Revision as of 10:46, 10 November 2023

rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from a large variety of cloud providers, including Google Drive, Backblaze, and Amazon S3.

Installation

# apk add rclone

Usage

To configure rclone, use the rclone config command, following the prompts for your platform of choice:

$ rclone config

See the detailed documentation available on the rclone website.

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 = Installation =
-{{Obsolete|rclone is available in the community repo. try <code>apk add rclone</code>}}
+{{cmd|# apk add {{pkg|rclone}}}}
-There is currently no candidate for installation in Alpine, but rclone is written in GO and comes as a single binary file that is easy to manually download and install.
-{{note|There is currently a script which auto-detects your appropriate binary and installs the latest version, but without modification it doesn't currently work on Alpine.}}
-Download appropriate installation candidate, unzip, and enter into the directory:
-<pre>curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
-unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip
-cd rclone-*-linux-amd64
-</pre>
-Move the binary to /usr/bin and give it appropriate ownership and permissions:
-<pre>
-sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
-sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone
-sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone
-</pre>
-Install manpages:
-<pre>
-sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1
-sudo cp rclone.1 /usr/share/man/man1/
-sudo makewhatis /usr/share/man
-</pre>
 = Usage =
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 To configure rclone, use the rclone config command, following the prompts for your platform of choice:
-{{cmd| rclone config}}
+{{cmd|$ rclone config}}
 See the detailed documentation available on the [https://rclone.org/docs/ rclone] website.
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