Rclone S3

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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 bashCopy Code

• Next, create key.
• Then, configure rclone

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

[b2]Copy Code

type = s3Copy Code

provider = OtherCopy Code

access_key_id = key_id_hereCopy Code

secret_access_key = key_hereCopy Code

endpoint = s3.us-west-004.backblazeb2.comCopy Code

rclone commands

list all buckets

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

0 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test/.bzEmpty        Copy Code

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

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

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

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

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test1.txt        Copy Code

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test2.txt        Copy Code

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4 digitalocean-singapore-bucket/test3.txtCopy Code

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test#Copy Code

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

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

root@digitalocean-singapore:~/test#Copy Code

• Finally, copy files to a bucket from a directory

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

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Conclusion

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