Rclone

What is Rclone?

Rclone is a command line program that syncs, copies and mounts files across more than 40 cloud storage providers and any local or network disk. It is the tool people reach for when they want to back up a server to object storage, migrate between cloud drives, or mount a remote bucket as a local folder. Everything runs from a single static binary with no server to maintain.

Best for

Automating backups and migrations between cloud storage providers and a home server

Replaces

• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• rsync

Key features

• Sync, copy and move files across 40+ storage backends
• Encrypted remotes so the provider never sees plaintext
• Mount cloud storage as a local filesystem
• Bandwidth limits, filters and dry-run mode for safe scripting

How to deploy

• Static binary
• Docker
• Linux packages

Project health

• GitHub stars: 60,041
• Last code push: 2026-09-30
• Open issues: 1,299
• Status: actively developed

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