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<h1 class="title">rclone(1) User Manual</h1>
<h2 class="author">Nick Craig-Wood</h2>
<h3 class="date">Jul 13, 2016</h3>
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<h1 id="rclone">Rclone</h1>
<p><a href="http://rclone.org/"><img src="http://rclone.org/img/rclone-120x120.png" alt="Logo" /></a></p>
<p>Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from</p>
<ul>
<li>Google Drive</li>
<li>Amazon S3</li>
<li>Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore</li>
<li>Dropbox</li>
<li>Google Cloud Storage</li>
<li>Amazon Drive</li>
<li>Microsoft One Drive</li>
<li>Hubic</li>
<li>Backblaze B2</li>
<li>Yandex Disk</li>
<li>The local filesystem</li>
</ul>
<p>Features</p>
<ul>
<li>MD5/SHA1 hashes checked at all times for file integrity</li>
<li>Timestamps preserved on files</li>
<li>Partial syncs supported on a whole file basis</li>
<li>Copy mode to just copy new/changed files</li>
<li>Sync (one way) mode to make a directory identical</li>
<li>Check mode to check for file hash equality</li>
<li>Can sync to and from network, eg two different cloud accounts</li>
</ul>
<p>Links</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/">Home page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/ncw/rclone">Github project page for source and bug tracker</a></li>
<li><a href="https://google.com/+RcloneOrg" rel="publisher">Google+ page</a>
</li></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/downloads/">Downloads</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="install">Install</h2>
<p>Rclone is a Go program and comes as a single binary file.</p>
<p><a href="http://rclone.org/downloads/">Download</a> the relevant binary.</p>
<p>Or alternatively if you have Go 1.5+ installed use</p>
<pre><code>go get github.com/ncw/rclone</code></pre>
<p>and this will build the binary in <code>$GOPATH/bin</code>. If you have built rclone before then you will want to update its dependencies first with this</p>
<pre><code>go get -u -v github.com/ncw/rclone/...</code></pre>
<p>See the <a href="http://rclone.org/docs/">Usage section</a> of the docs for how to use rclone, or run <code>rclone -h</code>.</p>
<h2 id="linux-binary-downloaded-files-install-example">linux binary downloaded files install example</h2>
<pre><code>unzip rclone-v1.17-linux-amd64.zip
cd rclone-v1.17-linux-amd64
#copy binary file
sudo cp rclone /usr/sbin/
sudo chown root:root /usr/sbin/rclone
sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/rclone
#install manpage
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/man/man1
sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/
sudo mandb </code></pre>
<h2 id="installation-with-ansible">Installation with Ansible</h2>
<p>This can be done with <a href="https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone">Stefan Weichinger's ansible role</a>.</p>
<p>Instructions</p>
<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
<li><code>git clone https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-rclone.git</code> into your local roles-directory</li>
<li>add the role to the hosts you want rclone installed to:</li>
</ol>
<pre><code> - hosts: rclone-hosts
roles:
- rclone</code></pre>
<h2 id="configure">Configure</h2>
<p>First you'll need to configure rclone. As the object storage systems have quite complicated authentication these are kept in a config file <code>.rclone.conf</code> in your home directory by default. (You can use the <code>--config</code> option to choose a different config file.)</p>
<p>The easiest way to make the config is to run rclone with the config option:</p>
<pre><code>rclone config</code></pre>
<p>See the following for detailed instructions for</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/drive/">Google drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/s3/">Amazon S3</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/swift/">Swift / Rackspace Cloudfiles / Memset Memstore</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/dropbox/">Dropbox</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/googlecloudstorage/">Google Cloud Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/local/">Local filesystem</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/amazonclouddrive/">Amazon Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/b2/">Backblaze B2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/hubic/">Hubic</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/onedrive/">Microsoft One Drive</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rclone.org/yandex/">Yandex Disk</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
<p>Rclone syncs a directory tree from one storage system to another.</p>
<p>Its syntax is like this</p>
<pre><code>Syntax: [options] subcommand <parameters> <parameters...></code></pre>
<p>Source and destination paths are specified by the name you gave the storage system in the config file then the sub path, eg "drive:myfolder" to look at "myfolder" in Google drive.</p>
<p>You can define as many storage paths as you like in the config file.</p>
<h2 id="subcommands">Subcommands</h2>
<h3 id="rclone-copy-sourcepath-destpath">rclone copy source:path dest:path</h3>
<p>Copy the source to the destination. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.</p>
<p>For example</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath</code></pre>
<p>Let's say there are two files in sourcepath</p>
<pre><code>sourcepath/one.txt
sourcepath/two.txt</code></pre>
<p>This copies them to</p>
<pre><code>destpath/one.txt
destpath/two.txt</code></pre>
<p>Not to</p>
<pre><code>destpath/sourcepath/one.txt
destpath/sourcepath/two.txt</code></pre>
<p>If you are familiar with <code>rsync</code>, rclone always works as if you had written a trailing / - meaning "copy the contents of this directory". This applies to all commands and whether you are talking about the source or destination.</p>
<p>See the <code>--no-traverse</code> option for controlling whether rclone lists the destination directory or not.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-sync-sourcepath-destpath">rclone sync source:path dest:path</h3>
<p>Sync the source to the destination, changing the destination only. Doesn't transfer unchanged files, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Destination is updated to match source, including deleting files if necessary.</p>
<p><strong>Important</strong>: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the <code>--dry-run</code> flag to see exactly what would be copied and deleted.</p>
<p>Note that files in the destination won't be deleted if there were any errors at any point.</p>
<p>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 <code>copy</code> command above if unsure.</p>
<p>If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there.</p>
<h3 id="move-sourcepath-destpath">move source:path dest:path</h3>
<p>Moves the contents of the source directory to the destination directory. Rclone will error if the source and destination overlap.</p>
<p>If no filters are in use and if possible this will server side move <code>source:path</code> into <code>dest:path</code>. After this <code>source:path</code> will no longer longer exist.</p>
<p>Otherwise for each file in <code>source:path</code> selected by the filters (if any) this will move it into <code>dest:path</code>. If possible a server side move will be used, otherwise it will copy it (server side if possible) into <code>dest:path</code> then delete the original (if no errors on copy) in <code>source:path</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Important</strong>: Since this can cause data loss, test first with the --dry-run flag.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-ls-remotepath">rclone ls remote:path</h3>
<p>List all the objects in the path with size and path.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-lsd-remotepath">rclone lsd remote:path</h3>
