

    +
      +
    1. Log into the Dropbox App console with your Dropbox Account (It need not to be the same account as the Dropbox you want to access)

    2. +
    3. Choose an API => Usually this should be Dropbox API

    4. +
    5. Choose the type of access you want to use => Full Dropbox or App Folder

    6. +
    7. Name your App. The app name is global, so you can't use rclone for example

    8. +
    9. Click the button Create App

    10. +
    11. Switch to the Permissions tab. Enable at least the following permissions: account_info.read, files.metadata.write, files.content.write, files.content.read, sharing.write. The files.metadata.read and sharing.read checkboxes will be marked too. Click Submit

    12. +
    13. Switch to the Settings tab. Fill OAuth2 - Redirect URIs as http://localhost:53682/

    14. +
    15. Find the App key and App secret values on the Settings tab. Use these values in rclone config to add a new remote or edit an existing remote. The App key setting corresponds to client_id in rclone config, the App secret corresponds to client_secret

    16. +
    +

    Enterprise File Fabric

    +

    This backend supports Storage Made Easy's Enterprise File Fabric™ which provides a software solution to integrate and unify File and Object Storage accessible through a global file system.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for the Enterprise File Fabric backend involves getting a token from the Enterprise File Fabric 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.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    +[snip]
    +XX / Enterprise File Fabric
    +   \ "filefabric"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> filefabric
    +** See help for filefabric backend at: https://rclone.org/filefabric/ **
    +
    +URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Storage Made Easy US
    +   \ "https://storagemadeeasy.com"
    + 2 / Storage Made Easy EU
    +   \ "https://eu.storagemadeeasy.com"
    + 3 / Connect to your Enterprise File Fabric
    +   \ "https://yourfabric.smestorage.com"
    +url> https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
    +ID of the root folder
    +Leave blank normally.
    +
    +Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.
    +
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +root_folder_id> 
    +Permanent Authentication Token
    +
    +A Permanent Authentication Token can be created in the Enterprise File
    +Fabric, on the users Dashboard under Security, there is an entry
    +you'll see called "My Authentication Tokens". Click the Manage button
    +to create one.
    +
    +These tokens are normally valid for several years.
    +
    +For more info see: https://docs.storagemadeeasy.com/organisationcloud/api-tokens
    +
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +permanent_token> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = filefabric
    +url = https://yourfabric.smestorage.com/
    +permanent_token = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +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 Enterprise File Fabric

    +
    rclone lsd remote:
    +

    List all the files in your Enterprise File Fabric

    +
    rclone ls remote:
    +

    To copy a local directory to an Enterprise File Fabric directory called backup

    +
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    The Enterprise File Fabric allows modification times to be set on files accurate to 1 second. These will be used to detect whether objects need syncing or not.

    +

    The Enterprise File Fabric does not support any data hashes at this time.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    The default restricted characters set will be replaced.

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Empty files

    +

    Empty files aren't supported by the Enterprise File Fabric. Rclone will therefore upload an empty file as a single space with a mime type of application/vnd.rclone.empty.file and files with that mime type are treated as empty.

    +

    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 the root of your Enterprise File Fabric.

    +

    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.

    +

    In order to do this you will have to find the Folder ID of the directory you wish rclone to display. These aren't displayed in the web interface, but you can use rclone lsf to find them, for example

    +
    $ rclone lsf --dirs-only -Fip --csv filefabric:
    +120673758,Burnt PDFs/
    +120673759,My Quick Uploads/
    +120673755,My Syncs/
    +120673756,My backups/
    +120673757,My contacts/
    +120673761,S3 Storage/
    +

    The ID for "S3 Storage" would be 120673761.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

    +

    --filefabric-url

    +

    URL of the Enterprise File Fabric to connect to.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-storage-class

    -

    The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.

    +

    --filefabric-root-folder-id

    +

    ID of the root folder.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Fill in to make rclone start with directory of a given ID.

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: permanent_token
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_FILEFABRIC_PERMANENT_TOKEN
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

    -

    --gcs-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to filefabric (Enterprise File Fabric).

    +

    --filefabric-token

    +

    Session Token.

    +

    This is a session token which rclone caches in the config file. It is usually valid for 1 hour.

    +

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --filefabric-token-expiry

    +

    Token expiry time.

    +

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --filefabric-version

    +

    Version read from the file fabric.

    +

    Don't set this value - rclone will set it automatically.

    Properties:

    -

    --gcs-encoding

    +

    --filefabric-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Limitations

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the Google Cloud Storage backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Google Drive

    -

    Paths are specified as drive:path

    -

    Drive paths may be as deep as required, e.g. drive:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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:

    +

    FTP

    +

    FTP is the File Transfer Protocol. Rclone FTP support is provided using the github.com/jlaffaye/ftp package.

    +

    Limitations of Rclone's FTP backend

    +

    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.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    To create an FTP configuration named remote, run

    +
    rclone config
    +

    Rclone config guides you through an interactive setup process. A minimal rclone FTP remote definition only requires host, username and password. For an anonymous FTP server, see below.

    No remotes found, make a new one?
     n) New remote
     r) Rename remote
    @@ -16592,1097 +18768,1014 @@ 

    Configuration

    n/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 [snip] -XX / Google Drive - \ "drive" +XX / FTP + \ "ftp" [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. +Storage> ftp +** See help for ftp backend at: https://rclone.org/ftp/ ** + +FTP host to connect to +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). 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> + 1 / Connect to ftp.example.com + \ "ftp.example.com" +host> ftp.example.com +FTP username +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER"). +user> +FTP port number +Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the 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: +Use FTP over TLS (Implicit) +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false"). +tls> +Use FTP over TLS (Explicit) +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false"). +explicit_tls> 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 Shared Drive (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"} +type = ftp +host = ftp.example.com +pass = *** ENCRYPTED *** -------------------- 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 it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall, or use manual mode.

    -

    You can then use it like this,

    -

    List directories in top level of your drive

    +

    To see all directories in the home directory of remote

    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 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
    +

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    +

    Anonymous FTP

    +

    When connecting to a FTP server that allows anonymous login, you can use the special "anonymous" username. Traditionally, this user account accepts any string as a password, although it is common to use either the password "anonymous" or "guest". Some servers require the use of a valid e-mail address as password.

    +

    Using on-the-fly or connection string remotes makes it easy to access such servers, without requiring any configuration in advance. The following are examples of that:

    +
    rclone lsf :ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=$(rclone obscure dummy)
    +rclone lsf :ftp,host=speedtest.tele2.net,user=anonymous,pass=$(rclone obscure dummy):
    +

    The above examples work in Linux shells and in PowerShell, but not Windows Command Prompt. They execute the rclone obscure command to create a password string in the format required by the pass option. The following examples are exactly the same, except use an already obscured string representation of the same password "dummy", and therefore works even in Windows Command Prompt:

    +
    rclone lsf :ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=IXs2wc8OJOz7SYLBk47Ji1rHTmxM
    +rclone lsf :ftp,host=speedtest.tele2.net,user=anonymous,pass=IXs2wc8OJOz7SYLBk47Ji1rHTmxM:
    +

    Implicit TLS

    +

    Rlone FTP supports implicit FTP over TLS servers (FTPS). This has to be enabled in the FTP backend config for the remote, or with --ftp-tls. The default FTPS port is 990, not 21 and can be set with --ftp-port.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    +

    File names cannot end with the following characters. Replacement is limited to the last character in a file name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    +

    Not all FTP servers can have all characters in file names, for example:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    FTP ServerForbidden characters
    proftpd*
    pureftpd\ [ ]
    +

    This backend's interactive configuration wizard provides a selection of sensible encoding settings for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd. Just hit a selection number when prompted.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to ftp (FTP).

    +

    --ftp-host

    +

    FTP host to connect to.

    +

    E.g. "ftp.example.com".

    +

    Properties:

    -
    2. Allowing API access to example.com Google Drive
    +

    --ftp-user

    +

    FTP username.

    +

    Properties:

    -
    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, n
    -
    -
    4. Verify that it's working
    - -

    Note: in case you configured a specific root folder on gdrive and rclone is unable to access the contents of that folder when using --drive-impersonate, do this instead: - in the gdrive web interface, share your root folder with the user/email of the new Service Account you created/selected at step #1 - use rclone without specifying the --drive-impersonate option, like this: rclone -v lsf gdrive:backup

    -

    Shared drives (team drives)

    -

    If you want to configure the remote to point to a Google Shared Drive (previously known as Team Drives) then answer y to the question Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?.

    -

    This will fetch the list of Shared Drives from google and allow you to configure which one you want to use. You can also type in a Shared Drive ID if you prefer.

    -

    For example:

    -
    Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?
    -y) Yes
    -n) No
    -y/n> y
    -Fetching Shared 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 Shared 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 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):

    +

    --ftp-pass

    +

    FTP password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    large folder (10600 directories, 39000 files):

    +

    --ftp-tls

    +

    Use Implicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

    +

    When using implicit FTP over TLS the client connects using TLS right from the start which breaks compatibility with non-TLS-aware servers. This is usually served over port 990 rather than port 21. Cannot be used in combination with explicit FTPS.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Modified time

    -

    Google drive stores modification times accurate to 1 ms.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    Only Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    In contrast to other backends, / can also be used in names and . or .. are valid names.

    -

    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

    +

    --ftp-explicit-tls

    +

    Use Explicit FTPS (FTP over TLS).

    +

    When using explicit FTP over TLS the client explicitly requests security from the server in order to upgrade a plain text connection to an encrypted one. Cannot be used in combination with implicit FTPS.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    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.

    -

    Shortcuts

    -

    In March 2020 Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive called drive shortcuts (API). These will (by September 2020) replace the ability for files or folders to be in multiple folders at once.

    -

    Shortcuts are files that link to other files on Google Drive somewhat like a symlink in unix, except they point to the underlying file data (e.g. the inode in unix terms) so they don't break if the source is renamed or moved about.

    -

    Be default rclone treats these as follows.

    -

    For shortcuts pointing to files:

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to ftp (FTP).

    +

    --ftp-concurrency

    +

    Maximum number of FTP simultaneous connections, 0 for unlimited.

    +

    Note that setting this is very likely to cause deadlocks so it should be used with care.

    +

    If you are doing a sync or copy then make sure concurrency is one more than the sum of --transfers and --checkers.

    +

    If you use --check-first then it just needs to be one more than the maximum of --checkers and --transfers.

    +

    So for concurrency 3 you'd use --checkers 2 --transfers 2 --check-first or --checkers 1 --transfers 1.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    For shortcuts pointing to folders:

    +

    --ftp-no-check-certificate

    +

    Do not verify the TLS certificate of the server.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    The rclone backend command can be used to create shortcuts.

    -

    Shortcuts can be completely ignored with the --drive-skip-shortcuts flag or the corresponding skip_shortcuts configuration setting.

    -

    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.

    -

    Note that Google Drive takes some time (minutes to days) to empty the trash even though the command returns within a few seconds. No output is echoed, so there will be no confirmation even using -v or -vv.

    -

    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 called 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 convert 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 uploaded document.

    -

    Here are some examples for allowed and prohibited conversions.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    export-formatsimport-formatsUpload ExtDocument ExtAllowed
    odtodtodtodtYes
    odtdocx,odtodtodtYes
    docxdocxdocxYes
    odtodtdocxNo
    odt,docxdocx,odtdocxodtNo
    docx,odtdocx,odtdocxdocxYes
    docx,odtdocx,odtodtdocxNo
    -

    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, e.g. with --drive-import-formats docx,odt,txt, all files having these extension would result in a document 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 conversions.

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    ExtensionMime TypeDescription
    csvtext/csvStandard CSV format for Spreadsheets
    docxapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentMicrosoft Office Document
    epubapplication/epub+zipE-book format
    htmltext/htmlAn HTML Document
    jpgimage/jpegA JPEG Image File
    jsonapplication/vnd.google-apps.script+jsonJSON Text Format
    odpapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentationOpenoffice Presentation
    odsapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheetOpenoffice Spreadsheet
    odsapplication/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheetOpenoffice Spreadsheet
    odtapplication/vnd.oasis.opendocument.textOpenoffice Document
    pdfapplication/pdfAdobe PDF Format
    pngimage/pngPNG Image Format
    pptxapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentationMicrosoft Office Powerpoint
    rtfapplication/rtfRich Text Format
    svgimage/svg+xmlScalable Vector Graphics Format
    tsvtext/tab-separated-valuesStandard TSV format for spreadsheets
    txttext/plainPlain Text
    xlsxapplication/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetMicrosoft Office Spreadsheet
    zipapplication/zipA ZIP file of HTML, Images CSS
    -

    Google documents can also be exported as link files. These files will open a browser window for the Google Docs website of that document when opened. The link file extension has to be specified as a --drive-export-formats parameter. They will match all available Google Documents.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    ExtensionDescriptionOS Support
    desktopfreedesktop.org specified desktop entryLinux
    link.htmlAn HTML Document with a redirectAll
    urlINI style link filemacOS, Windows
    weblocmacOS specific XML formatmacOS
    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to drive (Google Drive).

    -

    --drive-client-id

    -

    Google Application Client Id Setting your own is recommended. See https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id for how to create your own. If you leave this blank, it will use an internal key which is low performance.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --drive-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --drive-scope

    -

    Scope that rclone should use when requesting access from drive.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --drive-root-folder-id

    -

    ID of the root folder. Leave blank normally.

    -

    Fill in to access "Computers" folders (see docs), or for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

    +

    --ftp-disable-epsv

    +

    Disable using EPSV even if server advertises support.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-service-account-file

    -

    Service Account Credentials JSON file path.

    -

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    -

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    --ftp-disable-mlsd

    +

    Disable using MLSD even if server advertises support.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-alternate-export

    -

    Deprecated: No longer needed.

    +

    --ftp-disable-utf8

    +

    Disable using UTF-8 even if server advertises support.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to drive (Google Drive).

    -

    --drive-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    --ftp-writing-mdtm

    +

    Use MDTM to set modification time (VsFtpd quirk)

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --ftp-force-list-hidden

    +

    Use LIST -a to force listing of hidden files and folders. This will disable the use of MLSD.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --ftp-idle-timeout

    +

    Max time before closing idle connections.

    +

    If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

    +

    Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-service-account-credentials

    -

    Service Account Credentials JSON blob.

    -

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    +

    --ftp-close-timeout

    +

    Maximum time to wait for a response to close.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-team-drive

    -

    ID of the Shared Drive (Team Drive).

    +

    --ftp-tls-cache-size

    +

    Size of TLS session cache for all control and data connections.

    +

    TLS cache allows to resume TLS sessions and reuse PSK between connections. Increase if default size is not enough resulting in TLS resumption errors. Enabled by default. Use 0 to disable.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-auth-owner-only

    -

    Only consider files owned by the authenticated user.

    +

    --ftp-disable-tls13

    +

    Disable TLS 1.3 (workaround for FTP servers with buggy TLS)

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --ftp-shut-timeout

    +

    Maximum time to wait for data connection closing status.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-copy-shortcut-content

    -

    Server side copy contents of shortcuts instead of the shortcut.

    -

    When doing server side copies, normally rclone will copy shortcuts as shortcuts.

    -

    If this flag is used then rclone will copy the contents of shortcuts rather than shortcuts themselves when doing server side copies.

    +

    --ftp-ask-password

    +

    Allow asking for FTP password when needed.

    +

    If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will ask for a password

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-skip-gdocs

    -

    Skip google documents in all listings.

    -

    If given, gdocs practically become invisible to rclone.

    +

    --ftp-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-skip-checksum-gphotos

    -

    Skip MD5 checksum on Google photos and videos only.

    -

    Use this if you get checksum errors when transferring Google photos or videos.

    -

    Setting this flag will cause Google photos and videos to return a blank MD5 checksum.

    -

    Google photos are identified by being in the "photos" space.

    -

    Corrupted checksums are caused by Google modifying the image/video but not updating the checksum.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: encoding
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_FTP_ENCODING
  • +
  • Type: MultiEncoder
  • +
  • Default: Slash,Del,Ctl,RightSpace,Dot
  • +
  • Examples: -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "Asterisk,Ctl,Dot,Slash" -

    --drive-trashed-only

    -

    Only show files that are in the trash.

    -

    This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • ProFTPd can't handle '*' in file names
  • + +
  • "BackSlash,Ctl,Del,Dot,RightSpace,Slash,SquareBracket"
  • +
  • "Ctl,LeftPeriod,Slash" +
  • + -

    --drive-starred-only

    -

    Only show files that are starred.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    FTP servers acting as rclone remotes must support passive mode. The mode cannot be configured as passive is the only supported one. Rclone's FTP implementation is not compatible with active mode as the library it uses doesn't support it. This will likely never be supported due to security concerns.

    +

    Rclone's FTP backend does not support any checksums but can compare file sizes.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the FTP backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    The implementation of : --dump headers, --dump bodies, --dump auth for debugging isn't the same as for rclone HTTP based backends - it has less fine grained control.

    +

    --timeout isn't supported (but --contimeout is).

    +

    --bind isn't supported.

    +

    Rclone's FTP backend could support server-side move but does not at present.

    +

    The ftp_proxy environment variable is not currently supported.

    +

    Modified time

    +

    File modification time (timestamps) is supported to 1 second resolution for major FTP servers: ProFTPd, PureFTPd, VsFTPd, and FileZilla FTP server. The VsFTPd server has non-standard implementation of time related protocol commands and needs a special configuration setting: writing_mdtm = true.

    +

    Support for precise file time with other FTP servers varies depending on what protocol extensions they advertise. If all the MLSD, MDTM and MFTM extensions are present, rclone will use them together to provide precise time. Otherwise the times you see on the FTP server through rclone are those of the last file upload.

    +

    You can use the following command to check whether rclone can use precise time with your FTP server: rclone backend features your_ftp_remote: (the trailing colon is important). Look for the number in the line tagged by Precision designating the remote time precision expressed as nanoseconds. A value of 1000000000 means that file time precision of 1 second is available. A value of 3153600000000000000 (or another large number) means "unsupported".

    +

    Google Cloud Storage

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    +[snip]
    +XX / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
    +   \ "google cloud storage"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> google cloud storage
    +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 web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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
    +

    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 Google if using web browser to automatically authenticate. 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 -i /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.

    +

    Anonymous Access

    +

    For downloads of objects that permit public access you can configure rclone to use anonymous access by setting anonymous to true. With unauthorized access you can't write or create files but only read or list those buckets and objects that have public read access.

    +

    Application Default Credentials

    +

    If no other source of credentials is provided, rclone will fall back to Application Default Credentials this is useful both when you already have configured authentication for your developer account, or in production when running on a google compute host. Note that if running in docker, you may need to run additional commands on your google compute machine - see this page.

    +

    Note that in the case application default credentials are used, there is no need to explicitly configure a project number.

    +

    --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.

    +

    Custom upload headers

    +

    You can set custom upload headers with the --header-upload flag. Google Cloud Storage supports the headers as described in the working with metadata documentation

    -

    --drive-formats

    -

    Deprecated: See export_formats.

    +

    Eg --header-upload "Content-Type text/potato"

    +

    Note that the last of these is for setting custom metadata in the form --header-upload "x-goog-meta-key: value"

    +

    Modification time

    +

    Google Cloud Storage stores md5sum natively. Google's gsutil tool stores modification time with one-second precision as goog-reserved-file-mtime in file metadata.

    +

    To ensure compatibility with gsutil, rclone stores modification time in 2 separate metadata entries. mtime uses RFC3339 format with one-nanosecond precision. goog-reserved-file-mtime uses Unix timestamp format with one-second precision. To get modification time from object metadata, rclone reads the metadata in the following order: mtime, goog-reserved-file-mtime, object updated time.

    +

    Note that rclone's default modify window is 1ns. Files uploaded by gsutil only contain timestamps with one-second precision. If you use rclone to sync files previously uploaded by gsutil, rclone will attempt to update modification time for all these files. To avoid these possibly unnecessary updates, use --modify-window 1s.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    NUL0x00
    LF0x0A
    CR0x0D
    /0x2F
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

    +

    --gcs-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-export-formats

    -

    Comma separated list of preferred formats for downloading Google docs.

    +

    --gcs-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-import-formats

    -

    Comma separated list of preferred formats for uploading Google docs.

    +

    --gcs-project-number

    +

    Project number.

    +

    Optional - needed only for list/create/delete buckets - see your developer console.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --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.

    +

    --gcs-service-account-file

    +

    Service Account Credentials JSON file path.

    +

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    +

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-use-shared-date

    -

    Use date file was shared instead of modified date.

    -

    Note that, as with "--drive-use-created-date", this flag may have unexpected consequences when uploading/downloading files.

    -

    If both this flag and "--drive-use-created-date" are set, the created date is used.

    +

    --gcs-service-account-credentials

    +

    Service Account Credentials JSON blob.

    +

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want use SA instead of interactive login.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-list-chunk

    -

    Size of listing chunk 100-1000, 0 to disable.

    +

    --gcs-anonymous

    +

    Access public buckets and objects without credentials.

    +

    Set to 'true' if you just want to download files and don't configure credentials.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-impersonate

    -

    Impersonate this user when using a service account.

    +

    --gcs-object-acl

    +

    Access Control List for new objects.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-upload-cutoff

    -

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Examples: -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "authenticatedRead" -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Object owner gets OWNER access.
  • +
  • All Authenticated Users get READER access.
  • + +
  • "bucketOwnerFullControl" -

    --drive-keep-revision-forever

    -

    Keep new head revision of each file forever.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Object owner gets OWNER access.
  • +
  • Project team owners get OWNER access.
  • + +
  • "bucketOwnerRead" -

    --drive-size-as-quota

    -

    Show sizes as storage quota usage, not actual size.

    -

    Show the size of a file as the storage quota used. This is the current version plus any older versions that have been set to keep forever.

    -

    WARNING: This flag may have some unexpected consequences.

    -

    It is not recommended to set this flag in your config - the recommended usage is using the flag form --drive-size-as-quota when doing rclone ls/lsl/lsf/lsjson/etc only.

    -

    If you do use this flag for syncing (not recommended) then you will need to use --ignore size also.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Object owner gets OWNER access.
  • +
  • Project team owners get READER access.
  • + +
  • "private" -

    --drive-v2-download-min-size

    -

    If Object's are greater, use drive v2 API to download.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Object owner gets OWNER access.
  • +
  • Default if left blank.
  • + +
  • "projectPrivate" -

    --drive-pacer-min-sleep

    -

    Minimum time to sleep between API calls.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Object owner gets OWNER access.
  • +
  • Project team members get access according to their roles.
  • + +
  • "publicRead"
  • + -

    --drive-pacer-burst

    -

    Number of API calls to allow without sleeping.

    +

    --gcs-bucket-acl

    +

    Access Control List for new buckets.

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-server-side-across-configs

    -

    Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different drive configs.

    -

    This can be useful if you wish to do a server-side copy between two different Google drives. Note that this isn't enabled by default because it isn't easy to tell if it will work between any two configurations.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: bucket_acl
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_BUCKET_ACL
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • +
  • Examples: -

    --drive-disable-http2

    -

    Disable drive using http2.

    -

    There is currently an unsolved issue with the google drive backend and HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is therefore disabled by default for the drive backend but can be re-enabled here. When the issue is solved this flag will be removed.

    -

    See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3631

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "authenticatedRead" -

    --drive-stop-on-upload-limit

    -

    Make upload limit errors be fatal.

    -

    At the time of writing it is only possible to upload 750 GiB of data to Google Drive a day (this is an undocumented limit). When this limit is reached Google Drive produces a slightly different error message. When this flag is set it causes these errors to be fatal. These will stop the in-progress sync.

    -

    Note that this detection is relying on error message strings which Google don't document so it may break in the future.

    -

    See: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/3857

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Project team owners get OWNER access.
  • +
  • All Authenticated Users get READER access.
  • + +
  • "private" -

    --drive-stop-on-download-limit

    -

    Make download limit errors be fatal.

    -

    At the time of writing it is only possible to download 10 TiB of data from Google Drive a day (this is an undocumented limit). When this limit is reached Google Drive produces a slightly different error message. When this flag is set it causes these errors to be fatal. These will stop the in-progress sync.

    -

    Note that this detection is relying on error message strings which Google don't document so it may break in the future.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Project team owners get OWNER access.
  • +
  • Default if left blank.
  • + +
  • "projectPrivate"
  • +
  • "publicRead" +
  • +
  • "publicReadWrite" +
  • + -

    --drive-skip-shortcuts

    -

    If set skip shortcut files.

    -

    Normally rclone dereferences shortcut files making them appear as if they are the original file (see the shortcuts section). If this flag is set then rclone will ignore shortcut files completely.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    --gcs-bucket-policy-only

    +

    Access checks should use bucket-level IAM policies.

    +

    If you want to upload objects to a bucket with Bucket Policy Only set then you will need to set this.

    +

    When it is set, rclone:

    -

    --drive-skip-dangling-shortcuts

    -

    If set skip dangling shortcut files.

    -

    If this is set then rclone will not show any dangling shortcuts in listings.

    +

    Docs: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/bucket-policy-only

    Properties:

    -

    --drive-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    --gcs-location

    +

    Location for the newly created buckets.

    Properties:

    -

    Backend commands

    -

    Here are the commands specific to the drive backend.

    -

    Run them with

    -
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    -

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    -

    See the "rclone backend" command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    -

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    -

    get

    -

    Get command for fetching the drive config parameters

    -
    rclone backend get remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This is a get command which will be used to fetch the various drive config parameters

    -

    Usage Examples:

    -
    rclone backend get drive: [-o service_account_file] [-o chunk_size]
    -rclone rc backend/command command=get fs=drive: [-o service_account_file] [-o chunk_size]
    -

    Options:

    +
  • Config: location
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_GCS_LOCATION
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • +
  • Examples:
  • -

    set

    -

    Set command for updating the drive config parameters

    -
    rclone backend set remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This is a set command which will be used to update the various drive config parameters

    -

    Usage Examples:

    -
    rclone backend set drive: [-o service_account_file=sa.json] [-o chunk_size=67108864]
    -rclone rc backend/command command=set fs=drive: [-o service_account_file=sa.json] [-o chunk_size=67108864]
    -

    Options:

    +

    --gcs-storage-class

    +

    The storage class to use when storing objects in Google Cloud Storage.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    shortcut

    -

    Create shortcuts from files or directories

    -
    rclone backend shortcut remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This command creates shortcuts from files or directories.

    -

    Usage:

    -
    rclone backend shortcut drive: source_item destination_shortcut
    -rclone backend shortcut drive: source_item -o target=drive2: destination_shortcut
    -

    In the first example this creates a shortcut from the "source_item" which can be a file or a directory to the "destination_shortcut". The "source_item" and the "destination_shortcut" should be relative paths from "drive:"

    -

    In the second example this creates a shortcut from the "source_item" relative to "drive:" to the "destination_shortcut" relative to "drive2:". This may fail with a permission error if the user authenticated with "drive2:" can't read files from "drive:".

    -

    Options:

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to google cloud storage (Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)).

    +

    --gcs-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    drives

    -

    List the Shared Drives available to this account

    -
    rclone backend drives remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This command lists the Shared Drives (Team Drives) available to this account.

    -

    Usage:

    -
    rclone backend [-o config] drives drive:
    -

    This will return a JSON list of objects like this

    -
    [
    -    {
    -        "id": "0ABCDEF-01234567890",
    -        "kind": "drive#teamDrive",
    -        "name": "My Drive"
    -    },
    -    {
    -        "id": "0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl",
    -        "kind": "drive#teamDrive",
    -        "name": "Test Drive"
    -    }
    -]
    -

    With the -o config parameter it will output the list in a format suitable for adding to a config file to make aliases for all the drives found.

    -
    [My Drive]
    -type = alias
    -remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEF-01234567890,root_folder_id=:
    -
    -[Test Drive]
    -type = alias
    -remote = drive,team_drive=0ABCDEFabcdefghijkl,root_folder_id=:
    -

    Adding this to the rclone config file will cause those team drives to be accessible with the aliases shown. This may require manual editing of the names.

    -

    untrash

    -

    Untrash files and directories

    -
    rclone backend untrash remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This command untrashes all the files and directories in the directory passed in recursively.

    -

    Usage:

    -

    This takes an optional directory to trash which make this easier to use via the API.

    -
    rclone backend untrash drive:directory
    -rclone backend -i untrash drive:directory subdir
    -

    Use the -i flag to see what would be restored before restoring it.

    -

    Result:

    -
    {
    -    "Untrashed": 17,
    -    "Errors": 0
    -}
    -

    copyid

    -

    Copy files by ID

    -
    rclone backend copyid remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    This command copies files by ID

    -

    Usage:

    -
    rclone backend copyid drive: ID path
    -rclone backend copyid drive: ID1 path1 ID2 path2
    -

    It copies the drive file with ID given to the path (an rclone path which will be passed internally to rclone copyto). The ID and path pairs can be repeated.

    -

    The path should end with a / to indicate copy the file as named to this directory. If it doesn't end with a / then the last path component will be used as the file name.

    -

    If the destination is a drive backend then server-side copying will be attempted if possible.

    -

    Use the -i flag to see what would be copied before copying.

    -

    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 MiB/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, e.g. 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 may not be able to download Google docs using rclone mount. If it doesn't work you will get a 0 sized file. If you try again the doc may gain its correct size and be downloadable. Whether it will work on not depends on the application accessing the mount and the OS you are running - experiment to find out if it does work for you!

    -

    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.

    -

    This can also be caused by a delay/caching on google drive's end when comparing directory listings. Specifically with team drives used in combination with --fast-list. Files that were uploaded recently may not appear on the directory list sent to rclone when using --fast-list.

    -

    Waiting a moderate period of time between attempts (estimated to be approximately 1 hour) and/or not using --fast-list both seem to be effective in preventing the problem.

    -

    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.

    -

    It is strongly recommended to use your own client ID as the default rclone ID is heavily used. If you have multiple services running, it is recommended to use an API key for each service. The default Google quota is 10 transactions per second so it is recommended to stay under that number as if you use more than that, it will cause rclone to rate limit and make things slower.

    -

    Here is how to create your own Google Drive client ID for rclone:

    -
      -
    1. 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)

    2. -
    3. Select a project or create a new project.

    4. -
    5. Under "ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES" search for "Drive", and enable the "Google Drive API".

    6. -
    7. Click "Credentials" in the left-side panel (not "Create credentials", which opens the wizard), then "Create credentials"

    8. -
    9. If you already configured an "Oauth Consent Screen", then skip to the next step; if not, click on "CONFIGURE CONSENT SCREEN" button (near the top right corner of the right panel), then select "External" and click on "CREATE"; on the next screen, enter an "Application name" ("rclone" is OK); enter "User Support Email" (your own email is OK); enter "Developer Contact Email" (your own email is OK); then click on "Save" (all other data is optional). Click again on "Credentials" on the left panel to go back to the "Credentials" screen.

    10. -
    -

    (PS: if you are a GSuite user, you could also select "Internal" instead of "External" above, but this has not been tested/documented so far).

    -
      -
    1. Click on the "+ CREATE CREDENTIALS" button at the top of the screen, then select "OAuth client ID".

    2. -
    3. Choose an application type of "Desktop app" and click "Create". (the default name is fine)

    4. -
    5. It will show you a client ID and client secret. Make a note of these.

    6. -
    7. Go to "Oauth consent screen" and press "Publish App"

    8. -
    9. Provide the noted client ID and client secret to rclone.

    10. -
    11. Click "OAuth consent screen", then click "PUBLISH APP" button and confirm, or add your account under "Test users".

    12. -
    -

    Be aware that, due to the "enhanced security" recently introduced by Google, you are theoretically expected to "submit your app for verification" and then wait a few weeks(!) for their response; in practice, you can go right ahead and use the client ID and client secret with rclone, the only issue will be a very scary confirmation screen shown when you connect via your browser for rclone to be able to get its token-id (but as this only happens during the remote configuration, it's not such a big deal).

    -

    (Thanks to @balazer on github for these instructions.)

    -

    Sometimes, creation of an OAuth consent in Google API Console fails due to an error message “The request failed because changes to one of the field of the resource is not supported”. As a convenient workaround, the necessary Google Drive API key can be created on the Python Quickstart page. Just push the Enable the Drive API button to receive the Client ID and Secret. Note that it will automatically create a new project in the API Console.

    -

    Google Photos

    -

    The rclone backend for Google Photos is a specialized backend for transferring photos and videos to and from Google Photos.

    -

    NB The Google Photos API which rclone uses has quite a few limitations, so please read the limitations section carefully to make sure it is suitable for your use.

    +

    --gcs-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --gcs-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --gcs-no-check-bucket

    +

    If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.

    +

    This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --gcs-decompress

    +

    If set this will decompress gzip encoded objects.

    +

    It is possible to upload objects to GCS with "Content-Encoding: gzip" set. Normally rclone will download these files as compressed objects.

    +

    If this flag is set then rclone will decompress these files with "Content-Encoding: gzip" as they are received. This means that rclone can't check the size and hash but the file contents will be decompressed.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --gcs-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for the service.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --gcs-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the Google Cloud Storage backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Google Drive

    +

    Paths are specified as drive:path

    +

    Drive paths may be as deep as required, e.g. drive:directory/subdirectory.

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for google cloud storage involves getting a token from Google Photos which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

    +

    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/s/q> n
    +n/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
     [snip]
    -XX / Google Photos
    -   \ "google photos"
    +XX / Google Drive
    +   \ "drive"
     [snip]
    -Storage> google photos
    -** See help for google photos backend at: https://rclone.org/googlephotos/ **
    -
    -Google Application Client Id
    -Leave blank normally.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -client_id> 
    -Google Application Client Secret
    -Leave blank normally.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -client_secret> 
    -Set to make the Google Photos backend read only.
    -
    -If you choose read only then rclone will only request read only access
    -to your photos, otherwise rclone will request full access.
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    -read_only> 
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    -y) Yes
    -n) No
    -y/n> n
    +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
    +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
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
     y) Yes
     n) No
     y/n> y
    @@ -17690,1357 +19783,1530 @@ 

    Configuration

    Log in and authorize rclone for access Waiting for code... Got code - -*** IMPORTANT: All media items uploaded to Google Photos with rclone -*** are stored in full resolution at original quality. These uploads -*** will count towards storage in your Google Account. - +Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)? +y) Yes +n) No +y/n> n -------------------- [remote] -type = google photos -token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2019-06-28T17:38:04.644930156+01:00"} +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
    -

    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 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 albums in your photos

    -
    rclone lsd remote:album
    -

    Make a new album

    -
    rclone mkdir remote:album/newAlbum
    -

    List the contents of an album

    -
    rclone ls remote:album/newAlbum
    -

    Sync /home/local/images to the Google Photos, removing any excess files in the album.

    -
    rclone sync -i /home/local/image remote:album/newAlbum
    -

    Layout

    -

    As Google Photos is not a general purpose cloud storage system the backend is laid out to help you navigate it.

    -

    The directories under media show different ways of categorizing the media. Each file will appear multiple times. So if you want to make a backup of your google photos you might choose to backup remote:media/by-month. (NB remote:media/by-day is rather slow at the moment so avoid for syncing.)

    -

    Note that all your photos and videos will appear somewhere under media, but they may not appear under album unless you've put them into albums.

    -
    /
    -- upload
    -    - file1.jpg
    -    - file2.jpg
    -    - ...
    -- media
    -    - all
    -        - file1.jpg
    -        - file2.jpg
    -        - ...
    -    - by-year
    -        - 2000
    -            - file1.jpg
    -            - ...
    -        - 2001
    -            - file2.jpg
    -            - ...
    -        - ...
    -    - by-month
    -        - 2000
    -            - 2000-01
    -                - file1.jpg
    -                - ...
    -            - 2000-02
    -                - file2.jpg
    -                - ...
    -        - ...
    -    - by-day
    -        - 2000
    -            - 2000-01-01
    -                - file1.jpg
    -                - ...
    -            - 2000-01-02
    -                - file2.jpg
    -                - ...
    -        - ...
    -- album
    -    - album name
    -    - album name/sub
    -- shared-album
    -    - album name
    -    - album name/sub
    -- feature
    -    - favorites
    -        - file1.jpg
    -        - file2.jpg
    -

    There are two writable parts of the tree, the upload directory and sub directories of the album directory.

    -

    The upload directory is for uploading files you don't want to put into albums. This will be empty to start with and will contain the files you've uploaded for one rclone session only, becoming empty again when you restart rclone. The use case for this would be if you have a load of files you just want to once off dump into Google Photos. For repeated syncing, uploading to album will work better.

