# 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

Repository: https://github.com/rclone/rclone
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rclone
Homepage: https://rclone.org
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, go, cloud-storage, s3, openstack-swift, google-drive, azure-blob, backblaze-b2, sftp, ftp, rclone, dropbox, google-cloud-storage, onedrive, sync, fuse-filesystem, encryption, webdav, azure-blob-storage, azure-files
Last push: 2026-08-26T16:42:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 95, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4553, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 33, "gap_med": 18, "n_releases_24m": 28}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 59407, forks 5339 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:18.742671+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: stable
- function: file-system, backup, cryptography, compression, http-server, cli, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, files, self-hosted, developer-tools, privacy
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli, go
- tags: cloud-storage, rsync, sync, fuse-mount, s3, google-drive, dropbox, onedrive, backblaze-b2, sftp, webdav, file-transfer, backup, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- rclone/rclone (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.742671+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:18:12.794887+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rclone/rclone (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:18.742671+00:00, sha a06a1d39d62d)
  - homepage: https://rclone.org (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.766503+00:00, sha 184b59ca6ba3)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/install/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.775741+00:00, sha 0e97b606b14d)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/docs/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.778549+00:00, sha be8103910665)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.793261+00:00, sha f8e253d1f8d7)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_gendocs/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.794904+00:00, sha 9b5bef252621)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/changelog/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.784207+00:00, sha cf9adaada720)
  - site_page: https://rclone.org/faq/ (fetched 2026-08-28T18:00:45.791222+00:00, sha e8eda6e779c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.