<p>List all directories/containers/buckets in the the path.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-lsl-remotepath">rclone lsl remote:path</h3>
<p>List all the objects in the the path with modification time, size and path.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-md5sum-remotepath">rclone md5sum remote:path</h3>
<p>Produces an md5sum file for all the objects in the path. This is in the same format as the standard md5sum tool produces.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-sha1sum-remotepath">rclone sha1sum remote:path</h3>
<p>Produces an sha1sum file for all the objects in the path. This is in the same format as the standard sha1sum tool produces.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-size-remotepath">rclone size remote:path</h3>
<p>Prints the total size of objects in remote:path and the number of objects.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-mkdir-remotepath">rclone mkdir remote:path</h3>
<p>Make the path if it doesn't already exist</p>
<h3 id="rclone-rmdir-remotepath">rclone rmdir remote:path</h3>
<p>Remove the path. Note that you can't remove a path with objects in it, use purge for that.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-purge-remotepath">rclone purge remote:path</h3>
<p>Remove the path and all of its contents. Note that this does not obey include/exclude filters - everything will be removed. Use <code>delete</code> if you want to selectively delete files.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-delete-remotepath">rclone delete remote:path</h3>
<p>Remove the contents of path. Unlike <code>purge</code> it obeys include/exclude filters so can be used to selectively delete files.</p>
<p>Eg delete all files bigger than 100MBytes</p>
<p>Check what would be deleted first (use either)</p>
<pre><code>rclone --min-size 100M lsl remote:path
rclone --dry-run --min-size 100M delete remote:path</code></pre>
<p>Then delete</p>
<pre><code>rclone --min-size 100M delete remote:path</code></pre>
<p>That reads "delete everything with a minimum size of 100 MB", hence delete all files bigger than 100MBytes.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-check-sourcepath-destpath">rclone check source:path dest:path</h3>
<p>Checks the files in the source and destination match. It compares sizes and MD5SUMs and prints a report of files which don't match. It doesn't alter the source or destination.</p>
<p><code>--size-only</code> may be used to only compare the sizes, not the MD5SUMs.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-cleanup-remotepath">rclone cleanup remote:path</h3>
<p>Clean up the remote if possible. Empty the trash or delete old file versions. Not supported by all remotes.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-dedupe-remotepath">rclone dedupe remote:path</h3>
<p>By default <code>dedup</code> interactively finds duplicate files and offers to delete all but one or rename them to be different. Only useful with Google Drive which can have duplicate file names.</p>
<p>The <code>dedupe</code> command will delete all but one of any identical (same md5sum) files it finds without confirmation. This means that for most duplicated files the <code>dedupe</code> command will not be interactive. You can use <code>--dry-run</code> to see what would happen without doing anything.</p>
<p>Here is an example run.</p>
<p>Before - with duplicates</p>
<pre><code>$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:11.775000000 one.txt
564374 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000 one.txt
6048320 2016-03-05 16:18:26.092000000 one.txt
6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two.txt
1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two.txt
564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two.txt</code></pre>
<p>Now the <code>dedupe</code> session</p>
<pre><code>$ rclone dedupe drive:dupes
2016/03/05 16:24:37 Google drive root 'dupes': Looking for duplicates using interactive mode.
one.txt: Found 4 duplicates - deleting identical copies
one.txt: Deleting 2/3 identical duplicates (md5sum "1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36")
one.txt: 2 duplicates remain
1: 6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000, md5sum 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
2: 564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:23:06.731000000, md5sum 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> k
Enter the number of the file to keep> 1
one.txt: Deleted 1 extra copies
two.txt: Found 3 duplicates - deleting identical copies
two.txt: 3 duplicates remain
1: 564374 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000, md5sum 7594e7dc9fc28f727c42ee3e0749de81
2: 6048320 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000, md5sum 1eedaa9fe86fd4b8632e2ac549403b36
3: 1744073 bytes, 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000, md5sum 851957f7fb6f0bc4ce76be966d336802
s) Skip and do nothing
k) Keep just one (choose which in next step)
r) Rename all to be different (by changing file.jpg to file-1.jpg)
s/k/r> r
two-1.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-2.txt: renamed from: two.txt
two-3.txt: renamed from: two.txt</code></pre>
<p>The result being</p>
<pre><code>$ rclone lsl drive:dupes
6048320 2016-03-05 16:23:16.798000000 one.txt
564374 2016-03-05 16:22:52.118000000 two-1.txt
6048320 2016-03-05 16:22:46.185000000 two-2.txt
1744073 2016-03-05 16:22:38.104000000 two-3.txt</code></pre>
<p>Dedupe can be run non interactively using the <code>--dedupe-mode</code> flag.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode interactive</code> - interactive as above.</li>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode skip</code> - removes identical files then skips anything left.</li>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode first</code> - removes identical files then keeps the first one.</li>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode newest</code> - removes identical files then keeps the newest one.</li>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode oldest</code> - removes identical files then keeps the oldest one.</li>
<li><code>--dedupe-mode rename</code> - removes identical files then renames the rest to be different.</li>
</ul>
<p>For example to rename all the identically named photos in your Google Photos directory, do</p>
<pre><code>rclone dedupe --dedupe-mode rename "drive:Google Photos"</code></pre>
<h3 id="rclone-config">rclone config</h3>
<p>Enter an interactive configuration session.</p>
<h3 id="rclone-help">rclone help</h3>
<p>Prints help on rclone commands and options.</p>
<h2 id="copying-single-files">Copying single files</h2>
<p>rclone normally syncs or copies directories. However if the source remote points to a file, rclone will just copy that file. The destination remote must point to a directory - rclone will give the error <code>Failed to create file system for "remote:file": is a file not a directory</code> if it isn't.</p>
<p>For example, suppose you have a remote with a file in called <code>test.jpg</code>, then you could copy just that file like this</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy remote:test.jpg /tmp/download</code></pre>
<p>The file <code>test.jpg</code> will be placed inside <code>/tmp/download</code>.</p>
<p>This is equivalent to specifying</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy --no-traverse --files-from /tmp/files remote: /tmp/download</code></pre>
<p>Where <code>/tmp/files</code> contains the single line</p>
<pre><code>test.jpg</code></pre>
<p>It is recommended to use <code>copy</code> when copying single files not <code>sync</code>. They have pretty much the same effect but <code>copy</code> will use a lot less memory.</p>
<h2 id="quoting-and-the-shell">Quoting and the shell</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Here are some gotchas which may help users unfamiliar with the shell rules</p>
<h3 id="linux-osx">Linux / OSX</h3>