    -

    Directories within the album directory are also writeable and you may create new directories (albums) under album. If you copy files with a directory hierarchy in there then rclone will create albums with the / character in them. For example if you do

    -
    rclone copy /path/to/images remote:album/images
    -

    and the images directory contains

    -
    images
    -    - file1.jpg
    -    dir
    -        file2.jpg
    -    dir2
    -        dir3
    -            file3.jpg
    -

    Then rclone will create the following albums with the following files in

    - -

    This means that you can use the album path pretty much like a normal filesystem and it is a good target for repeated syncing.

    -

    The shared-album directory shows albums shared with you or by you. This is similar to the Sharing tab in the Google Photos web interface.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to google photos (Google Photos).

    -

    --gphotos-client-id

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    +
    2. Allowing API access to example.com Google Drive
    -

    --gphotos-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    +
    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, n
    +
    +
    4. Verify that it's working
    -

    --gphotos-read-only

    -

    Set to make the Google Photos backend read only.

    -

    If you choose read only then rclone will only request read only access to your photos, otherwise rclone will request full access.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • rclone -v --drive-impersonate foo@example.com lsf gdrive:backup
  • +
  • The arguments do:
  • -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to google photos (Google Photos).

    -

    --gphotos-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    Note: in case you configured a specific root folder on gdrive and rclone is unable to access the contents of that folder when using --drive-impersonate, do this instead: - in the gdrive web interface, share your root folder with the user/email of the new Service Account you created/selected at step #1 - use rclone without specifying the --drive-impersonate option, like this: rclone -v lsf gdrive:backup

    +

    Shared drives (team drives)

    +

    If you want to configure the remote to point to a Google Shared Drive (previously known as Team Drives) then answer y to the question Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?.

    +

    This will fetch the list of Shared Drives from google and allow you to configure which one you want to use. You can also type in a Shared Drive ID if you prefer.

    +

    For example:

    +
    Configure this as a Shared Drive (Team Drive)?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No
    +y/n> y
    +Fetching Shared 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 Shared 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 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):

    -

    --gphotos-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    large folder (10600 directories, 39000 files):

    -

    --gphotos-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    Modified time

    +

    Google drive stores modification times accurate to 1 ms.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    Only Invalid UTF-8 bytes will be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    In contrast to other backends, / can also be used in names and . or .. are valid names.

    +

    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

    -

    --gphotos-read-size

    -

    Set to read the size of media items.

    -

    Normally rclone does not read the size of media items since this takes another transaction. This isn't necessary for syncing. However rclone mount needs to know the size of files in advance of reading them, so setting this flag when using rclone mount is recommended if you want to read the media.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    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.

    +

    Shortcuts

    +

    In March 2020 Google introduced a new feature in Google Drive called drive shortcuts (API). These will (by September 2020) replace the ability for files or folders to be in multiple folders at once.

    +

    Shortcuts are files that link to other files on Google Drive somewhat like a symlink in unix, except they point to the underlying file data (e.g. the inode in unix terms) so they don't break if the source is renamed or moved about.

    +

    Be default rclone treats these as follows.

    +

    For shortcuts pointing to files:

    -

    --gphotos-start-year

    -

    Year limits the photos to be downloaded to those which are uploaded after the given year.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    For shortcuts pointing to folders:

    -

    --gphotos-include-archived

    -

    Also view and download archived media.

    -

    By default, rclone does not request archived media. Thus, when syncing, archived media is not visible in directory listings or transferred.

    -

    Note that media in albums is always visible and synced, no matter their archive status.

    -

    With this flag, archived media are always visible in directory listings and transferred.

    -

    Without this flag, archived media will not be visible in directory listings and won't be transferred.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --mailru-speedup-max-disk

    -

    This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files.

    -

    Reason is that preliminary hashing can exhaust your RAM or disk space.

    +

    --hdfs-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    +

    HiDrive

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    The initial setup for hidrive involves getting a token from HiDrive which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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]
    +XX / HiDrive
    +   \ "hidrive"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> hidrive
    +OAuth Client Id - Leave blank normally.
    +client_id>
    +OAuth Client Secret - Leave blank normally.
    +client_secret>
    +Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.
    +Leave blank normally.
    +scope_access>
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y/n> n
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +y/n> y
    +If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +Log in and authorize rclone for access
    +Waiting for code...
    +Got code
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = hidrive
    +token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    You should be aware that OAuth-tokens can be used to access your account and hence should not be shared with other persons. See the below section for more information.

    +

    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 HiDrive. This only runs from the moment it opens your browser to the moment you get back the verification code. The webserver runs on http://127.0.0.1:53682/. If local port 53682 is protected by a firewall you may need to temporarily unblock the firewall to complete authorization.

    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your HiDrive root folder

    +
    rclone lsd remote:
    +

    List all the files in your HiDrive filesystem

    +
    rclone ls remote:
    +

    To copy a local directory to a HiDrive directory called backup

    +
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    +

    Keeping your tokens safe

    +

    Any OAuth-tokens will be stored by rclone in the remote's configuration file as unencrypted text. Anyone can use a valid refresh-token to access your HiDrive filesystem without knowing your password. Therefore you should make sure no one else can access your configuration.

    +

    It is possible to encrypt rclone's configuration file. You can find information on securing your configuration file by viewing the configuration encryption docs.

    +

    Invalid refresh token

    +

    As can be verified here, each refresh_token (for Native Applications) is valid for 60 days. If used to access HiDrivei, its validity will be automatically extended.

    +

    This means that if you

    +

    then rclone will return an error which includes a text that implies the refresh token is invalid or expired.

    +

    To fix this you will need to authorize rclone to access your HiDrive account again.

    +

    Using

    +
    rclone config reconnect remote:
    +

    the process is very similar to the process of initial setup exemplified before.

    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    HiDrive allows modification times to be set on objects accurate to 1 second.

    +

    HiDrive supports its own hash type which is used to verify the integrity of file contents after successful transfers.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    HiDrive cannot store files or folders that include / (0x2F) or null-bytes (0x00) in their name. Any other characters can be used in the names of files or folders. Additionally, files or folders cannot be named either of the following: . or ..

    +

    Therefore rclone will automatically replace these characters, if files or folders are stored or accessed with such names.

    +

    You can read about how this filename encoding works in general here.

    +

    Keep in mind that HiDrive only supports file or folder names with a length of 255 characters or less.

    +

    Transfers

    +

    HiDrive limits file sizes per single request to a maximum of 2 GiB. To allow storage of larger files and allow for better upload performance, the hidrive backend will use a chunked transfer for files larger than 96 MiB. Rclone will upload multiple parts/chunks of the file at the same time. Chunks in the process of being uploaded are buffered in memory, so you may want to restrict this behaviour on systems with limited resources.

    +

    You can customize this behaviour using the following options:

    + +

    See the below section about configuration options for more details.

    +

    Root folder

    +

    You can set the root folder for rclone. This is the directory that rclone considers to be the root of your HiDrive.

    +

    Usually, you will leave this blank, and rclone will use the root of the account.

    +

    However, you can set this to restrict rclone to a specific folder hierarchy.

    +

    This works by prepending the contents of the root_prefix option to any paths accessed by rclone. For example, the following two ways to access the home directory are equivalent:

    +
    rclone lsd --hidrive-root-prefix="/users/test/" remote:path
    +
    +rclone lsd remote:/users/test/path
    +

    See the below section about configuration options for more details.

    +

    Directory member count

    +

    By default, rclone will know the number of directory members contained in a directory. For example, rclone lsd uses this information.

    +

    The acquisition of this information will result in additional time costs for HiDrive's API. When dealing with large directory structures, it may be desirable to circumvent this time cost, especially when this information is not explicitly needed. For this, the disable_fetching_member_count option can be used.

    +

    See the below section about configuration options for more details.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to hidrive (HiDrive).

    +

    --hidrive-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-scope-access

    +

    Access permissions that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --mailru-speedup-max-memory

    -

    Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to hidrive (HiDrive).

    +

    --hidrive-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    Properties:

    +

    --hidrive-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-scope-role

    +

    User-level that rclone should use when requesting access from HiDrive.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --mailru-check-hash

    -

    What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid.

    +

    --hidrive-root-prefix

    +

    The root/parent folder for all paths.

    +

    Fill in to use the specified folder as the parent for all paths given to the remote. This way rclone can use any folder as its starting point.

    Properties:

    -

    --mailru-user-agent

    -

    HTTP user agent used internally by client.

    -

    Defaults to "rclone/VERSION" or "--user-agent" provided on command line.

    +

    --hidrive-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for the service.

    +

    This is the URL that API-calls will be made to.

    Properties:

    -

    --mailru-quirks

    -

    Comma separated list of internal maintenance flags.

    -

    This option must not be used by an ordinary user. It is intended only to facilitate remote troubleshooting of backend issues. Strict meaning of flags is not documented and not guaranteed to persist between releases. Quirks will be removed when the backend grows stable. Supported quirks: atomicmkdir binlist unknowndirs

    +

    --hidrive-disable-fetching-member-count

    +

    Do not fetch number of objects in directories unless it is absolutely necessary.

    +

    Requests may be faster if the number of objects in subdirectories is not fetched.

    Properties:

    -

    --mailru-encoding

    +

    --hidrive-chunk-size

    +

    Chunksize for chunked uploads.

    +

    Any files larger than the configured cutoff (or files of unknown size) will be uploaded in chunks of this size.

    +

    The upper limit for this is 2147483647 bytes (about 2.000Gi). That is the maximum amount of bytes a single upload-operation will support. Setting this above the upper limit or to a negative value will cause uploads to fail.

    +

    Setting this to larger values may increase the upload speed at the cost of using more memory. It can be set to smaller values smaller to save on memory.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff/Threshold for chunked uploads.

    +

    Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of the configured chunksize.

    +

    The upper limit for this is 2147483647 bytes (about 2.000Gi). That is the maximum amount of bytes a single upload-operation will support. Setting this above the upper limit will cause uploads to fail.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-upload-concurrency

    +

    Concurrency for chunked uploads.

    +

    This is the upper limit for how many transfers for the same file are running concurrently. Setting this above to a value smaller than 1 will cause uploads to deadlock.

    +

    If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --hidrive-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Limitations

    -

    File size limits depend on your account. A single file size is limited by 2G for a free account and unlimited for paid tariffs. Please refer to the Mail.ru site for the total uploaded size limits.

    -

    Note that Mailru is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    -

    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, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    +

    Limitations

    + +

    HiDrive is able to store symbolic links (symlinks) by design, for example, when unpacked from a zip archive.

    +

    There exists no direct mechanism to manage native symlinks in remotes. As such this implementation has chosen to ignore any native symlinks present in the remote. rclone will not be able to access or show any symlinks stored in the hidrive-remote. This means symlinks cannot be individually removed, copied, or moved, except when removing, copying, or moving the parent folder.

    +

    This does not affect the .rclonelink-files that rclone uses to encode and store symbolic links.

    +

    Sparse files

    +

    It is possible to store sparse files in HiDrive.

    +

    Note that copying a sparse file will expand the holes into null-byte (0x00) regions that will then consume disk space. Likewise, when downloading a sparse file, the resulting file will have null-byte regions in the place of file holes.

    +

    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.

    +

    The remote: represents the configured url, and any path following it will be resolved relative to this url, according to the URL standard. This means with remote url https://beta.rclone.org/branch and path fix, the resolved URL will be https://beta.rclone.org/branch/fix, while with path /fix the resolved URL will be https://beta.rclone.org/fix as the absolute path is resolved from the root of the domain.

    +

    If the path following the remote: ends with / it will be assumed to point to a directory. If the path does not end with /, then a HEAD request is sent and the response used to decide if it it is treated as a file or a directory (run with -vv to see details). When --http-no-head is specified, a path without ending / is always assumed to be a file. If rclone incorrectly assumes the path is a file, the solution is to specify the path with ending /. When you know the path is a directory, ending it with / is always better as it avoids the initial HEAD request.

    +

    To just download a single file it is easier to use copyurl.

    +

    Configuration

    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:

    @@ -19437,360 +21803,428 @@

    Configuration

    Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value [snip] -XX / Mega - \ "mega" +XX / HTTP + \ "http" [snip] -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: +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] -type = mega -user = you@example.com -pass = *** ENCRYPTED *** +url = https://beta.rclone.org -------------------- 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

    +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 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.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F
    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    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.

    -

    Failure to log-in

    -

    Mega remotes seem to get blocked (reject logins) under "heavy use". We haven't worked out the exact blocking rules but it seems to be related to fast paced, successive rclone commands.

    -

    For example, executing this command 90 times in a row rclone link remote:file will cause the remote to become "blocked". This is not an abnormal situation, for example if you wish to get the public links of a directory with hundred of files... After more or less a week, the remote will remote accept rclone logins normally again.

    -

    You can mitigate this issue by mounting the remote it with rclone mount. This will log-in when mounting and a log-out when unmounting only. You can also run rclone rcd and then use rclone rc to run the commands over the API to avoid logging in each time.

    -

    Rclone does not currently close mega sessions (you can see them in the web interface), however closing the sessions does not solve the issue.

    -

    If you space rclone commands by 3 seconds it will avoid blocking the remote. We haven't identified the exact blocking rules, so perhaps one could execute the command 80 times without waiting and avoid blocking by waiting 3 seconds, then continuing...

    -

    Note that this has been observed by trial and error and might not be set in stone.

    -

    Other tools seem not to produce this blocking effect, as they use a different working approach (state-based, using sessionIDs instead of log-in) which isn't compatible with the current stateless rclone approach.

    -

    Note that once blocked, the use of other tools (such as megacmd) is not a sure workaround: following megacmd login times have been observed in succession for blocked remote: 7 minutes, 20 min, 30min, 30 min, 30min. Web access looks unaffected though.

    -

    Investigation is continuing in relation to workarounds based on timeouts, pacers, retrials and tpslimits - if you discover something relevant, please post on the forum.

    -

    So, if rclone was working nicely and suddenly you are unable to log-in and you are sure the user and the password are correct, likely you have got the remote blocked for a while.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to mega (Mega).

    -

    --mega-user

    -

    User name.

    +

    List the contents of a directory

    +
    rclone ls remote:directory
    +

    Sync the remote directory to /home/local/directory, deleting any excess files.

    +
    rclone sync -i 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:
    +

    or:

    +
    rclone lsd :http,url='https://beta.rclone.org':
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to http (HTTP).

    +

    --http-url

    +

    URL of HTTP host to connect to.

    +

    E.g. "https://example.com", or "https://user:pass@example.com" to use a username and password.

    Properties:

    -

    --mega-pass

    -

    Password.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to http (HTTP).

    +

    --http-headers

    +

    Set HTTP headers for all transactions.

    +

    Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions.

    +

    The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs. Standard CSV encoding may be used.

    +

    For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

    +

    You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.

    Properties:

    -

    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.

    +

    --http-no-slash

    +

    Set this if the site doesn't end directories with /.

    +

    Use this if your target website does not use / on the end of directories.

    +

    A / on the end of a path is how rclone normally tells the difference between files and directories. If this flag is set, then rclone will treat all files with Content-Type: text/html as directories and read URLs from them rather than downloading them.

    +

    Note that this may cause rclone to confuse genuine HTML files with directories.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    --http-no-head

    +

    Don't use HEAD requests.

    +

    HEAD requests are mainly used to find file sizes in dir listing. If your site is being very slow to load then you can try this option. Normally rclone does a HEAD request for each potential file in a directory listing to:

    -

    --mega-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    If you set this option, rclone will not do the HEAD request. This will mean that directory listings are much quicker, but rclone won't have the times or sizes of any files, and some files that don't exist may be in the listing.

    Properties:

    -

    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.

    -

    Memory

    -

    The memory backend is an in RAM backend. It does not persist its data - use the local backend for that.

    -

    The memory backend behaves like a bucket-based remote (e.g. like s3). Because it has no parameters you can just use it with the :memory: remote name.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    You can configure it as a remote like this with rclone config too if you want to:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the HTTP backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Internet Archive

    +

    The Internet Archive backend utilizes Items on archive.org

    +

    Refer to IAS3 API documentation for the API this backend uses.

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:item/path/to/dir.

    +

    Unlike S3, listing up all items uploaded by you isn't supported.

    +

    Once you have made a remote, you can use it like this:

    +

    Make a new item

    +
    rclone mkdir remote:item
    +

    List the contents of a item

    +
    rclone ls remote:item
    +

    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote item, deleting any excess files in the item.

    +
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory remote:item
    +

    Notes

    +

    Because of Internet Archive's architecture, it enqueues write operations (and extra post-processings) in a per-item queue. You can check item's queue at https://catalogd.archive.org/history/item-name-here . Because of that, all uploads/deletes will not show up immediately and takes some time to be available. The per-item queue is enqueued to an another queue, Item Deriver Queue. You can check the status of Item Deriver Queue here. This queue has a limit, and it may block you from uploading, or even deleting. You should avoid uploading a lot of small files for better behavior.

    +

    You can optionally wait for the server's processing to finish, by setting non-zero value to wait_archive key. By making it wait, rclone can do normal file comparison. Make sure to set a large enough value (e.g. 30m0s for smaller files) as it can take a long time depending on server's queue.

    +

    About metadata

    +

    This backend supports setting, updating and reading metadata of each file. The metadata will appear as file metadata on Internet Archive. However, some fields are reserved by both Internet Archive and rclone.

    +

    The following are reserved by Internet Archive: - name - source - size - md5 - crc32 - sha1 - format - old_version - viruscheck - summation

    +

    Trying to set values to these keys is ignored with a warning. Only setting mtime is an exception. Doing so make it the identical behavior as setting ModTime.

    +

    rclone reserves all the keys starting with rclone-. Setting value for these keys will give you warnings, but values are set according to request.

    +

    If there are multiple values for a key, only the first one is returned. This is a limitation of rclone, that supports one value per one key. It can be triggered when you did a server-side copy.

    +

    Reading metadata will also provide custom (non-standard nor reserved) ones.

    +

    Filtering auto generated files

    +

    The Internet Archive automatically creates metadata files after upload. These can cause problems when doing an rclone sync as rclone will try, and fail, to delete them. These metadata files are not changeable, as they are created by the Internet Archive automatically.

    +

    These auto-created files can be excluded from the sync using metadata filtering.

    +
    rclone sync ... --metadata-exclude "source=metadata" --metadata-exclude "format=Metadata"
    +

    Which excludes from the sync any files which have the source=metadata or format=Metadata flags which are added to Internet Archive auto-created files.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making an internetarchive configuration. Most applies to the other providers as well, any differences are described below.

    +

    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
    +Option Storage.
     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]
    -XX / Memory
    -   \ "memory"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> memory
    -** See help for memory backend at: https://rclone.org/memory/ **
    -
    -Remote config
    -
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +XX / InternetArchive Items
    +   \ (internetarchive)
    +Storage> internetarchive
    +Option access_key_id.
    +IAS3 Access Key.
    +Leave blank for anonymous access.
    +You can find one here: https://archive.org/account/s3.php
    +Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
    +access_key_id> XXXX
    +Option secret_access_key.
    +IAS3 Secret Key (password).
    +Leave blank for anonymous access.
    +Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
    +secret_access_key> XXXX
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> y
    +Option endpoint.
    +IAS3 Endpoint.
    +Leave blank for default value.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (https://s3.us.archive.org).
    +endpoint> 
    +Option front_endpoint.
    +Host of InternetArchive Frontend.
    +Leave blank for default value.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (https://archive.org).
    +front_endpoint> 
    +Option disable_checksum.
    +Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.
    +Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before
    +uploading it so it can ask the server to check the object against checksum.
    +This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for
    +large files to start uploading.
    +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default (true).
    +disable_checksum> true
    +Option encoding.
    +The encoding for the backend.
    +See the [encoding section in the overview](https://rclone.org/overview/#encoding) for more info.
    +Enter a encoder.MultiEncoder value. Press Enter for the default (Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot).
    +encoding> 
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
     --------------------
     [remote]
    -type = memory
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -

    Because the memory backend isn't persistent it is most useful for testing or with an rclone server or rclone mount, e.g.

    -
    rclone mount :memory: /mnt/tmp
    -rclone serve webdav :memory:
    -rclone serve sftp :memory:
    -

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    The memory backend supports MD5 hashes and modification times accurate to 1 nS.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    The memory backend replaces the default restricted characters set.

    -

    Akamai NetStorage

    -

    Paths are specified as remote: You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:/path/to/dir. If you have a CP code you can use that as the folder after the domain such as <domain>/<cpcode>/<internal directories within cpcode>.

    -

    For example, this is commonly configured with or without a CP code: * With a CP code. [your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/subdirectory/ * Without a CP code. [your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net

    -

    See all buckets rclone lsd remote: The initial setup for Netstorage involves getting an account and secret. Use rclone config to walk you through the setup process.

    -

    Here's an example of how to make a remote called ns1.

    -
      -
    1. To begin the interactive configuration process, enter this command:
    2. -
    -
    rclone config
    -
      -
    1. Type n to create a new remote.
    2. -
    -
    n) New remote
    -d) Delete remote
    -q) Quit config
    -e/n/d/q> n
    -
      -
    1. For this example, enter ns1 when you reach the name> prompt.
    2. -
    -
    name> ns1
    -
      -
    1. Enter netstorage as the type of storage to configure.
    2. -
    -
    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
    -XX / NetStorage
    -   \ "netstorage"
    -Storage> netstorage
    -
      -
    1. Select between the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Most users should choose HTTPS, which is the default. HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.
    2. -
    -
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / HTTP protocol
    -   \ "http"
    - 2 / HTTPS protocol
    -   \ "https"
    -protocol> 1
    -
      -
    1. Specify your NetStorage host, CP code, and any necessary content paths using this format: <domain>/<cpcode>/<content>/
    2. -
    -
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -host> baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    -
      -
    1. Set the netstorage account name
    2. -
    -
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -account> username
    -
      -
    1. Set the Netstorage account secret/G2O key which will be used for authentication purposes. Select the y option to set your own password then enter your secret. Note: The secret is stored in the rclone.conf file with hex-encoded encryption.
    2. -
    -
    y) Yes type in my own password
    -g) Generate random password
    -y/g> y
    -Enter the password:
    -password:
    -Confirm the password:
    -password:
    -
      -
    1. View the summary and confirm your remote configuration.
    2. -
    -
    [ns1]
    -type = netstorage
    -protocol = http
    -host = baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    -account = username
    -secret = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +type = internetarchive
    +access_key_id = XXXX
    +secret_access_key = XXXX
     --------------------
     y) Yes this is OK (default)
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
     y/e/d> y
    -

    This remote is called ns1 and can now be used.

    -

    Example operations

    -

    Get started with rclone and NetStorage with these examples. For additional rclone commands, visit https://rclone.org/commands/.

    -
    See contents of a directory in your project
    -
    rclone lsd ns1:/974012/testing/
    -
    Sync the contents local with remote
    -
    rclone sync . ns1:/974012/testing/
    -
    Upload local content to remote
    -
    rclone copy notes.txt ns1:/974012/testing/
    -
    Delete content on remote
    -
    rclone delete ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt
    -
    Move or copy content between CP codes.
    -

    Your credentials must have access to two CP codes on the same remote. You can't perform operations between different remotes.

    -
    rclone move ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt ns1:/974450/testing2/
    - -

    The Netstorage backend changes the rclone --links, -l behavior. When uploading, instead of creating the .rclonelink file, use the "symlink" API in order to create the corresponding symlink on the remote. The .rclonelink file will not be created, the upload will be intercepted and only the symlink file that matches the source file name with no suffix will be created on the remote.

    -

    This will effectively allow commands like copy/copyto, move/moveto and sync to upload from local to remote and download from remote to local directories with symlinks. Due to internal rclone limitations, it is not possible to upload an individual symlink file to any remote backend. You can always use the "backend symlink" command to create a symlink on the NetStorage server, refer to "symlink" section below.

    -

    Individual symlink files on the remote can be used with the commands like "cat" to print the destination name, or "delete" to delete symlink, or copy, copy/to and move/moveto to download from the remote to local. Note: individual symlink files on the remote should be specified including the suffix .rclonelink.

    -

    Note: No file with the suffix .rclonelink should ever exist on the server since it is not possible to actually upload/create a file with .rclonelink suffix with rclone, it can only exist if it is manually created through a non-rclone method on the remote.

    -

    Implicit vs. Explicit Directories

    -

    With NetStorage, directories can exist in one of two forms:

    -
      -
    1. Explicit Directory. This is an actual, physical directory that you have created in a storage group.
    2. -
    3. Implicit Directory. This refers to a directory within a path that has not been physically created. For example, during upload of a file, non-existent subdirectories can be specified in the target path. NetStorage creates these as "implicit." While the directories aren't physically created, they exist implicitly and the noted path is connected with the uploaded file.
    4. -
    -

    Rclone will intercept all file uploads and mkdir commands for the NetStorage remote and will explicitly issue the mkdir command for each directory in the uploading path. This will help with the interoperability with the other Akamai services such as SFTP and the Content Management Shell (CMShell). Rclone will not guarantee correctness of operations with implicit directories which might have been created as a result of using an upload API directly.

    -

    ListR Feature

    -

    NetStorage remote supports the ListR feature by using the "list" NetStorage API action to return a lexicographical list of all objects within the specified CP code, recursing into subdirectories as they're encountered.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to internetarchive (Internet Archive).

    +

    --internetarchive-access-key-id

    +

    IAS3 Access Key.

    +

    Leave blank for anonymous access. You can find one here: https://archive.org/account/s3.php

    +

    Properties:

    -

    There are pros and cons of using the ListR method, refer to rclone documentation. In general, the sync command over an existing deep tree on the remote will run faster with the "--fast-list" flag but with extra memory usage as a side effect. It might also result in higher CPU utilization but the whole task can be completed faster.

    -

    Note: There is a known limitation that "lsf -R" will display number of files in the directory and directory size as -1 when ListR method is used. The workaround is to pass "--disable listR" flag if these numbers are important in the output.

    -

    Purge Feature

    -

    NetStorage remote supports the purge feature by using the "quick-delete" NetStorage API action. The quick-delete action is disabled by default for security reasons and can be enabled for the account through the Akamai portal. Rclone will first try to use quick-delete action for the purge command and if this functionality is disabled then will fall back to a standard delete method.

    -

    Note: Read the NetStorage Usage API for considerations when using "quick-delete". In general, using quick-delete method will not delete the tree immediately and objects targeted for quick-delete may still be accessible.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

    -

    --netstorage-host

    -

    Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to.

    -

    Format should be <domain>/<internal folders>

    +

    --internetarchive-secret-access-key

    +

    IAS3 Secret Key (password).

    +

    Leave blank for anonymous access.

    Properties:

    -

    --netstorage-account

    -

    Set the NetStorage account name

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to internetarchive (Internet Archive).

    +

    --internetarchive-endpoint

    +

    IAS3 Endpoint.

    +

    Leave blank for default value.

    Properties:

    -

    --netstorage-secret

    -

    Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication.

    -

    Please choose the 'y' option to set your own password then enter your secret.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --internetarchive-front-endpoint

    +

    Host of InternetArchive Frontend.

    +

    Leave blank for default value.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

    -

    --netstorage-protocol

    -

    Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

    -

    Most users should choose HTTPS, which is the default. HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.

    +

    --internetarchive-disable-checksum

    +

    Don't ask the server to test against MD5 checksum calculated by rclone. Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before uploading it so it can ask the server to check the object against checksum. This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files to start uploading.

    Properties:

    +

    --internetarchive-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    - +
  • Config: encoding
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_INTERNETARCHIVE_ENCODING
  • +
  • Type: MultiEncoder
  • +
  • Default: Slash,LtGt,CrLf,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
  • -

    Backend commands

    -

    Here are the commands specific to the netstorage backend.

    -

    Run them with

    -
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    -

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    -

    See the "rclone backend" command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    -

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    -

    du

    -

    Return disk usage information for a specified directory

    -
    rclone backend du remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    The usage information returned, includes the targeted directory as well as all files stored in any sub-directories that may exist.

    - -

    You can create a symbolic link in ObjectStore with the symlink action.

    -
    rclone backend symlink remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    -

    The desired path location (including applicable sub-directories) ending in the object that will be the target of the symlink (for example, /links/mylink). Include the file extension for the object, if applicable. rclone backend symlink <src> <path>

    -

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:container/path/to/dir.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of making a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage configuration. For a remote called remote. First run:

    -
     rclone config
    +

    Metadata

    +

    Metadata fields provided by Internet Archive. If there are multiple values for a key, only the first one is returned. This is a limitation of Rclone, that supports one value per one key.

    +

    Owner is able to add custom keys. Metadata feature grabs all the keys including them.

    +

    Here are the possible system metadata items for the internetarchive backend.

    + +++++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    NameHelpTypeExampleRead Only
    crc32CRC32 calculated by Internet Archivestring01234567Y
    formatName of format identified by Internet ArchivestringComma-Separated ValuesY
    md5MD5 hash calculated by Internet Archivestring01234567012345670123456701234567Y
    mtimeTime of last modification, managed by RcloneRFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999ZY
    nameFull file path, without the bucket partfilenamebackend/internetarchive/internetarchive.goY
    old_versionWhether the file was replaced and moved by keep-old-version flagbooleantrueY
    rclone-ia-mtimeTime of last modification, managed by Internet ArchiveRFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999ZN
    rclone-mtimeTime of last modification, managed by RcloneRFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999ZN
    rclone-update-trackRandom value used by Rclone for tracking changes inside Internet ArchivestringaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaN
    sha1SHA1 hash calculated by Internet Archivestring0123456701234567012345670123456701234567Y
    sizeFile size in bytesdecimal number123456Y
    sourceThe source of the filestringoriginalY
    summationCheck https://forum.rclone.org/t/31922 for how it is usedstringmd5Y
    viruscheckThe last time viruscheck process was run for the file (?)unixtime1654191352Y
    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    Jottacloud

    +

    Jottacloud is a cloud storage service provider from a Norwegian company, using its own datacenters in Norway. In addition to the official service at jottacloud.com, it also provides white-label solutions to different companies, such as: * Telia * Telia Cloud (cloud.telia.se) * Telia Sky (sky.telia.no) * Tele2 * Tele2 Cloud (mittcloud.tele2.se) * Elkjøp (with subsidiaries): * Elkjøp Cloud (cloud.elkjop.no) * Elgiganten Sweden (cloud.elgiganten.se) * Elgiganten Denmark (cloud.elgiganten.dk) * Giganti Cloud (cloud.gigantti.fi) * ELKO Cloud (cloud.elko.is)

    +

    Most of the white-label versions are supported by this backend, although may require different authentication setup - described below.

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Authentication types

    +

    Some of the whitelabel versions uses a different authentication method than the official service, and you have to choose the correct one when setting up the remote.

    +

    Standard authentication

    +

    The standard authentication method used by the official service (jottacloud.com), as well as some of the whitelabel services, requires you to generate a single-use personal login token from the account security settings in the service's web interface. Log in to your account, go to "Settings" and then "Security", or use the direct link presented to you by rclone when configuring the remote: https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure. Scroll down to the section "Personal login token", and click the "Generate" button. Note that if you are using a whitelabel service you probably can't use the direct link, you need to find the same page in their dedicated web interface, and also it may be in a different location than described above.

    +

    To access your account from multiple instances of rclone, you need to configure each of them with a separate personal login token. E.g. you create a Jottacloud remote with rclone in one location, and copy the configuration file to a second location where you also want to run rclone and access the same remote. Then you need to replace the token for one of them, using the config reconnect command, which requires you to generate a new personal login token and supply as input. If you do not do this, the token may easily end up being invalidated, resulting in both instances failing with an error message something along the lines of:

    +
    oauth2: cannot fetch token: 400 Bad Request
    +Response: {"error":"invalid_grant","error_description":"Stale token"}
    +

    When this happens, you need to replace the token as described above to be able to use your remote again.

    +

    All personal login tokens you have taken into use will be listed in the web interface under "My logged in devices", and from the right side of that list you can click the "X" button to revoke individual tokens.

    +

    Legacy authentication

    +

    If you are using one of the whitelabel versions (e.g. from Elkjøp) you may not have the option to generate a CLI token. In this case you'll have to use the legacy authentication. To do this select yes when the setup asks for legacy authentication and enter your username and password. The rest of the setup is identical to the default setup.

    +

    Telia Cloud authentication

    +

    Similar to other whitelabel versions Telia Cloud doesn't offer the option of creating a CLI token, and additionally uses a separate authentication flow where the username is generated internally. To setup rclone to use Telia Cloud, choose Telia Cloud authentication in the setup. The rest of the setup is identical to the default setup.

    +

    Tele2 Cloud authentication

    +

    As Tele2-Com Hem merger was completed this authentication can be used for former Com Hem Cloud and Tele2 Cloud customers as no support for creating a CLI token exists, and additionally uses a separate authentication flow where the username is generated internally. To setup rclone to use Tele2 Cloud, choose Tele2 Cloud authentication in the setup. The rest of the setup is identical to the default setup.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote with the default setup. First run:

    +
    rclone config

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

    No remotes found, make a new one?
     n) New remote
    @@ -19798,45 +22232,102 @@ 

    Configuration

    q) Quit config n/s/q> n name> remote +Option Storage. Type of storage to configure. -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value. [snip] -XX / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage - \ "azureblob" +XX / Jottacloud + \ (jottacloud) [snip] -Storage> azureblob -Storage Account Name -account> account_name -Storage Account Key -key> base64encodedkey== -Endpoint for the service - leave blank normally. -endpoint> -Remote config +Storage> jottacloud +Edit advanced config? +y) Yes +n) No (default) +y/n> n +Option config_type. +Select authentication type. +Choose a number from below, or type in an existing string value. +Press Enter for the default (standard). + / Standard authentication. + 1 | Use this if you're a normal Jottacloud user. + \ (standard) + / Legacy authentication. + 2 | This is only required for certain whitelabel versions of Jottacloud and not recommended for normal users. + \ (legacy) + / Telia Cloud authentication. + 3 | Use this if you are using Telia Cloud. + \ (telia) + / Tele2 Cloud authentication. + 4 | Use this if you are using Tele2 Cloud. + \ (tele2) +config_type> 1 +Personal login token. +Generate here: https://www.jottacloud.com/web/secure +Login Token> <your token here> +Use a non-standard device/mountpoint? +Choosing no, the default, will let you access the storage used for the archive +section of the official Jottacloud client. If you instead want to access the +sync or the backup section, for example, you must choose yes. +y) Yes +n) No (default) +y/n> y +Option config_device. +The device to use. In standard setup the built-in Jotta device is used, +which contains predefined mountpoints for archive, sync etc. All other devices +are treated as backup devices by the official Jottacloud client. You may create +a new by entering a unique name. +Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value. +Press Enter for the default (DESKTOP-3H31129). + 1 > DESKTOP-3H31129 + 2 > Jotta +config_device> 2 +Option config_mountpoint. +The mountpoint to use for the built-in device Jotta. +The standard setup is to use the Archive mountpoint. Most other mountpoints +have very limited support in rclone and should generally be avoided. +Choose a number from below, or type in an existing string value. +Press Enter for the default (Archive). + 1 > Archive + 2 > Shared + 3 > Sync +config_mountpoint> 1 -------------------- [remote] -account = account_name -key = base64encodedkey== -endpoint = +type = jottacloud +configVersion = 1 +client_id = jottacli +client_secret = +tokenURL = https://id.jottacloud.com/auth/realms/jottacloud/protocol/openid-connect/token +token = {........} +username = 2940e57271a93d987d6f8a21 +device = Jotta +mountpoint = Archive -------------------- -y) Yes this is OK +y) Yes this is OK (default) e) Edit this remote d) Delete this remote y/e/d> y
    -

    See all containers

    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your Jottacloud

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:container
    -

    --fast-list

    +

    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
    +

    Devices and Mountpoints

    +

    The official Jottacloud client registers a device for each computer you install it on, and shows them in the backup section of the user interface. For each folder you select for backup it will create a mountpoint within this device. A built-in device called Jotta is special, and contains mountpoints Archive, Sync and some others, used for corresponding features in official clients.

    +

    With rclone you'll want to use the standard Jotta/Archive device/mountpoint in most cases. However, you may for example want to access files from the sync or backup functionality provided by the official clients, and rclone therefore provides the option to select other devices and mountpoints during config.

