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[Rclone Quick Reference] Cheatsheet for rclone commands.
  • To show existing configurations: rclone config show
  • To mount a drive: rclone mount --daemon remote_name: /home/user/mount_folder/
  • To unmount: umount /home/user/mount_folder
  • To copy a folder to drive: rclone copy ~/folder_name remote_name:folder_name
  • To copy a folder if it's a day old, without traversing through all the existing files in the remote: rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse ~/folder_name remote_name:folder_name
  • To sync two folders, one in local and another in remote: rclone sync ~/folder_name remote_name:folder_name
  • In copy or sync
    • To see a dry run use: --dry-run
    • To see progress use: --progress
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