<p>If your names have spaces or shell metacharacters (eg <code>*</code>, <code>?</code>, <code>$</code>, <code>'</code>, <code>"</code> etc) then you must quote them. Use single quotes <code>'</code> by default.</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy 'Important files?' remote:backup</code></pre>
<p>If you want to send a <code>'</code> you will need to use <code>"</code>, eg</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy "O'Reilly Reviews" remote:backup</code></pre>
<p>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.</p>
<h3 id="windows">Windows</h3>
<p>If your names have spaces in you need to put them in <code>"</code>, eg</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy "E:\folder name\folder name\folder name" remote:backup</code></pre>
<p>If you are using the root directory on its own then don't quote it (see <a href="https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/464">#464</a> for why), eg</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy E:\ remote:backup</code></pre>
<h2 id="server-side-copy">Server Side Copy</h2>
<p>Drive, S3, Dropbox, Swift and Google Cloud Storage support server side copy.</p>
<p>This means if you want to copy one folder to another then rclone won't download all the files and re-upload them; it will instruct the server to copy them in place.</p>
<p>Eg</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy s3:oldbucket s3:newbucket</code></pre>
<p>Will copy the contents of <code>oldbucket</code> to <code>newbucket</code> without downloading and re-uploading.</p>
<p>Remotes which don't support server side copy (eg local) <strong>will</strong> download and re-upload in this case.</p>
<p>Server side copies are used with <code>sync</code> and <code>copy</code> and will be identified in the log when using the <code>-v</code> flag.</p>
<p>Server side copies will only be attempted if the remote names are the same.</p>
<p>This can be used when scripting to make aged backups efficiently, eg</p>
<pre><code>rclone sync remote:current-backup remote:previous-backup
rclone sync /path/to/files remote:current-backup</code></pre>
<h2 id="options">Options</h2>
<p>Rclone has a number of options to control its behaviour.</p>
<p>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".</p>
<p>Options which use SIZE use kByte by default. However a suffix of <code>b</code> for bytes, <code>k</code> for kBytes, <code>M</code> for MBytes and <code>G</code> for GBytes may be used. These are the binary units, eg 1, 2**10, 2**20, 2**30 respectively.</p>
<h3 id="bwlimitsize">--bwlimit=SIZE</h3>
<p>Bandwidth limit in kBytes/s, or use suffix b|k|M|G. The default is <code>0</code> which means to not limit bandwidth.</p>
<p>For example to limit bandwidth usage to 10 MBytes/s use <code>--bwlimit 10M</code></p>
<p>This only limits the bandwidth of the data transfer, it doesn't limit the bandwith of the directory listings etc.</p>
<h3 id="checkersn">--checkers=N</h3>
<p>The number of checkers to run in parallel. Checkers do the equality checking of files during a sync. For some storage systems (eg s3, swift, dropbox) this can take a significant amount of time so they are run in parallel.</p>
<p>The default is to run 8 checkers in parallel.</p>
<h3 id="c---checksum">-c, --checksum</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>This is very useful when transferring between remotes which store the same hash type on the object, eg Drive and Swift. For details of which remotes support which hash type see the table in the <a href="http://rclone.org/overview/">overview section</a>.</p>
<p>Eg <code>rclone --checksum sync s3:/bucket swift:/bucket</code> would run much quicker than without the <code>--checksum</code> flag.</p>
<p>When using this flag, rclone won't update mtimes of remote files if they are incorrect as it would normally.</p>
<h3 id="configconfig_file">--config=CONFIG_FILE</h3>
<p>Specify the location of the rclone config file. Normally this is in your home directory as a file called <code>.rclone.conf</code>. If you run <code>rclone -h</code> and look at the help for the <code>--config</code> option you will see where the default location is for you. Use this flag to override the config location, eg <code>rclone --config=".myconfig" .config</code>.</p>
<h3 id="contimeouttime">--contimeout=TIME</h3>
<p>Set the connection timeout. This should be in go time format which looks like <code>5s</code> for 5 seconds, <code>10m</code> for 10 minutes, or <code>3h30m</code>.</p>
<p>The connection timeout is the amount of time rclone will wait for a connection to go through to a remote object storage system. It is <code>1m</code> by default.</p>
<h3 id="dedupe-mode-mode">--dedupe-mode MODE</h3>
<p>Mode to run dedupe command in. One of <code>interactive</code>, <code>skip</code>, <code>first</code>, <code>newest</code>, <code>oldest</code>, <code>rename</code>. The default is <code>interactive</code>. See the dedupe command for more information as to what these options mean.</p>
<h3 id="n---dry-run">-n, --dry-run</h3>
<p>Do a trial run with no permanent changes. Use this to see what rclone would do without actually doing it. Useful when setting up the <code>sync</code> command which deletes files in the destination.</p>
<h3 id="ignore-existing">--ignore-existing</h3>
<p>Using this option will make rclone unconditionally skip all files that exist on the destination, no matter the content of these files.</p>
<p>While this isn't a generally recommended option, it can be useful in cases where your files change due to encryption. However, it cannot correct partial transfers in case a transfer was interrupted.</p>
<h3 id="ignore-size">--ignore-size</h3>
<p>Normally rclone will look at modification time and size of files to see if they are equal. If you set this flag then rclone will check only the modification time. If <code>--checksum</code> is set then it only checks the checksum.</p>
<p>It will also cause rclone to skip verifying the sizes are the same after transfer.</p>
<p>This can be useful for transferring files to and from onedrive which occasionally misreports the size of image files (see <a href="https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/399">#399</a> for more info).</p>
<h3 id="i---ignore-times">-I, --ignore-times</h3>
<p>Using this option will cause rclone to unconditionally upload all files regardless of the state of files on the destination.</p>
<p>Normally rclone would skip any files that have the same modification time and are the same size (or have the same checksum if using <code>--checksum</code>).</p>
<h3 id="log-filefile">--log-file=FILE</h3>
<p>Log all of rclone's output to FILE. This is not active by default. This can be useful for tracking down problems with syncs in combination with the <code>-v</code> flag. See the Logging section for more info.</p>
<h3 id="low-level-retries-number">--low-level-retries NUMBER</h3>
<p>This controls the number of low level retries rclone does.</p>
<p>A low level retry is used to retry a failing operation - typically one HTTP request. This might be uploading a chunk of a big file for example. You will see low level retries in the log with the <code>-v</code> flag.</p>
<p>This shouldn't need to be changed from the default in normal operations, however if you get a lot of low level retries you may wish to reduce the value so rclone moves on to a high level retry (see the <code>--retries</code> flag) quicker.</p>
<p>Disable low level retries with <code>--low-level-retries 1</code>.</p>
<h3 id="max-depthn">--max-depth=N</h3>
<p>This modifies the recursion depth for all the commands except purge.</p>
<p>So if you do <code>rclone --max-depth 1 ls remote:path</code> you will see only the files in the top level directory. Using <code>--max-depth 2</code> means you will see all the files in first two directory levels and so on.</p>
<p>For historical reasons the <code>lsd</code> command defaults to using a <code>--max-depth</code> of 1 - you can override this with the command line flag.</p>
<p>You can use this command to disable recursion (with <code>--max-depth 1</code>).</p>