    +

    You are allowed to create new devices and mountpoints. All devices except the built-in Jotta device are treated as backup devices by official Jottacloud clients, and the mountpoints on them are individual backup sets.

    +

    With the built-in Jotta device, only existing, built-in, mountpoints can be selected. In addition to the mentioned Archive and Sync, it may contain several other mountpoints such as: Latest, Links, Shared and Trash. All of these are special mountpoints with a different internal representation than the "regular" mountpoints. Rclone will only to a very limited degree support them. Generally you should avoid these, unless you know what you are doing.

    +

    --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.

    -

    Performance

    -

    When uploading large files, increasing the value of --azureblob-upload-concurrency will increase performance at the cost of using more memory. The default of 16 is set quite conservatively to use less memory. It maybe be necessary raise it to 64 or higher to fully utilize a 1 GBit/s link with a single file transfer.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    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.

    +

    Note also that with rclone version 1.58 and newer information about MIME types are not available when using --fast-list.

    +

    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 (in location given by --temp-dir) before it is uploaded. Small files will be cached in memory - see the --jottacloud-md5-memory-limit flag. When uploading from local disk the source checksum is always available, so this does not apply. Starting with rclone version 1.52 the same is true for crypted remotes (in older versions the crypt backend would not calculate hashes for uploads from local disk, so the Jottacloud backend had to do it as described above).

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -19848,412 +22339,545 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - + + + - - - + + + - -
    /0x2F"0x22
    \0x5C*0x2A
    -

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    - - - - - - + + + + + + + + + - - - - - + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    :0x3A
    <0x3C
    .0x2E>0x3E
    ?0x3F
    |0x7C
    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

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    Hashes

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    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, e.g. the local disk.

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    Authenticating with Azure Blob Storage

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    Rclone has 3 ways of authenticating with Azure Blob Storage:

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    Account and Key

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    This is the most straight forward and least flexible way. Just fill in the account and key lines and leave the rest blank.

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    SAS URL

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    This can be an account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL.

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    To use it leave account, key blank and fill in sas_url.

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    An account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL can be obtained from the Azure portal or the Azure Storage Explorer. To get a container level SAS URL right click on a container in the Azure Blob explorer in the Azure portal.

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    If you use a container level SAS URL, rclone operations are permitted only on a particular container, e.g.

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    rclone ls azureblob:container
    -

    You can also list the single container from the root. This will only show the container specified by the SAS URL.

    -
    $ rclone lsd azureblob:
    -container/
    -

    Note that you can't see or access any other containers - this will fail

    -
    rclone ls azureblob:othercontainer
    -

    Container level SAS URLs are useful for temporarily allowing third parties access to a single container or putting credentials into an untrusted environment such as a CI build server.

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    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

    -

    --azureblob-account

    -

    Storage Account Name.

    -

    Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator.

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    +

    Deleting files

    +

    By default, rclone will send all files to the trash when deleting files. They will be permanently deleted automatically after 30 days. You may bypass the trash and permanently delete files immediately by using the --jottacloud-hard-delete flag, or set the equivalent environment variable. Emptying the trash is supported by the cleanup command.

    +

    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.

    +

    Versioning can be disabled by --jottacloud-no-versions option. This is achieved by deleting the remote file prior to uploading a new version. If the upload the fails no version of the file will be available in the remote.

    +

    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.

    +

    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.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-service-principal-file

    -

    Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal.

    -

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want to use a service principal instead of interactive login.

    -
    $ az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "<name>" \
    -  --role "Storage Blob Data Owner" \
    -  --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<storage-account>/blobServices/default/containers/<container>" \
    -  > azure-principal.json
    -

    See "Create an Azure service principal" and "Assign an Azure role for access to blob data" pages for more details.

    +

    --jottacloud-trashed-only

    +

    Only show files that are in the trash.

    +

    This will show trashed files in their original directory structure.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-key

    -

    Storage Account Key.

    -

    Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator.

    +

    --jottacloud-hard-delete

    +

    Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-sas-url

    -

    SAS URL for container level access only.

    -

    Leave blank if using account/key or Emulator.

    +

    --jottacloud-upload-resume-limit

    +

    Files bigger than this can be resumed if the upload fail's.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-use-msi

    -

    Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure).

    -

    When true, use a managed service identity to authenticate to Azure Storage instead of a SAS token or account key.

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    If the VM(SS) on which this program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will be used by default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one user-assigned identity, the user-assigned identity will be used by default. If the resource has multiple user-assigned identities, the identity to use must be explicitly specified using exactly one of the msi_object_id, msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id parameters.

    +

    --jottacloud-no-versions

    +

    Avoid server side versioning by deleting files and recreating files instead of overwriting them.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-use-emulator

    -

    Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'.

    -

    Leave blank if using real azure storage endpoint.

    +

    --jottacloud-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

    -

    --azureblob-msi-object-id

    -

    Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    -

    Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

    +

    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.

    +

    Koofr

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for Koofr involves creating an application password for rclone. You can do that by opening the Koofr web application, giving the password a nice name like rclone and clicking on generate.

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called koofr. 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> koofr
    +Option Storage.
    +Type of storage to configure.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +[snip]
    +22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
    +   \ (koofr)
    +[snip]
    +Storage> koofr
    +Option provider.
    +Choose your storage provider.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +Press Enter to leave empty.
    + 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
    +   \ (koofr)
    + 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
    +   \ (digistorage)
    + 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
    +   \ (other)
    +provider> 1    
    +Option user.
    +Your user name.
    +Enter a value.
    +user> USERNAME
    +Option password.
    +Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password).
    +Choose an alternative below.
    +y) Yes, type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[koofr]
    +type = koofr
    +provider = koofr
    +user = USERNAME
    +password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    You can choose to edit advanced config in order to enter your own service URL if you use an on-premise or white label Koofr instance, or choose an alternative mount instead of your primary storage.

    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your Koofr

    +
    rclone lsd koofr:
    +

    List all the files in your Koofr

    +
    rclone ls koofr:
    +

    To copy a local directory to an Koofr directory called backup

    +
    rclone copy /home/source koofr:backup
    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to koofr (Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers).

    +

    --koofr-provider

    +

    Choose your storage provider.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-msi-client-id

    -

    Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    -

    Leave blank if msi_object_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

    +

    --koofr-endpoint

    +

    The Koofr API endpoint to use.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id

    -

    Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    -

    Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_object_id specified.

    +

    --koofr-user

    +

    Your user name.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-endpoint

    -

    Endpoint for the service.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    --koofr-password

    +

    Your password for rclone (generate one at https://app.koofr.net/app/admin/preferences/password).

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-upload-cutoff

    -

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated).

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-chunk-size

    -

    Upload chunk size.

    -

    Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to "--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once in memory.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-upload-concurrency

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    Concurrency for multipart uploads.

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    This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently.

    -

    If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

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    In tests, upload speed increases almost linearly with upload concurrency. For example to fill a gigabit pipe it may be necessary to raise this to 64. Note that this will use more memory.

    -

    Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to "--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once in memory.

    +

    --koofr-password

    +

    Your password for rclone (generate one at https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/app/admin/preferences/password).

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --koofr-password

    +

    Your password for rclone (generate one at your service's settings page).

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --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".

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to koofr (Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers).

    +

    --koofr-mountid

    +

    Mount ID of the mount to use.

    +

    If omitted, the primary mount is used.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-archive-tier-delete

    -

    Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting.

    -

    Archive tier blobs cannot be updated. So without this flag, if you attempt to update an archive tier blob, then rclone will produce the error:

    -
    can't update archive tier blob without --azureblob-archive-tier-delete
    -

    With this flag set then before rclone attempts to overwrite an archive tier blob, it will delete the existing blob before uploading its replacement. This has the potential for data loss if the upload fails (unlike updating a normal blob) and also may cost more since deleting archive tier blobs early may be chargable.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-disable-checksum

    -

    Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

    -

    Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files to start uploading.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-memory-pool-flush-time

    -

    How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed.

    -

    Uploads which requires additional buffers (f.e multipart) will use memory pool for allocations. This option controls how often unused buffers will be removed from the pool.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-memory-pool-use-mmap

    -

    Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool.

    +

    --koofr-setmtime

    +

    Does the backend support setting modification time.

    +

    Set this to false if you use a mount ID that points to a Dropbox or Amazon Drive backend.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-encoding

    +

    --koofr-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    --azureblob-public-access

    -

    Public access level of a container: blob or container.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --azureblob-no-head-object

    -

    If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    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.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the Microsoft Azure Blob storage backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Azure Storage Emulator Support

    -

    You can test rclone with storage emulator locally, to do this make sure azure storage emulator installed locally and set up a new remote with rclone config follow instructions described in introduction, set use_emulator config as true, you do not need to provide default account name or key if using emulator.

    -

    Microsoft OneDrive

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    Note that Koofr is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    +

    Providers

    +

    Koofr

    +

    This is the original Koofr storage provider used as main example and described in the configuration section above.

    +

    Digi Storage

    +

    Digi Storage is a cloud storage service run by Digi.ro that provides a Koofr API.

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called ds. First run:

     rclone config

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

    -
    e) Edit existing remote
    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
     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
    +n/s/q> n
    +name> ds
    +Option Storage.
     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
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
     [snip]
    -XX / Microsoft OneDrive
    -   \ "onedrive"
    +22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
    +   \ (koofr)
     [snip]
    -Storage> onedrive
    -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)
    +Storage> koofr
    +Option provider.
    +Choose your storage provider.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +Press Enter to leave empty.
    + 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
    +   \ (koofr)
    + 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
    +   \ (digistorage)
    + 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
    +   \ (other)
    +provider> 2
    +Option user.
    +Your user name.
    +Enter a value.
    +user> USERNAME
    +Option password.
    +Your password for rclone (generate one at https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/app/admin/preferences/password).
    +Choose an alternative below.
    +y) Yes, type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +Edit advanced config?
     y) Yes
    -n) No
    +n) No (default)
     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
    +[ds]
    +type = koofr
    +provider = digistorage
    +user = USERNAME
    +password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +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

    +

    Other

    +

    You may also want to use another, public or private storage provider that runs a Koofr API compatible service, by simply providing the base URL to connect to.

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called other. 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> other
    +Option Storage.
    +Type of storage to configure.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +[snip]
    +22 / Koofr, Digi Storage and other Koofr-compatible storage providers
    +   \ (koofr)
    +[snip]
    +Storage> koofr
    +Option provider.
    +Choose your storage provider.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +Press Enter to leave empty.
    + 1 / Koofr, https://app.koofr.net/
    +   \ (koofr)
    + 2 / Digi Storage, https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/
    +   \ (digistorage)
    + 3 / Any other Koofr API compatible storage service
    +   \ (other)
    +provider> 3
    +Option endpoint.
    +The Koofr API endpoint to use.
    +Enter a value.
    +endpoint> https://koofr.other.org
    +Option user.
    +Your user name.
    +Enter a value.
    +user> USERNAME
    +Option password.
    +Your password for rclone (generate one at your service's settings page).
    +Choose an alternative below.
    +y) Yes, type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +--------------------
    +[other]
    +type = koofr
    +provider = other
    +endpoint = https://koofr.other.org
    +user = USERNAME
    +password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Mail.ru Cloud

    +

    Mail.ru Cloud is a cloud storage provided by a Russian internet company Mail.Ru Group. The official desktop client is Disk-O:, available on Windows and Mac OS.

    +

    Currently it is recommended to disable 2FA on Mail.ru accounts intended for rclone until it gets eventually implemented.

    +

    Features highlights

    + +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making a mailru configuration.

    +

    First create a Mail.ru Cloud account and choose a tariff.

    +

    You will need to log in and create an app password for rclone. Rclone will not work with your normal username and password - it will give an error like oauth2: server response missing access_token.

    + +

    Now 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.
    +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]
    +XX / Mail.ru Cloud
    +   \ "mailru"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> mailru
    +User name (usually email)
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +user> username@mail.ru
    +Password
    +
    +This must be an app password - rclone will not work with your normal
    +password. See the Configuration section in the docs for how to make an
    +app password.
    +y) Yes type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash.
    +This feature is called "speedup" or "put by hash". It is especially efficient
    +in case of generally available files like popular books, video or audio clips
    +[snip]
    +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("true").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Enable
    +   \ "true"
    + 2 / Disable
    +   \ "false"
    +speedup_enable> 1
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = mailru
    +user = username@mail.ru
    +pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +speedup_enable = true
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Configuration of this backend does not require a local web browser. You can use the configured backend as shown below:

    +

    See top level directories

    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

    -

    You can use your own Client ID if the default (client_id left blank) one doesn't work for you or you see lots of throttling. The default Client ID and Key is shared by all rclone users when performing requests.

    -

    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:

    -
      -
    1. Open https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_RegisteredApps/ApplicationsListBlade and then click New registration.
    2. -
    3. Enter a name for your app, choose account type Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox), select Web in Redirect URI, then type (do not copy and paste) http://localhost:53682/ and click Register. Copy and keep the Application (client) ID under the app name for later use.
    4. -
    5. Under manage select Certificates & secrets, click New client secret. Enter a description (can be anything) and set Expires to 24 months. Copy and keep that secret Value for later use (you won't be able to see this value afterwards).
    6. -
    7. Under manage select API permissions, click Add a permission and select Microsoft Graph then select delegated permissions.
    8. -
    9. Search and select the following permissions: Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, offline_access, User.Read, and optionally Sites.Read.All (see below). Once selected click Add permissions at the bottom.
    10. -
    -

    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.

    -

    The Sites.Read.All permission is required if you need to search SharePoint sites when configuring the remote. However, if that permission is not assigned, you need to set disable_site_permission option to true in the advanced options.

    -

    Modification 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.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    +

    Modified time

    +

    Files support a modification time attribute with up to 1 second precision. Directories do not have a modification time, which is shown as "Jan 1 1970".

    +

    Hash checksums

    +

    Hash sums use a custom Mail.ru algorithm based on SHA1. If file size is less than or equal to the SHA1 block size (20 bytes), its hash is simply its data right-padded with zero bytes. Hash sum of a larger file is computed as a SHA1 sum of the file data bytes concatenated with a decimal representation of the data length.

    +

    Emptying Trash

    +

    Removing a file or directory actually moves it to the trash, which is not visible to rclone but can be seen in a web browser. The trashed file still occupies part of total quota. If you wish to empty your trash and free some quota, 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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -20306,407 +22930,238 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    .0x2E
    -

    File names can also not begin with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first character in the name:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    ~0x7E

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    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

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to mailru (Mail.ru Cloud).

    +

    --mailru-user

    +

    User name (usually email).

    Properties:

    -

    --onedrive-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    --mailru-pass

    +

    Password.

    +

    This must be an app password - rclone will not work with your normal password. See the Configuration section in the docs for how to make an app password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --onedrive-region

    -

    Choose national cloud region for OneDrive.

    +

    --mailru-speedup-enable

    +

    Skip full upload if there is another file with same data hash.

    +

    This feature is called "speedup" or "put by hash". It is especially efficient in case of generally available files like popular books, video or audio clips, because files are searched by hash in all accounts of all mailru users. It is meaningless and ineffective if source file is unique or encrypted. Please note that rclone may need local memory and disk space to calculate content hash in advance and decide whether full upload is required. Also, if rclone does not know file size in advance (e.g. in case of streaming or partial uploads), it will not even try this optimization.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

    -

    --onedrive-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --onedrive-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to mailru (Mail.ru Cloud).

    +

    --mailru-speedup-file-patterns

    +

    Comma separated list of file name patterns eligible for speedup (put by hash).

    +

    Patterns are case insensitive and can contain '*' or '?' meta characters.

    Properties:

    -

    --onedrive-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Default: ".mkv,.avi,.mp4,.mp3,.zip,.gz,.rar,.pdf"
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: token_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TOKEN_URL
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-chunk-size

    -

    Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes).

    -

    Above this size files will be chunked - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) and should not exceed 250M (262,144,000 bytes) else you may encounter "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.InvalidClientQueryException: The request message is too big." Note that the chunks will be buffered into memory.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • ""
      -
    • Config: chunk_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
    • -
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 10Mi
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-drive-id

    -

    The ID of the drive to use.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Empty list completely disables speedup (put by hash).
  • + +
  • "*"
      -
    • Config: drive_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-drive-type

    -

    The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary).

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • All files will be attempted for speedup.
  • + +
  • ".mkv,.avi,.mp4,.mp3"
      -
    • Config: drive_type
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_TYPE
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-root-folder-id

    -

    ID of the root folder.

    -

    This isn't normally needed, but in special circumstances you might know the folder ID that you wish to access but not be able to get there through a path traversal.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Only common audio/video files will be tried for put by hash.
  • + +
  • ".zip,.gz,.rar,.pdf"
      -
    • Config: root_folder_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Only common archives or PDF books will be tried for speedup.
    • +
  • + -

    --onedrive-disable-site-permission

    -

    Disable the request for Sites.Read.All permission.

    -

    If set to true, you will no longer be able to search for a SharePoint site when configuring drive ID, because rclone will not request Sites.Read.All permission. Set it to true if your organization didn't assign Sites.Read.All permission to the application, and your organization disallows users to consent app permission request on their own.

    +

    --mailru-speedup-max-disk

    +

    This option allows you to disable speedup (put by hash) for large files.

    +

    Reason is that preliminary hashing can exhaust your RAM or disk space.

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: speedup_max_disk
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_MAILRU_SPEEDUP_MAX_DISK
  • +
  • Type: SizeSuffix
  • +
  • Default: 3Gi
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: expose_onenote_files
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_EXPOSE_ONENOTE_FILES
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-server-side-across-configs

    -

    Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different onedrive configs.

    -

    This will only work if you are copying between two OneDrive Personal drives AND the files to copy are already shared between them. In other cases, rclone will fall back to normal copy (which will be slightly slower).

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "0"
      -
    • Config: server_side_across_configs
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_SERVER_SIDE_ACROSS_CONFIGS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-list-chunk

    -

    Size of listing chunk.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Completely disable speedup (put by hash).
  • + +
  • "1G"
      -
    • Config: list_chunk
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 1000
    • -
    -

    --onedrive-no-versions

    -

    Remove all versions on modifying operations.

    -

    Onedrive for business creates versions when rclone uploads new files overwriting an existing one and when it sets the modification time.

    -

    These versions take up space out of the quota.

    -

    This flag checks for versions after file upload and setting modification time and removes all but the last version.

    -

    NB Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions so don't use this flag there.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Files larger than 1Gb will be uploaded directly.
  • + +
  • "3G"
      -
    • Config: no_versions
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_NO_VERSIONS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • +
    • Choose this option if you have less than 3Gb free on local disk.
    • +
  • + - -

    Set the scope of the links created by the link command.

    +

    --mailru-speedup-max-memory

    +

    Files larger than the size given below will always be hashed on disk.

    Properties:

    - -

    Set the type of the links created by the link command.

    +

    --mailru-check-hash

    +

    What should copy do if file checksum is mismatched or invalid.

    Properties:

    - -

    Set the password for links created by the link command.

    -

    At the time of writing this only works with OneDrive personal paid accounts.

    +

    --mailru-user-agent

    +

    HTTP user agent used internally by client.

    +

    Defaults to "rclone/VERSION" or "--user-agent" provided on command line.

    Properties:

    -

    --onedrive-encoding

    +

    --mailru-quirks

    +

    Comma separated list of internal maintenance flags.

    +

    This option must not be used by an ordinary user. It is intended only to facilitate remote troubleshooting of backend issues. Strict meaning of flags is not documented and not guaranteed to persist between releases. Quirks will be removed when the backend grows stable. Supported quirks: atomicmkdir binlist unknowndirs

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --mailru-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Limitations

    -

    If you don't use rclone for 90 days the refresh token will expire. This will result in authorization problems. This is easy to fix by running the rclone config reconnect remote: command to get a new token and refresh token.

    -

    Naming

    -

    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.

    -

    File sizes

    -

    The largest allowed file size is 250 GiB for both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business (Updated 13 Jan 2021).

    -

    Path length

    -

    The entire path, including the file name, must contain fewer than 400 characters for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. If you are encrypting file and folder names with rclone, you may want to pay attention to this limitation because the encrypted names are typically longer than the original ones.

    -

    Number of files

    -

    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.

    -

    An official document about the limitations for different types of OneDrive can be found here.

    -

    Versions

    -

    Every change in a file OneDrive causes the service to create a new version of the the file. This counts against a users quota. For example changing the modification time of a file creates a second version, so the file apparently uses twice the space.

    -

    For example the copy command is affected by this as rclone copies the file and then afterwards sets the modification time to match the source file which uses another version.

    -

    You can use the rclone cleanup command (see below) to remove all old versions.

    -

    Or you can set the no_versions parameter to true and rclone will remove versions after operations which create new versions. This takes extra transactions so only enable it if you need it.

    -

    Note At the time of writing Onedrive Personal creates versions (but not for setting the modification time) but the API for removing them returns "API not found" so cleanup and no_versions should not be used on Onedrive Personal.

    -

    Disabling versioning

    -

    Starting October 2018, users will no longer be able to disable versioning by default. This is because Microsoft has brought an update to the mechanism. To change this new default setting, a PowerShell command is required to be run by a SharePoint admin. If you are an admin, you can run these commands in PowerShell to change that setting:

    -
      -
    1. Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell (in case you haven't installed this already)
    2. -
    3. Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking
    4. -
    5. Connect-SPOService -Url https://YOURSITE-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential YOU@YOURSITE.COM (replacing YOURSITE, YOU, YOURSITE.COM with the actual values; this will prompt for your credentials)
    6. -
    7. Set-SPOTenant -EnableMinimumVersionRequirement $False
    8. -
    9. Disconnect-SPOService (to disconnect from the server)
    10. -
    -

    Below are the steps for normal users to disable versioning. If you don't see the "No Versioning" option, make sure the above requirements are met.

    -

    User Weropol has found a method to disable versioning on OneDrive

    -
      -
    1. Open the settings menu by clicking on the gear symbol at the top of the OneDrive Business page.
    2. -
    3. Click Site settings.
    4. -
    5. Once on the Site settings page, navigate to Site Administration > Site libraries and lists.
    6. -
    7. Click Customize "Documents".
    8. -
    9. Click General Settings > Versioning Settings.
    10. -
    11. 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.
    12. -
    13. Apply the changes by clicking OK.
    14. -
    15. Use rclone to upload or modify files. (I also use the --no-update-modtime flag)
    16. -
    17. Restore the versioning settings after using rclone. (Optional)
    18. -
    -

    Cleanup

    -

    OneDrive supports rclone cleanup which causes rclone to look through every file under the path supplied and delete all version but the current version. Because this involves traversing all the files, then querying each file for versions it can be quite slow. Rclone does --checkers tests in parallel. The command also supports -i which is a great way to see what it would do.

    -
    rclone cleanup -i remote:path/subdir # interactively remove all old version for path/subdir
    -rclone cleanup remote:path/subdir    # unconditionally remove all old version for path/subdir
    -

    NB Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions

    -

    Troubleshooting

    -

    Excessive throttling or blocked on SharePoint

    -

    If you experience excessive throttling or is being blocked on SharePoint then it may help to set the user agent explicitly with a flag like this: --user-agent "ISV|rclone.org|rclone/v1.55.1"

    -

    The specific details can be found in the Microsoft document: Avoid getting throttled or blocked in SharePoint Online

    -

    Unexpected file size/hash differences on Sharepoint

    -

    It is a known issue that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) silently modifies uploaded files, mainly Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.), causing file size and hash checks to fail. There are also other situations that will cause OneDrive to report inconsistent file sizes. To use rclone with such affected files on Sharepoint, you may disable these checks with the following command line arguments:

    -
    --ignore-checksum --ignore-size
    -

    Alternatively, if you have write access to the OneDrive files, it may be possible to fix this problem for certain files, by attempting the steps below. Open the web interface for OneDrive and find the affected files (which will be in the error messages/log for rclone). Simply click on each of these files, causing OneDrive to open them on the web. This will cause each file to be converted in place to a format that is functionally equivalent but which will no longer trigger the size discrepancy. Once all problematic files are converted you will no longer need the ignore options above.

    -

    Replacing/deleting existing files on Sharepoint gets "item not found"

    -

    It is a known issue that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) may return "item not found" errors when users try to replace or delete uploaded files; this seems to mainly affect Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.). As a workaround, you may use the --backup-dir <BACKUP_DIR> command line argument so rclone moves the files to be replaced/deleted into a given backup directory (instead of directly replacing/deleting them). For example, to instruct rclone to move the files into the directory rclone-backup-dir on backend mysharepoint, you may use:

    -
    --backup-dir mysharepoint:rclone-backup-dir
    -

    access_denied (AADSTS65005)

    -
    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

    -

    invalid_grant (AADSTS50076)

    -
    Error: invalid_grant
    -Code: AADSTS50076
    -Description: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '...'.
    -

    If you see the error above after enabling multi-factor authentication for your account, you can fix it by refreshing your OAuth refresh token. To do that, run rclone config, and choose to edit your OneDrive backend. Then, you don't need to actually make any changes until you reach this question: Already have a token - refresh?. For this question, answer y and go through the process to refresh your token, just like the first time the backend is configured. After this, rclone should work again for this backend.

    - -

    On Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business, rclone link may return an "Invalid request" error. A possible cause is that the organisation admin didn't allow public links to be made for the organisation/sharepoint library. To fix the permissions as an admin, take a look at the docs: 1, 2.

    -

    OpenDrive

    +

    Limitations

    +

    File size limits depend on your account. A single file size is limited by 2G for a free account and unlimited for paid tariffs. Please refer to the Mail.ru site for the total uploaded size limits.

    +

    Note that Mailru is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    +

    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, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    +

    Configuration

    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
    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
    +n) New remote
    +s) Set configuration password
     q) Quit config
    -e/n/d/q> n
    +n/s/q> n
     name> remote
     Type of storage to configure.
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
     [snip]
    -XX / OpenDrive
    -   \ "opendrive"
    +XX / Mega
    +   \ "mega"
     [snip]
    -Storage> opendrive
    -Username
    -username>
    -Password
    +Storage> mega
    +User name
    +user> you@example.com
    +Password.
     y) Yes type in my own password
     g) Generate random password
    -y/g> y
    +n) No leave this optional password blank
    +y/g/n> y
     Enter the password:
     password:
     Confirm the password:
     password:
    +Remote config
     --------------------
     [remote]
    -username =
    -password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +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
    -

    List directories in top level of your OpenDrive

    +

    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 OpenDrive

    +

    List all the files in your Mega

    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to an OpenDrive directory called backup

    +

    To copy a local directory to an Mega 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.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    Mega does not support modification times or hashes yet.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    @@ -20726,641 +23181,998 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    0x2F
    "0x22
    *0x2A
    :0x3A
    <0x3C
    >0x3E
    ?0x3F
    \0x5C
    |0x7C
    -

    File names can also not begin or end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    HT0x09
    LF0x0A
    VT0x0B
    CR0x0D

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

    -

    --opendrive-username

    -

    Username.

    +

    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.

    +

    Failure to log-in

    +

    Object not found

    +

    If you are connecting to your Mega remote for the first time, to test access and synchronization, you may receive an error such as

    +
    Failed to create file system for "my-mega-remote:": 
    +couldn't login: Object (typically, node or user) not found
    +

    The diagnostic steps often recommended in the rclone forum start with the MEGAcmd utility. Note that this refers to the official C++ command from https://github.com/meganz/MEGAcmd and not the go language built command from t3rm1n4l/megacmd that is no longer maintained.

    +

    Follow the instructions for installing MEGAcmd and try accessing your remote as they recommend. You can establish whether or not you can log in using MEGAcmd, and obtain diagnostic information to help you, and search or work with others in the forum.

    +
    MEGA CMD> login me@example.com
    +Password:
    +Fetching nodes ...
    +Loading transfers from local cache
    +Login complete as me@example.com
    +me@example.com:/$ 
    +

    Note that some have found issues with passwords containing special characters. If you can not log on with rclone, but MEGAcmd logs on just fine, then consider changing your password temporarily to pure alphanumeric characters, in case that helps.

    +

    Repeated commands blocks access

    +

    Mega remotes seem to get blocked (reject logins) under "heavy use". We haven't worked out the exact blocking rules but it seems to be related to fast paced, successive rclone commands.

    +

    For example, executing this command 90 times in a row rclone link remote:file will cause the remote to become "blocked". This is not an abnormal situation, for example if you wish to get the public links of a directory with hundred of files... After more or less a week, the remote will remote accept rclone logins normally again.

    +

    You can mitigate this issue by mounting the remote it with rclone mount. This will log-in when mounting and a log-out when unmounting only. You can also run rclone rcd and then use rclone rc to run the commands over the API to avoid logging in each time.

    +

    Rclone does not currently close mega sessions (you can see them in the web interface), however closing the sessions does not solve the issue.

    +

    If you space rclone commands by 3 seconds it will avoid blocking the remote. We haven't identified the exact blocking rules, so perhaps one could execute the command 80 times without waiting and avoid blocking by waiting 3 seconds, then continuing...

    +

    Note that this has been observed by trial and error and might not be set in stone.

    +

    Other tools seem not to produce this blocking effect, as they use a different working approach (state-based, using sessionIDs instead of log-in) which isn't compatible with the current stateless rclone approach.

    +

    Note that once blocked, the use of other tools (such as megacmd) is not a sure workaround: following megacmd login times have been observed in succession for blocked remote: 7 minutes, 20 min, 30min, 30 min, 30min. Web access looks unaffected though.

    +

    Investigation is continuing in relation to workarounds based on timeouts, pacers, retrials and tpslimits - if you discover something relevant, please post on the forum.

    +

    So, if rclone was working nicely and suddenly you are unable to log-in and you are sure the user and the password are correct, likely you have got the remote blocked for a while.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to mega (Mega).

    +

    --mega-user

    +

    User name.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: username
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_USERNAME
    • +
    • Config: user
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_USER
    • Type: string
    • Required: true
    -

    --opendrive-password

    +

    --mega-pass

    Password.

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: password
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_PASSWORD
    • +
    • Config: pass
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_PASS
    • Type: string
    • Required: true
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

    -

    --opendrive-encoding

    +

    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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • 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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: hard_delete
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_HARD_DELETE
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --mega-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_MEGA_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • -
    -

    --opendrive-chunk-size

    -

    Files will be uploaded in chunks this size.

    -

    Note that these chunks are buffered in memory so increasing them will increase memory use.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: chunk_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
    • -
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 10Mi
    • +
    • Default: Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    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.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the OpenDrive backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    QingStor

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of making an QingStor configuration. First run

    -
    rclone config
    -

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process.

    +

    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.

    +

    Memory

    +

    The memory backend is an in RAM backend. It does not persist its data - use the local backend for that.

    +

    The memory backend behaves like a bucket-based remote (e.g. like s3). Because it has no parameters you can just use it with the :memory: remote name.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    You can configure it as a remote like this with rclone config too if you want to:

    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
    +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]
    -XX / QingStor Object Storage
    -   \ "qingstor"
    +XX / Memory
    +   \ "memory"
     [snip]
    -Storage> qingstor
    -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 an 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 connection retry.
    -Leave blank will use the default value "3".
    -connection_retries>
    +Storage> memory
    +** See help for memory backend at: https://rclone.org/memory/ **
    +
     Remote config
    +
     --------------------
     [remote]
    -env_auth = false
    -access_key_id = access_key
    -secret_access_key = secret_key
    -endpoint =
    -zone = pek3a
    -connection_retries =
    +type = memory
     --------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
     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 -i /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 5 GiB. Note that files uploaded with multipart upload don't have an MD5SUM.

    -

    Note that incomplete multipart uploads older than 24 hours can be removed with rclone cleanup remote:bucket just for one bucket rclone cleanup remote: for all buckets. QingStor does not ever remove incomplete multipart uploads so it may be necessary to run this from time to time.

    -

    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:

    +

    Because the memory backend isn't persistent it is most useful for testing or with an rclone server or rclone mount, e.g.

    +
    rclone mount :memory: /mnt/tmp
    +rclone serve webdav :memory:
    +rclone serve sftp :memory:
    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    The memory backend supports MD5 hashes and modification times accurate to 1 nS.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    The memory backend replaces the default restricted characters set.

    +

    Akamai NetStorage

    +

    Paths are specified as remote: You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:/path/to/dir. If you have a CP code you can use that as the folder after the domain such as <domain>/<cpcode>/<internal directories within cpcode>.

    +

    For example, this is commonly configured with or without a CP code: * With a CP code. [your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/subdirectory/ * Without a CP code. [your-domain-prefix]-nsu.akamaihd.net

    +

    See all buckets rclone lsd remote: The initial setup for Netstorage involves getting an account and secret. Use rclone config to walk you through the setup process.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here's an example of how to make a remote called ns1.

    +
      +
    1. To begin the interactive configuration process, enter this command:
    2. +
    +
    rclone config
    +
      +
    1. Type n to create a new remote.
    2. +
    +
    n) New remote
    +d) Delete remote
    +q) Quit config
    +e/n/d/q> n
    +
      +
    1. For this example, enter ns1 when you reach the name> prompt.
    2. +
    +
    name> ns1
    +
      +
    1. Enter netstorage as the type of storage to configure.
    2. +
    +
    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
    +XX / NetStorage
    +   \ "netstorage"
    +Storage> netstorage
    +
      +
    1. Select between the HTTP or HTTPS protocol. Most users should choose HTTPS, which is the default. HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.
    2. +
    +
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / HTTP protocol
    +   \ "http"
    + 2 / HTTPS protocol
    +   \ "https"
    +protocol> 1
    +
      +
    1. Specify your NetStorage host, CP code, and any necessary content paths using this format: <domain>/<cpcode>/<content>/
    2. +
    +
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +host> baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    +
      +
    1. Set the netstorage account name
    2. +
    +
    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +account> username
    +
      +
    1. Set the Netstorage account secret/G2O key which will be used for authentication purposes. Select the y option to set your own password then enter your secret. Note: The secret is stored in the rclone.conf file with hex-encoded encryption.
    2. +
    +
    y) Yes type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +
      +
    1. View the summary and confirm your remote configuration.
    2. +
    +
    [ns1]
    +type = netstorage
    +protocol = http
    +host = baseball-nsu.akamaihd.net/123456/content/
    +account = username
    +secret = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    This remote is called ns1 and can now be used.

    +

    Example operations

    +

    Get started with rclone and NetStorage with these examples. For additional rclone commands, visit https://rclone.org/commands/.

    +

    See contents of a directory in your project

    +
    rclone lsd ns1:/974012/testing/
    +

    Sync the contents local with remote

    +
    rclone sync . ns1:/974012/testing/
    +

    Upload local content to remote

    +
    rclone copy notes.txt ns1:/974012/testing/
    +

    Delete content on remote

    +
    rclone delete ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt
    +

    Move or copy content between CP codes.

    +

    Your credentials must have access to two CP codes on the same remote. You can't perform operations between different remotes.

    +
    rclone move ns1:/974012/testing/notes.txt ns1:/974450/testing2/
    +

    Features

    + +

    The Netstorage backend changes the rclone --links, -l behavior. When uploading, instead of creating the .rclonelink file, use the "symlink" API in order to create the corresponding symlink on the remote. The .rclonelink file will not be created, the upload will be intercepted and only the symlink file that matches the source file name with no suffix will be created on the remote.

    +

    This will effectively allow commands like copy/copyto, move/moveto and sync to upload from local to remote and download from remote to local directories with symlinks. Due to internal rclone limitations, it is not possible to upload an individual symlink file to any remote backend. You can always use the "backend symlink" command to create a symlink on the NetStorage server, refer to "symlink" section below.

    +

    Individual symlink files on the remote can be used with the commands like "cat" to print the destination name, or "delete" to delete symlink, or copy, copy/to and move/moveto to download from the remote to local. Note: individual symlink files on the remote should be specified including the suffix .rclonelink.

    +

    Note: No file with the suffix .rclonelink should ever exist on the server since it is not possible to actually upload/create a file with .rclonelink suffix with rclone, it can only exist if it is manually created through a non-rclone method on the remote.

    +

    Implicit vs. Explicit Directories

    +

    With NetStorage, directories can exist in one of two forms:

    +
      +
    1. Explicit Directory. This is an actual, physical directory that you have created in a storage group.
    2. +
    3. Implicit Directory. This refers to a directory within a path that has not been physically created. For example, during upload of a file, nonexistent subdirectories can be specified in the target path. NetStorage creates these as "implicit." While the directories aren't physically created, they exist implicitly and the noted path is connected with the uploaded file.
    4. +
    +

    Rclone will intercept all file uploads and mkdir commands for the NetStorage remote and will explicitly issue the mkdir command for each directory in the uploading path. This will help with the interoperability with the other Akamai services such as SFTP and the Content Management Shell (CMShell). Rclone will not guarantee correctness of operations with implicit directories which might have been created as a result of using an upload API directly.

