Rclone

Rclone
Original author(s)Nick Craig-Wood[3]
Developer(s)Nick Craig-Wood,[4] Ivan Andreev[5]
Initial releaseJuly 3, 2014 (2014-07-03)[6]
Stable release
1.69.3[7] Edit this on Wikidata / 21 May 2025
Repositorygithub.com/rclone/rclone
Written inGo[8]
Operating systemLinux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan9, Solaris[8]
PlatformIntel/AMD-64, Intel/AMD-32, ARM-32, ARM-64, MIPS-Big-Endian, MIPS-Little-Endian[8]
LicenceMIT
Websiterclone.org

Rclone is an open source, multi threaded, command line computer program to manage or migrate content on cloud and other high latency storage. Its capabilities include sync, transfer, crypt, cache, union, compress and mount. The rclone website lists supported backends including S3 and Google Drive.[8]

Descriptions of rclone often carry the strapline "Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage".[8] Those prior to 2020 include the alternative "Rsync for Cloud Storage".[9]

Rclone is well known for its rclone sync and rclone mount commands.[10] It provides further management functions analogous to those ordinarily used for files on local disks, but which tolerate some intermittent and unreliable service. Rclone is commonly used with media servers such as Plex,[11] Emby or Jellyfin[12] to stream content direct from consumer file storage services.[11]

Official Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, Brew, Chocolatey, and other package managers include rclone.[13]

  1. ^ Bailleul, Diane; Stoeckel, Solenn; Arnaud-Haond, Sophie (2016). "RClone: A package to identify MultiLocus Clonal Lineages and handle clonal data sets in r". Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7 (8): 966–970. Bibcode:2016MEcEv...7..966B. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12550.
  2. ^ "RClone package - RDocumentation".
  3. ^ Craig-Wood, Nick (November 21, 2018). "Rclone "rsync for cloud storage"" (PDF). craig-wood.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  4. ^ Craig-Wood, Nick (September 3, 2020). "Rclone 1.53 release". rclone. Archived from the original on November 5, 2021. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Craig-Wood, Nick (February 2, 2021). "Rclone 1.54 release". rclone forum. Archived from the original on February 2, 2021. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  6. ^ "Changelog". rclone. Archived from the original on May 4, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  7. ^ "Release 1.69.3". May 21, 2025. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Rclone". rclone. Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  9. ^ "rclone/rclone". July 31, 2020. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020 – via GitHub.
  10. ^ Tozzi, Christopher (September 25, 2020). "How to Access S3 Buckets from Windows or Linux". Itpro Today: It News, How-Tos, Trends, Case Studies, Career Tips, More. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Recommended Google Drive and Plex Mount Settings". rclone forum. July 10, 2018. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  12. ^ "Storage | Documentation - Jellyfin Project". jellyfin.org. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
  13. ^ "rclone package versions - Repology". repology.org. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2020.

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