<p>Note that if you use this with <code>sync</code> and <code>--delete-excluded</code> the files not recursed through are considered excluded and will be deleted on the destination. Test first with <code>--dry-run</code> if you are not sure what will happen.</p>
<h3 id="modify-windowtime">--modify-window=TIME</h3>
<p>When checking whether a file has been modified, this is the maximum allowed time difference that a file can have and still be considered equivalent.</p>
<p>The default is <code>1ns</code> unless this is overridden by a remote. For example OS X only stores modification times to the nearest second so if you are reading and writing to an OS X filing system this will be <code>1s</code> by default.</p>
<p>This command line flag allows you to override that computed default.</p>
<h3 id="no-gzip-encoding">--no-gzip-encoding</h3>
<p>Don't set <code>Accept-Encoding: gzip</code>. This means that rclone won't ask the server for compressed files automatically. Useful if you've set the server to return files with <code>Content-Encoding: gzip</code> but you uploaded compressed files.</p>
<p>There is no need to set this in normal operation, and doing so will decrease the network transfer efficiency of rclone.</p>
<h3 id="no-update-modtime">--no-update-modtime</h3>
<p>When using this flag, rclone won't update modification times of remote files if they are incorrect as it would normally.</p>
<p>This can be used if the remote is being synced with another tool also (eg the Google Drive client).</p>
<h3 id="q---quiet">-q, --quiet</h3>
<p>Normally rclone outputs stats and a completion message. If you set this flag it will make as little output as possible.</p>
<h3 id="retries-int">--retries int</h3>
<p>Retry the entire sync if it fails this many times it fails (default 3).</p>
<p>Some remotes can be unreliable and a few retries helps pick up the files which didn't get transferred because of errors.</p>
<p>Disable retries with <code>--retries 1</code>.</p>
<h3 id="size-only">--size-only</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3 id="statstime">--stats=TIME</h3>
<p>Rclone will print stats at regular intervals to show its progress.</p>
<p>This sets the interval.</p>
<p>The default is <code>1m</code>. Use 0 to disable.</p>
<h3 id="delete-beforeduringafter">--delete-(before,during,after)</h3>
<p>This option allows you to specify when files on your destination are deleted when you sync folders.</p>
<p>Specifying the value <code>--delete-before</code> will delete all files present on the destination, but not on the source <em>before</em> starting the transfer of any new or updated files. This uses extra memory as it has to store the source listing before proceeding.</p>
<p>Specifying <code>--delete-during</code> (default value) will delete files while checking and uploading files. This is usually the fastest option. Currently this works the same as <code>--delete-after</code> but it may change in the future.</p>
<p>Specifying <code>--delete-after</code> will delay deletion of files until all new/updated files have been successfully transfered.</p>
<h3 id="timeouttime">--timeout=TIME</h3>
<p>This sets the IO idle timeout. If a transfer has started but then becomes idle for this long it is considered broken and disconnected.</p>
<p>The default is <code>5m</code>. Set to 0 to disable.</p>
<h3 id="transfersn">--transfers=N</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The default is to run 4 file transfers in parallel.</p>
<h3 id="u---update">-u, --update</h3>
<p>This forces rclone to skip any files which exist on the destination and have a modified time that is newer than the source file.</p>
<p>If an existing destination file has a modification time equal (within the computed modify window precision) to the source file's, it will be updated if the sizes are different.</p>
<p>On remotes which don't support mod time directly the time checked will be the uploaded time. This means that if uploading to one of these remoes, rclone will skip any files which exist on the destination and have an uploaded time that is newer than the modification time of the source file.</p>
<p>This can be useful when transferring to a remote which doesn't support mod times directly as it is more accurate than a <code>--size-only</code> check and faster than using <code>--checksum</code>.</p>
<h3 id="v---verbose">-v, --verbose</h3>
<p>If you set this flag, rclone will become very verbose telling you about every file it considers and transfers.</p>
<p>Very useful for debugging.</p>
<h3 id="v---version">-V, --version</h3>
<p>Prints the version number</p>
<h2 id="configuration-encryption">Configuration Encryption</h2>
<p>Your configuration file contains information for logging in to your cloud services. This means that you should keep your <code>.rclone.conf</code> file in a secure location.</p>
<p>If you are in an environment where that isn't possible, you can add a password to your configuration. This means that you will have to enter the password every time you start rclone.</p>
<p>To add a password to your rclone configuration, execute <code>rclone config</code>.</p>
<pre><code>>rclone config
Current remotes:
e) Edit existing remote
n) New remote
d) Delete remote
s) Set configuration password
q) Quit config
e/n/d/s/q></code></pre>
<p>Go into <code>s</code>, Set configuration password:</p>
<pre><code>e/n/d/s/q> s
Your configuration is not encrypted.
If you add a password, you will protect your login information to cloud services.
a) Add Password
q) Quit to main menu
a/q> a
Enter NEW configuration password:
password:
Confirm NEW password:
password:
Password set
Your configuration is encrypted.
c) Change Password
u) Unencrypt configuration
q) Quit to main menu
c/u/q></code></pre>
<p>Your configuration is now encrypted, and every time you start rclone you will now be asked for the password. In the same menu you can change the password or completely remove encryption from your configuration.</p>
<p>There is no way to recover the configuration if you lose your password.</p>
<p>rclone uses <a href="https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/secretbox">nacl secretbox</a> which in turn uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and authenticate your configuration with secret-key cryptography. The password is SHA-256 hashed, which produces the key for secretbox. The hashed password is not stored.</p>
<p>While this provides very good security, we do not recommend storing your encrypted rclone configuration in public if it contains sensitive information, maybe except if you use a very strong password.</p>
<p>If it is safe in your environment, you can set the <code>RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS</code> environment variable to contain your password, in which case it will be used for decrypting the configuration.</p>
<p>If you are running rclone inside a script, you might want to disable password prompts. To do that, pass the parameter <code>--ask-password=false</code> to rclone. This will make rclone fail instead of asking for a password if <code>RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS</code> doesn't contain a valid password.</p>
<h2 id="developer-options">Developer options</h2>
<p>These options are useful when developing or debugging rclone. There are also some more remote specific options which aren't documented here which are used for testing. These start with remote name eg <code>--drive-test-option</code> - see the docs for the remote in question.</p>
<h3 id="cpuprofilefile">--cpuprofile=FILE</h3>
<p>Write CPU profile to file. This can be analysed with <code>go tool pprof</code>.</p>
<h3 id="dump-bodies">--dump-bodies</h3>
<p>Dump HTTP headers and bodies - may contain sensitive info. Can be very verbose. Useful for debugging only.</p>
<h3 id="dump-filters">--dump-filters</h3>
<p>Dump the filters to the output. Useful to see exactly what include and exclude options are filtering on.</p>
<h3 id="dump-headers">--dump-headers</h3>