    +

    --fast-list / ListR support

    +

    NetStorage remote supports the ListR feature by using the "list" NetStorage API action to return a lexicographical list of all objects within the specified CP code, recursing into subdirectories as they're encountered.

      -
    • Directly in the rclone configuration file (as configured by rclone config) +
    • Rclone will use the ListR method for some commands by default. Commands such as lsf -R will use ListR by default. To disable this, include the --disable listR option to use the non-recursive method of listing objects.

    • +
    • Rclone will not use the ListR method for some commands. Commands such as sync don't use ListR by default. To force using the ListR method, include the --fast-list option.

    • +
    +

    There are pros and cons of using the ListR method, refer to rclone documentation. In general, the sync command over an existing deep tree on the remote will run faster with the "--fast-list" flag but with extra memory usage as a side effect. It might also result in higher CPU utilization but the whole task can be completed faster.

    +

    Note: There is a known limitation that "lsf -R" will display number of files in the directory and directory size as -1 when ListR method is used. The workaround is to pass "--disable listR" flag if these numbers are important in the output.

    +

    Purge

    +

    NetStorage remote supports the purge feature by using the "quick-delete" NetStorage API action. The quick-delete action is disabled by default for security reasons and can be enabled for the account through the Akamai portal. Rclone will first try to use quick-delete action for the purge command and if this functionality is disabled then will fall back to a standard delete method.

    +

    Note: Read the NetStorage Usage API for considerations when using "quick-delete". In general, using quick-delete method will not delete the tree immediately and objects targeted for quick-delete may still be accessible.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

    +

    --netstorage-host

    +

    Domain+path of NetStorage host to connect to.

    +

    Format should be <domain>/<internal folders>

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • set access_key_id and secret_access_key
    • -
    -
  • Runtime configuration: +
  • Config: host
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_HOST
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: true
  • + +

    --netstorage-account

    +

    Set the NetStorage account name

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • set env_auth to true in the config file
    • -
    • Exporting the following environment variables before running rclone +
    • Config: account
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_ACCOUNT
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: true
    • +
    +

    --netstorage-secret

    +

    Set the NetStorage account secret/G2O key for authentication.

    +

    Please choose the 'y' option to set your own password then enter your secret.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • Access Key ID: QS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or QS_ACCESS_KEY
    • -
    • Secret Access Key: QS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or QS_SECRET_KEY
    • -
    - +
  • Config: secret
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_SECRET
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: true
  • -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    The control characters 0x00-0x1F and / are replaced as in the default restricted characters set. Note that 0x7F is not replaced.

    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    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.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to netstorage (Akamai NetStorage).

    +

    --netstorage-protocol

    +

    Select between HTTP or HTTPS protocol.

    +

    Most users should choose HTTPS, which is the default. HTTP is provided primarily for debugging purposes.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: env_auth
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENV_AUTH
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • +
    • Config: protocol
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_NETSTORAGE_PROTOCOL
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Default: "https"
    • Examples:
        -
      • "false" +
      • "http"
          -
        • Enter QingStor credentials in the next step.
        • +
        • HTTP protocol
      • -
      • "true" +
      • "https"
          -
        • Get QingStor credentials from the environment (env vars or IAM).
        • +
        • HTTPS protocol
    -

    --qingstor-access-key-id

    -

    QingStor Access Key ID.

    -

    Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

    +

    Backend commands

    +

    Here are the commands specific to the netstorage backend.

    +

    Run them with

    +
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    +

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    +

    See the backend command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    +

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    +

    du

    +

    Return disk usage information for a specified directory

    +
    rclone backend du remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    The usage information returned, includes the targeted directory as well as all files stored in any sub-directories that may exist.

    + +

    You can create a symbolic link in ObjectStore with the symlink action.

    +
    rclone backend symlink remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    The desired path location (including applicable sub-directories) ending in the object that will be the target of the symlink (for example, /links/mylink). Include the file extension for the object, if applicable. rclone backend symlink <src> <path>

    +

    Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:container/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    +[snip]
    +XX / Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
    +   \ "azureblob"
    +[snip]
    +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 -i /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 performance overhead to using it.

    +

    If you wish to use the Azure standard LastModified time stored on the object as the modified time, then use the --use-server-modtime flag. Note that rclone can't set LastModified, so using the --update flag when syncing is recommended if using --use-server-modtime.

    +

    Performance

    +

    When uploading large files, increasing the value of --azureblob-upload-concurrency will increase performance at the cost of using more memory. The default of 16 is set quite conservatively to use less memory. It maybe be necessary raise it to 64 or higher to fully utilize a 1 GBit/s link with a single file transfer.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    /0x2F
    \0x5C
    +

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    .0x2E
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    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, e.g. the local disk.

    +

    Authentication

    +

    There are a number of ways of supplying credentials for Azure Blob Storage. Rclone tries them in the order of the sections below.

    +

    Env Auth

    +

    If the env_auth config parameter is true then rclone will pull credentials from the environment or runtime.

    +

    It tries these authentication methods in this order:

    +
      +
    1. Environment Variables
    2. +
    3. Managed Service Identity Credentials
    4. +
    5. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)
    6. +
    +

    These are described in the following sections

    +
    Env Auth: 1. Environment Variables
    +

    If env_auth is set and environment variables are present rclone authenticates a service principal with a secret or certificate, or a user with a password, depending on which environment variable are set. It reads configuration from these variables, in the following order:

    +
      +
    1. Service principal with client secret +
        +
      • AZURE_TENANT_ID: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_ID: the service principal's client ID
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET: one of the service principal's client secrets
      • +
    2. +
    3. Service principal with certificate +
        +
      • AZURE_TENANT_ID: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_ID: the service principal's client ID
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key.
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD: (optional) password for the certificate file.
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN: (optional) Specifies whether an authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject name / issuer based authentication. When set to "true" or "1", authentication requests include the x5c header.
      • +
    4. +
    5. User with username and password +
        +
      • AZURE_TENANT_ID: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
      • +
      • AZURE_CLIENT_ID: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to
      • +
      • AZURE_USERNAME: a username (usually an email address)
      • +
      • AZURE_PASSWORD: the user's password
      • +
    6. +
    +
    Env Auth: 2. Managed Service Identity Credentials
    +

    When using Managed Service Identity if the VM(SS) on which this program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will be used by default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one user-assigned identity, the user-assigned identity will be used by default.

    +

    If the resource has multiple user-assigned identities you will need to unset env_auth and set use_msi instead. See the use_msi section.

    +
    Env Auth: 3. Azure CLI credentials (as used by the az tool)
    +

    Credentials created with the az tool can be picked up using env_auth.

    +

    For example if you were to login with a service principal like this:

    +
    az login --service-principal -u XXX -p XXX --tenant XXX
    +

    Then you could access rclone resources like this:

    +
    rclone lsf :azureblob,env_auth,account=ACCOUNT:CONTAINER
    +

    Or

    +
    rclone lsf --azureblob-env-auth --azureblob-acccount=ACCOUNT :azureblob:CONTAINER
    +

    Which is analogous to using the az tool:

    +
    az storage blob list --container-name CONTAINER --account-name ACCOUNT --auth-mode login
    +

    Account and Shared 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 and key blank and fill in sas_url.

    +

    An account level SAS URL or container level SAS URL can be obtained from the Azure portal or the 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 a container level SAS URL, rclone operations are permitted only on a particular container, e.g.

    +
    rclone ls azureblob:container
    +

    You can also list the single container from the root. This will only show the container specified by the SAS URL.

    +
    $ rclone lsd azureblob:
    +container/
    +

    Note that you can't see or access any other containers - this will fail

    +
    rclone ls azureblob:othercontainer
    +

    Container level SAS URLs are useful for temporarily allowing third parties access to a single container or putting credentials into an untrusted environment such as a CI build server.

    +

    Service principal with client secret

    +

    If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal with a client secret.

    +
      +
    • tenant: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
    • +
    • client_id: the service principal's client ID
    • +
    • client_secret: one of the service principal's client secrets
    • +
    +

    The credentials can also be placed in a file using the service_principal_file configuration option.

    +

    Service principal with certificate

    +

    If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with a service principal with certificate.

    +
      +
    • tenant: ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its "directory" ID.
    • +
    • client_id: the service principal's client ID
    • +
    • client_certificate_path: path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key.
    • +
    • client_certificate_password: (optional) password for the certificate file.
    • +
    • client_send_certificate_chain: (optional) Specifies whether an authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject name / issuer based authentication. When set to "true" or "1", authentication requests include the x5c header.
    • +
    +

    NB client_certificate_password must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    User with username and password

    +

    If these variables are set, rclone will authenticate with username and password.

    +
      +
    • tenant: (optional) tenant to authenticate in. Defaults to "organizations".
    • +
    • client_id: client ID of the application the user will authenticate to
    • +
    • username: a username (usually an email address)
    • +
    • password: the user's password
    • +
    +

    Microsoft doesn't recommend this kind of authentication, because it's less secure than other authentication flows. This method is not interactive, so it isn't compatible with any form of multi-factor authentication, and the application must already have user or admin consent. This credential can only authenticate work and school accounts; it can't authenticate Microsoft accounts.

    +

    NB password must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Managed Service Identity Credentials

    +

    If use_msi is set then managed service identity credentials are used. This authentication only works when running in an Azure service. env_auth needs to be unset to use this.

    +

    However if you have multiple user identities to choose from these must be explicitly specified using exactly one of the msi_object_id, msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id parameters.

    +

    If none of msi_object_id, msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id is set, this is is equivalent to using env_auth.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

    +

    --azureblob-account

    +

    Azure Storage Account Name.

    +

    Set this to the Azure Storage Account Name in use.

    +

    Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator, otherwise it needs to be set.

    +

    If this is blank and if env_auth is set it will be read from the environment variable AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME if possible.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: access_key_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    • +
    • Config: account
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCOUNT
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-secret-access-key

    -

    QingStor Secret Access Key (password).

    -

    Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

    +

    --azureblob-env-auth

    +

    Read credentials from runtime (environment variables, CLI or MSI).

    +

    See the authentication docs for full info.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: secret_access_key
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    • +
    • Config: env_auth
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENV_AUTH
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-key

    +

    Storage Account Shared Key.

    +

    Leave blank to use SAS URL or Emulator.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: key
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_KEY
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-endpoint

    -

    Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API.

    -

    Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443".

    +

    --azureblob-sas-url

    +

    SAS URL for container level access only.

    +

    Leave blank if using account/key or Emulator.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: endpoint
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENDPOINT
    • +
    • Config: sas_url
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_SAS_URL
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-zone

    -

    Zone to connect to.

    -

    Default is "pek3a".

    +

    --azureblob-tenant

    +

    ID of the service principal's tenant. Also called its directory ID.

    +

    Set this if using - Service principal with client secret - Service principal with certificate - User with username and password

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: zone
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ZONE
    • +
    • Config: tenant
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_TENANT
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    • -
    • Examples: -
        -
      • "pek3a" -
          -
        • The Beijing (China) Three Zone.
        • -
        • Needs location constraint pek3a.
        • -
      • -
      • "sh1a" +
      +

      --azureblob-client-id

      +

      The ID of the client in use.

      +

      Set this if using - Service principal with client secret - Service principal with certificate - User with username and password

      +

      Properties:

        -
      • The Shanghai (China) First Zone.
      • -
      • Needs location constraint sh1a.
      • -
    • -
    • "gd2a" +
    • Config: client_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_ID
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-client-secret

    +

    One of the service principal's client secrets

    +

    Set this if using - Service principal with client secret

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • The Guangdong (China) Second Zone.
    • -
    • Needs location constraint gd2a.
    • -
    - +
  • Config: client_secret
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_SECRET
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to qingstor (QingCloud Object Storage).

    -

    --qingstor-connection-retries

    -

    Number of connection retries.

    +

    --azureblob-client-certificate-path

    +

    Path to a PEM or PKCS12 certificate file including the private key.

    +

    Set this if using - Service principal with certificate

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: connection_retries
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CONNECTION_RETRIES
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 3
    • +
    • Config: client_certificate_path
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PATH
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-upload-cutoff

    -

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

    -

    Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size. The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

    +

    --azureblob-client-certificate-password

    +

    Password for the certificate file (optional).

    +

    Optionally set this if using - Service principal with certificate

    +

    And the certificate has a password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: upload_cutoff
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
    • -
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 200Mi
    • +
    • Config: client_certificate_password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-chunk-size

    -

    Chunk size to use for uploading.

    -

    When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff they will be uploaded as multipart uploads using this chunk size.

    -

    Note that "--qingstor-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.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to azureblob (Microsoft Azure Blob Storage).

    +

    --azureblob-client-send-certificate-chain

    +

    Send the certificate chain when using certificate auth.

    +

    Specifies whether an authentication request will include an x5c header to support subject name / issuer based authentication. When set to true, authentication requests include the x5c header.

    +

    Optionally set this if using - Service principal with certificate

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: chunk_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CHUNK_SIZE
    • -
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 4Mi
    • +
    • Config: client_send_certificate_chain
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CLIENT_SEND_CERTIFICATE_CHAIN
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    -

    --qingstor-upload-concurrency

    -

    Concurrency for multipart uploads.

    -

    This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently.

    -

    NB if you set this to > 1 then the checksums of multipart uploads become corrupted (the uploads themselves are not corrupted though).

    -

    If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

    +

    --azureblob-username

    +

    User name (usually an email address)

    +

    Set this if using - User with username and password

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: upload_concurrency
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
    • -
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 1
    • +
    • Config: username
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USERNAME
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --qingstor-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    --azureblob-password

    +

    The user's password

    +

    Set this if using - User with username and password

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENCODING
    • -
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8
    • +
    • Config: password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_PASSWORD
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    Limitations

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the qingstor backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Sia

    -

    Sia (sia.tech) is a decentralized cloud storage platform based on the blockchain technology. With rclone you can use it like any other remote filesystem or mount Sia folders locally. The technology behind it involves a number of new concepts such as Siacoins and Wallet, Blockchain and Consensus, Renting and Hosting, and so on. If you are new to it, you'd better first familiarize yourself using their excellent support documentation.

    -

    Introduction

    -

    Before you can use rclone with Sia, you will need to have a running copy of Sia-UI or siad (the Sia daemon) locally on your computer or on local network (e.g. a NAS). Please follow the Get started guide and install one.

    -

    rclone interacts with Sia network by talking to the Sia daemon via HTTP API which is usually available on port 9980. By default you will run the daemon locally on the same computer so it's safe to leave the API password blank (the API URL will be http://127.0.0.1:9980 making external access impossible).

    -

    However, if you want to access Sia daemon running on another node, for example due to memory constraints or because you want to share single daemon between several rclone and Sia-UI instances, you'll need to make a few more provisions: - Ensure you have Sia daemon installed directly or in a docker container because Sia-UI does not support this mode natively. - Run it on externally accessible port, for example provide --api-addr :9980 and --disable-api-security arguments on the daemon command line. - Enforce API password for the siad daemon via environment variable SIA_API_PASSWORD or text file named apipassword in the daemon directory. - Set rclone backend option api_password taking it from above locations.

    -

    Notes: 1. If your wallet is locked, rclone cannot unlock it automatically. You should either unlock it in advance by using Sia-UI or via command line siac wallet unlock. Alternatively you can make siad unlock your wallet automatically upon startup by running it with environment variable SIA_WALLET_PASSWORD. 2. If siad cannot find the SIA_API_PASSWORD variable or the apipassword file in the SIA_DIR directory, it will generate a random password and store in the text file named apipassword under YOUR_HOME/.sia/ directory on Unix or C:\Users\YOUR_HOME\AppData\Local\Sia\apipassword on Windows. Remember this when you configure password in rclone. 3. The only way to use siad without API password is to run it on localhost with command line argument --authorize-api=false, but this is insecure and strongly discouraged.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of how to make a sia remote called mySia. 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> mySia
    -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
    -...
    -29 / Sia Decentralized Cloud
    -   \ "sia"
    -...
    -Storage> sia
    -Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.
    -Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended).
    -Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("http://127.0.0.1:9980").
    -api_url> http://127.0.0.1:9980
    -Sia Daemon API Password.
    -Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.
    -y) Yes type in my own password
    -g) Generate random password
    -n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    -y/g/n> y
    -Enter the password:
    -password:
    -Confirm the password:
    -password:
    -Edit advanced config?
    -y) Yes
    -n) No (default)
    -y/n> n
    ---------------------
    -[mySia]
    -type = sia
    -api_url = http://127.0.0.1:9980
    -api_password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -

    Once configured, you can then use rclone like this:

    +

    --azureblob-service-principal-file

    +

    Path to file containing credentials for use with a service principal.

    +

    Leave blank normally. Needed only if you want to use a service principal instead of interactive login.

    +
    $ az ad sp create-for-rbac --name "<name>" \
    +  --role "Storage Blob Data Owner" \
    +  --scopes "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/<resource-group>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<storage-account>/blobServices/default/containers/<container>" \
    +  > azure-principal.json
    +

    See "Create an Azure service principal" and "Assign an Azure role for access to blob data" pages for more details.

    +

    It may be more convenient to put the credentials directly into the rclone config file under the client_id, tenant and client_secret keys instead of setting service_principal_file.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • List directories in top level of your Sia storage
    • +
    • Config: service_principal_file
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL_FILE
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -
    rclone lsd mySia:
    +

    --azureblob-use-msi

    +

    Use a managed service identity to authenticate (only works in Azure).

    +

    When true, use a managed service identity to authenticate to Azure Storage instead of a SAS token or account key.

    +

    If the VM(SS) on which this program is running has a system-assigned identity, it will be used by default. If the resource has no system-assigned but exactly one user-assigned identity, the user-assigned identity will be used by default. If the resource has multiple user-assigned identities, the identity to use must be explicitly specified using exactly one of the msi_object_id, msi_client_id, or msi_mi_res_id parameters.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • List all the files in your Sia storage
    • +
    • Config: use_msi
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_MSI
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    -
    rclone ls mySia:
    +

    --azureblob-msi-object-id

    +

    Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    +

    Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • Upload a local directory to the Sia directory called backup
    • +
    • Config: msi_object_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_OBJECT_ID
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -
    rclone copy /home/source mySia:backup
    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

    -

    --sia-api-url

    -

    Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.

    -

    Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended). Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.

    +

    --azureblob-msi-client-id

    +

    Object ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    +

    Leave blank if msi_object_id or msi_mi_res_id specified.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: api_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_API_URL
    • +
    • Config: msi_client_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_CLIENT_ID
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "http://127.0.0.1:9980"
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --sia-api-password

    -

    Sia Daemon API Password.

    -

    Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --azureblob-msi-mi-res-id

    +

    Azure resource ID of the user-assigned MSI to use, if any.

    +

    Leave blank if msi_client_id or msi_object_id specified.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: api_password
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_API_PASSWORD
    • +
    • Config: msi_mi_res_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MSI_MI_RES_ID
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

    -

    --sia-user-agent

    -

    Siad User Agent

    -

    Sia daemon requires the 'Sia-Agent' user agent by default for security

    +

    --azureblob-use-emulator

    +

    Uses local storage emulator if provided as 'true'.

    +

    Leave blank if using real azure storage endpoint.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: user_agent
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_USER_AGENT
    • +
    • Config: use_emulator
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_USE_EMULATOR
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for the service.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: endpoint
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENDPOINT
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "Sia-Agent"
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --sia-encoding

    +

    --azureblob-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload (<= 256 MiB) (deprecated).

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_cutoff
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-chunk-size

    +

    Upload chunk size.

    +

    Note that this is stored in memory and there may be up to "--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once in memory.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: chunk_size
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 4Mi
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-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 files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

    +

    In tests, upload speed increases almost linearly with upload concurrency. For example to fill a gigabit pipe it may be necessary to raise this to 64. Note that this will use more memory.

    +

    Note that chunks are stored in memory and there may be up to "--transfers" * "--azureblob-upload-concurrency" chunks stored at once in memory.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_concurrency
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
    • +
    • Type: int
    • +
    • Default: 16
    • +
    +

    --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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • 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".

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: access_tier
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ACCESS_TIER
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-archive-tier-delete

    +

    Delete archive tier blobs before overwriting.

    +

    Archive tier blobs cannot be updated. So without this flag, if you attempt to update an archive tier blob, then rclone will produce the error:

    +
    can't update archive tier blob without --azureblob-archive-tier-delete
    +

    With this flag set then before rclone attempts to overwrite an archive tier blob, it will delete the existing blob before uploading its replacement. This has the potential for data loss if the upload fails (unlike updating a normal blob) and also may cost more since deleting archive tier blobs early may be chargable.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: archive_tier_delete
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ARCHIVE_TIER_DELETE
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-disable-checksum

    +

    Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

    +

    Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files to start uploading.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: disable_checksum
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-memory-pool-flush-time

    +

    How often internal memory buffer pools will be flushed.

    +

    Uploads which requires additional buffers (f.e multipart) will use memory pool for allocations. This option controls how often unused buffers will be removed from the pool.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: memory_pool_flush_time
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MEMORY_POOL_FLUSH_TIME
    • +
    • Type: Duration
    • +
    • Default: 1m0s
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-memory-pool-use-mmap

    +

    Whether to use mmap buffers in internal memory pool.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: memory_pool_use_mmap
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_MEMORY_POOL_USE_MMAP
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • +
    • Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8
    -

    Limitations

    +

    --azureblob-public-access

    +

    Public access level of a container: blob or container.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • Modification times not supported
    • -
    • Checksums not supported
    • -
    • rclone about not supported
    • -
    • rclone can work only with Siad or Sia-UI at the moment, the SkyNet daemon is not supported yet.
    • -
    • Sia does not allow control characters or symbols like question and pound signs in file names. rclone will transparently encode them for you, but you'd better be aware
    • -
    -

    Swift

    -

    Swift refers to OpenStack Object Storage. Commercial implementations of that being:

    +
  • Config: public_access
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_PUBLIC_ACCESS
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • +
  • Examples: -

    Paths are specified as remote:container (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:container/path/to/dir.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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?
    +
  • "" +
      +
    • The container and its blobs can be accessed only with an authorized request.
    • +
    • It's a default value.
    • +
  • +
  • "blob" +
      +
    • Blob data within this container can be read via anonymous request.
    • +
  • +
  • "container" +
      +
    • Allow full public read access for container and blob data.
    • +
  • +
  • + +

    --azureblob-no-check-container

    +

    If set, don't attempt to check the container exists or create it.

    +

    This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions rclone does if you know the container exists already.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: no_check_container
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_NO_CHECK_CONTAINER
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --azureblob-no-head-object

    +

    If set, do not do HEAD before GET when getting objects.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: no_head_object
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_AZUREBLOB_NO_HEAD_OBJECT
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    Custom upload headers

    +

    You can set custom upload headers with the --header-upload flag.

    +
      +
    • Cache-Control
    • +
    • Content-Disposition
    • +
    • Content-Encoding
    • +
    • Content-Language
    • +
    • Content-Type
    • +
    +

    Eg --header-upload "Content-Type: text/potato"

    +

    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.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the Microsoft Azure Blob storage backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Azure Storage Emulator Support

    +

    You can run rclone with the storage emulator (usually azurite).

    +

    To do this, just set up a new remote with rclone config following the instructions in the introduction and set use_emulator in the advanced settings as true. You do not need to provide a default account name nor an account key. But you can override them in the account and key options. (Prior to v1.61 they were hard coded to azurite's devstoreaccount1.)

    +

    Also, if you want to access a storage emulator instance running on a different machine, you can override the endpoint parameter in the advanced settings, setting it to http(s)://<host>:<port>/devstoreaccount1 (e.g. http://10.254.2.5:10000/devstoreaccount1).

    +

    Microsoft OneDrive

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    -n/s/q> n
    +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
     [snip]
    -XX / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
    -   \ "swift"
    +XX / Microsoft OneDrive
    +   \ "onedrive"
     [snip]
    -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/v3"
    -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> 
    +Storage> onedrive
    +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 web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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
     --------------------
    -[test]
    -env_auth = true
    -user = 
    -key = 
    -auth = 
    -user_id = 
    -domain = 
    -tenant = 
    -tenant_id = 
    -tenant_domain = 
    -region = 
    -storage_url = 
    -auth_token = 
    -auth_version = 
    -endpoint_type = 
    +[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
    -

    This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

    -

    See all containers

    +

    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:
    -

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:container
    -

    Configuration from an OpenStack credentials file

    -

    An OpenStack 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

    -

    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-Object-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

    -

    This is a de facto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    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 default Client ID when talking to OneDrive, unless a custom client_id is specified in the config. The default Client ID and Key are shared by all rclone users when performing requests.

    +

    You may choose to create and use your own Client ID, in case the default one does not work well for you. For example, you might see throttling.

    +

    Creating Client ID for OneDrive Personal

    +

    To create your own Client ID, please follow these steps:

    +
      +
    1. Open https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_RegisteredApps/ApplicationsListBlade and then click New registration.
    2. +
    3. Enter a name for your app, choose account type Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant) and personal Microsoft accounts (e.g. Skype, Xbox), select Web in Redirect URI, then type (do not copy and paste) http://localhost:53682/ and click Register. Copy and keep the Application (client) ID under the app name for later use.
    4. +
    5. Under manage select Certificates & secrets, click New client secret. Enter a description (can be anything) and set Expires to 24 months. Copy and keep that secret Value for later use (you won't be able to see this value afterwards).
    6. +
    7. Under manage select API permissions, click Add a permission and select Microsoft Graph then select delegated permissions.
    8. +
    9. Search and select the following permissions: Files.Read, Files.ReadWrite, Files.Read.All, Files.ReadWrite.All, offline_access, User.Read and Sites.Read.All (if custom access scopes are configured, select the permissions accordingly). Once selected click Add permissions at the bottom.
    10. +
    +

    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.

    +

    The access_scopes option allows you to configure the permissions requested by rclone. See Microsoft Docs for more information about the different scopes.

    +

    The Sites.Read.All permission is required if you need to search SharePoint sites when configuring the remote. However, if that permission is not assigned, you need to exclude Sites.Read.All from your access scopes or set disable_site_permission option to true in the advanced options.

    +

    Creating Client ID for OneDrive Business

    +

    The steps for OneDrive Personal may or may not work for OneDrive Business, depending on the security settings of the organization. A common error is that the publisher of the App is not verified.

    +

    You may try to verify you account, or try to limit the App to your organization only, as shown below.

    +
      +
    1. Make sure to create the App with your business account.
    2. +
    3. Follow the steps above to create an App. However, we need a different account type here: Accounts in this organizational directory only (*** - Single tenant). Note that you can also change the account type after creating the App.
    4. +
    5. Find the tenant ID of your organization.
    6. +
    7. In the rclone config, set auth_url to https://login.microsoftonline.com/YOUR_TENANT_ID/oauth2/v2.0/authorize.
    8. +
    9. In the rclone config, set token_url to https://login.microsoftonline.com/YOUR_TENANT_ID/oauth2/v2.0/token.
    10. +
    +

    Note: If you have a special region, you may need a different host in step 4 and 5. Here are some hints.

    +

    Modification 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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -21371,373 +24183,497 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - - - - - - + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F"0x22
    *0x2A
    :0x3A
    <0x3C
    >0x3E
    ?0x3F
    \0x5C
    |0x7C
    +

    File names can also not end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the last character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    .0x2E
    +

    File names can also not begin with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    ~0x7E

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    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.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • 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).

    +

    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

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: user
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_USER
    • +
    • Config: client_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_ID
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-key

    -

    API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).

    +

    --onedrive-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: key
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_KEY
    • +
    • Config: client_secret
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CLIENT_SECRET
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-auth

    -

    Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).

    +

    --onedrive-region

    +

    Choose national cloud region for OneDrive.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: auth
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH
    • +
    • Config: region
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_REGION
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Default: "global"
    • 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" +
      • "global"
          -
        • Rackspace v2
        • +
        • Microsoft Cloud Global
      • -
      • "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v1.0" +
      • "us"
          -
        • Memset Memstore UK
        • +
        • Microsoft Cloud for US Government
      • -
      • "https://auth.storage.memset.com/v2.0" +
      • "de"
          -
        • Memset Memstore UK v2
        • +
        • Microsoft Cloud Germany
      • -
      • "https://auth.cloud.ovh.net/v3" +
      • "cn"
          -
        • OVH
        • +
        • Azure and Office 365 operated by Vnet Group in China
    -

    --swift-user-id

    -

    User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to onedrive (Microsoft OneDrive).

    +

    --onedrive-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: user_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_USER_ID
    • +
    • Config: token
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TOKEN
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-domain

    -

    User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)

    +

    --onedrive-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: domain
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_DOMAIN
    • +
    • Config: auth_url
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_AUTH_URL
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-tenant

    -

    Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME).

    +

    --onedrive-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: tenant
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT
    • +
    • Config: token_url
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_TOKEN_URL
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-tenant-id

    -

    Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID).

    +

    --onedrive-chunk-size

    +

    Chunk size to upload files with - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes).

    +

    Above this size files will be chunked - must be multiple of 320k (327,680 bytes) and should not exceed 250M (262,144,000 bytes) else you may encounter "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.InvalidClientQueryException: The request message is too big." Note that the chunks will be buffered into memory.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: tenant_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Config: chunk_size
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 10Mi
    -

    --swift-tenant-domain

    -

    Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME).

    +

    --onedrive-drive-id

    +

    The ID of the drive to use.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: tenant_domain
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_TENANT_DOMAIN
    • +
    • Config: drive_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_ID
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-region

    -

    Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME).

    +

    --onedrive-drive-type

    +

    The type of the drive (personal | business | documentLibrary).

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: region
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_REGION
    • +
    • Config: drive_type
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DRIVE_TYPE
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-storage-url

    -

    Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL).

    +

    --onedrive-root-folder-id

    +

    ID of the root folder.

    +

    This isn't normally needed, but in special circumstances you might know the folder ID that you wish to access but not be able to get there through a path traversal.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: storage_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_URL
    • +
    • Config: root_folder_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-auth-token

    -

    Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN).

    +

    --onedrive-access-scopes

    +

    Set scopes to be requested by rclone.

    +

    Choose or manually enter a custom space separated list with all scopes, that rclone should request.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: auth_token
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_TOKEN
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --swift-application-credential-id

    -

    Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID).

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: access_scopes
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ACCESS_SCOPES
  • +
  • Type: SpaceSepList
  • +
  • Default: Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: application_credential_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • "Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All Sites.Read.All offline_access" +
        +
      • Read and write access to all resources
      • +
    • +
    • "Files.Read Files.Read.All Sites.Read.All offline_access" +
        +
      • Read only access to all resources
      • +
    • +
    • "Files.Read Files.ReadWrite Files.Read.All Files.ReadWrite.All offline_access" +
        +
      • Read and write access to all resources, without the ability to browse SharePoint sites.
      • +
      • Same as if disable_site_permission was set to true
      • +
    • +
  • -

    --swift-application-credential-name

    -

    Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME).

    +

    --onedrive-disable-site-permission

    +

    Disable the request for Sites.Read.All permission.

    +

    If set to true, you will no longer be able to search for a SharePoint site when configuring drive ID, because rclone will not request Sites.Read.All permission. Set it to true if your organization didn't assign Sites.Read.All permission to the application, and your organization disallows users to consent app permission request on their own.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: application_credential_name
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Config: disable_site_permission
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_DISABLE_SITE_PERMISSION
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    -

    --swift-application-credential-secret

    -

    Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET).

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: application_credential_secret
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Config: expose_onenote_files
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_EXPOSE_ONENOTE_FILES
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    -

    --swift-auth-version

    -

    AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION).

    +

    --onedrive-server-side-across-configs

    +

    Allow server-side operations (e.g. copy) to work across different onedrive configs.

    +

    This will only work if you are copying between two OneDrive Personal drives AND the files to copy are already shared between them. In other cases, rclone will fall back to normal copy (which will be slightly slower).

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: auth_version
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_AUTH_VERSION
    • +
    • Config: server_side_across_configs
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_SERVER_SIDE_ACROSS_CONFIGS
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --onedrive-list-chunk

    +

    Size of listing chunk.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: list_chunk
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LIST_CHUNK
    • Type: int
    • -
    • Default: 0
    • +
    • Default: 1000
    -

    --swift-endpoint-type

    -

    Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE).

    +

    --onedrive-no-versions

    +

    Remove all versions on modifying operations.

    +

    Onedrive for business creates versions when rclone uploads new files overwriting an existing one and when it sets the modification time.

    +

    These versions take up space out of the quota.

    +

    This flag checks for versions after file upload and setting modification time and removes all but the last version.

    +

    NB Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions so don't use this flag there.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: endpoint_type
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_ENDPOINT_TYPE
    • +
    • Config: no_versions
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_NO_VERSIONS
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    + +

    Set the scope of the links created by the link command.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: link_scope
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_SCOPE
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "public"
    • +
    • Default: "anonymous"
    • Examples:
        -
      • "public" -
          -
        • Public (default, choose this if not sure)
        • -
      • -
      • "internal" +
      • "anonymous"
          -
        • Internal (use internal service net)
        • +
        • Anyone with the link has access, without needing to sign in.
        • +
        • This may include people outside of your organization.
        • +
        • Anonymous link support may be disabled by an administrator.
      • -
      • "admin" +
      • "organization"
          -
        • Admin
        • +
        • Anyone signed into your organization (tenant) can use the link to get access.
        • +
        • Only available in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint.
    -

    --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.

    + +

    Set the type of the links created by the link command.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: storage_policy
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_STORAGE_POLICY
    • +
    • Config: link_type
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_TYPE
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Default: "view"
    • Examples:
        -
      • "" +
      • "view"
          -
        • Default
        • +
        • Creates a read-only link to the item.
      • -
      • "pcs" +
      • "edit"
          -
        • OVH Public Cloud Storage
        • +
        • Creates a read-write link to the item.
      • -
      • "pca" +
      • "embed"
          -
        • OVH Public Cloud Archive
        • +
        • Creates an embeddable link to the item.
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to swift (OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

    -

    --swift-leave-parts-on-error

    -

    If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure.

    -

    It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: leave_parts_on_error
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_LEAVE_PARTS_ON_ERROR
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --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 5 GiB which is its maximum value.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: chunk_size
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_CHUNK_SIZE
    • -
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • -
    • Default: 5Gi
    • -
    -

    --swift-no-chunk

    -

    Don't chunk files during streaming upload.

    -

    When doing streaming uploads (e.g. using rcat or mount) setting this flag will cause the swift backend to not upload chunked files.

    -

    This will limit the maximum upload size to 5 GiB. However non chunked files are easier to deal with and have an MD5SUM.

    -

    Rclone will still chunk files bigger than chunk_size when doing normal copy operations.

    + +

    Set the password for links created by the link command.

    +

    At the time of writing this only works with OneDrive personal paid accounts.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: no_chunk
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_NO_CHUNK
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • +
    • Config: link_password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_LINK_PASSWORD
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    -

    --swift-encoding

    +

    --onedrive-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SWIFT_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_ONEDRIVE_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,InvalidUtf8
    • +
    • Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    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 (e.g. OVH).

    -

    Rclone gives Failed to create file system: Response didn't have storage url and auth token

    -

    This is most likely caused by forgetting to specify your tenant when setting up a swift remote.

    -

    OVH Cloud Archive

    -

    To use rclone with OVH cloud archive, first use rclone config to set up a swift backend with OVH, choosing pca as the storage_policy.

    -

    Uploading Objects

    -

    Uploading objects to OVH cloud archive is no different to object storage, you just simply run the command you like (move, copy or sync) to upload the objects. Once uploaded the objects will show in a "Frozen" state within the OVH control panel.

    -

    Retrieving Objects

    -

    To retrieve objects use rclone copy as normal. If the objects are in a frozen state then rclone will ask for them all to be unfrozen and it will wait at the end of the output with a message like the following:

    -

    2019/03/23 13:06:33 NOTICE: Received retry after error - sleeping until 2019-03-23T13:16:33.481657164+01:00 (9m59.99985121s)

    -

    Rclone will wait for the time specified then retry the copy.

