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Rclone is the general purpose "swiss army knife". It can be used to read/write/sync/copy/move files between any supported service and your local device, and als

Rclone is the general purpose "swiss army knife". It can be used to read/write/sync/copy/move files between any supported service and your local device, and also mount remote storage as a local drive. Restic and Borg are for making backups only.

sgbeal 3y ago
> It can be used to read/write/sync/copy/move To help avoid getting anyone's hopes up: rclone does not do automatic two-way sync. In rclone parlance, "sync" means to either pull all files from a remote and make a local copy match that, or do the opposite: push a local dir to a remote and update the remote to match the local one. Note that "match" means "delete anything in the target which is not in the source."
- bvrmn 3y ago
  There is rclone bisync.
  - sgbeal 3y ago
    > There is rclone bisync. Oooh, nice. That's not _quite_ the same as real-time two-way sync, but i guess it's the next best thing. <https://rclone.org/bisync/ https://rclone.org/bisync/>
  - redditor98654 3y ago
    New user to rclone and I am wondering if the setup I want can be done through rclone. I want to have a local directory in my computer that bi-directionally syncs to both Google Drive and DropBox as well as to my Synology NAS. There will be two Google Drive accounts (one for me and one for my wife) and one Dropbox account. I also have two Linux workstations running Ubuntu 22.04 and two Macbooks where I want the local directory to exist. Basically anytime we put anything in either the cloud drives or the NAS or the local directories in the respective computers, it should get synced to all the other destinations. There could be other stuff in the cloud drives or the NAS that I would just have the tool ignore. The sync should just be for that one specific folder. I do not want to deal with separate local folders for each cloud storage solutions. Is this feasible? I am okay to run cron tasks in any of the computers; preferably the Linux ones.
    - bvrmn 3y ago
      Unfortunately I have no first hand experience with bisync mode. Only use rclone for pushing backups to clouds where it shines.

sgbeal 3y ago

> It can be used to read/write/sync/copy/move To help avoid getting anyone's hopes up: rclone does not do automatic two-way sync. In rclone parlance, "sync" means to either pull all files from a remote and make a local copy match that, or do the opposite: push a local dir to a remote and update the remote to match the local one. Note that "match" means "delete anything in the target which is not in the source."

bvrmn 3y ago
There is rclone bisync.
- sgbeal 3y ago
  > There is rclone bisync. Oooh, nice. That's not _quite_ the same as real-time two-way sync, but i guess it's the next best thing. <https://rclone.org/bisync/ https://rclone.org/bisync/>
- redditor98654 3y ago
  New user to rclone and I am wondering if the setup I want can be done through rclone. I want to have a local directory in my computer that bi-directionally syncs to both Google Drive and DropBox as well as to my Synology NAS. There will be two Google Drive accounts (one for me and one for my wife) and one Dropbox account. I also have two Linux workstations running Ubuntu 22.04 and two Macbooks where I want the local directory to exist. Basically anytime we put anything in either the cloud drives or the NAS or the local directories in the respective computers, it should get synced to all the other destinations. There could be other stuff in the cloud drives or the NAS that I would just have the tool ignore. The sync should just be for that one specific folder. I do not want to deal with separate local folders for each cloud storage solutions. Is this feasible? I am okay to run cron tasks in any of the computers; preferably the Linux ones.
  - bvrmn 3y ago
    Unfortunately I have no first hand experience with bisync mode. Only use rclone for pushing backups to clouds where it shines.