<p>Dump HTTP headers - may contain sensitive info. Can be very verbose. Useful for debugging only.</p>
<h3 id="memprofilefile">--memprofile=FILE</h3>
<p>Write memory profile to file. This can be analysed with <code>go tool pprof</code>.</p>
<h3 id="no-check-certificatetruefalse">--no-check-certificate=true/false</h3>
<p><code>--no-check-certificate</code> controls whether a client verifies the server's certificate chain and host name. If <code>--no-check-certificate</code> is true, TLS accepts any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate. In this mode, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks.</p>
<p>This option defaults to <code>false</code>.</p>
<p><strong>This should be used only for testing.</strong></p>
<h3 id="no-traverse">--no-traverse</h3>
<p>The <code>--no-traverse</code> flag controls whether the destination file system is traversed when using the <code>copy</code> or <code>move</code> commands.</p>
<p>If you are only copying a small number of files and/or have a large number of files on the destination then <code>--no-traverse</code> will stop rclone listing the destination and save time.</p>
<p>However if you are copying a large number of files, escpecially if you are doing a copy where lots of the files haven't changed and won't need copying then you shouldn't use <code>--no-traverse</code>.</p>
<p>It can also be used to reduce the memory usage of rclone when copying - <code>rclone --no-traverse copy src dst</code> won't load either the source or destination listings into memory so will use the minimum amount of memory.</p>
<h2 id="filtering">Filtering</h2>
<p>For the filtering options</p>
<ul>
<li><code>--delete-excluded</code></li>
<li><code>--filter</code></li>
<li><code>--filter-from</code></li>
<li><code>--exclude</code></li>
<li><code>--exclude-from</code></li>
<li><code>--include</code></li>
<li><code>--include-from</code></li>
<li><code>--files-from</code></li>
<li><code>--min-size</code></li>
<li><code>--max-size</code></li>
<li><code>--min-age</code></li>
<li><code>--max-age</code></li>
<li><code>--dump-filters</code></li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a href="http://rclone.org/filtering/">filtering section</a>.</p>
<h2 id="logging">Logging</h2>
<p>rclone has 3 levels of logging, <code>Error</code>, <code>Info</code> and <code>Debug</code>.</p>
<p>By default rclone logs <code>Error</code> and <code>Info</code> to standard error and <code>Debug</code> to standard output. This means you can redirect standard output and standard error to different places.</p>
<p>By default rclone will produce <code>Error</code> and <code>Info</code> level messages.</p>
<p>If you use the <code>-q</code> flag, rclone will only produce <code>Error</code> messages.</p>
<p>If you use the <code>-v</code> flag, rclone will produce <code>Error</code>, <code>Info</code> and <code>Debug</code> messages.</p>
<p>If you use the <code>--log-file=FILE</code> option, rclone will redirect <code>Error</code>, <code>Info</code> and <code>Debug</code> messages along with standard error to FILE.</p>
<h2 id="exit-code">Exit Code</h2>
<p>If any errors occurred during the command, rclone will set a non zero exit code. This allows scripts to detect when rclone operations have failed.</p>
<h1 id="configuring-rclone-on-a-remote-headless-machine">Configuring rclone on a remote / headless machine</h1>
<p>Some of the configurations (those involving oauth2) require an Internet connected web browser.</p>
<p>If you are trying to set rclone up on a remote or headless box with no browser available on it (eg a NAS or a server in a datacenter) then you will need to use an alternative means of configuration. There are two ways of doing it, described below.</p>
<h2 id="configuring-using-rclone-authorize">Configuring using rclone authorize</h2>
<p>On the headless box</p>
<pre><code>...
Remote config
Use auto config?
* Say Y if not sure
* Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> n
For this to work, you will need rclone available on a machine that has a web browser available.
Execute the following on your machine:
rclone authorize "amazon cloud drive"
Then paste the result below:
result></code></pre>
<p>Then on your main desktop machine</p>
<pre><code>rclone authorize "amazon cloud drive"
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
Paste the following into your remote machine --->
SECRET_TOKEN
<---End paste</code></pre>
<p>Then back to the headless box, paste in the code</p>
<pre><code>result> SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
[acd12]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = SECRET_TOKEN
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d></code></pre>
<h2 id="configuring-by-copying-the-config-file">Configuring by copying the config file</h2>
<p>Rclone stores all of its config in a single configuration file. This can easily be copied to configure a remote rclone.</p>
<p>So first configure rclone on your desktop machine</p>
<pre><code>rclone config</code></pre>
<p>to set up the config file.</p>
<p>Find the config file by running <code>rclone -h</code> and looking for the help for the <code>--config</code> option</p>
<pre><code>$ rclone -h
[snip]
--config="/home/user/.rclone.conf": Config file.
[snip]</code></pre>
<p>Now transfer it to the remote box (scp, cut paste, ftp, sftp etc) and place it in the correct place (use <code>rclone -h</code> on the remote box to find out where).</p>
<h1 id="filtering-includes-and-excludes">Filtering, includes and excludes</h1>
<p>Rclone has a sophisticated set of include and exclude rules. Some of these are based on patterns and some on other things like file size.</p>
<p>The filters are applied for the <code>copy</code>, <code>sync</code>, <code>move</code>, <code>ls</code>, <code>lsl</code>, <code>md5sum</code>, <code>sha1sum</code>, <code>size</code>, <code>delete</code> and <code>check</code> operations. Note that <code>purge</code> does not obey the filters.</p>
<p>Each path as it passes through rclone is matched against the include and exclude rules like <code>--include</code>, <code>--exclude</code>, <code>--include-from</code>, <code>--exclude-from</code>, <code>--filter</code>, or <code>--filter-from</code>. The simplest way to try them out is using the <code>ls</code> command, or <code>--dry-run</code> together with <code>-v</code>.</p>
<p><strong>Important</strong> Due to limitations of the command line parser you can only use any of these options once - if you duplicate them then rclone will use the last one only.</p>
<h2 id="patterns">Patterns</h2>
<p>The patterns used to match files for inclusion or exclusion are based on "file globs" as used by the unix shell.</p>
<p>If the pattern starts with a <code>/</code> then it only matches at the top level of the directory tree, relative to the root of the remote. If it doesn't start with <code>/</code> then it is matched starting at the <strong>end of the path</strong>, but it will only match a complete path element:</p>
<pre><code>file.jpg - matches "file.jpg"
- matches "directory/file.jpg"
- doesn't match "afile.jpg"
- doesn't match "directory/afile.jpg"
/file.jpg - matches "file.jpg" in the root directory of the remote
- doesn't match "afile.jpg"
- doesn't match "directory/file.jpg"</code></pre>
<p><strong>Important</strong> Note that you must use <code>/</code> in patterns and not <code>\</code> even if running on Windows.</p>
<p>A <code>*</code> matches anything but not a <code>/</code>.</p>
<pre><code>*.jpg - matches "file.jpg"
- matches "directory/file.jpg"
- doesn't match "file.jpg/something"</code></pre>
<p>Use <code>**</code> to match anything, including slashes (<code>/</code>).</p>
<pre><code>dir/** - matches "dir/file.jpg"
- matches "dir/dir1/dir2/file.jpg"
- doesn't match "directory/file.jpg"
- doesn't match "adir/file.jpg"</code></pre>
<p>A <code>?</code> matches any character except a slash <code>/</code>.</p>
<pre><code>l?ss - matches "less"
- matches "lass"
- doesn't match "floss"</code></pre>