    -

    pCloud

    +

    Limitations

    +

    If you don't use rclone for 90 days the refresh token will expire. This will result in authorization problems. This is easy to fix by running the rclone config reconnect remote: command to get a new token and refresh token.

    +

    Naming

    +

    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.

    +

    File sizes

    +

    The largest allowed file size is 250 GiB for both OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business (Updated 13 Jan 2021).

    +

    Path length

    +

    The entire path, including the file name, must contain fewer than 400 characters for OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. If you are encrypting file and folder names with rclone, you may want to pay attention to this limitation because the encrypted names are typically longer than the original ones.

    +

    Number of files

    +

    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.

    +

    An official document about the limitations for different types of OneDrive can be found here.

    +

    Versions

    +

    Every change in a file OneDrive causes the service to create a new version of the file. This counts against a users quota. For example changing the modification time of a file creates a second version, so the file apparently uses twice the space.

    +

    For example the copy command is affected by this as rclone copies the file and then afterwards sets the modification time to match the source file which uses another version.

    +

    You can use the rclone cleanup command (see below) to remove all old versions.

    +

    Or you can set the no_versions parameter to true and rclone will remove versions after operations which create new versions. This takes extra transactions so only enable it if you need it.

    +

    Note At the time of writing Onedrive Personal creates versions (but not for setting the modification time) but the API for removing them returns "API not found" so cleanup and no_versions should not be used on Onedrive Personal.

    +

    Disabling versioning

    +

    Starting October 2018, users will no longer be able to disable versioning by default. This is because Microsoft has brought an update to the mechanism. To change this new default setting, a PowerShell command is required to be run by a SharePoint admin. If you are an admin, you can run these commands in PowerShell to change that setting:

    +
      +
    1. Install-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell (in case you haven't installed this already)
    2. +
    3. Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking
    4. +
    5. Connect-SPOService -Url https://YOURSITE-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential YOU@YOURSITE.COM (replacing YOURSITE, YOU, YOURSITE.COM with the actual values; this will prompt for your credentials)
    6. +
    7. Set-SPOTenant -EnableMinimumVersionRequirement $False
    8. +
    9. Disconnect-SPOService (to disconnect from the server)
    10. +
    +

    Below are the steps for normal users to disable versioning. If you don't see the "No Versioning" option, make sure the above requirements are met.

    +

    User Weropol has found a method to disable versioning on OneDrive

    +
      +
    1. Open the settings menu by clicking on the gear symbol at the top of the OneDrive Business page.
    2. +
    3. Click Site settings.
    4. +
    5. Once on the Site settings page, navigate to Site Administration > Site libraries and lists.
    6. +
    7. Click Customize "Documents".
    8. +
    9. Click General Settings > Versioning Settings.
    10. +
    11. 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.
    12. +
    13. Apply the changes by clicking OK.
    14. +
    15. Use rclone to upload or modify files. (I also use the --no-update-modtime flag)
    16. +
    17. Restore the versioning settings after using rclone. (Optional)
    18. +
    +

    Cleanup

    +

    OneDrive supports rclone cleanup which causes rclone to look through every file under the path supplied and delete all version but the current version. Because this involves traversing all the files, then querying each file for versions it can be quite slow. Rclone does --checkers tests in parallel. The command also supports -i which is a great way to see what it would do.

    +
    rclone cleanup -i remote:path/subdir # interactively remove all old version for path/subdir
    +rclone cleanup remote:path/subdir    # unconditionally remove all old version for path/subdir
    +

    NB Onedrive personal can't currently delete versions

    +

    Troubleshooting

    +

    Excessive throttling or blocked on SharePoint

    +

    If you experience excessive throttling or is being blocked on SharePoint then it may help to set the user agent explicitly with a flag like this: --user-agent "ISV|rclone.org|rclone/v1.55.1"

    +

    The specific details can be found in the Microsoft document: Avoid getting throttled or blocked in SharePoint Online

    +

    Unexpected file size/hash differences on Sharepoint

    +

    It is a known issue that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) silently modifies uploaded files, mainly Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.), causing file size and hash checks to fail. There are also other situations that will cause OneDrive to report inconsistent file sizes. To use rclone with such affected files on Sharepoint, you may disable these checks with the following command line arguments:

    +
    --ignore-checksum --ignore-size
    +

    Alternatively, if you have write access to the OneDrive files, it may be possible to fix this problem for certain files, by attempting the steps below. Open the web interface for OneDrive and find the affected files (which will be in the error messages/log for rclone). Simply click on each of these files, causing OneDrive to open them on the web. This will cause each file to be converted in place to a format that is functionally equivalent but which will no longer trigger the size discrepancy. Once all problematic files are converted you will no longer need the ignore options above.

    +

    Replacing/deleting existing files on Sharepoint gets "item not found"

    +

    It is a known issue that Sharepoint (not OneDrive or OneDrive for Business) may return "item not found" errors when users try to replace or delete uploaded files; this seems to mainly affect Office files (.docx, .xlsx, etc.) and web files (.html, .aspx, etc.). As a workaround, you may use the --backup-dir <BACKUP_DIR> command line argument so rclone moves the files to be replaced/deleted into a given backup directory (instead of directly replacing/deleting them). For example, to instruct rclone to move the files into the directory rclone-backup-dir on backend mysharepoint, you may use:

    +
    --backup-dir mysharepoint:rclone-backup-dir
    +

    access_denied (AADSTS65005)

    +
    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

    +

    invalid_grant (AADSTS50076)

    +
    Error: invalid_grant
    +Code: AADSTS50076
    +Description: Due to a configuration change made by your administrator, or because you moved to a new location, you must use multi-factor authentication to access '...'.
    +

    If you see the error above after enabling multi-factor authentication for your account, you can fix it by refreshing your OAuth refresh token. To do that, run rclone config, and choose to edit your OneDrive backend. Then, you don't need to actually make any changes until you reach this question: Already have a token - refresh?. For this question, answer y and go through the process to refresh your token, just like the first time the backend is configured. After this, rclone should work again for this backend.

    + +

    On Sharepoint and OneDrive for Business, rclone link may return an "Invalid request" error. A possible cause is that the organisation admin didn't allow public links to be made for the organisation/sharepoint library. To fix the permissions as an admin, take a look at the docs: 1, 2.

    +

    Can not access Shared with me files

    +

    Shared with me files is not supported by rclone currently, but there is a workaround:

    +
      +
    1. Visit https://onedrive.live.com

    2. +
    3. Right click a item in Shared, then click Add shortcut to My files in the context

      +
      +

      Screenshot (Shared with me)

      +
      +
      make_shortcut
      +
      +
    4. +
    5. The shortcut will appear in My files, you can access it with rclone, it behaves like a normal folder/file.

      +
      +

      Screenshot (My Files)

      +
      +
      in_my_files
      +
      +
    6. +
    +
    +

    Screenshot (rclone mount)

    +rclone_mount +
    +

    OpenDrive

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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.

    +

    Configuration

    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
    +
    n) New remote
    +d) Delete remote
     q) Quit config
    -n/s/q> n
    +e/n/d/q> n
     name> remote
     Type of storage to configure.
     Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
     [snip]
    -XX / Pcloud
    -   \ "pcloud"
    +XX / OpenDrive
    +   \ "opendrive"
     [snip]
    -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
    ---------------------
    +Storage> opendrive
    +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]
    -client_id = 
    -client_secret = 
    -token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"bearer","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
    +username =
    +password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
     --------------------
     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

    +

    List directories in top level of your OpenDrive

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your pCloud

    +

    List all the files in your OpenDrive

    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to a pCloud directory called backup

    +

    To copy a local directory to an OpenDrive 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 hashes in the US region, and SHA1 and SHA256 hashes in the EU region, so you can use the --checksum flag.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    +

    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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    @@ -21748,629 +24684,888 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F
    "0x22
    *0x2A
    :0x3A
    <0x3C
    >0x3E
    ?0x3F
    \ 0x5C
    |0x7C
    +

    File names can also not begin or end with the following characters. These only get replaced if they are the first or last character in the name:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    SP0x20
    HT0x09
    LF0x0A
    VT0x0B
    CR0x0D

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    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.

    -

    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 the root of your pCloud 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.

    -

    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 folder field of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the pCloud web interface.

    -

    So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like https://my.pcloud.com/#page=filemanager&folder=5xxxxxxxx8&tpl=foldergrid in the browser, then you use 5xxxxxxxx8 as the root_folder_id in the config.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

    -

    --pcloud-client-id

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: client_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --pcloud-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: client_secret
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

    -

    --pcloud-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: token
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --pcloud-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

    +

    --opendrive-username

    +

    Username.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: auth_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_AUTH_URL
    • +
    • Config: username
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_USERNAME
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Required: true
    -

    --pcloud-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --opendrive-password

    +

    Password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: token_url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN_URL
    • +
    • Config: password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_PASSWORD
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • +
    • Required: true
    -

    --pcloud-encoding

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to opendrive (OpenDrive).

    +

    --opendrive-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • -
    -

    --pcloud-root-folder-id

    -

    Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: root_folder_id
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "d0"
    • +
    • Default: Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,BackSlash,LeftSpace,LeftCrLfHtVt,RightSpace,RightCrLfHtVt,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    --pcloud-hostname

    -

    Hostname to connect to.

    -

    This is normally set when rclone initially does the oauth connection, however you will need to set it by hand if you are using remote config with rclone authorize.

    +

    --opendrive-chunk-size

    +

    Files will be uploaded in chunks this size.

    +

    Note that these chunks are buffered in memory so increasing them will increase memory use.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: hostname
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_HOSTNAME
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "api.pcloud.com"
    • -
    • Examples: -
        -
      • "api.pcloud.com" -
          -
        • Original/US region
        • -
      • -
      • "eapi.pcloud.com" -
          -
        • EU region
        • -
      • -
    • +
    • Config: chunk_size
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OPENDRIVE_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 10Mi
    -

    premiumize.me

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for premiumize.me involves getting a token from premiumize.me which you need to do in your browser. rclone config walks you through it.

    +

    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.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the OpenDrive backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Oracle Object Storage

    +

    Oracle Object Storage Overview

    +

    Oracle Object Storage FAQ

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making an oracle object storage configuration. 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
    +
    n) New remote
    +d) Delete remote
    +r) Rename remote
    +c) Copy remote
     s) Set configuration password
     q) Quit config
    -n/s/q> n
    +e/n/d/r/c/s/q> n
    +
    +Enter name for new remote.
     name> remote
    +
    +Option Storage.
     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]
    -XX / premiumize.me
    -   \ "premiumizeme"
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
     [snip]
    -Storage> premiumizeme
    -** See help for premiumizeme backend at: https://rclone.org/premiumizeme/ **
    +XX / Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage
    +   \ (oracleobjectstorage)
    +Storage> oracleobjectstorage
     
    -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]
    -type = premiumizeme
    -token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2029-08-07T18:44:15.548915378+01:00"}
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK
    +Option provider.
    +Choose your Auth Provider
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
    +Press Enter for the default (env_auth).
    + 1 / automatically pickup the credentials from runtime(env), first one to provide auth wins
    +   \ (env_auth)
    +   / use an OCI user and an API key for authentication.
    + 2 | you’ll need to put in a config file your tenancy OCID, user OCID, region, the path, fingerprint to an API key.
    +   | https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdkconfig.htm
    +   \ (user_principal_auth)
    +   / use instance principals to authorize an instance to make API calls. 
    + 3 | each instance has its own identity, and authenticates using the certificates that are read from instance metadata. 
    +   | https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/callingservicesfrominstances.htm
    +   \ (instance_principal_auth)
    + 4 / use resource principals to make API calls
    +   \ (resource_principal_auth)
    + 5 / no credentials needed, this is typically for reading public buckets
    +   \ (no_auth)
    +provider> 2
    +
    +Option namespace.
    +Object storage namespace
    +Enter a value.
    +namespace> idbamagbg734
    +
    +Option compartment.
    +Object storage compartment OCID
    +Enter a value.
    +compartment> ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaapufkxc7ame3sthry5i7ujrwfc7ejnthhu6bhanm5oqfjpyasjkba
    +
    +Option region.
    +Object storage Region
    +Enter a value.
    +region> us-ashburn-1
    +
    +Option endpoint.
    +Endpoint for Object storage API.
    +Leave blank to use the default endpoint for the region.
    +Enter a value. Press Enter to leave empty.
    +endpoint> 
    +
    +Option config_file.
    +Path to OCI config file
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
    +Press Enter for the default (~/.oci/config).
    + 1 / oci configuration file location
    +   \ (~/.oci/config)
    +config_file> /etc/oci/dev.conf
    +
    +Option config_profile.
    +Profile name inside OCI config file
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own string value.
    +Press Enter for the default (Default).
    + 1 / Use the default profile
    +   \ (Default)
    +config_profile> Test
    +
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +
    +Configuration complete.
    +Options:
    +- type: oracleobjectstorage
    +- namespace: idbamagbg734
    +- compartment: ocid1.compartment.oc1..aaaaaaaapufkxc7ame3sthry5i7ujrwfc7ejnthhu6bhanm5oqfjpyasjkba
    +- region: us-ashburn-1
    +- provider: user_principal_auth
    +- config_file: /etc/oci/dev.conf
    +- config_profile: Test
    +Keep this "remote" remote?
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> 
    -

    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 premiumize.me. 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 premiumize.me

    +y/e/d> y
    +

    See all buckets

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your premiumize.me

    -
    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to an premiumize.me directory called backup

    -
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    premiumize.me does not support modification times or hashes, therefore syncing will default to --size-only checking. Note that using --update will work.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    "0x22
    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

    -

    --premiumizeme-api-key

    -

    API Key.

    -

    This is not normally used - use oauth instead.

    +

    Create a new bucket

    +
    rclone mkdir remote:bucket
    +

    List the contents of a bucket

    +
    rclone ls remote:bucket
    +rclone ls remote:bucket --max-depth 1
    +

    Modified time

    +

    The modified time is stored as metadata on the object as opc-meta-mtime as floating point since the epoch, accurate to 1 ns.

    +

    If the modification time needs to be updated rclone will attempt to perform a server side copy to update the modification if the object can be copied in a single part. In the case the object is larger than 5Gb, the object will be uploaded rather than copied.

    +

    Note that reading this from the object takes an additional HEAD request as the metadata isn't returned in object listings.

    +

    Multipart uploads

    +

    rclone supports multipart uploads with OOS which means that it can upload files bigger than 5 GiB.

    +

    Note that files uploaded both with multipart upload and through crypt remotes do not have MD5 sums.

    +

    rclone switches from single part uploads to multipart uploads at the point specified by --oos-upload-cutoff. This can be a maximum of 5 GiB and a minimum of 0 (ie always upload multipart files).

    +

    The chunk sizes used in the multipart upload are specified by --oos-chunk-size and the number of chunks uploaded concurrently is specified by --oos-upload-concurrency.

    +

    Multipart uploads will use --transfers * --oos-upload-concurrency * --oos-chunk-size extra memory. Single part uploads to not use extra memory.

    +

    Single part transfers can be faster than multipart transfers or slower depending on your latency from oos - the more latency, the more likely single part transfers will be faster.

    +

    Increasing --oos-upload-concurrency will increase throughput (8 would be a sensible value) and increasing --oos-chunk-size also increases throughput (16M would be sensible). Increasing either of these will use more memory. The default values are high enough to gain most of the possible performance without using too much memory.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to oracleobjectstorage (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage).

    +

    --oos-provider

    +

    Choose your Auth Provider

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: api_key
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_API_KEY
    • +
    • Config: provider
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_PROVIDER
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Default: "env_auth"
    • +
    • Examples: +
        +
      • "env_auth" +
          +
        • automatically pickup the credentials from runtime(env), first one to provide auth wins
        • +
      • +
      • "user_principal_auth" +
          +
        • use an OCI user and an API key for authentication.
        • +
        • you’ll need to put in a config file your tenancy OCID, user OCID, region, the path, fingerprint to an API key.
        • +
        • https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdkconfig.htm
        • +
      • +
      • "instance_principal_auth" +
          +
        • use instance principals to authorize an instance to make API calls.
        • +
        • each instance has its own identity, and authenticates using the certificates that are read from instance metadata.
        • +
        • https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/Tasks/callingservicesfrominstances.htm
        • +
      • +
      • "resource_principal_auth" +
          +
        • use resource principals to make API calls
        • +
      • +
      • "no_auth" +
          +
        • no credentials needed, this is typically for reading public buckets
        • +
      • +
    • +
    +

    --oos-namespace

    +

    Object storage namespace

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: namespace
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_NAMESPACE
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: true
    • +
    +

    --oos-compartment

    +

    Object storage compartment OCID

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: compartment
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_COMPARTMENT
    • +
    • Provider: !no_auth
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: true
    • +
    +

    --oos-region

    +

    Object storage Region

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: region
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_REGION
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: true
    • +
    +

    --oos-endpoint

    +

    Endpoint for Object storage API.

    +

    Leave blank to use the default endpoint for the region.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: endpoint
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_ENDPOINT
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

    -

    --premiumizeme-encoding

    +

    --oos-config-file

    +

    Path to OCI config file

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: config_file
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_CONFIG_FILE
    • +
    • Provider: user_principal_auth
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Default: "~/.oci/config"
    • +
    • Examples: +
        +
      • "~/.oci/config" +
          +
        • oci configuration file location
        • +
      • +
    • +
    +

    --oos-config-profile

    +

    Profile name inside the oci config file

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: config_profile
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_CONFIG_PROFILE
    • +
    • Provider: user_principal_auth
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Default: "Default"
    • +
    • Examples: +
        +
      • "Default" +
          +
        • Use the default profile
        • +
      • +
    • +
    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to oracleobjectstorage (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage).

    +

    --oos-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

    +

    Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size. The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_cutoff
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 200Mi
    • +
    +

    --oos-chunk-size

    +

    Chunk size to use for uploading.

    +

    When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff or files with unknown size (e.g. from "rclone rcat" or uploaded with "rclone mount" or google photos or google docs) they will be uploaded as multipart uploads using this chunk size.

    +

    Note that "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.

    +

    Rclone will automatically increase the chunk size when uploading a large file of known size to stay below the 10,000 chunks limit.

    +

    Files of unknown size are uploaded with the configured chunk_size. Since the default chunk size is 5 MiB and there can be at most 10,000 chunks, this means that by default the maximum size of a file you can stream upload is 48 GiB. If you wish to stream upload larger files then you will need to increase chunk_size.

    +

    Increasing the chunk size decreases the accuracy of the progress statistics displayed with "-P" flag.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: chunk_size
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 5Mi
    • +
    +

    --oos-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 files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_concurrency
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
    • +
    • Type: int
    • +
    • Default: 10
    • +
    +

    --oos-copy-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to multipart copy.

    +

    Any files larger than this that need to be server-side copied will be copied in chunks of this size.

    +

    The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: copy_cutoff
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_COPY_CUTOFF
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 4.656Gi
    • +
    +

    --oos-copy-timeout

    +

    Timeout for copy.

    +

    Copy is an asynchronous operation, specify timeout to wait for copy to succeed

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: copy_timeout
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_COPY_TIMEOUT
    • +
    • Type: Duration
    • +
    • Default: 1m0s
    • +
    +

    --oos-disable-checksum

    +

    Don't store MD5 checksum with object metadata.

    +

    Normally rclone will calculate the MD5 checksum of the input before uploading it so it can add it to metadata on the object. This is great for data integrity checking but can cause long delays for large files to start uploading.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: disable_checksum
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_DISABLE_CHECKSUM
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --oos-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PREMIUMIZEME_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • +
    • Default: Slash,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    Limitations

    -

    Note that premiumize.me is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    -

    premiumize.me file names can't have the \ or " characters in. rclone maps these to and from an identical looking unicode equivalents and

    -

    premiumize.me only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

    -

    put.io

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    put.io paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for put.io involves getting a token from put.io 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:

    +

    --oos-leave-parts-on-error

    +

    If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure, leaving all successfully uploaded parts on S3 for manual recovery.

    +

    It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

    +

    WARNING: Storing parts of an incomplete multipart upload counts towards space usage on object storage and will add additional costs if not cleaned up.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: leave_parts_on_error
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_LEAVE_PARTS_ON_ERROR
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    --oos-no-check-bucket

    +

    If set, don't attempt to check the bucket exists or create it.

    +

    This can be useful when trying to minimise the number of transactions rclone does if you know the bucket exists already.

    +

    It can also be needed if the user you are using does not have bucket creation permissions.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: no_check_bucket
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_OOS_NO_CHECK_BUCKET
    • +
    • Type: bool
    • +
    • Default: false
    • +
    +

    Backend commands

    +

    Here are the commands specific to the oracleobjectstorage backend.

    +

    Run them with

    +
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    +

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    +

    See the backend command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    +

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    +

    rename

    +

    change the name of an object

    +
    rclone backend rename remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This command can be used to rename a object.

    +

    Usage Examples:

    +
    rclone backend rename oos:bucket relative-object-path-under-bucket object-new-name
    +

    list-multipart-uploads

    +

    List the unfinished multipart uploads

    +
    rclone backend list-multipart-uploads remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This command lists the unfinished multipart uploads in JSON format.

    +
    rclone backend list-multipart-uploads oos:bucket/path/to/object
    +

    It returns a dictionary of buckets with values as lists of unfinished multipart uploads.

    +

    You can call it with no bucket in which case it lists all bucket, with a bucket or with a bucket and path.

    +
    {
    +  "test-bucket": [
    +            {
    +                    "namespace": "test-namespace",
    +                    "bucket": "test-bucket",
    +                    "object": "600m.bin",
    +                    "uploadId": "51dd8114-52a4-b2f2-c42f-5291f05eb3c8",
    +                    "timeCreated": "2022-07-29T06:21:16.595Z",
    +                    "storageTier": "Standard"
    +            }
    +    ]
    +

    cleanup

    +

    Remove unfinished multipart uploads.

    +
    rclone backend cleanup remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This command removes unfinished multipart uploads of age greater than max-age which defaults to 24 hours.

    +

    Note that you can use -i/--dry-run with this command to see what it would do.

    +
    rclone backend cleanup oos:bucket/path/to/object
    +rclone backend cleanup -o max-age=7w oos:bucket/path/to/object
    +

    Durations are parsed as per the rest of rclone, 2h, 7d, 7w etc.

    +

    Options:

    +
      +
    • "max-age": Max age of upload to delete
    • +
    +

    QingStor

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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/s/q> n
    -name> putio
    +n/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
     [snip]
    -XX / Put.io
    -   \ "putio"
    +XX / QingStor Object Storage
    +   \ "qingstor"
     [snip]
    -Storage> putio
    -** See help for putio backend at: https://rclone.org/putio/ **
    -
    +Storage> qingstor
    +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 an 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 connection retry.
    +Leave blank will use the default value "3".
    +connection_retries>
     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
     --------------------
    -[putio]
    -type = putio
    -token = {"access_token":"XXXXXXXX","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
    +[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
    -Current remotes:
    -
    -Name                 Type
    -====                 ====
    -putio                putio
    -
    -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
    -

    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.

    -

    You can then use it like this,

    -

    List directories in top level of your put.io

    +y/e/d> y
    +

    This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

    +

    See all buckets

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your put.io

    -
    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to a put.io directory called backup

    -
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    +

    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 -i /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 5 GiB. Note that files uploaded with multipart upload don't have an MD5SUM.

    +

    Note that incomplete multipart uploads older than 24 hours can be removed with rclone cleanup remote:bucket just for one bucket rclone cleanup remote: for all buckets. QingStor does not ever remove incomplete multipart uploads so it may be necessary to run this from time to time.

    +

    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
        • +
      • +
    • +
    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    The control characters 0x00-0x1F and / are replaced as in the default restricted characters set. Note that 0x7F is not replaced.

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to putio (Put.io).

    -

    --putio-encoding

    +

    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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • 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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: access_key_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-secret-access-key

    +

    QingStor Secret Access Key (password).

    +

    Leave blank for anonymous access or runtime credentials.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: secret_access_key
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-endpoint

    +

    Enter an endpoint URL to connection QingStor API.

    +

    Leave blank will use the default value "https://qingstor.com:443".

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: endpoint
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENDPOINT
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-zone

    +

    Zone to connect to.

    +

    Default is "pek3a".

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: zone
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ZONE
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    • 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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: connection_retries
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CONNECTION_RETRIES
    • +
    • Type: int
    • +
    • Default: 3
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-upload-cutoff

    +

    Cutoff for switching to chunked upload.

    +

    Any files larger than this will be uploaded in chunks of chunk_size. The minimum is 0 and the maximum is 5 GiB.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_cutoff
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CUTOFF
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 200Mi
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-chunk-size

    +

    Chunk size to use for uploading.

    +

    When uploading files larger than upload_cutoff they will be uploaded as multipart uploads using this chunk size.

    +

    Note that "--qingstor-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.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: chunk_size
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_CHUNK_SIZE
    • +
    • Type: SizeSuffix
    • +
    • Default: 4Mi
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-upload-concurrency

    +

    Concurrency for multipart uploads.

    +

    This is the number of chunks of the same file that are uploaded concurrently.

    +

    NB if you set this to > 1 then the checksums of multipart uploads become corrupted (the uploads themselves are not corrupted though).

    +

    If you are uploading small numbers of large files over high-speed links and these uploads do not fully utilize your bandwidth, then increasing this may help to speed up the transfers.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: upload_concurrency
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_UPLOAD_CONCURRENCY
    • +
    • Type: int
    • +
    • Default: 1
    • +
    +

    --qingstor-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PUTIO_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_QINGSTOR_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • +
    • Default: Slash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8
    -

    Seafile

    -

    This is a backend for the Seafile storage service: - It works with both the free community edition or the professional edition. - Seafile versions 6.x and 7.x are all supported. - Encrypted libraries are also supported. - It supports 2FA enabled users

    -

    Configuration

    -

    There are two distinct modes you can setup your remote: - you point your remote to the root of the server, meaning you don't specify a library during the configuration: Paths are specified as remote:library. You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:library/path/to/dir. - you point your remote to a specific library during the configuration: Paths are specified as remote:path/to/dir. This is the recommended mode when using encrypted libraries. (This mode is possibly slightly faster than the root mode)

    -

    Configuration in root mode

    -

    Here is an example of making a seafile configuration for a user with no two-factor authentication. First run

    -
    rclone config
    -

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process. To authenticate you will need the URL of your server, your email (or username) and your password.

    -
    No remotes found, make a new one?
    -n) New remote
    -s) Set configuration password
    -q) Quit config
    -n/s/q> n
    -name> seafile
    -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]
    -XX / Seafile
    -   \ "seafile"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> seafile
    -** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ **
    -
    -URL of seafile host to connect to
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com
    -   \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
    -url> http://my.seafile.server/
    -User name (usually email address)
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -user> me@example.com
    -Password
    -y) Yes type in my own password
    -g) Generate random password
    -n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    -y/g> y
    -Enter the password:
    -password:
    -Confirm the password:
    -password:
    -Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    -2fa> false
    -Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -library>
    -Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.
    -y) Yes type in my own password
    -g) Generate random password
    -n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    -y/g/n> n
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    -y) Yes
    -n) No (default)
    -y/n> n
    -Remote config
    -Two-factor authentication is not enabled on this account.
    ---------------------
    -[seafile]
    -type = seafile
    -url = http://my.seafile.server/
    -user = me@example.com
    -pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    -2fa = false
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -

    This remote is called seafile. It's pointing to the root of your seafile server and can now be used like this:

    -

    See all libraries

    -
    rclone lsd seafile:
    -

    Create a new library

    -
    rclone mkdir seafile:library
    -

    List the contents of a library

    -
    rclone ls seafile:library
    -

    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote library, deleting any excess files in the library.

    -
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory seafile:library
    -

    Configuration in library mode

    -

    Here's an example of a configuration in library mode with a user that has the two-factor authentication enabled. Your 2FA code will be asked at the end of the configuration, and will attempt to authenticate you:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the qingstor backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Sia

    +

    Sia (sia.tech) is a decentralized cloud storage platform based on the blockchain technology. With rclone you can use it like any other remote filesystem or mount Sia folders locally. The technology behind it involves a number of new concepts such as Siacoins and Wallet, Blockchain and Consensus, Renting and Hosting, and so on. If you are new to it, you'd better first familiarize yourself using their excellent support documentation.

    +

    Introduction

    +

    Before you can use rclone with Sia, you will need to have a running copy of Sia-UI or siad (the Sia daemon) locally on your computer or on local network (e.g. a NAS). Please follow the Get started guide and install one.

    +

    rclone interacts with Sia network by talking to the Sia daemon via HTTP API which is usually available on port 9980. By default you will run the daemon locally on the same computer so it's safe to leave the API password blank (the API URL will be http://127.0.0.1:9980 making external access impossible).

    +

    However, if you want to access Sia daemon running on another node, for example due to memory constraints or because you want to share single daemon between several rclone and Sia-UI instances, you'll need to make a few more provisions: - Ensure you have Sia daemon installed directly or in a docker container because Sia-UI does not support this mode natively. - Run it on externally accessible port, for example provide --api-addr :9980 and --disable-api-security arguments on the daemon command line. - Enforce API password for the siad daemon via environment variable SIA_API_PASSWORD or text file named apipassword in the daemon directory. - Set rclone backend option api_password taking it from above locations.

    +

    Notes: 1. If your wallet is locked, rclone cannot unlock it automatically. You should either unlock it in advance by using Sia-UI or via command line siac wallet unlock. Alternatively you can make siad unlock your wallet automatically upon startup by running it with environment variable SIA_WALLET_PASSWORD. 2. If siad cannot find the SIA_API_PASSWORD variable or the apipassword file in the SIA_DIR directory, it will generate a random password and store in the text file named apipassword under YOUR_HOME/.sia/ directory on Unix or C:\Users\YOUR_HOME\AppData\Local\Sia\apipassword on Windows. Remember this when you configure password in rclone. 3. The only way to use siad without API password is to run it on localhost with command line argument --authorize-api=false, but this is insecure and strongly discouraged.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a sia remote called mySia. 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> seafile
    +name> mySia
     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]
    -XX / Seafile
    -   \ "seafile"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> seafile
    -** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ **
    -
    -URL of seafile host to connect to
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com
    -   \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
    -url> http://my.seafile.server/
    -User name (usually email address)
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -user> me@example.com
    -Password
    +...
    +29 / Sia Decentralized Cloud
    +   \ "sia"
    +...
    +Storage> sia
    +Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.
    +Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended).
    +Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("http://127.0.0.1:9980").
    +api_url> http://127.0.0.1:9980
    +Sia Daemon API Password.
    +Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.
     y) Yes type in my own password
     g) Generate random password
     n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    -y/g> y
    +y/g/n> y
     Enter the password:
     password:
     Confirm the password:
     password:
    -Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
    -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    -2fa> true
    -Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -library> My Library
    -Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.
    -y) Yes type in my own password
    -g) Generate random password
    -n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    -y/g/n> n
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +Edit advanced config?
     y) Yes
     n) No (default)
     y/n> n
    -Remote config
    -Two-factor authentication: please enter your 2FA code
    -2fa code> 123456
    -Authenticating...
    -Success!
     --------------------
    -[seafile]
    -type = seafile
    -url = http://my.seafile.server/
    -user = me@example.com
    -pass = 
    -2fa = true
    -library = My Library
    +[mySia]
    +type = sia
    +api_url = http://127.0.0.1:9980
    +api_password = *** ENCRYPTED ***
     --------------------
     y) Yes this is OK (default)
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
     y/e/d> y
    -

    You'll notice your password is blank in the configuration. It's because we only need the password to authenticate you once.

    -

    You specified My Library during the configuration. The root of the remote is pointing at the root of the library My Library:

    -

    See all files in the library:

    -
    rclone lsd seafile:
    -

    Create a new directory inside the library

    -
    rclone mkdir seafile:directory
    -

    List the contents of a directory

    -
    rclone ls seafile:directory
    -

    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote library, deleting any excess files in the library.

    -
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory seafile:
    -

    --fast-list

    -

    Seafile version 7+ supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details. Please note this is not supported on seafile server version 6.x

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CharacterValueReplacement
    /0x2F
    "0x22
    \0x5C
    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    - -

    Rclone supports generating share links for non-encrypted libraries only. They can either be for a file or a directory:

    -
    rclone link seafile:seafile-tutorial.doc
    -http://my.seafile.server/f/fdcd8a2f93f84b8b90f4/
    -
    -

    or if run on a directory you will get:

    -
    rclone link seafile:dir
    -http://my.seafile.server/d/9ea2455f6f55478bbb0d/
    -

    Please note a share link is unique for each file or directory. If you run a link command on a file/dir that has already been shared, you will get the exact same link.

    -

    Compatibility

    -

    It has been actively tested using the seafile docker image of these versions: - 6.3.4 community edition - 7.0.5 community edition - 7.1.3 community edition

    -

    Versions below 6.0 are not supported. Versions between 6.0 and 6.3 haven't been tested and might not work properly.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to seafile (seafile).

    -

    --seafile-url

    -

    URL of seafile host to connect to.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    Once configured, you can then use rclone like this:

      -
    • Config: url
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_URL
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: true
    • -
    • Examples: +
    • List directories in top level of your Sia storage
    • +
    +
    rclone lsd mySia:
      -
    • "https://cloud.seafile.com/" +
    • List all the files in your Sia storage
    • +
    +
    rclone ls mySia:
      -
    • Connect to cloud.seafile.com.
    • -
    - +
  • Upload a local directory to the Sia directory called backup
  • -

    --seafile-user

    -

    User name (usually email address).

    +
    rclone copy /home/source mySia:backup
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

    +

    --sia-api-url

    +

    Sia daemon API URL, like http://sia.daemon.host:9980.

    +

    Note that siad must run with --disable-api-security to open API port for other hosts (not recommended). Keep default if Sia daemon runs on localhost.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: user
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_USER
    • +
    • Config: api_url
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_API_URL
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: true
    • +
    • Default: "http://127.0.0.1:9980"
    -

    --seafile-pass

    -

    Password.

    +

    --sia-api-password

    +

    Sia Daemon API Password.

    +

    Can be found in the apipassword file located in HOME/.sia/ or in the daemon directory.

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: pass
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_PASS
    • +
    • Config: api_password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_API_PASSWORD
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --seafile-2fa

    -

    Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled).

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to sia (Sia Decentralized Cloud).

    +

    --sia-user-agent

    +

    Siad User Agent

    +

    Sia daemon requires the 'Sia-Agent' user agent by default for security

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: 2fa
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_2FA
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --seafile-library

    -

    Name of the library.

    -

    Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: library
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_LIBRARY
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --seafile-library-key

    -

    Library password (for encrypted libraries only).

    -

    Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: library_key
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_LIBRARY_KEY
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    --seafile-auth-token

    -

    Authentication token.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: auth_token
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_AUTH_TOKEN
    • +
    • Config: user_agent
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_USER_AGENT
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to seafile (seafile).

    -

    --seafile-create-library

    -

    Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist.

    -

    Properties:

    -
      -
    • Config: create_library
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_CREATE_LIBRARY
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • +
    • Default: "Sia-Agent"
    -

    --seafile-encoding

    +

    --sia-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    • Config: encoding
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SEAFILE_ENCODING
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SIA_ENCODING
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • -
    • Default: Slash,DoubleQuote,BackSlash,Ctl,InvalidUtf8
    • +
    • Default: Slash,Question,Hash,Percent,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    -

    SFTP

    -

    SFTP is the Secure (or SSH) File Transfer Protocol.

