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-Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from
+Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage.
+It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage
+interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including
+S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well
+as standard transfer protocols.
- Google Drive
- Amazon S3
- Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
- Dropbox
- Google Cloud Storage
- Amazon Drive
- Microsoft One Drive
- Hubic
- Backblaze B2
- Yandex Disk
- SFTP
- The local filesystem
-
-Features
-
- MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity
- Timestamps preserved on files
- Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis
- Copy mode to just copy new/changed files
- Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical
- Check mode to check for file hash equality
- Can sync to and from network, eg two different cloud accounts
- Optional encryption (Crypt)
- Optional FUSE mount
+Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the unix commands rsync,
+cp, mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and cat. Rclone's familiar syntax
+includes shell pipeline support, and --dry-run protection. It is
+used at the command line, in scripts or via its API.