<p>A <code>[</code> and <code>]</code> together make a a character class, such as <code>[a-z]</code> or <code>[aeiou]</code> or <code>[[:alpha:]]</code>. See the <a href="https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/syntax/">go regexp docs</a> for more info on these.</p>
<pre><code>h[ae]llo - matches "hello"
- matches "hallo"
- doesn't match "hullo"</code></pre>
<p>A <code>{</code> and <code>}</code> define a choice between elements. It should contain a comma seperated list of patterns, any of which might match. These patterns can contain wildcards.</p>
<pre><code>{one,two}_potato - matches "one_potato"
- matches "two_potato"
- doesn't match "three_potato"
- doesn't match "_potato"</code></pre>
<p>Special characters can be escaped with a <code>\</code> before them.</p>
<pre><code>\*.jpg - matches "*.jpg"
\\.jpg - matches "\.jpg"
\[one\].jpg - matches "[one].jpg"</code></pre>
<p>Note also that rclone filter globs can only be used in one of the filter command line flags, not in the specification of the remote, so <code>rclone copy "remote:dir*.jpg" /path/to/dir</code> won't work - what is required is <code>rclone --include "*.jpg" copy remote:dir /path/to/dir</code></p>
<h3 id="directories">Directories</h3>
<p>Rclone keeps track of directories that could match any file patterns.</p>
<p>Eg if you add the include rule</p>
<pre><code>\a\*.jpg</code></pre>
<p>Rclone will synthesize the directory include rule</p>
<pre><code>\a\</code></pre>
<p>If you put any rules which end in <code>\</code> then it will only match directories.</p>
<p>Directory matches are <strong>only</strong> used to optimise directory access patterns - you must still match the files that you want to match. Directory matches won't optimise anything on bucket based remotes (eg s3, swift, google compute storage, b2) which don't have a concept of directory.</p>
<h3 id="differences-between-rsync-and-rclone-patterns">Differences between rsync and rclone patterns</h3>
<p>Rclone implements bash style <code>{a,b,c}</code> glob matching which rsync doesn't.</p>
<p>Rclone always does a wildcard match so <code>\</code> must always escape a <code>\</code>.</p>
<h2 id="how-the-rules-are-used">How the rules are used</h2>
<p>Rclone maintains a list of include rules and exclude rules.</p>
<p>Each file is matched in order against the list until it finds a match. The file is then included or excluded according to the rule type.</p>
<p>If the matcher falls off the bottom of the list then the path is included.</p>
<p>For example given the following rules, <code>+</code> being include, <code>-</code> being exclude,</p>
<pre><code>- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
- *</code></pre>
<p>This would include</p>
<ul>
<li><code>file1.jpg</code></li>
<li><code>file3.png</code></li>
<li><code>file2.avi</code></li>
</ul>
<p>This would exclude</p>
<ul>
<li><code>secret17.jpg</code></li>
<li>non <code>*.jpg</code> and <code>*.png</code></li>
</ul>
<p>A similar process is done on directory entries before recursing into them. This only works on remotes which have a concept of directory (Eg local, google drive, onedrive, amazon drive) and not on bucket based remotes (eg s3, swift, google compute storage, b2).</p>
<h2 id="adding-filtering-rules">Adding filtering rules</h2>
<p>Filtering rules are added with the following command line flags.</p>
<h3 id="exclude---exclude-files-matching-pattern"><code>--exclude</code> - Exclude files matching pattern</h3>
<p>Add a single exclude rule with <code>--exclude</code>.</p>
<p>Eg <code>--exclude *.bak</code> to exclude all bak files from the sync.</p>
<h3 id="exclude-from---read-exclude-patterns-from-file"><code>--exclude-from</code> - Read exclude patterns from file</h3>
<p>Add exclude rules from a file.</p>
<p>Prepare a file like this <code>exclude-file.txt</code></p>
<pre><code># a sample exclude rule file
*.bak
file2.jpg</code></pre>
<p>Then use as <code>--exclude-from exclude-file.txt</code>. This will sync all files except those ending in <code>bak</code> and <code>file2.jpg</code>.</p>
<p>This is useful if you have a lot of rules.</p>
<h3 id="include---include-files-matching-pattern"><code>--include</code> - Include files matching pattern</h3>
<p>Add a single include rule with <code>--include</code>.</p>
<p>Eg <code>--include *.{png,jpg}</code> to include all <code>png</code> and <code>jpg</code> files in the backup and no others.</p>
<p>This adds an implicit <code>--exclude *</code> at the very end of the filter list. This means you can mix <code>--include</code> and <code>--include-from</code> with the other filters (eg <code>--exclude</code>) but you must include all the files you want in the include statement. If this doesn't provide enough flexibility then you must use <code>--filter-from</code>.</p>
<h3 id="include-from---read-include-patterns-from-file"><code>--include-from</code> - Read include patterns from file</h3>
<p>Add include rules from a file.</p>
<p>Prepare a file like this <code>include-file.txt</code></p>
<pre><code># a sample include rule file
*.jpg
*.png
file2.avi</code></pre>
<p>Then use as <code>--include-from include-file.txt</code>. This will sync all <code>jpg</code>, <code>png</code> files and <code>file2.avi</code>.</p>
<p>This is useful if you have a lot of rules.</p>
<p>This adds an implicit <code>--exclude *</code> at the very end of the filter list. This means you can mix <code>--include</code> and <code>--include-from</code> with the other filters (eg <code>--exclude</code>) but you must include all the files you want in the include statement. If this doesn't provide enough flexibility then you must use <code>--filter-from</code>.</p>
<h3 id="filter---add-a-file-filtering-rule"><code>--filter</code> - Add a file-filtering rule</h3>
<p>This can be used to add a single include or exclude rule. Include rules start with <code>+</code> and exclude rules start with <code>-</code>. A special rule called <code>!</code> can be used to clear the existing rules.</p>
<p>Eg <code>--filter "- *.bak"</code> to exclude all bak files from the sync.</p>
<h3 id="filter-from---read-filtering-patterns-from-a-file"><code>--filter-from</code> - Read filtering patterns from a file</h3>
<p>Add include/exclude rules from a file.</p>
<p>Prepare a file like this <code>filter-file.txt</code></p>
<pre><code># a sample exclude rule file
- secret*.jpg
+ *.jpg
+ *.png
+ file2.avi
# exclude everything else
- *</code></pre>
<p>Then use as <code>--filter-from filter-file.txt</code>. The rules are processed in the order that they are defined.</p>
<p>This example will include all <code>jpg</code> and <code>png</code> files, exclude any files matching <code>secret*.jpg</code> and include <code>file2.avi</code>. Everything else will be excluded from the sync.</p>
<h3 id="files-from---read-list-of-source-file-names"><code>--files-from</code> - Read list of source-file names</h3>
<p>This reads a list of file names from the file passed in and <strong>only</strong> these files are transferred. The filtering rules are ignored completely if you use this option.</p>
<p>Prepare a file like this <code>files-from.txt</code></p>
<pre><code># comment
file1.jpg
file2.jpg</code></pre>
<p>Then use as <code>--files-from files-from.txt</code>. This will only transfer <code>file1.jpg</code> and <code>file2.jpg</code> providing they exist.</p>
<p>For example, let's say you had a few files you want to back up regularly with these absolute paths:</p>
<pre><code>/home/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff</code></pre>
<p>To copy these you'd find a common subdirectory - in this case <code>/home</code> and put the remaining files in <code>files-from.txt</code> with or without leading <code>/</code>, eg</p>
<pre><code>user1/important
user1/dir/file
user2/stuff</code></pre>
<p>You could then copy these to a remote like this</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt /home remote:backup</code></pre>
<p>The 3 files will arrive in <code>remote:backup</code> with the paths as in the <code>files-from.txt</code>.</p>
