github.com/artpar/rclone@v1.67.3/docs/content/_index.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "Rclone" 3 description: "Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage: Google Drive, S3, Swift, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Box and many more." 4 type: page 5 notoc: true 6 --- 7 8 # Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage 9 10 {{< img width="50%" src="/img/logo_on_light__horizontal_color.svg" alt="rclone logo" style="float:right; padding: 5px;" >}} 11 12 - [About rclone](#about) 13 - [What can rclone do for you?](#what) 14 - [What features does rclone have?](#features) 15 - [What providers does rclone support?](#providers) 16 - [Download](/downloads/) 17 - [Install](/install/) 18 {{< rem MAINPAGELINK >}} 19 20 ## About rclone {#about} 21 22 Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It 23 is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors' web storage 24 interfaces. [Over 70 cloud storage products](#providers) support 25 rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage 26 services, as well as standard transfer protocols. 27 28 Rclone has powerful cloud equivalents to the unix commands rsync, cp, 29 mv, mount, ls, ncdu, tree, rm, and cat. Rclone's familiar syntax 30 includes shell pipeline support, and `--dry-run` protection. It is 31 used at the command line, in scripts or via its [API](/rc). 32 33 Users call rclone *"The Swiss army knife of cloud storage"*, and 34 *"Technology indistinguishable from magic"*. 35 36 Rclone really looks after your data. It preserves timestamps and 37 verifies checksums at all times. Transfers over limited bandwidth; 38 intermittent connections, or subject to quota can be restarted, from 39 the last good file transferred. You can 40 [check](/commands/rclone_check/) the integrity of your files. Where 41 possible, rclone employs server-side transfers to minimise local 42 bandwidth use and transfers from one provider to another without 43 using local disk. 44 45 Virtual backends wrap local and cloud file systems to apply 46 [encryption](/crypt/), 47 [compression](/compress/), 48 [chunking](/chunker/), 49 [hashing](/hasher/) and 50 [joining](/union/). 51 52 Rclone [mounts](/commands/rclone_mount/) any local, cloud or 53 virtual filesystem as a disk on Windows, 54 macOS, linux and FreeBSD, and also serves these over 55 [SFTP](/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/), 56 [HTTP](/commands/rclone_serve_http/), 57 [WebDAV](/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/), 58 [FTP](/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/) and 59 [DLNA](/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/). 60 61 Rclone is mature, open-source software originally inspired by rsync 62 and written in [Go](https://golang.org). The friendly support 63 community is familiar with varied use cases. Official Ubuntu, Debian, 64 Fedora, Brew and Chocolatey repos. include rclone. For the latest 65 version [downloading from rclone.org](/downloads/) is recommended. 66 67 Rclone is widely used on Linux, Windows and Mac. Third-party 68 developers create innovative backup, restore, GUI and business 69 process solutions using the rclone command line or API. 70 71 Rclone does the heavy lifting of communicating with cloud storage. 72 73 ## What can rclone do for you? {#what} 74 75 Rclone helps you: 76 77 - Backup (and encrypt) files to cloud storage 78 - Restore (and decrypt) files from cloud storage 79 - Mirror cloud data to other cloud services or locally 80 - Migrate data to the cloud, or between cloud storage vendors 81 - Mount multiple, encrypted, cached or diverse cloud storage as a disk 82 - Analyse and account for data held on cloud storage using [lsf](/commands/rclone_lsf/), [ljson](/commands/rclone_lsjson/), [size](/commands/rclone_size/), [ncdu](/commands/rclone_ncdu/) 83 - [Union](/union/) file