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How to configure Rclone S3?

Rclone is an open source, multi threaded, command line computer program to manage or migrate content on cloud and other high latency storage.

Its capabilities include sync, transfer, crypt, cache, union, compress and mount.

The rclone website lists supported backends including S3, and Google Drive.

Today, let us see the steps followed by our Support Techs for configuration

• Firstly, install rclone by running the following command.

curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash

• Next, create key.
• Then, configure rclone

Create /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf as below

[b2]

type = s3

provider = Other

access_key_id = key_id_here

secret_access_key = key_here

endpoint = s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.com

rclone commands

list all buckets

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test# rclone ls b2:        

0 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/.bzEmpty        

5 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/test.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/test2.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/test3.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test2.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test21/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test21/test31/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test21/test31/test41/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test22/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test22/test32/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test22/test32/test42/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test23/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test23/test33/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test23/test33/test43/test1.txt        

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test3.txt

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test#

• Then, list one bucket by running the following command:

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test# rclone ls b2:pbn-bucket

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test#

• Finally, copy files to a bucket from a directory

  root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test# rclone copy /root/test/ b2:digitalocean-singapore-bucket/

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Conclusion

Today, we saw steps followed by our Support Engineers in order to configure Rclone S3.