github.com/artpar/rclone@v1.67.3/docs/content/memory.md (about) 1 --- 2 title: "Memory" 3 description: "Rclone docs for Memory backend" 4 versionIntroduced: "v1.51" 5 --- 6 7 # {{< icon "fas fa-memory" >}} Memory 8 9 The memory backend is an in RAM backend. It does not persist its 10 data - use the local backend for that. 11 12 The memory backend behaves like a bucket-based remote (e.g. like 13 s3). Because it has no parameters you can just use it with the 14 `:memory:` remote name. 15 16 ## Configuration 17 18 You can configure it as a remote like this with `rclone config` too if 19 you want to: 20 21 ``` 22 No remotes found, make a new one? 23 n) New remote 24 s) Set configuration password 25 q) Quit config 26 n/s/q> n 27 name> remote 28 Type of storage to configure. 29 Enter a string value. Press Enter for the default (""). 30 Choose a number from below, or type in your own value 31 [snip] 32 XX / Memory 33 \ "memory" 34 [snip] 35 Storage> memory 36 ** See help for memory backend at: https://rclone.org/memory/ ** 37 38 Remote config 39 40 -------------------- 41 [remote] 42 type = memory 43 -------------------- 44 y) Yes this is OK (default) 45 e) Edit this remote 46 d) Delete this remote 47 y/e/d> y 48 ``` 49 50 Because the memory backend isn't persistent it is most useful for 51 testing or with an rclone server or rclone mount, e.g. 52 53 rclone mount :memory: /mnt/tmp 54 rclone serve webdav :memory: 55 rclone serve sftp :memory: 56 57 ### Modification times and hashes 58 59 The memory backend supports MD5 hashes and modification times accurate to 1 nS. 60 61 ### Restricted filename characters 62 63 The memory backend replaces the [default restricted characters 64 set](/overview/#restricted-characters). 65 66 {{< rem autogenerated options start" - DO NOT EDIT - instead edit fs.RegInfo in backend/memory/memory.go then run make backenddocs" >}} 67 ### Advanced options 68 69 Here are the Advanced options specific to memory (In memory object storage system.). 70 71 #### --memory-description 72 73 Description of the remote 74 75 Properties: 76 77 - Config: description 78 - Env Var: RCLONE_MEMORY_DESCRIPTION 79 - Type: string 80 - Required: false 81 82 {{< rem autogenerated options stop >}}