systems together to present multiple local and/or cloud file systems as one 84 85 ## Features {#features} 86 87 - Transfers 88 - MD5, SHA1 hashes are checked at all times for file integrity 89 - Timestamps are preserved on files 90 - Operations can be restarted at any time 91 - Can be to and from network, e.g. two different cloud providers 92 - Can use multi-threaded downloads to local disk 93 - [Copy](/commands/rclone_copy/) new or changed files to cloud storage 94 - [Sync](/commands/rclone_sync/) (one way) to make a directory identical 95 - [Bisync](/bisync/) (two way) to keep two directories in sync bidirectionally 96 - [Move](/commands/rclone_move/) files to cloud storage deleting the local after verification 97 - [Check](/commands/rclone_check/) hashes and for missing/extra files 98 - [Mount](/commands/rclone_mount/) your cloud storage as a network disk 99 - [Serve](/commands/rclone_serve/) local or remote files over [HTTP](/commands/rclone_serve_http/)/[WebDav](/commands/rclone_serve_webdav/)/[FTP](/commands/rclone_serve_ftp/)/[SFTP](/commands/rclone_serve_sftp/)/[DLNA](/commands/rclone_serve_dlna/) 100 - Experimental [Web based GUI](/gui/) 101 102 ## Supported providers {#providers} 103 104 (There are many others, built on standard protocols such as 105 WebDAV or S3, that work out of the box.) 106 107 {{< provider_list >}} 108 {{< provider name="1Fichier" home="https://1fichier.com/" config="/fichier/" start="true">}} 109 {{< provider name="Akamai Netstorage" home="https://www.akamai.com/us/en/products/media-delivery/netstorage.jsp" config="/netstorage/" >}} 110 {{< provider name="Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Object Storage System (OSS)" home="https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/oss/" config="/s3/#alibaba-oss" >}} 111 {{< provider name="Amazon S3" home="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/" config="/s3/" >}} 112 {{< provider name="Backblaze B2" home="https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html" config="/b2/" >}} 113 {{< provider name="Box" home="https://www.box.com/" config="/box/" >}} 114 {{< provider name="Ceph" home="http://ceph.com/" config="/s3/#ceph" >}} 115 {{< provider name="China Mobile Ecloud Elastic Object Storage (EOS)" home="https://ecloud.10086.cn/home/product-introduction/eos/" config="/s3/#china-mobile-ecloud-eos" >}} 116 {{< provider name="Arvan Cloud Object Storage (AOS)" home="https://www.arvancloud.ir/en/products/cloud-storage" config="/s3/#arvan-cloud-object-storage-aos" >}} 117 {{< provider name="Citrix ShareFile" home="http://sharefile.com/" config="/sharefile/" >}} 118 {{< provider name="Cloudflare R2" home="https://blog.cloudflare.com/r2-open-beta/" config="/s3/#cloudflare-r2" >}} 119 {{< provider name="DigitalOcean Spaces" home="https://www.digitalocean.com/products/object-storage/" config="/s3/#digitalocean-spaces" >}} 120 {{< provider name="Digi Storage" home="https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/" config="/koofr/#digi-storage" >}} 121 {{< provider name="Dreamhost" home="https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/" config="/s3/#dreamhost" >}} 122 {{< provider name="Dropbox" home="https://www.dropbox.com/" config="/dropbox/" >}} 123 {{< provider name="Enterprise File Fabric" home="https://storagemadeeasy.com/about/" config="/filefabric/" >}} 124 {{< provider name="Fastmail Files" home="https://www.fastmail.com/" config="/webdav/#fastmail-files" >}} 125 {{< provider name="FTP" home="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol" config="/ftp/" >}} 126 {{< provider name="Google Cloud Storage" home="https://cloud.google.com/storage/" config="/googlecloudstorage/" >}} 127 {{< provider name="Google Drive" home="https://www.google.com/drive/" config="/drive/" >}} 128 {{< provider name="Google Photos" home="https://www.google.com/photos/about/" config="/googlephotos/" >}} 