rclone

“just use a modern 'rclone gui' web interface to setup your cloud or sshfs shares”

“Running an offline win11 account with a recent "rclone gui" NFS mounter for cloud APIs is a better option”

“That project is literally the only thing that makes Google Drive an acceptable experience on Linux.”

“It can also do parallel jobs and is restartable on any failed partial copy.”

“Most have developed abstractions to reduce platform and service specific dependency”

“It is more generic, and can be used with many other storage services.”

“I use file-based remote to keep some repos encrypted on S3 using Rclone.”

“you can just use any cloud blob storage provider (including the big ones) along with the rclone utility”

“I'll only change the database from my computer and rclone push that to any cloud I like”

“I mention it not to shill rsync.net, but to shill rclone, because when I discovered it I was even more impressed with it.”

“use rclone as a very efficient, rsync-like tool to backup your cloud storage. That's what I do.”

“Restic + rclone personally, with a wrapper script to glue things together nicely”

“rclone usually works much better for all those cloud storages with terrible UIs/native clients”

“it is still beta and I try to avoid mounting via Rclone anyway”

“RClone is doing the heavy lifting of reliable & fast cloud to cloud transfer”

“you could set up rClone to sync the TAKEOUT folder of your gdrive account locally”

“Just set up Rclone/restic and get your stuff into a system with some immutability.”

“Rclone has a built in crypt library that can encrypt your data and store it in a cloud provider.”

“The parallelism advantage of rclone is real but undersold here.”

“Sure, today you can use rclone. BUT that's not a tool my grandma can use.”

“The exponential back off will end up making hours and days long delays that will screw a migration.”

“It doesn't honor dropbox's retry-after header and just adds an exponential back off that, in my migrations, has resulted in a pause of days.”

“many of the providers it supports has such low ratelimits, that it's fairly difficult to use it to transfer much data at all”

“Rclone is a fantastic tool, but my favorite part of it is actually the underyling FS library.”

“From March 31, 2025 rclone can only download photos it uploaded”

“Rclone has a Google Photos backend and an S3 backend. I haven't used it but assumed you could simply copy from Google Photos into S3.”

“I believe that rclone has no support for iCloud photos at this time.”

“It works. It's slow when synching a ton of small files but besides that I haven't run into any unexpected problems.”

“run rclone via crontab to ensure you can still access data even if you get banned”

“will happily overwrite/delete your files if you mess up the argument order”

“Rclone setup was a nuisance, accumulated a lot of arguments to get latency down”

“rclone lets you do multipart concurrent uploads and downloads to sftp which means you can have multiple streams operating at 200 Mbit/s which helps”

“it checks mtimes like rsync so it is reasonably efficient for most cases”

“you can rclone your data to a computer of your choice to get a copy of your data”

“For iCloud Drive have a look at rclone. You can run it straight from your Linux machine”

“running a Linux machine in the basement that rclones my cloud drives locally”

“it is experimental and perhaps the most fragile part of rclone”

“battle-tested setup that solves both problems using Rclone for synchronization”

“Rclone is not exactly niche, but it feels like such an underrated piece of software.”

“If you just need a simple local s3 server (e.g. for developing and testing), I recommend rclone.”