    -

    The SFTP backend can be used with a number of different providers:

    +

    Limitations

      -
    • C14
    • -
    • rsync.net
    • +
    • Modification times not supported
    • +
    • Checksums not supported
    • +
    • rclone about not supported
    • +
    • rclone can work only with Siad or Sia-UI at the moment, the SkyNet daemon is not supported yet.
    • +
    • Sia does not allow control characters or symbols like question and pound signs in file names. rclone will transparently encode them for you, but you'd better be aware
    -

    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. For example, rclone lsd remote: would list the home directory of the user cofigured in the rclone remote config (i.e /home/sftpuser). However, rclone lsd remote:/ would list the root directory for remote machine (i.e. /)

    -

    Note that some SFTP servers will need the leading / - Synology is a good example of this. rsync.net, on the other hand, requires users to OMIT the leading /.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of making an SFTP configuration. First run

    +

    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, e.g. remote:container/path/to/dir.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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?
    @@ -22382,517 +25577,472 @@ 

    Configuration

    Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value [snip] -XX / SSH/SFTP Connection - \ "sftp" +XX / OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH) + \ "swift" [snip] -Storage> sftp -SSH host to connect to +Storage> swift +Get swift credentials from environment variables in standard OpenStack form. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value - 1 / Connect to example.com - \ "example.com" -host> example.com -SSH username -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER"). -user> sftpuser -SSH port number -Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the 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> + 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/v3" +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 -------------------- -[remote] -host = example.com -user = sftpuser -port = -pass = -key_file = +[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 directories in the home directory

    +

    This remote is called remote and can now be used like this

    +

    See all containers

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    See all directories in the root 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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    -

    Mount the remote path /srv/www-data/ to the local path /mnt/www-data

    -
    rclone mount remote:/srv/www-data/ /mnt/www-data
    -

    SSH Authentication

    -

    The SFTP remote supports three authentication methods:

    -
      -
    • Password
    • -
    • Key file, including certificate signed keys
    • -
    • ssh-agent
    • -
    -

    Key files should be PEM-encoded private key files. For instance /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa. Only unencrypted OpenSSH or PEM encrypted files are supported.

    -

    The key file can be specified in either an external file (key_file) or contained within the rclone config file (key_pem). If using key_pem in the config file, the entry should be on a single line with new line ('' or '') separating lines. i.e.

    -
    key_pem = -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMaMbaIXtE\n0gAMbMbaSsd\nMbaass\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
    -

    This will generate it correctly for key_pem for use in the config:

    -
    awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    -

    If you don't specify pass, key_file, or key_pem or ask_password then rclone will attempt to contact an ssh-agent. You can also specify key_use_agent to force the usage of an ssh-agent. In this case key_file or key_pem can also be specified to force the usage of a specific key in the ssh-agent.

    -

    Using an ssh-agent is the only way to load encrypted OpenSSH keys at the moment.

    -

    If you set the ask_password option, rclone will prompt for a password when needed and no password has been configured.

    -

    Certificate-signed keys

    -

    With traditional key-based authentication, you configure your private key only, and the public key built into it will be used during the authentication process.

    -

    If you have a certificate you may use it to sign your public key, creating a separate SSH user certificate that should be used instead of the plain public key extracted from the private key. Then you must provide the path to the user certificate public key file in pubkey_file.

    -

    Note: This is not the traditional public key paired with your private key, typically saved as /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Setting this path in pubkey_file will not work.

    -

    Example:

    -
    [remote]
    -type = sftp
    -host = example.com
    -user = sftpuser
    -key_file = ~/id_rsa
    -pubkey_file = ~/id_rsa-cert.pub
    -

    If you concatenate a cert with a private key then you can specify the merged file in both places.

    -

    Note: the cert must come first in the file. e.g.

    -
    cat id_rsa-cert.pub id_rsa > merged_key
    -

    Host key validation

    -

    By default rclone will not check the server's host key for validation. This can allow an attacker to replace a server with their own and if you use password authentication then this can lead to that password being exposed.

    -

    Host key matching, using standard known_hosts files can be turned on by enabling the known_hosts_file option. This can point to the file maintained by OpenSSH or can point to a unique file.

    -

    e.g. using the OpenSSH known_hosts file:

    +

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:container
    +

    Configuration from an OpenStack credentials file

    +

    An OpenStack 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 = sftp
    -host = example.com
    -user = sftpuser
    -pass = 
    -known_hosts_file = ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    -

    Alternatively you can create your own known hosts file like this:

    -
    ssh-keyscan -t dsa,rsa,ecdsa,ed25519 example.com >> known_hosts
    -

    There are some limitations:

    -
      -
    • rclone will not manage this file for you. If the key is missing or wrong then the connection will be refused.
    • -
    • If the server is set up for a certificate host key then the entry in the known_hosts file must be the @cert-authority entry for the CA
    • -
    -

    If the host key provided by the server does not match the one in the file (or is missing) then the connection will be aborted and an error returned such as

    -
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key mismatch
    -

    or

    -
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key is unknown
    -

    If you see an error such as

    -
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: no authorities for hostname: example.com:22
    -

    then it is likely the server has presented a CA signed host certificate and you will need to add the appropriate @cert-authority entry.

    -

    The known_hosts_file setting can be set during rclone config as an advanced option.

    -

    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, e.g.

    -
    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.

    -

    E.g. "example.com".

    +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

    +

    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-Object-Meta-Mtime as floating point since the epoch accurate to 1 ns.

    +

    This is a de facto standard (used in the official python-swiftclient amongst others) for storing the modification time for an object.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    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.

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-user

    -

    SSH username.

    +

    --swift-user

    +

    User name to log in (OS_USERNAME).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-port

    -

    SSH port number.

    +

    --swift-key

    +

    API key or password (OS_PASSWORD).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-pass

    -

    SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --swift-auth

    +

    Authentication URL for server (OS_AUTH_URL).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-key-pem

    -

    Raw PEM-encoded private key.

    -

    If specified, will override key_file parameter.

    +

    --swift-user-id

    +

    User ID to log in - optional - most swift systems use user and leave this blank (v3 auth) (OS_USER_ID).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-key-file

    -

    Path to PEM-encoded private key file.

    -

    Leave blank or set key-use-agent to use ssh-agent.

    -

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    --swift-domain

    +

    User domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_USER_DOMAIN_NAME)

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-key-file-pass

    -

    The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file.

    -

    Only PEM encrypted key files (old OpenSSH format) are supported. Encrypted keys in the new OpenSSH format can't be used.

    -

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    --swift-tenant

    +

    Tenant name - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant_id required otherwise (OS_TENANT_NAME or OS_PROJECT_NAME).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-pubkey-file

    -

    Optional path to public key file.

    -

    Set this if you have a signed certificate you want to use for authentication.

    -

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    --swift-tenant-id

    +

    Tenant ID - optional for v1 auth, this or tenant required otherwise (OS_TENANT_ID).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-key-use-agent

    -

    When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent.

    -

    When key-file is also set, the ".pub" file of the specified key-file is read and only the associated key is requested from the ssh-agent. This allows to avoid Too many authentication failures for *username* errors when the ssh-agent contains many keys.

    +

    --swift-tenant-domain

    +

    Tenant domain - optional (v3 auth) (OS_PROJECT_DOMAIN_NAME).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-use-insecure-cipher

    -

    Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods.

    -

    This enables the use of the following insecure ciphers and key exchange methods:

    +

    --swift-region

    +

    Region name - optional (OS_REGION_NAME).

    +

    Properties:

    -

    Those algorithms are insecure and may allow plaintext data to be recovered by an attacker.

    +

    --swift-storage-url

    +

    Storage URL - optional (OS_STORAGE_URL).

    Properties:

    -

    --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.

    +

    --swift-auth-token

    +

    Auth Token from alternate authentication - optional (OS_AUTH_TOKEN).

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP Connection).

    -

    --sftp-known-hosts-file

    -

    Optional path to known_hosts file.

    -

    Set this value to enable server host key validation.

    -

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    +

    --swift-application-credential-id

    +

    Application Credential ID (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_ID).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-ask-password

    -

    Allow asking for SFTP password when needed.

    -

    If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will: - ask for a password - not contact the ssh agent

    +

    --swift-application-credential-name

    +

    Application Credential Name (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_NAME).

    Properties:

    -

    --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 --sftp-path-override /volume2/directory
    -

    Home directory can be found in a shared folder called "home"

    -
    rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/home/directory --sftp-path-override /volume1/homes/USER/directory
    +

    --swift-application-credential-secret

    +

    Application Credential Secret (OS_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL_SECRET).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-set-modtime

    -

    Set the modified time on the remote if set.

    +

    --swift-auth-version

    +

    AuthVersion - optional - set to (1,2,3) if your auth URL has no version (ST_AUTH_VERSION).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-md5sum-command

    -

    The command used to read md5 hashes.

    -

    Leave blank for autodetect.

    +

    --swift-endpoint-type

    +

    Endpoint type to choose from the service catalogue (OS_ENDPOINT_TYPE).

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-sha1sum-command

    -

    The command used to read sha1 hashes.

    -

    Leave blank for autodetect.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Default: "public"
  • +
  • Examples:
      -
    • Config: sha1sum_command
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_SHA1SUM_COMMAND
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Required: false
    • -
    - -

    Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • "public"
      -
    • Config: skip_links
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_SKIP_LINKS
    • -
    • Type: bool
    • -
    • Default: false
    • -
    -

    --sftp-subsystem

    -

    Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Public (default, choose this if not sure)
  • + +
  • "internal"
      -
    • Config: subsystem
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_SUBSYSTEM
    • -
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "sftp"
    • +
    • Internal (use internal service net)
    • +
  • +
  • "admin" +
      +
    • Admin
    • +
  • + -

    --sftp-server-command

    -

    Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host.

    -

    The subsystem option is ignored when server_command is defined.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-use-fstat

    -

    If set use fstat instead of stat.

    -

    Some servers limit the amount of open files and calling Stat after opening the file will throw an error from the server. Setting this flag will call Fstat instead of Stat which is called on an already open file handle.

    -

    It has been found that this helps with IBM Sterling SFTP servers which have "extractability" level set to 1 which means only 1 file can be opened at any given time.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to swift (OpenStack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)).

    +

    --swift-leave-parts-on-error

    +

    If true avoid calling abort upload on a failure.

    +

    It should be set to true for resuming uploads across different sessions.

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads

    -

    If set don't use concurrent reads.

    -

    Normally concurrent reads are safe to use and not using them will degrade performance, so this option is disabled by default.

    -

    Some servers limit the amount number of times a file can be downloaded. Using concurrent reads can trigger this limit, so if you have a server which returns

    -
    Failed to copy: file does not exist
    -

    Then you may need to enable this flag.

    -

    If concurrent reads are disabled, the use_fstat option is ignored.

    +

    --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 5 GiB which is its maximum value.

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes

    -

    If set don't use concurrent writes.

    -

    Normally rclone uses concurrent writes to upload files. This improves the performance greatly, especially for distant servers.

    -

    This option disables concurrent writes should that be necessary.

    +

    --swift-no-chunk

    +

    Don't chunk files during streaming upload.

    +

    When doing streaming uploads (e.g. using rcat or mount) setting this flag will cause the swift backend to not upload chunked files.

    +

    This will limit the maximum upload size to 5 GiB. However non chunked files are easier to deal with and have an MD5SUM.

    +

    Rclone will still chunk files bigger than chunk_size when doing normal copy operations.

    Properties:

    -

    --sftp-idle-timeout

    -

    Max time before closing idle connections.

    -

    If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

    -

    Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.

    +

    --swift-no-large-objects

    +

    Disable support for static and dynamic large objects

    +

    Swift cannot transparently store files bigger than 5 GiB. There are two schemes for doing that, static or dynamic large objects, and the API does not allow rclone to determine whether a file is a static or dynamic large object without doing a HEAD on the object. Since these need to be treated differently, this means rclone has to issue HEAD requests for objects for example when reading checksums.

    +

    When no_large_objects is set, rclone will assume that there are no static or dynamic large objects stored. This means it can stop doing the extra HEAD calls which in turn increases performance greatly especially when doing a swift to swift transfer with --checksum set.

    +

    Setting this option implies no_chunk and also that no files will be uploaded in chunks, so files bigger than 5 GiB will just fail on upload.

    +

    If you set this option and there are static or dynamic large objects, then this will give incorrect hashes for them. Downloads will succeed, but other operations such as Remove and Copy will fail.

    Properties:

    -

    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.

    -

    SFTP also supports about if the same login has shell access and df are in the remote's PATH. about will return the total space, free space, and used space on the remote for the disk of the specified path on the remote or, if not set, the disk of the root on the remote. about will fail if it does not have shell access or if df is not in the remote's PATH.

    -

    Note that some SFTP servers (e.g. 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.

    -

    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 and --contimeout are both supported.

    -

    C14

    -

    C14 is supported through the SFTP backend.

    -

    See C14's documentation

    -

    rsync.net

    -

    rsync.net is supported through the SFTP backend.

    -

    See rsync.net's documentation of rclone examples.

    -

    Storj

    -

    Storj is an encrypted, secure, and cost-effective object storage service that enables you to store, back up, and archive large amounts of data in a decentralized manner.

    -

    Backend options

    -

    Storj can be used both with this native backend and with the s3 backend using the Storj S3 compatible gateway (shared or private).

    -

    Use this backend to take advantage of client-side encryption as well as to achieve the best possible download performance. Uploads will be erasure-coded locally, thus a 1gb upload will result in 2.68gb of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    -

    Use the s3 backend and one of the S3 compatible Hosted Gateways to increase upload performance and reduce the load on your systems and network. Uploads will be encrypted and erasure-coded server-side, thus a 1GB upload will result in only in 1GB of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    -

    Side by side comparison with more details:

    - -

    Configuration

    -

    To make a new Storj configuration you need one of the following: * Access Grant that someone else shared with you. * API Key of a Storj project you are a member of.

    -

    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:

    -

    Setup with access grant

    -
    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]
    -XX / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
    -   \ "storj"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> storj
    -** See help for storj backend at: https://rclone.org/storj/ **
    -
    -Choose an authentication method.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("existing").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / Use an existing access grant.
    -   \ "existing"
    - 2 / Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
    -   \ "new"
    -provider> existing
    -Access Grant.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -access_grant> your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
    -Remote config
    ---------------------
    -[remote]
    -type = storj
    -access_grant = your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -

    Setup with API key and passphrase

    +

    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 (e.g. OVH).

    +

    Rclone gives Failed to create file system: Response didn't have storage url and auth token

    +

    This is most likely caused by forgetting to specify your tenant when setting up a swift remote.

    +

    OVH Cloud Archive

    +

    To use rclone with OVH cloud archive, first use rclone config to set up a swift backend with OVH, choosing pca as the storage_policy.

    +

    Uploading Objects

    +

    Uploading objects to OVH cloud archive is no different to object storage, you just simply run the command you like (move, copy or sync) to upload the objects. Once uploaded the objects will show in a "Frozen" state within the OVH control panel.

    +

    Retrieving Objects

    +

    To retrieve objects use rclone copy as normal. If the objects are in a frozen state then rclone will ask for them all to be unfrozen and it will wait at the end of the output with a message like the following:

    +

    2019/03/23 13:06:33 NOTICE: Received retry after error - sleeping until 2019-03-23T13:16:33.481657164+01:00 (9m59.99985121s)

    +

    Rclone will wait for the time specified then retry the copy.

    +

    pCloud

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    @@ -22900,195 +26050,197 @@ 

    Setup with API key and passphrase

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to storj (Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage).

    -

    --storj-provider

    -

    Choose an authentication method.

    +

    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 a 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 hashes in the US region, and SHA1 and SHA256 hashes in the EU region, so you can use the --checksum flag.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    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.

    +

    Emptying the trash

    +

    Due to an API limitation, the rclone cleanup command will only work if you set your username and password in the advanced options for this backend. Since we generally want to avoid storing user passwords in the rclone config file, we advise you to only set this up if you need the rclone cleanup command to work.

    +

    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 the root of your pCloud 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.

    +

    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 folder field of the URL when you open the relevant folder in the pCloud web interface.

    +

    So if the folder you want rclone to use has a URL which looks like https://my.pcloud.com/#page=filemanager&folder=5xxxxxxxx8&tpl=foldergrid in the browser, then you use 5xxxxxxxx8 as the root_folder_id in the config.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

    +

    --pcloud-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: provider
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_STORJ_PROVIDER
    • +
    • Config: client_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_ID
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "existing"
    • -
    • Examples: +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    --pcloud-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • "existing" +
    • Config: client_secret
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_CLIENT_SECRET
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Required: false
    • +
    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to pcloud (Pcloud).

    +

    --pcloud-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • Use an existing access grant.
    • -
    -
  • "new" +
  • Config: token
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • + +

    --pcloud-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
    • -
    - +
  • Config: auth_url
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_AUTH_URL
  • +
  • Type: string
  • +
  • Required: false
  • -

    --storj-access-grant

    -

    Access grant.

    +

    --pcloud-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: access_grant
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_STORJ_ACCESS_GRANT
    • -
    • Provider: existing
    • +
    • Config: token_url
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_TOKEN_URL
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --storj-satellite-address

    -

    Satellite address.

    -

    Custom satellite address should match the format: <nodeid>@<address>:<port>.

    +

    --pcloud-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: satellite_address
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_STORJ_SATELLITE_ADDRESS
    • -
    • Provider: new
    • +
    • Config: encoding
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_ENCODING
    • +
    • Type: MultiEncoder
    • +
    • Default: Slash,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,InvalidUtf8,Dot
    • +
    +

    --pcloud-root-folder-id

    +

    Fill in for rclone to use a non root folder as its starting point.

    +

    Properties:

    +
      +
    • Config: root_folder_id
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_ROOT_FOLDER_ID
    • Type: string
    • -
    • Default: "us-central-1.storj.io"
    • -
    • Examples: +
    • Default: "d0"
    • +
    +

    --pcloud-hostname

    +

    Hostname to connect to.

    +

    This is normally set when rclone initially does the oauth connection, however you will need to set it by hand if you are using remote config with rclone authorize.

    +

    Properties:

      -
    • "us-central-1.storj.io" +
    • Config: hostname
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_HOSTNAME
    • +
    • Type: string
    • +
    • Default: "api.pcloud.com"
    • +
    • Examples:
        -
      • US Central 1
      • -
    • -
    • "europe-west-1.storj.io" +
    • "api.pcloud.com"
        -
      • Europe West 1
      • +
      • Original/US region
    • -
    • "asia-east-1.storj.io" +
    • "eapi.pcloud.com"
        -
      • Asia East 1
      • +
      • EU region
    -

    --storj-api-key

    -

    API key.

    +

    --pcloud-username

    +

    Your pcloud username.

    +

    This is only required when you want to use the cleanup command. Due to a bug in the pcloud API the required API does not support OAuth authentication so we have to rely on user password authentication for it.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: api_key
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_STORJ_API_KEY
    • -
    • Provider: new
    • +
    • Config: username
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_USERNAME
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    --storj-passphrase

    -

    Encryption passphrase.

    -

    To access existing objects enter passphrase used for uploading.

    +

    --pcloud-password

    +

    Your pcloud password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

      -
    • Config: passphrase
    • -
    • Env Var: RCLONE_STORJ_PASSPHRASE
    • -
    • Provider: new
    • +
    • Config: password
    • +
    • Env Var: RCLONE_PCLOUD_PASSWORD
    • Type: string
    • Required: false
    -

    Usage

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsf command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    -

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this.

    -

    Create a new bucket

    -

    Use the mkdir command to create new bucket, e.g. bucket.

    -
    rclone mkdir remote:bucket
    -

    List all buckets

    -

    Use the lsf command to list all buckets.

    -
    rclone lsf remote:
    -

    Note the colon (:) character at the end of the command line.

    -

    Delete a bucket

    -

    Use the rmdir command to delete an empty bucket.

    -
    rclone rmdir remote:bucket
    -

    Use the purge command to delete a non-empty bucket with all its content.

    -
    rclone purge remote:bucket
    -

    Upload objects

    -

    Use the copy command to upload an object.

    -
    rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/file.ext remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    -

    Use a folder in the local path to upload all its objects.

    -
    rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Only modified files will be copied.

    -

    List objects

    -

    Use the ls command to list recursively all objects in a bucket.

    -
    rclone ls remote:bucket
    -

    Add the folder to the remote path to list recursively all objects in this folder.

    -
    rclone ls remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Use the lsf command to list non-recursively all objects in a bucket or a folder.

    -
    rclone lsf remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Download objects

    -

    Use the copy command to download an object.

    -
    rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext /home/local/directory/
    -

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    -

    Use a folder in the remote path to download all its objects.

    -
    rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
    -

    Delete objects

    -

    Use the deletefile command to delete a single object.

    -
    rclone deletefile remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext
    -

    Use the delete command to delete all object in a folder.

    -
    rclone delete remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    - -

    Use the size command to print the total size of objects in a bucket or a folder.

    -
    rclone size remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Sync two Locations

    -

    Use the sync command to sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only, deleting any excess files.

    -
    rclone sync -i --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    -

    Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag to see exactly what would be copied and deleted.

    -

    The sync can be done also from Storj to the local file system.

    -
    rclone sync -i --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
    -

    Or between two Storj buckets.

    -
    rclone sync -i --progress remote-us:bucket/path/to/dir/ remote-europe:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Or even between another cloud storage and Storj.

    -
    rclone sync -i --progress s3:bucket/path/to/dir/ storj:bucket/path/to/dir/
    -

    Limitations

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the rclone Storj backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Known issues

    -

    If you get errors like too many open files this usually happens when the default ulimit for system max open files is exceeded. Native Storj protocol opens a large number of TCP connections (each of which is counted as an open file). For a single upload stream you can expect 110 TCP connections to be opened. For a single download stream you can expect 35. This batch of connections will be opened for every 64 MiB segment and you should also expect TCP connections to be reused. If you do many transfers you eventually open a connection to most storage nodes (thousands of nodes).

    -

    To fix these, please raise your system limits. You can do this issuing a ulimit -n 65536 just before you run rclone. To change the limits more permanently you can add this to your shell startup script, e.g. $HOME/.bashrc, or change the system-wide configuration, usually /etc/sysctl.conf and/or /etc/security/limits.conf, but please refer to your operating system manual.

    -

    SugarSync

    -

    SugarSync is a cloud service that enables active synchronization of files across computers and other devices for file backup, access, syncing, and sharing.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    The initial setup for SugarSync involves getting a token from SugarSync which you can do with rclone. rclone config walks you through it.

    +

    premiumize.me

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for premiumize.me involves getting a token from premiumize.me 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:

    @@ -23102,243 +26254,165 @@

    Configuration

    Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). Choose a number from below, or type in your own value [snip] -XX / Sugarsync - \ "sugarsync" +XX / premiumize.me + \ "premiumizeme" [snip] -Storage> sugarsync -** See help for sugarsync backend at: https://rclone.org/sugarsync/ ** +Storage> premiumizeme +** See help for premiumizeme backend at: https://rclone.org/premiumizeme/ ** -Sugarsync App ID. -Leave blank to use rclone's. -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). -app_id> -Sugarsync Access Key ID. -Leave blank to use rclone's. -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). -access_key_id> -Sugarsync Private Access Key -Leave blank to use rclone's. -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). -private_access_key> -Permanently delete files if true -otherwise put them in the deleted files. -Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false"). -hard_delete> -Edit advanced config? (y/n) -y) Yes -n) No (default) -y/n> n Remote config -Username (email address)> nick@craig-wood.com -Your Sugarsync password is only required during setup and will not be stored. -password: +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote? + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N. +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 = sugarsync -refresh_token = https://api.sugarsync.com/app-authorization/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX +type = premiumizeme +token = {"access_token":"XXX","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"XXX","expiry":"2029-08-07T18:44:15.548915378+01:00"} -------------------- -y) Yes this is OK (default) +y) Yes this is OK e) Edit this remote d) Delete this remote -y/e/d> y
    -

    Note that the config asks for your email and password but doesn't store them, it only uses them to get the initial token.

    +y/e/d> +

    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 premiumize.me. 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 (sync folders) in top level of your SugarSync

    +

    List directories in top level of your premiumize.me

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your SugarSync folder "Test"

    -
    rclone ls remote:Test
    -

    To copy a local directory to an SugarSync folder called backup

    +

    List all the files in your premiumize.me

    +
    rclone ls remote:
    +

    To copy a local directory to an premiumize.me directory called backup

    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    NB you can't create files in the top level folder you have to create a folder, which rclone will create as a "Sync Folder" with SugarSync.

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    SugarSync does not support modification times or hashes, therefore syncing will default to --size-only checking. Note that using --update will work as rclone can read the time files were uploaded.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    SugarSync replaces the default restricted characters set except for DEL.

    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    -

    Deleting files

    -

    Deleted files will be moved to the "Deleted items" folder by default.

    -

    However you can supply the flag --sugarsync-hard-delete or set the config parameter hard_delete = true if you would like files to be deleted straight away.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

    -

    --sugarsync-app-id

    -

    Sugarsync App ID.

    -

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-access-key-id

    -

    Sugarsync Access Key ID.

    -

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-private-access-key

    -

    Sugarsync Private Access Key.

    -

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-hard-delete

    -

    Permanently delete files if true otherwise put them in the deleted files.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

    -

    --sugarsync-refresh-token

    -

    Sugarsync refresh token.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-authorization

    -

    Sugarsync authorization.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-authorization-expiry

    -

    Sugarsync authorization expiry.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    premiumize.me does not support modification times or hashes, therefore syncing will default to --size-only checking. Note that using --update will work.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    \0x5C
    "0x22
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

    +

    --premiumizeme-api-key

    +

    API Key.

    +

    This is not normally used - use oauth instead.

    Properties:

    -

    --sugarsync-user

    -

    Sugarsync user.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to premiumizeme (premiumize.me).

    +

    --premiumizeme-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    --sugarsync-root-id

    -

    Sugarsync root id.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-deleted-id

    -

    Sugarsync deleted folder id.

    -

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --sugarsync-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Limitations

    -

    rclone about is not supported by the SugarSync backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    -

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about See rclone about

    -

    Tardigrade

    -

    The Tardigrade backend has been renamed to be the Storj backend. Old configuration files will continue to work.

    -

    Uptobox

    -

    This is a Backend for Uptobox file storage service. Uptobox is closer to a one-click hoster than a traditional cloud storage provider and therefore not suitable for long term storage.

    +

    Limitations

    +

    Note that premiumize.me is case insensitive so you can't have a file called "Hello.doc" and one called "hello.doc".

    +

    premiumize.me file names can't have the \ or " characters in. rclone maps these to and from an identical looking unicode equivalents and

    +

    premiumize.me only supports filenames up to 255 characters in length.

    +

    put.io

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    To configure an Uptobox backend you'll need your personal api token. You'll find it in your account settings

    -

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote with the default setup. First run:

    -
    rclone config
    +

    put.io paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for put.io involves getting a token from put.io 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:

    -
    Current remotes:
    -
    -Name                 Type
    -====                 ====
    -TestUptobox          uptobox
    -
    -e) Edit existing remote
    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
     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> uptobox
    +n/s/q> n
    +name> putio
     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
    -[...]
    -37 / Uptobox
    -   \ "uptobox"
    -[...]
    -Storage> uptobox
    -** See help for uptobox backend at: https://rclone.org/uptobox/ **
    +[snip]
    +XX / Put.io
    +   \ "putio"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> putio
    +** See help for putio backend at: https://rclone.org/putio/ **
     
    -Your API Key, get it from https://uptobox.com/my_account
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -api_key> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    -Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    -y) Yes
    -n) No (default)
    -y/n> n
     Remote config
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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
     --------------------
    -[uptobox]
    -type = uptobox
    -api_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +[putio]
    +type = putio
    +token = {"access_token":"XXXXXXXX","expiry":"0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
     --------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +y) Yes this is OK
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> 
    -

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    -

    List directories in top level of your Uptobox

    +y/e/d> y +Current remotes: + +Name Type +==== ==== +putio putio + +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
    +

    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 put.io if using web browser to automatically authenticate. 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.

    +

    You can then use it like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your put.io

    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in your Uptobox

    +

    List all the files in your put.io

    rclone ls remote:
    -

    To copy a local directory to an Uptobox directory called backup

    +

    To copy a local directory to a put.io directory called backup

    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    -

    Modified time and hashes

    -

    Uptobox supports neither modified times nor checksums.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    @@ -23350,330 +26424,342 @@

    Restricted filename characters

    - - - - - - - - + + +
    "0x22
    `0x41\0x5C
    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to uptobox (Uptobox).

    -

    --uptobox-access-token

    -

    Your access token.

    -

    Get it from https://uptobox.com/my_account.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to uptobox (Uptobox).

    -

    --uptobox-encoding

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to putio (Put.io).

    +

    --putio-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Limitations

    -

    Uptobox will delete inactive files that have not been accessed in 60 days.

    -

    rclone about is not supported by this backend an overview of used space can however been seen in the uptobox web interface.

    -

    Union

    -

    The union remote provides a unification similar to UnionFS using other remotes.

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required or a local path, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory or /directory/subdirectory.

    -

    During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the upstream remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can either be a local paths or other remotes.

    -

    Attribute :ro and :nc can be attach to the end of path to tag the remote as read only or no create, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory:ro or remote:directory/subdirectory:nc.

    -

    Subfolders can be used in upstream remotes. Assume a union remote named backup with the remotes 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.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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:

    +

    Limitations

    +

    put.io has rate limiting. When you hit a limit, rclone automatically retries after waiting the amount of time requested by the server.

    +

    If you want to avoid ever hitting these limits, you may use the --tpslimit flag with a low number. Note that the imposed limits may be different for different operations, and may change over time.

    +

    Seafile

    +

    This is a backend for the Seafile storage service: - It works with both the free community edition or the professional edition. - Seafile versions 6.x and 7.x are all supported. - Encrypted libraries are also supported. - It supports 2FA enabled users

    +

    Configuration

    +

    There are two distinct modes you can setup your remote: - you point your remote to the root of the server, meaning you don't specify a library during the configuration: Paths are specified as remote:library. You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:library/path/to/dir. - you point your remote to a specific library during the configuration: Paths are specified as remote:path/to/dir. This is the recommended mode when using encrypted libraries. (This mode is possibly slightly faster than the root mode)

    +

    Configuration in root mode

    +

    Here is an example of making a seafile configuration for a user with no two-factor authentication. First run

    +
    rclone config
    +

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process. To authenticate you will need the URL of your server, your email (or username) and your password.

    No remotes found, make a new one?
     n) New remote
     s) Set configuration password
     q) Quit config
     n/s/q> n
    -name> remote
    +name> seafile
     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]
    -XX / Union merges the contents of several remotes
    -   \ "union"
    +XX / Seafile
    +   \ "seafile"
     [snip]
    -Storage> union
    -List of space separated upstreams.
    -Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '\"upstreama:test/space:ro dir\" upstreamb:', etc.
    +Storage> seafile
    +** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ **
    +
    +URL of seafile host to connect to
     Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -upstreams> remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3:dir3
    -Policy to choose upstream on ACTION class.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epall").
    -action_policy>
    -Policy to choose upstream on CREATE class.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epmfs").
    -create_policy>
    -Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH class.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("ff").
    -search_policy>
    -Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds). This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.
    -Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default ("120").
    -cache_time>
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com
    +   \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/"
    +url> http://my.seafile.server/
    +User name (usually email address)
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +user> me@example.com
    +Password
    +y) Yes type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    +y/g> y
    +Enter the password:
    +password:
    +Confirm the password:
    +password:
    +Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled)
    +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    +2fa> false
    +Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +library>
    +Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.
    +y) Yes type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +n) No leave this optional password blank (default)
    +y/g/n> n
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
     Remote config
    +Two-factor authentication is not enabled on this account.
     --------------------
    -[remote]
    -type = union
    -upstreams = remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3:dir3
    +[seafile]
    +type = seafile
    +url = http://my.seafile.server/
    +user = me@example.com
    +pass = *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +2fa = false
     --------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
     e) Edit this remote
     d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> y
    -Current remotes:
    -
    -Name                 Type
    -====                 ====
    -remote               union
    -
    -e) Edit existing remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    This remote is called seafile. It's pointing to the root of your seafile server and can now be used like this:

    +

    See all libraries

    +
    rclone lsd seafile:
    +

    Create a new library

    +
    rclone mkdir seafile:library
    +

    List the contents of a library

    +
    rclone ls seafile:library
    +

    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote library, deleting any excess files in the library.

    +
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory seafile:library
    +

    Configuration in library mode

    +

    Here's an example of a configuration in library mode with a user that has the two-factor authentication enabled. Your 2FA code will be asked at the end of the configuration, and will attempt to authenticate you:

    +
    No remotes found, make a new one?
     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 remote1:dir1, remote2:dir2 and remote3:dir3

    -
    rclone lsd remote:
    -

    List all the files in remote1:dir1, remote2:dir2 and remote3:dir3

    -
    rclone ls remote:
    -

    Copy another local directory to the union directory called source, which will be placed into remote3:dir3

    -
    rclone copy C:\source remote:source
    -

    Behavior / Policies

    -

    The behavior of union backend is inspired by trapexit/mergerfs. All functions are grouped into 3 categories: action, create and search. These functions and categories can be assigned a policy which dictates what file or directory is chosen when performing that behavior. Any policy can be assigned to a function or category though some may not be very useful in practice. For instance: rand (random) may be useful for file creation (create) but could lead to very odd behavior if used for delete if there were more than one copy of the file.

    -

    Function / Category classifications

    - ----- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    CategoryDescriptionFunctions
    actionWriting Existing filemove, rmdir, rmdirs, delete, purge and copy, sync (as destination when file exist)
    createCreate non-existing filecopy, sync (as destination when file not exist)
    searchReading and listing filels, lsd, lsl, cat, md5sum, sha1sum and copy, sync (as source)
    N/Asize, about
    -

    Path Preservation

    -

    Policies, as described below, are of two basic types. path preserving and non-path preserving.

    -

    All policies which start with ep (epff, eplfs, eplus, epmfs, eprand) are path preserving. ep stands for existing path.

    -

    A path preserving policy will only consider upstreams where the relative path being accessed already exists.

    -

    When using non-path preserving policies paths will be created in target upstreams as necessary.

    -

    Quota Relevant Policies

    -

    Some policies rely on quota information. These policies should be used only if your upstreams support the respective quota fields.

    +n/s/q> n +name> seafile +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] +XX / Seafile + \ "seafile" +[snip] +Storage> seafile +** See help for seafile backend at: https://rclone.org/seafile/ ** + +URL of seafile host to connect to +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value + 1 / Connect to cloud.seafile.com + \ "https://cloud.seafile.com/" +url> http://my.seafile.server/ +User name (usually email address) +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). +user> me@example.com +Password +y) Yes type in my own password +g) Generate random password +n) No leave this optional password blank (default) +y/g> y +Enter the password: +password: +Confirm the password: +password: +Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled) +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false"). +2fa> true +Name of the library. Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries. +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). +library> My Library +Library password (for encrypted libraries only). Leave blank if you pass it through the command line. +y) Yes type in my own password +g) Generate random password +n) No leave this optional password blank (default) +y/g/n> n +Edit advanced config? (y/n) +y) Yes +n) No (default) +y/n> n +Remote config +Two-factor authentication: please enter your 2FA code +2fa code> 123456 +Authenticating... +Success! +-------------------- +[seafile] +type = seafile +url = http://my.seafile.server/ +user = me@example.com +pass = +2fa = true +library = My Library +-------------------- +y) Yes this is OK (default) +e) Edit this remote +d) Delete this remote +y/e/d> y +

    You'll notice your password is blank in the configuration. It's because we only need the password to authenticate you once.

    +

    You specified My Library during the configuration. The root of the remote is pointing at the root of the library My Library:

    +

    See all files in the library:

    +
    rclone lsd seafile:
    +

    Create a new directory inside the library

    +
    rclone mkdir seafile:directory
    +

    List the contents of a directory

    +
    rclone ls seafile:directory
    +

    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote library, deleting any excess files in the library.

    +
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory seafile:
    +

    --fast-list

    +

    Seafile version 7+ supports --fast-list which allows you to use fewer transactions in exchange for more memory. See the rclone docs for more details. Please note this is not supported on seafile server version 6.x

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    - - + + + - - + + + - - + + + - - - - - - + + +
    PolicyRequired FieldCharacterValueReplacement
    lfs, eplfsFree/0x2F
    mfs, epmfsFree"0x22
    lus, eplusUsed
    lno, eplnoObjects\0x5C
    -

    To check if your upstream supports the field, run rclone about remote: [flags] and see if the required field exists.

    -

    Filters

    -

    Policies basically search upstream remotes and create a list of files / paths for functions to work on. The policy is responsible for filtering and sorting. The policy type defines the sorting but filtering is mostly uniform as described below.

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    + +

    Rclone supports generating share links for non-encrypted libraries only. They can either be for a file or a directory:

    +
    rclone link seafile:seafile-tutorial.doc
    +http://my.seafile.server/f/fdcd8a2f93f84b8b90f4/
    +
    +

    or if run on a directory you will get:

    +
    rclone link seafile:dir
    +http://my.seafile.server/d/9ea2455f6f55478bbb0d/
    +

    Please note a share link is unique for each file or directory. If you run a link command on a file/dir that has already been shared, you will get the exact same link.

