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What cloud storage provider officially supports this tool or the protocol used by it? The instructions look mostly like a reverse engineering effort that can f

What cloud storage provider officially supports this tool or the protocol used by it? The instructions look mostly like a reverse engineering effort that can fail anytime for any reason. Of course you'll get some notification, but still seems a thing to avoid in principle.

password4321 3y ago
rsync.net
andersa 3y ago
Most providers support S3 compatible APIs which rclone can then use to talk to them. For example, S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze, ...
- mthoms 3y ago
  I've been using it with Vultr as well without a hitch.
ordersofmag 3y ago
It's a wrapper around a bunch of API's. If that makes you nervous then wait until you hear about how the rest of the modern web is strung together. It's been working reliably for me for a decade.
dannyw 3y ago
They generally use official APIs, of which most backends have. I’ve been using rclone for 3 years without issues. Across many different backends.
FwarkALark 3y ago
> What cloud storage provider officially supports this tool or the protocol used by it? Man I wish I lived in a universe where providers actually supported tooling. You're completely delusional tho.
- djbusby 3y ago
  Not delusional. The rsync.net supports low-level tools like scp, and also this. And their team is great for engineer level questions.
  - FwarkALark 3y ago
    That's wonderful! Full endorsement of the support of rsync.net. I sincerely doubt most tools will be supported by most providers (by usage), however, and I question the evaluation of tools by this metric. Support is generally a fairly bad metric by which to evaluate tooling—generally speaking, if you care which client is consuming an API someone has done something horrifically wrong.
    - djbusby 3y ago
      Wot? Support is THE metric.
      - FwarkALark 3y ago
        ...for the client tooling, or for the service? The service is understandable but the tooling makes no sense whatsoever.
IvyMike 3y ago
What if we looked at all of the cloud providers APIs, which may or may not be similar to one another, may be in constant flux, and may have undocumented quirks, and hid all that complexity inside of one black box that provided a single clear API. The guts of that black box might be kinda ugly, and might need at lot of constant updating, but for a lot of users (including me), that is more appealing dealing with all the raw complexity of the various cloud providers "offical" APIs.
rakoo 3y ago
There is no rsync protocol, only whatever protocol exist already. Most providers will have their version of S3, so if a provider wants to implement a strict copy of the AWS api they will be compatible. They can also provide an SFTP API and rclone will work.
rsync 3y ago
We have rclone built into our environment: ssh user@rsync.net rclone blah blah ... ... so you don't even need to install rclone for some use-cases - like backing up an S3 bucket to your rsync.net account: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html

password4321 3y ago

rsync.net

andersa 3y ago

Most providers support S3 compatible APIs which rclone can then use to talk to them. For example, S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze, ...

mthoms 3y ago
I've been using it with Vultr as well without a hitch.

ordersofmag 3y ago

It's a wrapper around a bunch of API's. If that makes you nervous then wait until you hear about how the rest of the modern web is strung together. It's been working reliably for me for a decade.

dannyw 3y ago

They generally use official APIs, of which most backends have. I’ve been using rclone for 3 years without issues. Across many different backends.

FwarkALark 3y ago

> What cloud storage provider officially supports this tool or the protocol used by it? Man I wish I lived in a universe where providers actually supported tooling. You're completely delusional tho.

djbusby 3y ago
Not delusional. The rsync.net supports low-level tools like scp, and also this. And their team is great for engineer level questions.
- FwarkALark 3y ago
  That's wonderful! Full endorsement of the support of rsync.net. I sincerely doubt most tools will be supported by most providers (by usage), however, and I question the evaluation of tools by this metric. Support is generally a fairly bad metric by which to evaluate tooling—generally speaking, if you care which client is consuming an API someone has done something horrifically wrong.
  - djbusby 3y ago
    Wot? Support is THE metric.
    - FwarkALark 3y ago
      ...for the client tooling, or for the service? The service is understandable but the tooling makes no sense whatsoever.

IvyMike 3y ago

What if we looked at all of the cloud providers APIs, which may or may not be similar to one another, may be in constant flux, and may have undocumented quirks, and hid all that complexity inside of one black box that provided a single clear API. The guts of that black box might be kinda ugly, and might need at lot of constant updating, but for a lot of users (including me), that is more appealing dealing with all the raw complexity of the various cloud providers "offical" APIs.

rakoo 3y ago

There is no rsync protocol, only whatever protocol exist already. Most providers will have their version of S3, so if a provider wants to implement a strict copy of the AWS api they will be compatible. They can also provide an SFTP API and rclone will work.

rsync 3y ago

We have rclone built into our environment: ssh user@rsync.net rclone blah blah ... ... so you don't even need to install rclone for some use-cases - like backing up an S3 bucket to your rsync.net account: https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html https://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/rclone.html