129 {{< provider name="HDFS" home="https://hadoop.apache.org/" config="/hdfs/" >}} 130 {{< provider name="Hetzner Storage Box" home="https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box" config="/sftp/#hetzner-storage-box" >}} 131 {{< provider name="HiDrive" home="https://www.strato.de/cloud-speicher/" config="/hidrive/" >}} 132 {{< provider name="HTTP" home="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol" config="/http/" >}} 133 {{< provider name="ImageKit" home="https://imagekit.io" config="/imagekit/" >}} 134 {{< provider name="Internet Archive" home="https://archive.org/" config="/internetarchive/" >}} 135 {{< provider name="Jottacloud" home="https://www.jottacloud.com/en/" config="/jottacloud/" >}} 136 {{< provider name="IBM COS S3" home="http://www.ibm.com/cloud/object-storage" config="/s3/#ibm-cos-s3" >}} 137 {{< provider name="IDrive e2" home="https://www.idrive.com/e2/?refer=rclone" config="/s3/#idrive-e2" >}} 138 {{< provider name="IONOS Cloud" home="https://cloud.ionos.com/storage/object-storage" config="/s3/#ionos" >}} 139 {{< provider name="Koofr" home="https://koofr.eu/" config="/koofr/" >}} 140 {{< provider name="Leviia Object Storage" home="https://www.leviia.com/object-storage" config="/s3/#leviia" >}} 141 {{< provider name="Liara Object Storage" home="https://liara.ir/landing/object-storage" config="/s3/#liara-object-storage" >}} 142 {{< provider name="Linkbox" home="https://linkbox.to/" config="/linkbox/" >}} 143 {{< provider name="Linode Object Storage" home="https://www.linode.com/products/object-storage/" config="/s3/#linode" >}} 144 {{< provider name="Mail.ru Cloud" home="https://cloud.mail.ru/" config="/mailru/" >}} 145 {{< provider name="Memset Memstore" home="https://www.memset.com/cloud/storage/" config="/swift/" >}} 146 {{< provider name="Mega" home="https://mega.nz/" config="/mega/" >}} 147 {{< provider name="Memory" home="/memory/" config="/memory/" >}} 148 {{< provider name="Microsoft Azure Blob Storage" home="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/" config="/azureblob/" >}} 149 {{< provider name="Microsoft Azure Files Storage" home="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/files/" config="/azurefiles/" >}} 150 {{< provider name="Microsoft OneDrive" home="https://onedrive.live.com/" config="/onedrive/" >}} 151 {{< provider name="Minio" home="https://www.minio.io/" config="/s3/#minio" >}} 152 {{< provider name="Nextcloud" home="https://nextcloud.com/" config="/webdav/#nextcloud" >}} 153 {{< provider name="OVH" home="https://www.ovh.co.uk/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/" config="/swift/" >}} 154 {{< provider name="Blomp Cloud Storage" home="https://rclone.org/swift/" config="/swift/" >}} 155 {{< provider name="OpenDrive" home="https://www.opendrive.com/" config="/opendrive/" >}} 156 {{< provider name="OpenStack Swift" home="https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/" config="/swift/" >}} 157 {{< provider name="Oracle Cloud Storage Swift" home="https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/integration/doc/configure-object-storage.html" config="/swift/" >}} 158 {{< provider name="Oracle Object Storage" home="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/storage/object-storage" config="/oracleobjectstorage/" >}} 159 {{< provider name="ownCloud" home="https://owncloud.org/" config="/webdav/#owncloud" >}} 160 {{< provider name="pCloud" home="https://www.pcloud.com/" config="/pcloud/" >}} 161 {{< provider name="Petabox" home="https://petabox.io/" config="/s3/#petabox" >}} 162 {{< provider name="PikPak" home="https://mypikpak.com/" config="/pikpak/" >}} 163 {{< provider name="premiumize.me" home="https://premiumize.me/" config="/premiumizeme/" >}} 164 {{< provider name="put.io" home="https://put.io/" config="/putio/" >}} 165 {{< provider name="Proton Drive" home="https://proton.me/drive" config="/protondrive/" >}} 