    +

    Compatibility

    +

    It has been actively tested using the seafile docker image of these versions: - 6.3.4 community edition - 7.0.5 community edition - 7.1.3 community edition

    +

    Versions below 6.0 are not supported. Versions between 6.0 and 6.3 haven't been tested and might not work properly.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to seafile (seafile).

    +

    --seafile-url

    +

    URL of seafile host to connect to.

    +

    Properties:

    -

    If all remotes are filtered an error will be returned.

    -

    Policy descriptions

    -

    The policies definition are inspired by trapexit/mergerfs but not exactly the same. Some policy definition could be different due to the much larger latency of remote file systems.

    - ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    PolicyDescription
    allSearch category: same as epall. Action category: same as epall. Create category: act on all upstreams.
    epall (existing path, all)Search category: Given this order configured, act on the first one found where the relative path exists. Action category: apply to all found. Create category: act on all upstreams where the relative path exists.
    epff (existing path, first found)Act on the first one found, by the time upstreams reply, where the relative path exists.
    eplfs (existing path, least free space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least free space.
    eplus (existing path, least used space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least used space.
    eplno (existing path, least number of objects)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least number of objects.
    epmfs (existing path, most free space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the most free space.
    eprand (existing path, random)Calls epall and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream.
    ff (first found)Search category: same as epff. Action category: same as epff. Create category: Act on the first one found by the time upstreams reply.
    lfs (least free space)Search category: same as eplfs. Action category: same as eplfs. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least available free space.
    lus (least used space)Search category: same as eplus. Action category: same as eplus. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least used space.
    lno (least number of objects)Search category: same as eplno. Action category: same as eplno. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least number of objects.
    mfs (most free space)Search category: same as epmfs. Action category: same as epmfs. Create category: Pick the upstream with the most available free space.
    newestPick the file / directory with the largest mtime.
    rand (random)Calls all and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream.
    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to union (Union merges the contents of several upstream fs).

    -

    --union-upstreams

    -

    List of space separated upstreams.

    -

    Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '"upstreama:test/space:ro dir" upstreamb:', etc.

    +

    --seafile-user

    +

    User name (usually email address).

    Properties:

    -

    --union-action-policy

    -

    Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category.

    +

    --seafile-pass

    +

    Password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --union-create-policy

    -

    Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category.

    +

    --seafile-2fa

    +

    Two-factor authentication ('true' if the account has 2FA enabled).

    Properties:

    +

    --seafile-library

    +

    Name of the library.

    +

    Leave blank to access all non-encrypted libraries.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --union-search-policy

    -

    Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category.

    +

    --seafile-library-key

    +

    Library password (for encrypted libraries only).

    +

    Leave blank if you pass it through the command line.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --union-cache-time

    -

    Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds).

    -

    This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.

    +

    --seafile-auth-token

    +

    Authentication token.

    Properties:

    -

    WebDAV

    -

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    -

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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:

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to seafile (seafile).

    +

    --seafile-create-library

    +

    Should rclone create a library if it doesn't exist.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --seafile-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    SFTP

    +

    SFTP is the Secure (or SSH) File Transfer Protocol.

    +

    The SFTP backend can be used with a number of different providers:

    + +

    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. For example, rclone lsd remote: would list the home directory of the user configured in the rclone remote config (i.e /home/sftpuser). However, rclone lsd remote:/ would list the root directory for remote machine (i.e. /)

    +

    Note that some SFTP servers will need the leading / - Synology is a good example of this. rsync.net and Hetzner, on the other hand, requires users to OMIT the leading /.

    +

    Note that by default rclone will try to execute shell commands on the server, see shell access considerations.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    @@ -23683,595 +26769,2224 @@ 

    Configuration

    Type of storage to configure. Choose a number from below, or type in your own value [snip] -XX / Webdav - \ "webdav" +XX / SSH/SFTP + \ "sftp" [snip] -Storage> webdav -URL of http host to connect to +Storage> sftp +SSH 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 Online, authenticated by Microsoft account. - \ "sharepoint" - 4 / Sharepoint with NTLM authentication. Usually self-hosted or on-premises. - \ "sharepoint-ntlm" - 5 / Other site/service or software - \ "other" -vendor> 1 -User name -user> user -Password. + \ "example.com" +host> example.com +SSH username +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("$USER"). +user> sftpuser +SSH port number +Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the 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> y -Enter the password: -password: -Confirm the password: -password: -Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon) -bearer_token> +y/g/n> n +Path to unencrypted PEM-encoded private key file, leave blank to use ssh-agent. +key_file> Remote config -------------------- [remote] -type = webdav -url = https://example.com/remote.php/webdav/ -vendor = nextcloud -user = user -pass = *** ENCRYPTED *** -bearer_token = +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
    -

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    -

    List directories in top level of your WebDAV

    +

    This remote is called remote and can now be used like this:

    +

    See all directories in the home directory

    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.

    -

    Likewise plain WebDAV does not support hashes, however when used with Owncloud or Nextcloud rclone will support SHA1 and MD5 hashes. Depending on the exact version of Owncloud or Nextcloud hashes may appear on all objects, or only on objects which had a hash uploaded with them.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to webdav (Webdav).

    -

    --webdav-url

    -

    URL of http host to connect to.

    -

    E.g. https://example.com.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --webdav-vendor

    -

    Name of the Webdav site/service/software you are using.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    --webdav-user

    -

    User name.

    -

    In case NTLM authentication is used, the username should be in the format 'Domain'.

    +

    Key files should be PEM-encoded private key files. For instance /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa. Only unencrypted OpenSSH or PEM encrypted files are supported.

    +

    The key file can be specified in either an external file (key_file) or contained within the rclone config file (key_pem). If using key_pem in the config file, the entry should be on a single line with new line ('' or '') separating lines. i.e.

    +
    key_pem = -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\nMaMbaIXtE\n0gAMbMbaSsd\nMbaass\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
    +

    This will generate it correctly for key_pem for use in the config:

    +
    awk '{printf "%s\\n", $0}' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    +

    If you don't specify pass, key_file, or key_pem or ask_password then rclone will attempt to contact an ssh-agent. You can also specify key_use_agent to force the usage of an ssh-agent. In this case key_file or key_pem can also be specified to force the usage of a specific key in the ssh-agent.

    +

    Using an ssh-agent is the only way to load encrypted OpenSSH keys at the moment.

    +

    If you set the ask_password option, rclone will prompt for a password when needed and no password has been configured.

    +

    Certificate-signed keys

    +

    With traditional key-based authentication, you configure your private key only, and the public key built into it will be used during the authentication process.

    +

    If you have a certificate you may use it to sign your public key, creating a separate SSH user certificate that should be used instead of the plain public key extracted from the private key. Then you must provide the path to the user certificate public key file in pubkey_file.

    +

    Note: This is not the traditional public key paired with your private key, typically saved as /home/$USER/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. Setting this path in pubkey_file will not work.

    +

    Example:

    +
    [remote]
    +type = sftp
    +host = example.com
    +user = sftpuser
    +key_file = ~/id_rsa
    +pubkey_file = ~/id_rsa-cert.pub
    +

    If you concatenate a cert with a private key then you can specify the merged file in both places.

    +

    Note: the cert must come first in the file. e.g.

    +
    cat id_rsa-cert.pub id_rsa > merged_key
    +

    Host key validation

    +

    By default rclone will not check the server's host key for validation. This can allow an attacker to replace a server with their own and if you use password authentication then this can lead to that password being exposed.

    +

    Host key matching, using standard known_hosts files can be turned on by enabling the known_hosts_file option. This can point to the file maintained by OpenSSH or can point to a unique file.

    +

    e.g. using the OpenSSH known_hosts file:

    +
    [remote]
    +type = sftp
    +host = example.com
    +user = sftpuser
    +pass = 
    +known_hosts_file = ~/.ssh/known_hosts
    +

    Alternatively you can create your own known hosts file like this:

    +
    ssh-keyscan -t dsa,rsa,ecdsa,ed25519 example.com >> known_hosts
    +

    There are some limitations:

    + +

    If the host key provided by the server does not match the one in the file (or is missing) then the connection will be aborted and an error returned such as

    +
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key mismatch
    +

    or

    +
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: knownhosts: key is unknown
    +

    If you see an error such as

    +
    NewFs: couldn't connect SSH: ssh: handshake failed: ssh: no authorities for hostname: example.com:22
    +

    then it is likely the server has presented a CA signed host certificate and you will need to add the appropriate @cert-authority entry.

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    The known_hosts_file setting can be set during rclone config as an advanced option.

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    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, e.g.

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    eval `ssh-agent -s` && ssh-add -A
    +

    And then at the end of the session

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    eval `ssh-agent -k`
    +

    These commands can be used in scripts of course.

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    Shell access

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    Some functionality of the SFTP backend relies on remote shell access, and the possibility to execute commands. This includes checksum, and in some cases also about. The shell commands that must be executed may be different on different type of shells, and also quoting/escaping of file path arguments containing special characters may be different. Rclone therefore needs to know what type of shell it is, and if shell access is available at all.

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    Most servers run on some version of Unix, and then a basic Unix shell can be assumed, without further distinction. Windows 10, Server 2019, and later can also run a SSH server, which is a port of OpenSSH (see official installation guide). On a Windows server the shell handling is different: Although it can also be set up to use a Unix type shell, e.g. Cygwin bash, the default is to use Windows Command Prompt (cmd.exe), and PowerShell is a recommended alternative. All of these have behave differently, which rclone must handle.

    +

    Rclone tries to auto-detect what type of shell is used on the server, first time you access the SFTP remote. If a remote shell session is successfully created, it will look for indications that it is CMD or PowerShell, with fall-back to Unix if not something else is detected. If unable to even create a remote shell session, then shell command execution will be disabled entirely. The result is stored in the SFTP remote configuration, in option shell_type, so that the auto-detection only have to be performed once. If you manually set a value for this option before first run, the auto-detection will be skipped, and if you set a different value later this will override any existing. Value none can be set to avoid any attempts at executing shell commands, e.g. if this is not allowed on the server.

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    When the server is rclone serve sftp, the rclone SFTP remote will detect this as a Unix type shell - even if it is running on Windows. This server does not actually have a shell, but it accepts input commands matching the specific ones that the SFTP backend relies on for Unix shells, e.g. md5sum and df. Also it handles the string escape rules used for Unix shell. Treating it as a Unix type shell from a SFTP remote will therefore always be correct, and support all features.

    +

    Shell access considerations

    +

    The shell type auto-detection logic, described above, means that by default rclone will try to run a shell command the first time a new sftp remote is accessed. If you configure a sftp remote without a config file, e.g. an on the fly remote, rclone will have nowhere to store the result, and it will re-run the command on every access. To avoid this you should explicitly set the shell_type option to the correct value, or to none if you want to prevent rclone from executing any remote shell commands.

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    It is also important to note that, since the shell type decides how quoting and escaping of file paths used as command-line arguments are performed, configuring the wrong shell type may leave you exposed to command injection exploits. Make sure to confirm the auto-detected shell type, or explicitly set the shell type you know is correct, or disable shell access until you know.

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    Checksum

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    SFTP does not natively support checksums (file hash), but rclone is able to use checksumming if the same login has shell access, and can execute remote commands. If there is a command that can calculate compatible checksums on the remote system, Rclone can then be configured to execute this whenever a checksum is needed, and read back the results. Currently MD5 and SHA-1 are supported.

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    Normally this requires an external utility being available on the server. By default rclone will try commands md5sum, md5 and rclone md5sum for MD5 checksums, and the first one found usable will be picked. Same with sha1sum, sha1 and rclone sha1sum commands for SHA-1 checksums. These utilities normally need to be in the remote's PATH to be found.

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    In some cases the shell itself is capable of calculating checksums. PowerShell is an example of such a shell. If rclone detects that the remote shell is PowerShell, which means it most probably is a Windows OpenSSH server, rclone will use a predefined script block to produce the checksums when no external checksum commands are found (see shell access). This assumes PowerShell version 4.0 or newer.

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    The options md5sum_command and sha1_command can be used to customize the command to be executed for calculation of checksums. You can for example set a specific path to where md5sum and sha1sum executables are located, or use them to specify some other tools that print checksums in compatible format. The value can include command-line arguments, or even shell script blocks as with PowerShell. Rclone has subcommands md5sum and sha1sum that use compatible format, which means if you have an rclone executable on the server it can be used. As mentioned above, they will be automatically picked up if found in PATH, but if not you can set something like /path/to/rclone md5sum as the value of option md5sum_command to make sure a specific executable is used.

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    Remote checksumming is recommended and enabled by default. First time rclone is using a SFTP remote, if options md5sum_command or sha1_command are not set, it will check if any of the default commands for each of them, as described above, can be used. The result will be saved in the remote configuration, so next time it will use the same. Value none will be set if none of the default commands could be used for a specific algorithm, and this algorithm will not be supported by the remote.

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    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 shell commands is prohibited. Set the configuration option disable_hashcheck to true to disable checksumming entirely, or set shell_type to none to disable all functionality based on remote shell command execution.

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    Modified time

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    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.

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    About command

    +

    The about command returns the total space, free space, and used space on the remote for the disk of the specified path on the remote or, if not set, the disk of the root on the remote.

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    SFTP usually supports the about command, but it depends on the server. If the server implements the vendor-specific VFS statistics extension, which is normally the case with OpenSSH instances, it will be used. If not, but the same login has access to a Unix shell, where the df command is available (e.g. in the remote's PATH), then this will be used instead. If the server shell is PowerShell, probably with a Windows OpenSSH server, rclone will use a built-in shell command (see shell access). If none of the above is applicable, about will fail.

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    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP).

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    --sftp-host

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    SSH host to connect to.

    +

    E.g. "example.com".

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    Properties:

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    --sftp-user

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    SSH username.

    Properties:

    -

    --webdav-pass

    -

    Password.

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    --sftp-port

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    SSH port number.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-pass

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    SSH password, leave blank to use ssh-agent.

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --webdav-bearer-token

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    Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon).

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    --sftp-key-pem

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    Raw PEM-encoded private key.

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    If specified, will override key_file parameter.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to webdav (Webdav).

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    --webdav-bearer-token-command

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    Command to run to get a bearer token.

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    --sftp-key-file

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    Path to PEM-encoded private key file.

    +

    Leave blank or set key-use-agent to use ssh-agent.

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    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    Properties:

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    --webdav-encoding

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    The encoding for the backend.

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    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

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    Default encoding is Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8 for sharepoint-ntlm or identity otherwise.

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    --sftp-key-file-pass

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    The passphrase to decrypt the PEM-encoded private key file.

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    Only PEM encrypted key files (old OpenSSH format) are supported. Encrypted keys in the new OpenSSH format can't be used.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    Properties:

    -

    --webdav-headers

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    Set HTTP headers for all transactions.

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    Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions

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    The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs. Standard CSV encoding may be used.

    -

    For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

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    You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.

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    --sftp-pubkey-file

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    Optional path to public key file.

    +

    Set this if you have a signed certificate you want to use for authentication.

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    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    Properties:

    -

    Provider notes

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    See below for notes on specific providers.

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    Owncloud

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    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/.

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    Owncloud supports modified times using the X-OC-Mtime header.

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    Nextcloud

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    This is configured in an identical way to Owncloud. Note that Nextcloud initially did not support streaming of files (rcat) whereas Owncloud did, but this seems to be fixed as of 2020-11-27 (tested with rclone v1.53.1 and Nextcloud Server v19).

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    Sharepoint Online

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    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:

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    --sftp-key-use-agent

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    When set forces the usage of the ssh-agent.

    +

    When key-file is also set, the ".pub" file of the specified key-file is read and only the associated key is requested from the ssh-agent. This allows to avoid Too many authentication failures for *username* errors when the ssh-agent contains many keys.

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    Properties:

    -

    You'll only need this URL up to the email address. After that, you'll most likely want to add "/Documents". That subdirectory contains the actual data stored on your OneDrive.

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    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.

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    Your config file should look like this:

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    [sharepoint]
    -type = webdav
    -url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[YOUR-EMAIL]/Documents
    -vendor = sharepoint
    -user = YourEmailAddress
    -pass = encryptedpassword
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    Sharepoint with NTLM Authentication

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    Use this option in case your (hosted) Sharepoint is not tied to OneDrive accounts and uses NTLM authentication.

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    To get the url configuration, similarly to the above, first navigate to the desired directory in your browser to get the URL, then strip everything after the name of the opened directory.

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    Example: If the URL is: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

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    The configuration to use would be: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents

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    Set the vendor to sharepoint-ntlm.

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    NTLM uses domain and user name combination for authentication, set user to DOMAIN\username.

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    Your config file should look like this:

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    [sharepoint]
    -type = webdav
    -url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]/some-path-to/Documents
    -vendor = sharepoint-ntlm
    -user = DOMAIN\user
    -pass = encryptedpassword
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    Required Flags for SharePoint

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    As SharePoint does some special things with uploaded documents, you won't be able to use the documents size or the documents hash to compare if a file has been changed since the upload / which file is newer.

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    For Rclone calls copying files (especially Office files such as .docx, .xlsx, etc.) from/to SharePoint (like copy, sync, etc.), you should append these flags to ensure Rclone uses the "Last Modified" datetime property to compare your documents:

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    --ignore-size --ignore-checksum --update
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    dCache

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    dCache is a storage system that supports many protocols and authentication/authorisation schemes. For WebDAV clients, it allows users to authenticate with username and password (BASIC), X.509, Kerberos, and various bearer tokens, including Macaroons and OpenID-Connect access tokens.

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    Configure as normal using the other type. Don't enter a username or password, instead enter your Macaroon as the bearer_token.

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    The config will end up looking something like this.

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    [dcache]
    -type = webdav
    -url = https://dcache...
    -vendor = other
    -user =
    -pass =
    -bearer_token = your-macaroon
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    There is a script that obtains a Macaroon from a dCache WebDAV endpoint, and creates an rclone config file.

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    Macaroons may also be obtained from the dCacheView web-browser/JavaScript client that comes with dCache.

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    OpenID-Connect

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    dCache also supports authenticating with OpenID-Connect access tokens. OpenID-Connect is a protocol (based on OAuth 2.0) that allows services to identify users who have authenticated with some central service.

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    Support for OpenID-Connect in rclone is currently achieved using another software package called oidc-agent. This is a command-line tool that facilitates obtaining an access token. Once installed and configured, an access token is obtained by running the oidc-token command. The following example shows a (shortened) access token obtained from the XDC OIDC Provider.

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    paul@celebrimbor:~$ oidc-token XDC
    -eyJraWQ[...]QFXDt0
    -paul@celebrimbor:~$
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    Note Before the oidc-token command will work, the refresh token must be loaded into the oidc agent. This is done with the oidc-add command (e.g., oidc-add XDC). This is typically done once per login session. Full details on this and how to register oidc-agent with your OIDC Provider are provided in the oidc-agent documentation.

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    The rclone bearer_token_command configuration option is used to fetch the access token from oidc-agent.

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    Configure as a normal WebDAV endpoint, using the 'other' vendor, leaving the username and password empty. When prompted, choose to edit the advanced config and enter the command to get a bearer token (e.g., oidc-agent XDC).

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    The following example config shows a WebDAV endpoint that uses oidc-agent to supply an access token from the XDC OIDC Provider.

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    [dcache]
    -type = webdav
    -url = https://dcache.example.org/
    -vendor = other
    -bearer_token_command = oidc-token XDC
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    Yandex Disk

    -

    Yandex Disk is a cloud storage solution created by Yandex.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    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
    -[snip]
    -XX / Yandex Disk
    -   \ "yandex"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> yandex
    -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":"OAuth","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
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    Sync /home/local/directory to the remote path, deleting any excess files in the path.

    -
    rclone sync -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    -

    Yandex paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    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.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    The default restricted characters set are replaced.

    -

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

    -

    --yandex-client-id

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    -

    Properties:

    +

    --sftp-use-insecure-cipher

    +

    Enable the use of insecure ciphers and key exchange methods.

    +

    This enables the use of the following insecure ciphers and key exchange methods:

    -

    --yandex-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Those algorithms are insecure and may allow plaintext data to be recovered by an attacker.

    +

    This must be false if you use either ciphers or key_exchange advanced options.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

    -

    --yandex-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Config: use_insecure_cipher
  • +
  • Env Var: RCLONE_SFTP_USE_INSECURE_CIPHER
  • +
  • Type: bool
  • +
  • Default: false
  • +
  • Examples:
  • -

    --yandex-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --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.

    Properties:

    -

    --yandex-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to sftp (SSH/SFTP).

    +

    --sftp-known-hosts-file

    +

    Optional path to known_hosts file.

    +

    Set this value to enable server host key validation.

    +

    Leading ~ will be expanded in the file name as will environment variables such as ${RCLONE_CONFIG_DIR}.

    Properties:

    -

    --yandex-hard-delete

    -

    Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

    +

    --sftp-ask-password

    +

    Allow asking for SFTP password when needed.

    +

    If this is set and no password is supplied then rclone will: - ask for a password - not contact the ssh agent

    Properties:

    -

    --yandex-encoding

    -

    The encoding for the backend.

    -

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    -

    Properties:

    - -

    Limitations

    -

    When uploading very large files (bigger than about 5 GiB) you will need to increase the --timeout parameter. This is because Yandex pauses (perhaps to calculate the MD5SUM for the entire file) before returning confirmation that the file has been uploaded. The default handling of timeouts in rclone is to assume a 5 minute pause is an error and close the connection - you'll see net/http: timeout awaiting response headers errors in the logs if this is happening. Setting the timeout to twice the max size of file in GiB should be enough, so if you want to upload a 30 GiB file set a timeout of 2 * 30 = 60m, that is --timeout 60m.

    -

    Having a Yandex Mail account is mandatory to use the Yandex.Disk subscription. Token generation will work without a mail account, but Rclone won't be able to complete any actions.

    -
    [403 - DiskUnsupportedUserAccountTypeError] User account type is not supported.
    -

    Zoho Workdrive

    -

    Zoho WorkDrive is a cloud storage solution created by Zoho.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    Here is an example of making a zoho 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.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    -[snip]
    -XX / Zoho
    -   \ "zoho"
    -[snip]
    -Storage> zoho
    -** See help for zoho backend at: https://rclone.org/zoho/ **
    -
    -OAuth Client Id
    -Leave blank normally.
    -Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    -client_id> 
    -OAuth 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 (default)
    -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 (default)
    -n) No
    -y/n> 
    -If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=LVn0IHzxej1ZkmQw31d0wQ
    -Log in and authorize rclone for access
    -Waiting for code...
    -Got code
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / MyTeam
    -   \ "4u28602177065ff22426787a6745dba8954eb"
    -Enter a Team ID> 1
    -Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    - 1 / General
    -   \ "4u2869d2aa6fca04f4f2f896b6539243b85b1"
    -Enter a Workspace ID> 1
    ---------------------
    -[remote]
    -type = zoho
    -token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Zoho-oauthtoken","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2020-10-12T00:54:52.370275223+02:00"}
    -root_folder_id = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    ---------------------
    -y) Yes this is OK (default)
    -e) Edit this remote
    -d) Delete this remote
    -y/e/d> 
    -

    See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

    -

    Rclone runs a webserver on your local computer to collect the authorization token from Zoho Workdrive. This is only from the moment your browser is opened until the token is returned. The webserver runs on http://127.0.0.1:53682/. If local port 53682 is protected by a firewall you may need to temporarily unblock the firewall to complete authorization.

    -

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    -

    Zoho paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

    -

    Modified time

    -

    Modified times are currently not supported for Zoho Workdrive

    -

    Checksums

    -

    No checksums are supported.

    -

    Usage information

    -

    To view your current quota you can use the rclone about remote: command which will display your current usage.

    -

    Restricted filename characters

    -

    Only control characters and invalid UTF-8 are replaced. In addition most Unicode full-width characters are not supported at all and will be removed from filenames during upload.

    -

    Standard options

    -

    Here are the standard options specific to zoho (Zoho).

    -

    --zoho-client-id

    -

    OAuth Client Id.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    --sftp-path-override

    +

    Override path used by SSH shell commands.

    +

    This allows checksum calculation when SFTP and SSH paths are different. This issue affects among others Synology NAS boxes.

    +

    E.g. if shared folders can be found in directories representing volumes:

    +
    rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/directory --sftp-path-override /volume2/directory
    +

    E.g. if home directory can be found in a shared folder called "home":

    +
    rclone sync /home/local/directory remote:/home/directory --sftp-path-override /volume1/homes/USER/directory

    Properties:

    -

    --zoho-client-secret

    -

    OAuth Client Secret.

    -

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    --sftp-set-modtime

    +

    Set the modified time on the remote if set.

    Properties:

    -

    --zoho-region

    -

    Zoho region to connect to.

    -

    You'll have to use the region your organization is registered in. If not sure use the same top level domain as you connect to in your browser.

    +

    --sftp-shell-type

    +

    The type of SSH shell on remote server, if any.

    +

    Leave blank for autodetect.

    Properties:

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to zoho (Zoho).

    -

    --zoho-token

    -

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    --sftp-md5sum-command

    +

    The command used to read md5 hashes.

    +

    Leave blank for autodetect.

    Properties:

    -

    --zoho-auth-url

    -

    Auth server URL.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    --sftp-sha1sum-command

    +

    The command used to read sha1 hashes.

    +

    Leave blank for autodetect.

    Properties:

    -

    --zoho-token-url

    -

    Token server url.

    -

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    + +

    Set to skip any symlinks and any other non regular files.

    Properties:

    +

    --sftp-subsystem

    +

    Specifies the SSH2 subsystem on the remote host.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-server-command

    +

    Specifies the path or command to run a sftp server on the remote host.

    +

    The subsystem option is ignored when server_command is defined.

    +

    Properties:

    + -

    --zoho-encoding

    +

    --sftp-use-fstat

    +

    If set use fstat instead of stat.

    +

    Some servers limit the amount of open files and calling Stat after opening the file will throw an error from the server. Setting this flag will call Fstat instead of Stat which is called on an already open file handle.

    +

    It has been found that this helps with IBM Sterling SFTP servers which have "extractability" level set to 1 which means only 1 file can be opened at any given time.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-disable-concurrent-reads

    +

    If set don't use concurrent reads.

    +

    Normally concurrent reads are safe to use and not using them will degrade performance, so this option is disabled by default.

    +

    Some servers limit the amount number of times a file can be downloaded. Using concurrent reads can trigger this limit, so if you have a server which returns

    +
    Failed to copy: file does not exist
    +

    Then you may need to enable this flag.

    +

    If concurrent reads are disabled, the use_fstat option is ignored.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-disable-concurrent-writes

    +

    If set don't use concurrent writes.

    +

    Normally rclone uses concurrent writes to upload files. This improves the performance greatly, especially for distant servers.

    +

    This option disables concurrent writes should that be necessary.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-idle-timeout

    +

    Max time before closing idle connections.

    +

    If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

    +

    Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-chunk-size

    +

    Upload and download chunk size.

    +

    This controls the maximum size of payload in SFTP protocol packets. The RFC limits this to 32768 bytes (32k), which is the default. However, a lot of servers support larger sizes, typically limited to a maximum total package size of 256k, and setting it larger will increase transfer speed dramatically on high latency links. This includes OpenSSH, and, for example, using the value of 255k works well, leaving plenty of room for overhead while still being within a total packet size of 256k.

    +

    Make sure to test thoroughly before using a value higher than 32k, and only use it if you always connect to the same server or after sufficiently broad testing. If you get errors such as "failed to send packet payload: EOF", lots of "connection lost", or "corrupted on transfer", when copying a larger file, try lowering the value. The server run by rclone serve sftp sends packets with standard 32k maximum payload so you must not set a different chunk_size when downloading files, but it accepts packets up to the 256k total size, so for uploads the chunk_size can be set as for the OpenSSH example above.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-concurrency

    +

    The maximum number of outstanding requests for one file

    +

    This controls the maximum number of outstanding requests for one file. Increasing it will increase throughput on high latency links at the cost of using more memory.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-set-env

    +

    Environment variables to pass to sftp and commands

    +

    Set environment variables in the form:

    +
    VAR=value
    +

    to be passed to the sftp client and to any commands run (eg md5sum).

    +

    Pass multiple variables space separated, eg

    +
    VAR1=value VAR2=value
    +

    and pass variables with spaces in in quotes, eg

    +
    "VAR3=value with space" "VAR4=value with space" VAR5=nospacehere
    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-ciphers

    +

    Space separated list of ciphers to be used for session encryption, ordered by preference.

    +

    At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q cipher.

    +

    This must not be set if use_insecure_cipher is true.

    +

    Example:

    +
    aes128-ctr aes192-ctr aes256-ctr aes128-gcm@openssh.com aes256-gcm@openssh.com
    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-key-exchange

    +

    Space separated list of key exchange algorithms, ordered by preference.

    +

    At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q kex.

    +

    This must not be set if use_insecure_cipher is true.

    +

    Example:

    +
    sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com curve25519-sha256 curve25519-sha256@libssh.org ecdh-sha2-nistp256
    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sftp-macs

    +

    Space separated list of MACs (message authentication code) algorithms, ordered by preference.

    +

    At least one must match with server configuration. This can be checked for example using ssh -Q mac.

    +

    Example:

    +
    umac-64-etm@openssh.com umac-128-etm@openssh.com hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com
    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Limitations

    +

    On some SFTP servers (e.g. 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.

    +

    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 and --contimeout are both supported.

    +

    rsync.net

    +

    rsync.net is supported through the SFTP backend.

    +

    See rsync.net's documentation of rclone examples.

    +

    Hetzner Storage Box

    +

    Hetzner Storage Boxes are supported through the SFTP backend on port 23.

    +

    See Hetzner's documentation for details

    +

    SMB

    +

    SMB is a communication protocol to share files over network.

    +

    This relies on go-smb2 library for communication with SMB protocol.

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:sharename (or remote: for the lsd command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:item/path/to/dir.

    +

    Notes

    +

    The first path segment must be the name of the share, which you entered when you started to share on Windows. On smbd, it's the section title in smb.conf (usually in /etc/samba/) file. You can find shares by quering the root if you're unsure (e.g. rclone lsd remote:).

    +

    You can't access to the shared printers from rclone, obviously.

    +

    You can't use Anonymous access for logging in. You have to use the guest user with an empty password instead. The rclone client tries to avoid 8.3 names when uploading files by encoding trailing spaces and periods. Alternatively, the local backend on Windows can access SMB servers using UNC paths, by \\server\share. This doesn't apply to non-Windows OSes, such as Linux and macOS.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making a SMB 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
    +Option Storage.
    +Type of storage to configure.
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value.
    +XX / SMB / CIFS
    +   \ (smb)
    +Storage> smb
    +
    +Option host.
    +Samba hostname to connect to.
    +E.g. "example.com".
    +Enter a value.
    +host> localhost
    +
    +Option user.
    +Samba username.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (lesmi).
    +user> guest
    +
    +Option port.
    +Samba port number.
    +Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default (445).
    +port> 
    +
    +Option pass.
    +Samba password.
    +Choose an alternative below. Press Enter for the default (n).
    +y) Yes, type in my own password
    +g) Generate random password
    +n) No, leave this optional password blank (default)
    +y/g/n> g
    +Password strength in bits.
    +64 is just about memorable
    +128 is secure
    +1024 is the maximum
    +Bits> 64
    +Your password is: XXXX
    +Use this password? Please note that an obscured version of this 
    +password (and not the password itself) will be stored under your 
    +configuration file, so keep this generated password in a safe place.
    +y) Yes (default)
    +n) No
    +y/n> y
    +
    +Option domain.
    +Domain name for NTLM authentication.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (WORKGROUP).
    +domain> 
    +
    +Edit advanced config?
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +
    +Configuration complete.
    +Options:
    +- type: samba
    +- host: localhost
    +- user: guest
    +- pass: *** ENCRYPTED ***
    +Keep this "remote" remote?
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> d
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to smb (SMB / CIFS).

    +

    --smb-host

    +

    SMB server hostname to connect to.

    +

    E.g. "example.com".

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-user

    +

    SMB username.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-port

    +

    SMB port number.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-pass

    +

    SMB password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-domain

    +

    Domain name for NTLM authentication.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to smb (SMB / CIFS).

    +

    --smb-idle-timeout

    +

    Max time before closing idle connections.

    +

    If no connections have been returned to the connection pool in the time given, rclone will empty the connection pool.

    +

    Set to 0 to keep connections indefinitely.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-hide-special-share

    +

    Hide special shares (e.g. print$) which users aren't supposed to access.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-case-insensitive

    +

    Whether the server is configured to be case-insensitive.

    +

    Always true on Windows shares.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --smb-encoding

    The encoding for the backend.

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    Properties:

    -

    Local Filesystem

    -

    Local paths are specified as normal filesystem paths, e.g. /path/to/wherever, so

    -
    rclone sync -i /home/source /tmp/destination
    -

    Will sync /home/source to /tmp/destination.

    -

    Configuration

    -

    For consistencies sake one can also configure a remote of type local in the config file, and access the local filesystem using rclone remote paths, e.g. remote:path/to/wherever, 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 should 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 (e.g. 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 a quoted representation of the invalid bytes. The name gro\xdf will be transferred as gro‛DF. rclone will emit a debug message in this case (use -v to see), e.g.

    -
    Local file system at .: Replacing invalid UTF-8 characters in "gro\xdf"
    -

    Restricted characters

    -

    With the local backend, restrictions on the characters that are usable in file or directory names depend on the operating system. To check what rclone will replace by default on your system, run rclone help flags local-encoding.

    -

    On non Windows platforms the following characters are replaced when handling file names.

    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

    Storj

    +

    Storj is an encrypted, secure, and cost-effective object storage service that enables you to store, back up, and archive large amounts of data in a decentralized manner.

    +

    Backend options

    +

    Storj can be used both with this native backend and with the s3 backend using the Storj S3 compatible gateway (shared or private).

    +

    Use this backend to take advantage of client-side encryption as well as to achieve the best possible download performance. Uploads will be erasure-coded locally, thus a 1gb upload will result in 2.68gb of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    +

    Use the s3 backend and one of the S3 compatible Hosted Gateways to increase upload performance and reduce the load on your systems and network. Uploads will be encrypted and erasure-coded server-side, thus a 1GB upload will result in only in 1GB of data being uploaded to storage nodes across the network.

    +

    Side by side comparison with more details:

    + +

    Configuration

    +

    To make a new Storj configuration you need one of the following: * Access Grant that someone else shared with you. * API Key of a Storj project you are a member of.

    +

    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:

    +

    Setup with access grant

    +
    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]
    +XX / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
    +   \ "storj"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> storj
    +** See help for storj backend at: https://rclone.org/storj/ **
    +
    +Choose an authentication method.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("existing").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Use an existing access grant.
    +   \ "existing"
    + 2 / Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
    +   \ "new"
    +provider> existing
    +Access Grant.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +access_grant> your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = storj
    +access_grant = your-access-grant-received-by-someone-else
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Setup with API key and passphrase

    +
    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]
    +XX / Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage
    +   \ "storj"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> storj
    +** See help for storj backend at: https://rclone.org/storj/ **
    +
    +Choose an authentication method.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("existing").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / Use an existing access grant.
    +   \ "existing"
    + 2 / Create a new access grant from satellite address, API key, and passphrase.
    +   \ "new"
    +provider> new
    +Satellite Address. Custom satellite address should match the format: `<nodeid>@<address>:<port>`.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("us-central-1.storj.io").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / US Central 1
    +   \ "us-central-1.storj.io"
    + 2 / Europe West 1
    +   \ "europe-west-1.storj.io"
    + 3 / Asia East 1
    +   \ "asia-east-1.storj.io"
    +satellite_address> 1
    +API Key.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +api_key> your-api-key-for-your-storj-project
    +Encryption Passphrase. To access existing objects enter passphrase used for uploading.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +passphrase> your-human-readable-encryption-passphrase
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = storj
    +satellite_address = 12EayRS2V1kEsWESU9QMRseFhdxYxKicsiFmxrsLZHeLUtdps3S@us-central-1.tardigrade.io:7777
    +api_key = your-api-key-for-your-storj-project
    +passphrase = your-human-readable-encryption-passphrase
    +access_grant = the-access-grant-generated-from-the-api-key-and-passphrase
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to storj (Storj Decentralized Cloud Storage).

    +

    --storj-provider

    +

    Choose an authentication method.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --storj-access-grant

    +

    Access grant.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --storj-satellite-address

    +

    Satellite address.