<p>You could of course choose <code>/</code> as the root too in which case your <code>files-from.txt</code> might look like this.</p>
<pre><code>/home/user1/important
/home/user1/dir/file
/home/user2/stuff</code></pre>
<p>And you would transfer it like this</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy --files-from files-from.txt / remote:backup</code></pre>
<p>In this case there will be an extra <code>home</code> directory on the remote.</p>
<h3 id="min-size---dont-transfer-any-file-smaller-than-this"><code>--min-size</code> - Don't transfer any file smaller than this</h3>
<p>This option controls the minimum size file which will be transferred. This defaults to <code>kBytes</code> but a suffix of <code>k</code>, <code>M</code>, or <code>G</code> can be used.</p>
<p>For example <code>--min-size 50k</code> means no files smaller than 50kByte will be transferred.</p>
<h3 id="max-size---dont-transfer-any-file-larger-than-this"><code>--max-size</code> - Don't transfer any file larger than this</h3>
<p>This option controls the maximum size file which will be transferred. This defaults to <code>kBytes</code> but a suffix of <code>k</code>, <code>M</code>, or <code>G</code> can be used.</p>
<p>For example <code>--max-size 1G</code> means no files larger than 1GByte will be transferred.</p>
<h3 id="max-age---dont-transfer-any-file-older-than-this"><code>--max-age</code> - Don't transfer any file older than this</h3>
<p>This option controls the maximum age of files to transfer. Give in seconds or with a suffix of:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>ms</code> - Milliseconds</li>
<li><code>s</code> - Seconds</li>
<li><code>m</code> - Minutes</li>
<li><code>h</code> - Hours</li>
<li><code>d</code> - Days</li>
<li><code>w</code> - Weeks</li>
<li><code>M</code> - Months</li>
<li><code>y</code> - Years</li>
</ul>
<p>For example <code>--max-age 2d</code> means no files older than 2 days will be transferred.</p>
<h3 id="min-age---dont-transfer-any-file-younger-than-this"><code>--min-age</code> - Don't transfer any file younger than this</h3>
<p>This option controls the minimum age of files to transfer. Give in seconds or with a suffix (see <code>--max-age</code> for list of suffixes)</p>
<p>For example <code>--min-age 2d</code> means no files younger than 2 days will be transferred.</p>
<h3 id="delete-excluded---delete-files-on-dest-excluded-from-sync"><code>--delete-excluded</code> - Delete files on dest excluded from sync</h3>
<p><strong>Important</strong> this flag is dangerous - use with <code>--dry-run</code> and <code>-v</code> first.</p>
<p>When doing <code>rclone sync</code> this will delete any files which are excluded from the sync on the destination.</p>
<p>If for example you did a sync from <code>A</code> to <code>B</code> without the <code>--min-size 50k</code> flag</p>
<pre><code>rclone sync A: B:</code></pre>
<p>Then you repeated it like this with the <code>--delete-excluded</code></p>
<pre><code>rclone --min-size 50k --delete-excluded sync A: B:</code></pre>
<p>This would delete all files on <code>B</code> which are less than 50 kBytes as these are now excluded from the sync.</p>
<p>Always test first with <code>--dry-run</code> and <code>-v</code> before using this flag.</p>
<h3 id="dump-filters---dump-the-filters-to-the-output"><code>--dump-filters</code> - dump the filters to the output</h3>
<p>This dumps the defined filters to the output as regular expressions.</p>
<p>Useful for debugging.</p>
<h2 id="quoting-shell-metacharacters">Quoting shell metacharacters</h2>
<p>The examples above may not work verbatim in your shell as they have shell metacharacters in them (eg <code>*</code>), and may require quoting.</p>
<p>Eg linux, OSX</p>
<ul>
<li><code>--include \*.jpg</code></li>
<li><code>--include '*.jpg'</code></li>
<li><code>--include='*.jpg'</code></li>
</ul>
<p>In Windows the expansion is done by the command not the shell so this should work fine</p>
<ul>
<li><code>--include *.jpg</code></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="overview-of-cloud-storage-systems">Overview of cloud storage systems</h1>
<p>Each cloud storage system is slighly different. Rclone attempts to provide a unified interface to them, but some underlying differences show through.</p>
<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>Here is an overview of the major features of each cloud storage system.</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th align="left">Name</th>
<th align="center">Hash</th>
<th align="center">ModTime</th>
<th align="center">Case Insensitive</th>
<th align="center">Duplicate Files</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">Google Drive</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">Amazon S3</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">Openstack Swift</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">Dropbox</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">Google Cloud Storage</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">Amazon Drive</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">Microsoft One Drive</td>
<td align="center">SHA1</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">Hubic</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">Backblaze B2</td>
<td align="center">SHA1</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">Yandex Disk</td>
<td align="center">MD5</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">The local filesystem</td>
<td align="center">All</td>
<td align="center">Yes</td>
<td align="center">Depends</td>
<td align="center">No</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="hash">Hash</h3>
<p>The cloud storage system supports various hash types of the objects.<br />
The hashes are used when transferring data as an integrity check and can be specifically used with the <code>--checksum</code> flag in syncs and in the <code>check</code> command.</p>
<p>To use the checksum checks between filesystems they must support a common hash type.</p>
<h3 id="modtime">ModTime</h3>
<p>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 <code>--checksum</code> flag.</p>
<p>All cloud storage systems support some kind of date on the object and these will be set when transferring from the cloud storage system.</p>
<h3 id="case-insensitive">Case Insensitive</h3>
<p>If a cloud storage systems is case sensitive then it is possible to have two files which differ only in case, eg <code>file.txt</code> and <code>FILE.txt</code>. If a cloud storage system is case insensitive then that isn't possible.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The local filesystem may or may not be case sensitive depending on OS.</p>
<ul>
<li>Windows - usually case insensitive, though case is preserved</li>
<li>OSX - usually case insensitive, though it is possible to format case sensitive</li>
<li>Linux - usually case sensitive, but there are case insensitive file systems (eg FAT formatted USB keys)</li>
</ul>
<p>Most of the time this doesn't cause any problems as people tend to avoid files whose name differs only by case even on case sensitive systems.</p>
<h3 id="duplicate-files">Duplicate files</h3>
<p>If a cloud storage system allows duplicate files then it can have two objects with the same name.</p>
<p>This confuses rclone greatly when syncing - use the <code>rclone dedupe</code> command to rename or remove duplicates.</p>
<h2 id="google-drive">Google Drive</h2>
<p>Paths are specified as <code>drive:path</code></p>
<p>Drive paths may be as deep as required, eg <code>drive:directory/subdirectory</code>.</p>
<p>The initial setup for drive involves getting a token from Google drive which you need to do in your browser. <code>rclone config</code> walks you through it.</p>
<p>Here is an example of how to make a remote called <code>remote</code>. First run:</p>
<pre><code> rclone config</code></pre>
<p>This will guide you through an interactive setup process:</p>
<pre><code>n) New remote
d) Delete remote
q) Quit config
e/n/d/q> n
name> remote
Type of storage to configure.
