If you run the rclone config file command, you will see where your config file is stored. All your remotes are stored in a config file. The config command allows you to add, delete, and modify existing remotes. It’s good to know which ones exist though, so you can start adapting rclone to your use cases. There’s many more, and this article will not even cover half of them. Things like copy, move, sync are all rclone commands. If you added your Dropbox and Google Accounts, you can share files between them (note that in that case the files will be downloaded to your computer before being sent to the destination remote), and you can also send files from your local filesystem to a remote, and vice-versa. You can then interact with your remotes with the command line.
You can have more than one remote for each cloud service type, so if you have two Dropbox accounts, you can configure a remote for each. For example, if you configure your Dropbox account, it becomes a remote. A remote is simply a cloud service you have configured in the tool. The most important concept of rclone is the remote. Once you have it installed, we’ll explore some basic terminology to get you started with rclone. If you have Homebrew installed, just type this command in your terminal followed by the Enter key:
Rclone jottacloud install#
If you are on a Mac, I suggest you install it with Homebrew.
Rclone jottacloud how to#
There’s little point in me explaining how to install it, because the installation instructions page has instructions for all major OSes. The installation process for rclone is straightforward. For a list of all supported services and protocols, see this page. It even supports the local filesystem, so you can use rclone fully locally as well.
Rclone supports many different services, from customer services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and One Drive, to bucket-based storage services such as Wasabi and Backblaze 2, and even more traditional protocols such as FTP and Webdav. You can use rclone to create backups of your servers or personal computers or to simply store your files in the cloud, optionally adding encryption. Rclone is a command line tool, similar to rsync, with the difference that it can sync, move, copy, and in general do other file operations on cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Google Drive. The examples used in the original article have been kept. This revised article covers rclone 1.48, and it has been rewritten from scratch to improve its quality. The original article was written in February 2017 for a much older version of rclone. The original version of this article was titled “rclone and Encryption Tutorial” and was posted in the old version of my website.
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