166 {{< provider name="QingStor" home="https://www.qingcloud.com/products/storage" config="/qingstor/" >}} 167 {{< provider name="Qiniu Cloud Object Storage (Kodo)" home="https://www.qiniu.com/en/products/kodo" config="/s3/#qiniu" >}} 168 {{< provider name="Quatrix by Maytech" home="https://www.maytech.net/products/quatrix-business" config="/quatrix/" >}} 169 {{< provider name="Rackspace Cloud Files" home="https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files" config="/swift/" >}} 170 {{< provider name="rsync.net" home="https://rsync.net/products/rclone.html" config="/sftp/#rsync-net" >}} 171 {{< provider name="Scaleway" home="https://www.scaleway.com/object-storage/" config="/s3/#scaleway" >}} 172 {{< provider name="Seafile" home="https://www.seafile.com/" config="/seafile/" >}} 173 {{< provider name="Seagate Lyve Cloud" home="https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/services/cloud/storage/" config="/s3/#lyve" >}} 174 {{< provider name="SeaweedFS" home="https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/" config="/s3/#seaweedfs" >}} 175 {{< provider name="SFTP" home="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_File_Transfer_Protocol" config="/sftp/" >}} 176 {{< provider name="Sia" home="https://sia.tech/" config="/sia/" >}} 177 {{< provider name="SMB / CIFS" home="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block" config="/smb/" >}} 178 {{< provider name="StackPath" home="https://www.stackpath.com/products/object-storage/" config="/s3/#stackpath" >}} 179 {{< provider name="Storj" home="https://storj.io/" config="/storj/" >}} 180 {{< provider name="Synology" home="https://c2.synology.com/en-global/object-storage/overview" config="/s3/#synology-c2" >}} 181 {{< provider name="SugarSync" home="https://sugarsync.com/" config="/sugarsync/" >}} 182 {{< provider name="Tencent Cloud Object Storage (COS)" home="https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/product/cos" config="/s3/#tencent-cos" >}} 183 {{< provider name="Uloz.to" home="https://uloz.to" config="/ulozto/" >}} 184 {{< provider name="Uptobox" home="https://uptobox.com" config="/uptobox/" >}} 185 {{< provider name="Wasabi" home="https://wasabi.com/" config="/s3/#wasabi" >}} 186 {{< provider name="WebDAV" home="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV" config="/webdav/" >}} 187 {{< provider name="Yandex Disk" home="https://disk.yandex.com/" config="/yandex/" >}} 188 {{< provider name="Zoho WorkDrive" home="https://www.zoho.com/workdrive/" config="/zoho/" >}} 189 {{< provider name="The local filesystem" home="/local/" config="/local/" end="true">}} 190 {{< /provider_list >}} 191 192 ## Virtual providers 193 194 These backends adapt or modify other storage providers: 195 196 {{< provider name="Alias: Rename existing remotes" home="/alias/" config="/alias/" >}} 197 {{< provider name="Cache: Cache remotes (DEPRECATED)" home="/cache/" config="/cache/" >}} 198 {{< provider name="Chunker: Split large files" home="/chunker/" config="/chunker/" >}} 199 {{< provider name="Combine: Combine multiple remotes into a directory tree" home="/combine/" config="/combine/" >}} 200 {{< provider name="Compress: Compress files" home="/compress/" config="/compress/" >}} 201 {{< provider name="Crypt: Encrypt files" home="/crypt/" config="/crypt/" >}} 202 {{< provider name="Hasher: Hash files" home="/hasher/" config="/hasher/" >}} 203 {{< provider name="Union: Join multiple remotes to work together" home="/union/" config="/union/" >}} 204 205 206 ## Links 207 208 * {{< icon "fa fa-home" >}} [Home page](https://rclone.org/) 209 * {{< icon "fab fa-github" >}} [GitHub project page for source and bug tracker](https://github.com/artpar/artpar) 210 * {{< icon "fa fa-comments" >}} [Rclone Forum](https://forum.rclone.org) 211 * {{< icon "fas fa-cloud-download-alt" >}}[Downloads](/downloads/)