Choose a number from below, or type in your own value
1 / Amazon Drive
\ "amazon cloud drive"
2 / Amazon S3 (also Dreamhost, Ceph)
\ "s3"
3 / Backblaze B2
\ "b2"
4 / Dropbox
\ "dropbox"
5 / Google Cloud Storage (this is not Google Drive)
\ "google cloud storage"
6 / Google Drive
\ "drive"
7 / Hubic
\ "hubic"
8 / Local Disk
\ "local"
9 / Microsoft OneDrive
\ "onedrive"
10 / Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH)
\ "swift"
11 / Yandex Disk
\ "yandex"
Storage> 6
Google Application Client Id - leave blank normally.
client_id>
Google Application 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 or Y didn't work
y) Yes
n) No
y/n> y
If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth
Log in and authorize rclone for access
Waiting for code...
Got code
--------------------
[remote]
client_id =
client_secret =
token = {"AccessToken":"xxxx.x.xxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","RefreshToken":"1/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx","Expiry":"2014-03-16T13:57:58.955387075Z","Extra":null}
--------------------
y) Yes this is OK
e) Edit this remote
d) Delete this remote
y/e/d> y</code></pre>
<p>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 <code>http://127.0.0.1:53682/</code> and this it may require you to unblock it temporarily if you are running a host firewall, or use manual mode.</p>
<p>You can then use it like this,</p>
<p>List directories in top level of your drive</p>
<pre><code>rclone lsd remote:</code></pre>
<p>List all the files in your drive</p>
<pre><code>rclone ls remote:</code></pre>
<p>To copy a local directory to a drive directory called backup</p>
<pre><code>rclone copy /home/source remote:backup</code></pre>
<h3 id="modified-time">Modified time</h3>
<p>Google drive stores modification times accurate to 1 ms.</p>
<h3 id="revisions">Revisions</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Revisions follow the standard google policy which at time of writing was</p>
<ul>
<li>They are deleted after 30 days or 100 revisions (whatever comes first).</li>
<li>They do not count towards a user storage quota.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="deleting-files">Deleting files</h3>
<p>By default rclone will delete files permanently when requested. If sending them to the trash is required instead then use the <code>--drive-use-trash</code> flag.</p>
<h3 id="specific-options">Specific options</h3>
<p>Here are the command line options specific to this cloud storage system.</p>
<h4 id="drive-chunk-sizesize">--drive-chunk-size=SIZE</h4>
<p>Upload chunk size. Must a power of 2 >= 256k. Default value is 8 MB.</p>
<p>Making this larger will improve performance, but note that each chunk is buffered in memory one per transfer.</p>
<p>Reducing this will reduce memory usage but decrease performance.</p>
<h4 id="drive-full-list">--drive-full-list</h4>
<p>No longer does anything - kept for backwards compatibility.</p>
<h4 id="drive-upload-cutoffsize">--drive-upload-cutoff=SIZE</h4>
<p>File size cutoff for switching to chunked upload. Default is 8 MB.</p>
<h4 id="drive-use-trash">--drive-use-trash</h4>
<p>Send files to the trash instead of deleting permanently. Defaults to off, namely deleting files permanently.</p>
<h4 id="drive-auth-owner-only">--drive-auth-owner-only</h4>
<p>Only consider files owned by the authenticated user. Requires that --drive-full-list=true (default).</p>
<h4 id="drive-formats">--drive-formats</h4>
<p>Google documents can only be exported from Google drive. When rclone downloads a Google doc it chooses a format to download depending upon this setting.</p>
<p>By default the formats are <code>docx,xlsx,pptx,svg</code> which are a sensible default for an editable document.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If you prefer an archive copy then you might use <code>--drive-formats pdf</code>, or if you prefer openoffice/libreoffice formats you might use <code>--drive-formats ods,odt</code>.</p>
<p>Note that rclone adds the extension to the google doc, so if it is calles <code>My Spreadsheet</code> on google docs, it will be exported as <code>My Spreadsheet.xlsx</code> or <code>My Spreadsheet.pdf</code> etc.</p>
<p>Here are the possible extensions with their corresponding mime types.</p>
<table style="width:49%;">
<colgroup>
<col width="13%" />
<col width="16%" />
<col width="18%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th align="left">Extension</th>
<th align="left">Mime Type</th>
<th align="left">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">csv</td>
<td align="left">text/csv</td>
<td align="left">Standard CSV format for Spreadsheets</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">doc</td>
<td align="left">application/msword</td>
<td align="left">Micosoft Office Document</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">docx</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document</td>
<td align="left">Microsoft Office Document</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">html</td>
<td align="left">text/html</td>
<td align="left">An HTML Document</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">jpg</td>
<td align="left">image/jpeg</td>
<td align="left">A JPEG Image File</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">ods</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet</td>
<td align="left">Openoffice Spreadsheet</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">ods</td>
<td align="left">application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet</td>
<td align="left">Openoffice Spreadsheet</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">odt</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text</td>
<td align="left">Openoffice Document</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">pdf</td>
<td align="left">application/pdf</td>
<td align="left">Adobe PDF Format</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">png</td>
<td align="left">image/png</td>
<td align="left">PNG Image Format</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">pptx</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation</td>
<td align="left">Microsoft Office Powerpoint</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">rtf</td>
<td align="left">application/rtf</td>
<td align="left">Rich Text Format</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">svg</td>
<td align="left">image/svg+xml</td>
<td align="left">Scalable Vector Graphics Format</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">txt</td>
<td align="left">text/plain</td>
<td align="left">Plain Text</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">xls</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.ms-excel</td>
<td align="left">Microsoft Office Spreadsheet</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td align="left">xlsx</td>
<td align="left">application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet</td>
<td align="left">Microsoft Office Spreadsheet</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td align="left">zip</td>
<td align="left">application/zip</td>
<td align="left">A ZIP file of HTML, Images CSS</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h3 id="limitations">Limitations</h3>
<p>Drive has quite a lot of rate limiting. This causes rclone to be limited to transferring about 2 files per second only. Individual files may be transferred much faster at 100s of MBytes/s but lots of small files can take a long time.</p>
<h2 id="amazon-s3">Amazon S3</h2>
<p>Paths are specified as <code>remote:bucket</code> (or <code>remote:</code> for the <code>lsd</code> command.) You may put subdirectories in too, eg <code>remote:bucket/path/to/dir</code>.</p>
<p>Here is an example of making an s3 configuration. First run</p>
<pre><code>rclone config</code></pre>
<p>This will guide you through an interactive setup process.</p>