rclone/rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 95
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 18
- age_days: 4553
- days_rel: 33
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 28
Adoption not part of the score
59407 stars · 5339 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Rclone is a command-line program for syncing, copying, and managing files across more than 70 cloud storage providers such as S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. It supports mounting remotes as disks, serving them over SFTP/HTTP/WebDAV, and applying encryption, compression, and chunking via virtual backends.
Use cases
- sync files to cloud storage from the command line
- back up local directories to S3 or Google Drive
- transfer files between two cloud providers without local disk
- mount cloud storage as a local disk drive
- encrypt files before uploading to cloud storage
- serve a cloud remote over SFTP or WebDAV
- script incremental cloud backups with checksum verification
When to choose
- you need a unified CLI to work with many cloud storage providers
- you want rsync-like incremental sync with checksum verification for cloud storage
- you need to mount or serve cloud storage as a filesystem
- you want encrypted or compressed cloud backups
When to avoid
- you need a graphical backup solution with scheduling built in
- you only use a single provider's native sync client
- you need real-time bidirectional file collaboration like Dropbox's sync client
Facets
cli-tool · maturity stable
file-system backup cryptography compression http-server cli developer-tools cloud-computing files self-hosted developer-tools privacy windows bsd cross-platform cli go cloud-storage rsync sync fuse-mount s3 google-drive dropbox onedrive backblaze-b2 sftp webdav file-transfer backup linux macos docker
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/rclone/rclone · fetched 2026-08-28 · a06a1d39d62d
- homepage: https://rclone.org · fetched 2026-08-28 · 184b59ca6ba3
- site_page: https://rclone.org/install/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0e97b606b14d
- site_page: https://rclone.org/docs/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · be8103910665
- site_page: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · f8e253d1f8d7
- site_page: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_gendocs/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9b5bef252621
- site_page: https://rclone.org/changelog/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · cf9adaada720
- site_page: https://rclone.org/faq/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · e8eda6e779c1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| rclone/rclone | main | 98 |
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