    +

    Custom satellite address should match the format: <nodeid>@<address>:<port>.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --storj-api-key

    +

    API key.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --storj-passphrase

    +

    Encryption passphrase.

    +

    To access existing objects enter passphrase used for uploading.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Usage

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:bucket (or remote: for the lsf command.) You may put subdirectories in too, e.g. remote:bucket/path/to/dir.

    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this.

    +

    Create a new bucket

    +

    Use the mkdir command to create new bucket, e.g. bucket.

    +
    rclone mkdir remote:bucket
    +

    List all buckets

    +

    Use the lsf command to list all buckets.

    +
    rclone lsf remote:
    +

    Note the colon (:) character at the end of the command line.

    +

    Delete a bucket

    +

    Use the rmdir command to delete an empty bucket.

    +
    rclone rmdir remote:bucket
    +

    Use the purge command to delete a non-empty bucket with all its content.

    +
    rclone purge remote:bucket
    +

    Upload objects

    +

    Use the copy command to upload an object.

    +
    rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/file.ext remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    +

    Use a folder in the local path to upload all its objects.

    +
    rclone copy --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Only modified files will be copied.

    +

    List objects

    +

    Use the ls command to list recursively all objects in a bucket.

    +
    rclone ls remote:bucket
    +

    Add the folder to the remote path to list recursively all objects in this folder.

    +
    rclone ls remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Use the lsf command to list non-recursively all objects in a bucket or a folder.

    +
    rclone lsf remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Download objects

    +

    Use the copy command to download an object.

    +
    rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext /home/local/directory/
    +

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    +

    Use a folder in the remote path to download all its objects.

    +
    rclone copy --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
    +

    Delete objects

    +

    Use the deletefile command to delete a single object.

    +
    rclone deletefile remote:bucket/path/to/dir/file.ext
    +

    Use the delete command to delete all object in a folder.

    +
    rclone delete remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    + +

    Use the size command to print the total size of objects in a bucket or a folder.

    +
    rclone size remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Sync two Locations

    +

    Use the sync command to sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only, deleting any excess files.

    +
    rclone sync -i --progress /home/local/directory/ remote:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    The --progress flag is for displaying progress information. Remove it if you don't need this information.

    +

    Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag to see exactly what would be copied and deleted.

    +

    The sync can be done also from Storj to the local file system.

    +
    rclone sync -i --progress remote:bucket/path/to/dir/ /home/local/directory/
    +

    Or between two Storj buckets.

    +
    rclone sync -i --progress remote-us:bucket/path/to/dir/ remote-europe:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Or even between another cloud storage and Storj.

    +
    rclone sync -i --progress s3:bucket/path/to/dir/ storj:bucket/path/to/dir/
    +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the rclone Storj backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Known issues

    +

    If you get errors like too many open files this usually happens when the default ulimit for system max open files is exceeded. Native Storj protocol opens a large number of TCP connections (each of which is counted as an open file). For a single upload stream you can expect 110 TCP connections to be opened. For a single download stream you can expect 35. This batch of connections will be opened for every 64 MiB segment and you should also expect TCP connections to be reused. If you do many transfers you eventually open a connection to most storage nodes (thousands of nodes).

    +

    To fix these, please raise your system limits. You can do this issuing a ulimit -n 65536 just before you run rclone. To change the limits more permanently you can add this to your shell startup script, e.g. $HOME/.bashrc, or change the system-wide configuration, usually /etc/sysctl.conf and/or /etc/security/limits.conf, but please refer to your operating system manual.

    +

    SugarSync

    +

    SugarSync is a cloud service that enables active synchronization of files across computers and other devices for file backup, access, syncing, and sharing.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    The initial setup for SugarSync involves getting a token from SugarSync which you can do with rclone. 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.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    +[snip]
    +XX / Sugarsync
    +   \ "sugarsync"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> sugarsync
    +** See help for sugarsync backend at: https://rclone.org/sugarsync/ **
    +
    +Sugarsync App ID.
    +Leave blank to use rclone's.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +app_id> 
    +Sugarsync Access Key ID.
    +Leave blank to use rclone's.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +access_key_id> 
    +Sugarsync Private Access Key
    +Leave blank to use rclone's.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +private_access_key> 
    +Permanently delete files if true
    +otherwise put them in the deleted files.
    +Enter a boolean value (true or false). Press Enter for the default ("false").
    +hard_delete> 
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +Username (email address)> nick@craig-wood.com
    +Your Sugarsync password is only required during setup and will not be stored.
    +password:
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = sugarsync
    +refresh_token = https://api.sugarsync.com/app-authorization/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> y
    +

    Note that the config asks for your email and password but doesn't store them, it only uses them to get the initial token.

    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    +

    List directories (sync folders) in top level of your SugarSync

    +
    rclone lsd remote:
    +

    List all the files in your SugarSync folder "Test"

    +
    rclone ls remote:Test
    +

    To copy a local directory to an SugarSync folder called backup

    +
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    NB you can't create files in the top level folder you have to create a folder, which rclone will create as a "Sync Folder" with SugarSync.

    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    SugarSync does not support modification times or hashes, therefore syncing will default to --size-only checking. Note that using --update will work as rclone can read the time files were uploaded.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    SugarSync replaces the default restricted characters set except for DEL.

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    +

    Deleting files

    +

    Deleted files will be moved to the "Deleted items" folder by default.

    +

    However you can supply the flag --sugarsync-hard-delete or set the config parameter hard_delete = true if you would like files to be deleted straight away.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

    +

    --sugarsync-app-id

    +

    Sugarsync App ID.

    +

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-access-key-id

    +

    Sugarsync Access Key ID.

    +

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-private-access-key

    +

    Sugarsync Private Access Key.

    +

    Leave blank to use rclone's.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-hard-delete

    +

    Permanently delete files if true otherwise put them in the deleted files.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to sugarsync (Sugarsync).

    +

    --sugarsync-refresh-token

    +

    Sugarsync refresh token.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-authorization

    +

    Sugarsync authorization.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-authorization-expiry

    +

    Sugarsync authorization expiry.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-user

    +

    Sugarsync user.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-root-id

    +

    Sugarsync root id.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-deleted-id

    +

    Sugarsync deleted folder id.

    +

    Leave blank normally, will be auto configured by rclone.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --sugarsync-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Limitations

    +

    rclone about is not supported by the SugarSync backend. Backends without this capability cannot determine free space for an rclone mount or use policy mfs (most free space) as a member of an rclone union remote.

    +

    See List of backends that do not support rclone about and rclone about

    +

    Tardigrade

    +

    The Tardigrade backend has been renamed to be the Storj backend. Old configuration files will continue to work.

    +

    Uptobox

    +

    This is a Backend for Uptobox file storage service. Uptobox is closer to a one-click hoster than a traditional cloud storage provider and therefore not suitable for long term storage.

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    To configure an Uptobox backend you'll need your personal api token. You'll find it in your account settings

    +

    Here is an example of how to make a remote called remote with the default setup. First run:

    +
    rclone config
    +

    This will guide you through an interactive setup process:

    +
    Current remotes:
    +
    +Name                 Type
    +====                 ====
    +TestUptobox          uptobox
    +
    +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> uptobox
    +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
    +[...]
    +37 / Uptobox
    +   \ "uptobox"
    +[...]
    +Storage> uptobox
    +** See help for uptobox backend at: https://rclone.org/uptobox/ **
    +
    +Your API Key, get it from https://uptobox.com/my_account
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +api_key> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +Edit advanced config? (y/n)
    +y) Yes
    +n) No (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[uptobox]
    +type = uptobox
    +api_key = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> 
    +

    Once configured you can then use rclone like this,

    +

    List directories in top level of your Uptobox

    +
    rclone lsd remote:
    +

    List all the files in your Uptobox

    +
    rclone ls remote:
    +

    To copy a local directory to an Uptobox directory called backup

    +
    rclone copy /home/source remote:backup
    +

    Modified time and hashes

    +

    Uptobox supports neither modified times nor checksums.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    In addition to the default restricted characters set the following characters are also replaced:

    +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F
    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    "0x22
    `0x41
    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in XML strings.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to uptobox (Uptobox).

    +

    --uptobox-access-token

    +

    Your access token.

    +

    Get it from https://uptobox.com/my_account.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to uptobox (Uptobox).

    +

    --uptobox-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Limitations

    +

    Uptobox will delete inactive files that have not been accessed in 60 days.

    +

    rclone about is not supported by this backend an overview of used space can however been seen in the uptobox web interface.

    +

    Union

    +

    The union remote provides a unification similar to UnionFS using other remotes.

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required or a local path, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory or /directory/subdirectory.

    +

    During the initial setup with rclone config you will specify the upstream remotes as a space separated list. The upstream remotes can either be a local paths or other remotes.

    +

    Attribute :ro and :nc can be attach to the end of path to tag the remote as read only or no create, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory:ro or remote:directory/subdirectory:nc.

    +

    Subfolders can be used in upstream remotes. Assume a union remote named backup with the remotes 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.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    +[snip]
    +XX / Union merges the contents of several remotes
    +   \ "union"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> union
    +List of space separated upstreams.
    +Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '\"upstreama:test/space:ro dir\" upstreamb:', etc.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +upstreams> remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3:dir3
    +Policy to choose upstream on ACTION class.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epall").
    +action_policy>
    +Policy to choose upstream on CREATE class.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("epmfs").
    +create_policy>
    +Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH class.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("ff").
    +search_policy>
    +Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds). This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.
    +Enter a signed integer. Press Enter for the default ("120").
    +cache_time>
    +Remote config
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = union
    +upstreams = remote1:dir1 remote2:dir2 remote3: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 remote1:dir1, remote2:dir2 and remote3:dir3

    +
    rclone lsd remote:
    +

    List all the files in remote1:dir1, remote2:dir2 and remote3:dir3

    +
    rclone ls remote:
    +

    Copy another local directory to the union directory called source, which will be placed into remote3:dir3

    +
    rclone copy C:\source remote:source
    +

    Behavior / Policies

    +

    The behavior of union backend is inspired by trapexit/mergerfs. All functions are grouped into 3 categories: action, create and search. These functions and categories can be assigned a policy which dictates what file or directory is chosen when performing that behavior. Any policy can be assigned to a function or category though some may not be very useful in practice. For instance: rand (random) may be useful for file creation (create) but could lead to very odd behavior if used for delete if there were more than one copy of the file.

    +

    Function / Category classifications

    + +++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CategoryDescriptionFunctions
    actionWriting Existing filemove, rmdir, rmdirs, delete, purge and copy, sync (as destination when file exist)
    createCreate non-existing filecopy, sync (as destination when file not exist)
    searchReading and listing filels, lsd, lsl, cat, md5sum, sha1sum and copy, sync (as source)
    N/Asize, about
    +

    Path Preservation

    +

    Policies, as described below, are of two basic types. path preserving and non-path preserving.

    +

    All policies which start with ep (epff, eplfs, eplus, epmfs, eprand) are path preserving. ep stands for existing path.

    +

    A path preserving policy will only consider upstreams where the relative path being accessed already exists.

    +

    When using non-path preserving policies paths will be created in target upstreams as necessary.

    +

    Quota Relevant Policies

    +

    Some policies rely on quota information. These policies should be used only if your upstreams support the respective quota fields.

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    PolicyRequired Field
    lfs, eplfsFree
    mfs, epmfsFree
    lus, eplusUsed
    lno, eplnoObjects
    +

    To check if your upstream supports the field, run rclone about remote: [flags] and see if the required field exists.

    +

    Filters

    +

    Policies basically search upstream remotes and create a list of files / paths for functions to work on. The policy is responsible for filtering and sorting. The policy type defines the sorting but filtering is mostly uniform as described below.

    + +

    If all remotes are filtered an error will be returned.

    +

    Policy descriptions

    +

    The policies definition are inspired by trapexit/mergerfs but not exactly the same. Some policy definition could be different due to the much larger latency of remote file systems.

    + ++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    PolicyDescription
    allSearch category: same as epall. Action category: same as epall. Create category: act on all upstreams.
    epall (existing path, all)Search category: Given this order configured, act on the first one found where the relative path exists. Action category: apply to all found. Create category: act on all upstreams where the relative path exists.
    epff (existing path, first found)Act on the first one found, by the time upstreams reply, where the relative path exists.
    eplfs (existing path, least free space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least free space.
    eplus (existing path, least used space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least used space.
    eplno (existing path, least number of objects)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the least number of objects.
    epmfs (existing path, most free space)Of all the upstreams on which the relative path exists choose the one with the most free space.
    eprand (existing path, random)Calls epall and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream.
    ff (first found)Search category: same as epff. Action category: same as epff. Create category: Act on the first one found by the time upstreams reply.
    lfs (least free space)Search category: same as eplfs. Action category: same as eplfs. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least available free space.
    lus (least used space)Search category: same as eplus. Action category: same as eplus. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least used space.
    lno (least number of objects)Search category: same as eplno. Action category: same as eplno. Create category: Pick the upstream with the least number of objects.
    mfs (most free space)Search category: same as epmfs. Action category: same as epmfs. Create category: Pick the upstream with the most available free space.
    newestPick the file / directory with the largest mtime.
    rand (random)Calls all and then randomizes. Returns only one upstream.
    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to union (Union merges the contents of several upstream fs).

    +

    --union-upstreams

    +

    List of space separated upstreams.

    +

    Can be 'upstreama:test/dir upstreamb:', '"upstreama:test/space:ro dir" upstreamb:', etc.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --union-action-policy

    +

    Policy to choose upstream on ACTION category.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --union-create-policy

    +

    Policy to choose upstream on CREATE category.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --union-search-policy

    +

    Policy to choose upstream on SEARCH category.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --union-cache-time

    +

    Cache time of usage and free space (in seconds).

    +

    This option is only useful when a path preserving policy is used.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to union (Union merges the contents of several upstream fs).

    +

    --union-min-free-space

    +

    Minimum viable free space for lfs/eplfs policies.

    +

    If a remote has less than this much free space then it won't be considered for use in lfs or eplfs policies.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Metadata

    +

    Any metadata supported by the underlying remote is read and written.

    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    WebDAV

    +

    Paths are specified as remote:path

    +

    Paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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]
    +XX / 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 Online, authenticated by Microsoft account.
    +   \ "sharepoint"
    + 4 / Sharepoint with NTLM authentication. Usually self-hosted or on-premises.
    +   \ "sharepoint-ntlm"
    + 5 / 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 (e.g. 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.

    +

    Likewise plain WebDAV does not support hashes, however when used with Owncloud or Nextcloud rclone will support SHA1 and MD5 hashes. Depending on the exact version of Owncloud or Nextcloud hashes may appear on all objects, or only on objects which had a hash uploaded with them.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to webdav (WebDAV).

    +

    --webdav-url

    +

    URL of http host to connect to.

    +

    E.g. https://example.com.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-vendor

    +

    Name of the WebDAV site/service/software you are using.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-user

    +

    User name.

    +

    In case NTLM authentication is used, the username should be in the format 'Domain'.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-pass

    +

    Password.

    +

    NB Input to this must be obscured - see rclone obscure.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-bearer-token

    +

    Bearer token instead of user/pass (e.g. a Macaroon).

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to webdav (WebDAV).

    +

    --webdav-bearer-token-command

    +

    Command to run to get a bearer token.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Default encoding is Slash,LtGt,DoubleQuote,Colon,Question,Asterisk,Pipe,Hash,Percent,BackSlash,Del,Ctl,LeftSpace,LeftTilde,RightSpace,RightPeriod,InvalidUtf8 for sharepoint-ntlm or identity otherwise.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --webdav-headers

    +

    Set HTTP headers for all transactions.

    +

    Use this to set additional HTTP headers for all transactions

    +

    The input format is comma separated list of key,value pairs. Standard CSV encoding may be used.

    +

    For example, to set a Cookie use 'Cookie,name=value', or '"Cookie","name=value"'.

    +

    You can set multiple headers, e.g. '"Cookie","name=value","Authorization","xxx"'.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    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 initially did not support streaming of files (rcat) whereas Owncloud did, but this seems to be fixed as of 2020-11-27 (tested with rclone v1.53.1 and Nextcloud Server v19).

    +

    Sharepoint Online

    +

    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:

    + +

    You'll only need this URL up to 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 = sharepoint
    +user = YourEmailAddress
    +pass = encryptedpassword
    +

    Sharepoint with NTLM Authentication

    +

    Use this option in case your (hosted) Sharepoint is not tied to OneDrive accounts and uses NTLM authentication.

    +

    To get the url configuration, similarly to the above, first navigate to the desired directory in your browser to get the URL, then strip everything after the name of the opened directory.

    +

    Example: If the URL is: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

    +

    The configuration to use would be: https://example.sharepoint.com/sites/12345/Documents

    +

    Set the vendor to sharepoint-ntlm.

    +

    NTLM uses domain and user name combination for authentication, set user to DOMAIN\username.

    +

    Your config file should look like this:

    +
    [sharepoint]
    +type = webdav
    +url = https://[YOUR-DOMAIN]/some-path-to/Documents
    +vendor = sharepoint-ntlm
    +user = DOMAIN\user
    +pass = encryptedpassword
    +

    Required Flags for SharePoint

    +

    As SharePoint does some special things with uploaded documents, you won't be able to use the documents size or the documents hash to compare if a file has been changed since the upload / which file is newer.

    +

    For Rclone calls copying files (especially Office files such as .docx, .xlsx, etc.) from/to SharePoint (like copy, sync, etc.), you should append these flags to ensure Rclone uses the "Last Modified" datetime property to compare your documents:

    +
    --ignore-size --ignore-checksum --update
    +

    dCache

    +

    dCache is a storage system that supports many protocols and authentication/authorisation schemes. For WebDAV clients, it allows users to authenticate with username and password (BASIC), X.509, Kerberos, and various bearer tokens, including Macaroons and OpenID-Connect access 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.

    +

    Macaroons may also be obtained from the dCacheView web-browser/JavaScript client that comes with dCache.

    +

    OpenID-Connect

    +

    dCache also supports authenticating with OpenID-Connect access tokens. OpenID-Connect is a protocol (based on OAuth 2.0) that allows services to identify users who have authenticated with some central service.

    +

    Support for OpenID-Connect in rclone is currently achieved using another software package called oidc-agent. This is a command-line tool that facilitates obtaining an access token. Once installed and configured, an access token is obtained by running the oidc-token command. The following example shows a (shortened) access token obtained from the XDC OIDC Provider.

    +
    paul@celebrimbor:~$ oidc-token XDC
    +eyJraWQ[...]QFXDt0
    +paul@celebrimbor:~$
    +

    Note Before the oidc-token command will work, the refresh token must be loaded into the oidc agent. This is done with the oidc-add command (e.g., oidc-add XDC). This is typically done once per login session. Full details on this and how to register oidc-agent with your OIDC Provider are provided in the oidc-agent documentation.

    +

    The rclone bearer_token_command configuration option is used to fetch the access token from oidc-agent.

    +

    Configure as a normal WebDAV endpoint, using the 'other' vendor, leaving the username and password empty. When prompted, choose to edit the advanced config and enter the command to get a bearer token (e.g., oidc-agent XDC).

    +

    The following example config shows a WebDAV endpoint that uses oidc-agent to supply an access token from the XDC OIDC Provider.

    +
    [dcache]
    +type = webdav
    +url = https://dcache.example.org/
    +vendor = other
    +bearer_token_command = oidc-token XDC
    +

    Yandex Disk

    +

    Yandex Disk is a cloud storage solution created by Yandex.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    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
    +[snip]
    +XX / Yandex Disk
    +   \ "yandex"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> yandex
    +Yandex Client Id - leave blank normally.
    +client_id>
    +Yandex Client Secret - leave blank normally.
    +client_secret>
    +Remote config
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +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":"OAuth","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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    +

    Yandex paths may be as deep as required, e.g. remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    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.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    The default restricted characters set are replaced.

    +

    Invalid UTF-8 bytes will also be replaced, as they can't be used in JSON strings.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

    +

    --yandex-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --yandex-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to yandex (Yandex Disk).

    +

    --yandex-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --yandex-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --yandex-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --yandex-hard-delete

    +

    Delete files permanently rather than putting them into the trash.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --yandex-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Limitations

    +

    When uploading very large files (bigger than about 5 GiB) you will need to increase the --timeout parameter. This is because Yandex pauses (perhaps to calculate the MD5SUM for the entire file) before returning confirmation that the file has been uploaded. The default handling of timeouts in rclone is to assume a 5 minute pause is an error and close the connection - you'll see net/http: timeout awaiting response headers errors in the logs if this is happening. Setting the timeout to twice the max size of file in GiB should be enough, so if you want to upload a 30 GiB file set a timeout of 2 * 30 = 60m, that is --timeout 60m.

    +

    Having a Yandex Mail account is mandatory to use the Yandex.Disk subscription. Token generation will work without a mail account, but Rclone won't be able to complete any actions.

    +
    [403 - DiskUnsupportedUserAccountTypeError] User account type is not supported.
    +

    Zoho Workdrive

    +

    Zoho WorkDrive is a cloud storage solution created by Zoho.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    Here is an example of making a zoho 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.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    +[snip]
    +XX / Zoho
    +   \ "zoho"
    +[snip]
    +Storage> zoho
    +** See help for zoho backend at: https://rclone.org/zoho/ **
    +
    +OAuth Client Id
    +Leave blank normally.
    +Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default ("").
    +client_id> 
    +OAuth 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 (default)
    +y/n> n
    +Remote config
    +Use web browser to automatically authenticate rclone with remote?
    + * Say Y if the machine running rclone has a web browser you can use
    + * Say N if running rclone on a (remote) machine without web browser access
    +If not sure try Y. If Y failed, try N.
    +y) Yes (default)
    +n) No
    +y/n> 
    +If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth?state=LVn0IHzxej1ZkmQw31d0wQ
    +Log in and authorize rclone for access
    +Waiting for code...
    +Got code
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / MyTeam
    +   \ "4u28602177065ff22426787a6745dba8954eb"
    +Enter a Team ID> 1
    +Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
    + 1 / General
    +   \ "4u2869d2aa6fca04f4f2f896b6539243b85b1"
    +Enter a Workspace ID> 1
    +--------------------
    +[remote]
    +type = zoho
    +token = {"access_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","token_type":"Zoho-oauthtoken","refresh_token":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","expiry":"2020-10-12T00:54:52.370275223+02:00"}
    +root_folder_id = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    +--------------------
    +y) Yes this is OK (default)
    +e) Edit this remote
    +d) Delete this remote
    +y/e/d> 
    +

    See the remote setup docs for how to set it up on a machine with no Internet browser available.

    +

    Rclone runs a webserver on your local computer to collect the authorization token from Zoho Workdrive. This is only from the moment your browser is opened until the token is returned. The webserver runs on http://127.0.0.1:53682/. If local port 53682 is protected by a firewall you may need to temporarily unblock the firewall to complete authorization.

    +

    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 -i /home/local/directory remote:directory
    +

    Zoho paths may be as deep as required, eg remote:directory/subdirectory.

    +

    Modified time

    +

    Modified times are currently not supported for Zoho Workdrive

    +

    Checksums

    +

    No checksums are supported.

    +

    Usage information

    +

    To view your current quota you can use the rclone about remote: command which will display your current usage.

    +

    Restricted filename characters

    +

    Only control characters and invalid UTF-8 are replaced. In addition most Unicode full-width characters are not supported at all and will be removed from filenames during upload.

    +

    Standard options

    +

    Here are the Standard options specific to zoho (Zoho).

    +

    --zoho-client-id

    +

    OAuth Client Id.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --zoho-client-secret

    +

    OAuth Client Secret.

    +

    Leave blank normally.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --zoho-region

    +

    Zoho region to connect to.

    +

    You'll have to use the region your organization is registered in. If not sure use the same top level domain as you connect to in your browser.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to zoho (Zoho).

    +

    --zoho-token

    +

    OAuth Access Token as a JSON blob.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --zoho-auth-url

    +

    Auth server URL.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --zoho-token-url

    +

    Token server url.

    +

    Leave blank to use the provider defaults.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --zoho-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Setting up your own client_id

    +

    For Zoho we advise you to set up your own client_id. To do so you have to complete the following steps.

    +
      +
    1. Log in to the Zoho API Console

    2. +
    3. Create a new client of type "Server-based Application". The name and website don't matter, but you must add the redirect URL http://localhost:53682/.

    4. +
    5. Once the client is created, you can go to the settings tab and enable it in other regions.

    6. +
    +

    The client id and client secret can now be used with rclone.

    +

    Local Filesystem

    +

    Local paths are specified as normal filesystem paths, e.g. /path/to/wherever, so

    +
    rclone sync -i /home/source /tmp/destination
    +

    Will sync /home/source to /tmp/destination.

    +

    Configuration

    +

    For consistencies sake one can also configure a remote of type local in the config file, and access the local filesystem using rclone remote paths, e.g. remote:path/to/wherever, 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 should 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 (e.g. 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 a quoted representation of the invalid bytes. The name gro\xdf will be transferred as gro‛DF. rclone will emit a debug message in this case (use -v to see), e.g.

    +
    Local file system at .: Replacing invalid UTF-8 characters in "gro\xdf"
    +

    Restricted characters

    +

    With the local backend, restrictions on the characters that are usable in file or directory names depend on the operating system. To check what rclone will replace by default on your system, run rclone help flags local-encoding.

    +

    On non Windows platforms the following characters are replaced when handling file names.

    + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    CharacterValueReplacement
    NUL0x00
    /0x2F

    When running on Windows the following characters are replaced. This list is based on the Windows file naming conventions.

    @@ -24611,186 +29326,951 @@

    Restricting filesystems 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 (e.g. Windows) it will be ignored.

    -

    Advanced options

    -

    Here are the advanced options specific to local (Local Disk).

    +

    Advanced options

    +

    Here are the Advanced options specific to local (Local Disk).

    --local-nounc

    Disable UNC (long path names) conversion on Windows.

    Properties:

    + +

    Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item.

    +

    Properties:

    + + +

    Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.

    +

    Properties:

    + + +

    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.

    +

    Properties:

    + + +

    Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated).

    +

    Rclone used to use the Stat size of links as the link size, but this fails in quite a few places:

    + +

    So rclone now always reads the link.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-unicode-normalization

    +

    Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames.

    +

    This flag can be used to normalize file names into unicode NFC form that are read from the local filesystem.

    +

    Rclone does not normally touch the encoding of file names it reads from the file system.

    +

    This can be useful when using macOS as it normally provides decomposed (NFD) unicode which in some language (eg Korean) doesn't display properly on some OSes.

    +

    Note that rclone compares filenames with unicode normalization in the sync routine so this flag shouldn't normally be used.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --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 (e.g. Glusterfs #2206) so this check can be disabled with this flag.

    +

    If this flag is set, rclone will use its best efforts to transfer a file which is being updated. If the file is only having things appended to it (e.g. a log) then rclone will transfer the log file with the size it had the first time rclone saw it.

    +

    If the file is being modified throughout (not just appended to) then the transfer may fail with a hash check failure.

    +

    In detail, once the file has had stat() called on it for the first time we:

    + +

    Properties:

    + +

    --one-file-system / -x

    +

    Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only).

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-case-sensitive

    +

    Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive.

    +

    Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else. Use this flag to override the default choice.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-case-insensitive

    +

    Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive.

    +

    Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else. Use this flag to override the default choice.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-no-preallocate

    +

    Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files.

    +

    Preallocation of disk space helps prevent filesystem fragmentation. However, some virtual filesystem layers (such as Google Drive File Stream) may incorrectly set the actual file size equal to the preallocated space, causing checksum and file size checks to fail. Use this flag to disable preallocation.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-no-sparse

    +

    Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads.

    +

    On Windows platforms rclone will make sparse files when doing multi-thread downloads. This avoids long pauses on large files where the OS zeros the file. However sparse files may be undesirable as they cause disk fragmentation and can be slow to work with.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-no-set-modtime

    +

    Disable setting modtime.

    +

    Normally rclone updates modification time of files after they are done uploading. This can cause permissions issues on Linux platforms when the user rclone is running as does not own the file uploaded, such as when copying to a CIFS mount owned by another user. If this option is enabled, rclone will no longer update the modtime after copying a file.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    --local-encoding

    +

    The encoding for the backend.

    +

    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

    +

    Properties:

    + +

    Metadata

    +

    Depending on which OS is in use the local backend may return only some of the system metadata. Setting system metadata is supported on all OSes but setting user metadata is only supported on linux, freebsd, netbsd, macOS and Solaris. It is not supported on Windows yet (see pkg/attrs#47).

    +

    User metadata is stored as extended attributes (which may not be supported by all file systems) under the "user.*" prefix.

    +

    Here are the possible system metadata items for the local backend.

    +
    +++++++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
    NameHelpTypeExampleRead Only
    atimeTime of last accessRFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00N
    btimeTime of file birth (creation)RFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00N
    gidGroup ID of ownerdecimal number500N
    modeFile type and modeoctal, unix style0100664N
    mtimeTime of last modificationRFC 33392006-01-02T15:04:05.999999999Z07:00N
    rdevDevice ID (if special file)hexadecimal1abcN
    uidUser ID of ownerdecimal number500N
    +

    See the metadata docs for more info.

    +

    Backend commands

    +

    Here are the commands specific to the local backend.

    +

    Run them with

    +
    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
    +

    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

    +

    See the backend command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

    +

    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

    +

    noop

    +

    A null operation for testing backend commands

    +
    rclone backend noop remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
    +

    This is a test command which has some options you can try to change the output.

    +

    Options:

    + +

    Changelog

    +

    v1.61.0 - 2022-12-20

    +

    See commits

    + +

    v1.60.1 - 2022-11-17

    +

    See commits

    + +

    v1.60.0 - 2022-10-21

    +

    See commits

    + +

    v1.59.2 - 2022-09-15

    +

    See commits

    + +

    v1.59.1 - 2022-08-08

    +

    See commits

    + +

    v1.59.0 - 2022-07-09

    +

    See commits

    + - -

    Follow symlinks and copy the pointed to item.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Drive - -

    Translate symlinks to/from regular files with a '.rclonelink' extension.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Make backend config -o config add a combined AllDrives: remote (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Make --drive-shared-with-me work with shared drives (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Add --drive-resource-key for accessing link-shared files (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Add backend commands exportformats and importformats for debugging (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Fix 404 errors on copy/server side copy objects from public folder (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Update Internal OAuth consent screen docs (Phil Shackleton)
  • +
  • Moved root_folder_id to advanced section (Abhiraj)
  • + +
  • Dropbox - -

    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.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Migrate from deprecated api (m8rge)
  • +
  • Add logs to show when poll interval limits are exceeded (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • +
  • Fix nil pointer exception on dropbox impersonate user not found (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • + +
  • Fichier - -

    Assume the Stat size of links is zero (and read them instead) (deprecated).

    -

    Rclone used to use the Stat size of links as the link size, but this fails in quite a few places:

    +
  • Parse api error codes and them accordingly (buengese)
  • + +
  • FTP -

    So rclone now always reads the link.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Add support for disable_utf8 option (Jason Zheng)
  • +
  • Revert to upstream github.com/jlaffaye/ftp from our fork (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • + +
  • Google Cloud Storage -

    --local-unicode-normalization

    -

    Apply unicode NFC normalization to paths and filenames.

    -

    This flag can be used to normalize file names into unicode NFC form that are read from the local filesystem.

    -

    Rclone does not normally touch the encoding of file names it reads from the file system.

    -

    This can be useful when using macOS as it normally provides decomposed (NFD) unicode which in some language (eg Korean) doesn't display properly on some OSes.

    -

    Note that rclone compares filenames with unicode normalization in the sync routine so this flag shouldn't normally be used.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Add --gcs-no-check-bucket to minimise transactions and perms (Nick Gooding)
  • +
  • Add --gcs-decompress flag to decompress gzip-encoded files (Nick Craig-Wood) -

    --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 (e.g. Glusterfs #2206) so this check can be disabled with this flag.

    -

    If this flag is set, rclone will use its best efforts to transfer a file which is being updated. If the file is only having things appended to it (e.g. a log) then rclone will transfer the log file with the size it had the first time rclone saw it.

    -

    If the file is being modified throughout (not just appended to) then the transfer may fail with a hash check failure.

    -

    In detail, once the file has had stat() called on it for the first time we:

    +
  • by default these will be downloaded compressed (which previously failed)
  • + + +
  • Hasher -

    Properties:

    +
  • Support metadata (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • + +
  • HTTP -

    --one-file-system / -x

    -

    Don't cross filesystem boundaries (unix/macOS only).

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Fix missing response when using custom auth handler (albertony)
  • + +
  • Jottacloud -

    --local-case-sensitive

    -

    Force the filesystem to report itself as case sensitive.

    -

    Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else. Use this flag to override the default choice.

    -

    Properties:

    +
  • Add support for upload to custom device and mountpoint (albertony)
  • +
  • Always store username in config and use it to avoid initial API request (albertony)
  • +
  • Fix issue with server-side copy when destination is in trash (albertony)
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  • Fix listing output of remote with special characters (albertony)
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    --local-case-insensitive

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    Force the filesystem to report itself as case insensitive.

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    Normally the local backend declares itself as case insensitive on Windows/macOS and case sensitive for everything else. Use this flag to override the default choice.

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    Properties:

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  • Fix timeout by using int instead of time.Duration for keeping number of seconds (albertony)
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    --local-no-preallocate

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    Disable preallocation of disk space for transferred files.

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    Preallocation of disk space helps prevent filesystem fragmentation. However, some virtual filesystem layers (such as Google Drive File Stream) may incorrectly set the actual file size equal to the preallocated space, causing checksum and file size checks to fail. Use this flag to disable preallocation.

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    Properties:

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  • Document using MEGAcmd to help with login failures (Art M. Gallagher)
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  • Onedrive -

    --local-no-sparse

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    Disable sparse files for multi-thread downloads.

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    On Windows platforms rclone will make sparse files when doing multi-thread downloads. This avoids long pauses on large files where the OS zeros the file. However sparse files may be undesirable as they cause disk fragmentation and can be slow to work with.

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    Properties:

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  • Implement --poll-interval for onedrive (Hugo Laloge)
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  • Add access scopes option (Sven Gerber)
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  • Opendrive -

    --local-no-set-modtime

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    Disable setting modtime.

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    Normally rclone updates modification time of files after they are done uploading. This can cause permissions issues on Linux platforms when the user rclone is running as does not own the file uploaded, such as when copying to a CIFS mount owned by another user. If this option is enabled, rclone will no longer update the modtime after copying a file.

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    Properties:

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  • Resolve lag and truncate bugs (Scott Grimes)
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  • Pcloud -

    --local-encoding

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    The encoding for the backend.

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    See the encoding section in the overview for more info.

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    Properties:

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  • Fix about with no free space left (buengese)
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  • Fix cleanup (buengese)
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  • S3
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  • SFTP +
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  • Storj +
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  • Union +
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  • Uptobox +
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  • WebDAV +
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  • Yandex +
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    Backend commands

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    Here are the commands specific to the local backend.

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    Run them with

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    rclone backend COMMAND remote:
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    The help below will explain what arguments each command takes.

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    See the "rclone backend" command for more info on how to pass options and arguments.

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    These can be run on a running backend using the rc command backend/command.

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    noop

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    A null operation for testing backend commands

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    rclone backend noop remote: [options] [<arguments>+]
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    This is a test command which has some options you can try to change the output.

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    Options:

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    v1.58.1 - 2022-04-29

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    See commits

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    Changelog

    v1.58.0 - 2022-03-18

    See commits

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  • oauthutil: Fix crash when webrowser requests /robots.txt (Nick Craig-Wood)
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  • oauthutil: Fix crash when webbrowser requests /robots.txt (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • operations: Fix goroutine leak in case of copy retry (Ankur Gupta)
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    v1.54.0 - 2021-02-02

  • Add sort by average size in directory (Adam Plánský)
  • Add toggle option for average s3ize in directory - key 'a' (Adam Plánský)
  • Add empty folder flag into ncdu browser (Adam Plánský)
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  • Add ! (errror) and . (unreadable) file flags to go with e (empty) (Nick Craig-Wood)
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  • Add ! (error) and . (unreadable) file flags to go with e (empty) (Nick Craig-Wood)
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  • obscure: Make rclone osbcure - ignore newline at end of line (Nick Craig-Wood)
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  • obscure: Make rclone obscure - ignore newline at end of line (Nick Craig-Wood)
  • operations