The launch of the new Rclone utility version 1.50, which is a command line based tool, It is cross-platform, totally free and open source that is written in the GO programming language and released under the terms of the MIT license.
Rclone is an rsync analog that is designed to copy and synchronize data between the local system and various cloud storage services, such as Google Drive, Amazon Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Cloudfiles, Google Cloud Storage, Mail.ru Cloud, and Yandex.Disk.
Main new features of Rclone 1.50
In this new version of the application the addition of some servers is highlighted to his already extensive list. One of the new servers added is Citrix Sharefile (a secure solution for content collaboration, file sharing and synchronization). Another of the added servers is Cloud Mail.ru (Russian cloud storage service).
Also in the ad it stands out the initial support of the Chunker backend, which has the task of dividing files into smaller parts while uploading a file, this in order to overcome the size limits imposed by storage providers.
As well encoding scheme for file names has been unified on storage backends. All backends now apply general restrictions on special characters in filenames, which guarantees that the file will be processed on any backend (Previously, different rules for extended characters applied to different backends, tied to the capabilities of the storage service and not the source file system.)
Of the other changes that are announced:
- Added support for plugins to extend backends and command functionality.
- Added option «–Auto-filename»To the copyurl utility to automatically determine the file name based on the path in the URL.
- Build support discontinued using the Go 1.9 compiler. Python scripts translated into Python 3.
How to install Rclone 1.50 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
To be able to install this tool in Ubuntu and its derivatives it is necessary to have Go installed the system.
For this we must open a terminal and execute the following command on it:
sudo apt install golang
With this we will have installed Go on our computer.
Now the next step is to install Rclone on the system, so we must go to the official website of the project where we can obtain the latest version of the installer. The link is this.
wget https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.deb -O rclone.deb
And we can install the downloaded package with:
sudo dpkg -i rclone.deb
Now for the case of those who have a 32-bit system they install download with:
wget https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-386.deb -O rclone.deb
Y we can install the downloaded package with:
sudo dpkg -i rclone.deb
Finally if you run into problems with the package dependencies. You can solve these by typing the terminal the following command:
sudo apt -f install
Basic use of Rclone
To start using this tool we have to generate a configuration file. We do this from the terminal by typing
rclone config
Rclone requires a remote connection. To create a new remote connection, we must press the «n» key and then the Enter key. Once this is done, you should now give the connection a name, after selecting a name, choose the type of connection that Rclone will use
After that we must enter the selection number for the new connection and press the Enter key on the keyboard.
Here you must follow the instructions and do what the steps say. When the new Rclone connection is ready, just type "y" for "yes, this is fine" and hit the Enter key.
Your new Rclone connection is configured. Let's copy some files. To copy some data to your connection directory, do the following:
rclone copy /ruta/a/la/carpeta/archivo /nombredetuconexcion: remotefolder
You want to synchronize some data of your remote connection with Rclone do it with the following command.
rclone sync /ruta/a/carpeta/a/sincronizar /nombredetuconexcion: remotefolder
How to uninstall Rclone from Ubuntu and derivatives?
Finally for those who want to remove this application from their system, for whatever reason. They only have to open a terminal and on it they will type the following command:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove rclone sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove rclone